Current Year 11 Thread Mark II

13th May. How do you have an exam on a Sunday?

Edexcel. And filling out each musical device for each set work on a piece of paper then testing myself by writing a generic question that might come up in the exam and trying to answer it. Very tedious, but seems to work.

I meant 14th, sorry.

Probably going to have to revise today! Need to get started with geography notes.

Am I the only person who actually likes ICT; we did the GCSE in Year 8 and 9. Though I must say the AS is tiresome and actually a lot harder than GCSE (ICT hard? I know right) so it has made me like it a fair bit less.

See, I wish we had done GCSE ICT, which is more respected than our crappy OCR 100% coursework course. I would have much preferred to sit an exam in it also, and cut down the amount of coursework. My course became so boring. It is notoriously easy, but incredibly boring.

Hey guys I have another maths question Could you please help? Thanks.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1991706&p=37419956#post37419956

Yeah I'm with Edexcel as well.

I'm doing something similar to you - noting down at least two aspects of harmony, timbre, context etc. for each set work.

Which set work is your favourite/ least faourite btw?

Apparantly though, AQA are going to raise their boundaries this year. Or maybe our teacher was just trying to scare us

Hey guys I have another maths question Could you please help? Thanks.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1991706&p=37419956#post37419956

I keeop getting there too late. Damn!

Eyy wut?! Now you're trying to scare me!! Besides how would your teacher even know that..

Ikr Apparently, after the B2 GCSE Biology exam last year, the examiners were concerned about the standards of work people produce or something like that. Our teacher claimed that AQA sent a letter with the results last year saying that it will be harder to score an A* in the future. It sounds quite ridiculous, but after our French teacher gave us our c/a results back, she said something like, "I can't be certain about what grade these are as apparently, it's going to be harder to score an A* this year. Well, that's what the science department told us anyway..." I started believing it

I sincerely hope it's not true as I really want an A*

If true, that's unfair and a little stupid. Stupid because there is only ONE set of examinations left for the specification anyway, they took their time in making things "harder" if this turns out to be correct.

A* in Unit 3 Sciences can range anywhere between 32/45 to 36/45. Let's hope it doesn't go any higher than the latter.

You know, I think I may email the exam board later this week (after the Bank Holiday tomorrow) to ask them if this is true...

But yeah, it is unfair and stupid.

Oh dear. Just over two weeks until my first exam, and my revision is already down the pan. At least it's only English for now though. There's a big break between most of the rest.

haha yh, my first one is an RE.

See that your a mod now!

Lol okay then but even if it is true and if they admit it, there's nothing we can do but revise, practice and do some more practice.

Remember though for Edexcel's outgoing maths specification, they made the linear exam extremely easy. Not only that, but you needed something like 158/200 for an A*. Unit 3's are already 'low' but I just hope the questions aren't too difficult.