School messed up one of my Chemistry practical paper.....what do i do?
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School messed up one of my Chemistry practical paper.....what do i do?Hi
I was wondering if someone could give me some advice.
I have an offer from UCL & east anglia for bio-chemistry at AAA at biology, chemistry and maths. I was on course to get it, needed around a 64% and 82.5% in my remaining bio and chem exam to get an A overall.
but last week the school made a major error with one of my practical papers in chemistry and they didnt even realise it. The exam board, edexcel, realised it last week and they sent my paper back, so i could do the experiment asap and, hence do the paper. The paper is out of 14marks and worth 35% of the Unit 3 Chemistry and 7% of my AS Chemistry and 3.5% of overall grade in chemistry. So at the end i did the experiment and the paper under an hour, where as people usually get around 2-3hours to do it. Also I had another exam just before the practical, (Edexcel Statistics1), and hence didnt have any time to prepare my self for the practical. I had to rush through the experiment and the paper as it had to get sent off 1pm and i only finished my s1 around 11.30ish. now I think i did really bad on it! like i most probably got half of the 14marks!
Is there any thing i can do? and if so, what? Please advice
EDIT : from my calculation, based on the marks i already got in unit 1 & 2 & 6 of chemistry, i will most probably will need around 87.5% to get an A in chem which i will probz wont get :'(Last edited by arnab; 25-05-2012 at 23:35. -
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Re: School messed up one of my Chemistry practical paper.....what do i do?3.5% of overall grade umad?
If you're an A grade student, this shouldn't have had that much of an effect - especially since it's unlikely you messed it up to the point where you got below half marks.
I thought you did statistics? If you need 87.5% then I think you're shifting the blame here, you should tell us what your UMS are in Unit 1, 2 and 6... are they all A's? -
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Re: School messed up one of my Chemistry practical paper.....what do i do?THIS :(Original post by Azland)
Dont understand, they sent your paper back. So whats the problem? Arn't they giving you a chance to correct the mistake now?
I had another exam just before the practical, (Edexcel Statistics1), and hence didnt have any time to prepare my self for the practical. I had to rush through the experiment and the paper as it had to get sent off 1pm and i only finished my s1 around 11.30ish. now I think i did really bad on it! like i most probably got half of the 14marks! -
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Re: School messed up one of my Chemistry practical paper.....what do i do?Yhh I am just thinking of the worst case scenario, like if I have failed the whole of unit 3 because of this 1paper and scraped my self a low D or a just C.(Original post by Jorgeyy)
3.5% of overall grade umad?
If you're an A grade student, this shouldn't have had that much of an effect - especially since it's unlikely you messed it up to the point where you got below half marks.
I thought you did statistics? If you need 87.5% then I think you're shifting the blame here, you should tell us what your UMS are in Unit 1, 2 and 6... are they all A's?
Unit 1 > 102 (85%) but i retook this exam 2weeks ago, to harvest more UMS. Pretty sure i got over 90% on this exam
Unit 2 > 96 (80%
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Unit 6 > not confirmed but my teacher A2 teacher said its at 57 out of 60
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