OCR GCSE Latin summer 2012

90% ha always been the A* boundary for classics


This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App and also from an iPhone but not an iPad and why isn't it an iPod app?

I think its just 90% UMS for A*, i don't think it could ever possibly be 90% raw marks because Classics and English departments like to tell people its 90% to get them to work their asses off but it's probably about 85% raw marks (or it was last year )

Yes it is, says it on the specification. 90%.


answering all the quesitions-
its 90UMS,thus 360/400 for an a*
last year for an a*-in raw marks,
48/60-paper 1
50/60 -paper 2
45/50 prose lit
44/50 verse lit
so if the prose grade boundaries are even higher,it will be almost imposs 2 get an a*

I go to a state school and we do latin and igcses.

Dude I'm pretty sure thats about 85.5%

Hmmm, the reason I said that was because on the IGCSE past paer website (at least for Edexcel) it says "IGCSEs are not approved for use in UK state schools).

I go to a state school and we do latin and igcses.

yes, du not know the difference between raw and ums?

That's not possible because iGCSE s are not certified to be taught in state schools. You must be mistaken.

Hmmm, well i did iGCSE French last year so i think its your comment thats quite mistaken. Probs privatley schooled and looks down on state schools.

'IGCSES ARE NOT APPROVED FOR TEACHING IN STATE SCHOOLS' So no, its not just me 'looking down on you'

http://www.edexcel.com/quals/igcse/igcse09/lang/french/pages/viewNotice.aspx?notice=2330

Paper 1 went OK for me, i see now and i've made quite a few mistakes, I might have scraped an A. I certainly did better than the mock though. But what are the best techniques for revision? I'm doing a crash course, so i've only been doing latin for 8 months now and i'm really struggling. We do the cambridge latin course and i've learnt the first 2 books of grammar, after that i'm lost. And also, what's the difference between january and june papers? I'm scottish and the ocr website just confuses me. In SQA past papers we only have one set per year, and schools make their own prelims.

We only get one hour long tutorial per week, so everything is pretty rushed. Heck, I didn't even know that you had to write an essay for the set text papers until last week. We've really not been told anything about that exam, we've been given copies of the set texts and went through the translations once and that's it. Our tutorials are over a webcam thing so there's only so much you can do

Hi I have attached a file with all the grammar you need to know (just know it roughly) and learn all the! For set texts there is an essay in which you have to analyse how the write creates certain effects. Do you want me to upload an example of that too?

Is that your school's?

Yes I download it from our VLE and uploaded it here. Why?

You're so lucky that you have an entire classics department! Mine consists of one teacher :P She is very good but it's annoying that we don't have such resources available. I do go to a state school though so at least I'm able to do latin gcse :P

Are you taking it an an A level aswell?

To be fair our classics department per se only has about 3 teachers! Feel free to use it, I can upload more if you would like. Yeah latin gcse seems like the kind of thing that only private schools do! But that also mean higher grade boundaries, yay! -_-

No, I would have loved to but I want to do medicine so sciences and maths is more appropriate. What about you?