AQA - Sociology GCSE Paper 2016 - Predictions

Original post by ~Lily~

I think as a whole the exam was easy.
But I'm still beating myself up about the things I got wrong. Like the Social Mobility question; idk how I forgot about meritocracy. Instead I made up a whole load of bull about how scholarships can encourage social mobility in schools. That's 5 marks gone. Then I also kinda messed up on the families 12 markers about socialisation. Shouldve chosen the other one. Oh well, still got thursdays exam...

Aahhh same, I managed to answer every other question except for the Government policy (1997 New Labour) and the education essay I did poorly, didn;t finish it and the explanation was pretty poor. Hopefully, I'll get 65-70/90
wbu?

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ElizabethLeeder

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Original post by TSAntidote

Aahhh same, I managed to answer every other question except for the Government policy (1997 New Labour) and the education essay I did poorly, didn;t finish it and the explanation was pretty poor. Hopefully, I'll get 65-70/90
wbu?

What grade I is 65-70 roughly?
Well done

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Original post by ElizabethLeeder

What grade I is 65-70 roughly?
Well done

surprisingly, From last year 70 was an A*, whilst 62 was an A. I'd expect it to go up though maybe 75A* and 64-68 for an A

Thank you

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ElizabethLeeder

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Original post by TSAntidote

surprisingly, From last year 70 was an A*, whilst 62 was an A. I'd expect it to go up though maybe 75A* and 64-68 for an A

Thank you

My sociology teachers told me I had to get 60 in both papers for a c :/ im starting to thinks i haven't done so well :frown:

Reply 105

~Lily~

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Original post by TSAntidote

Aahhh same, I managed to answer every other question except for the Government policy (1997 New Labour) and the education essay I did poorly, didn;t finish it and the explanation was pretty poor. Hopefully, I'll get 65-70/90
wbu?

Despite the many stupid silly errors, I don't think I did terribly bad to the point where I feel depressed; I think I probably did good enough to get around 63-70 approx. Hopefully I do better on unit 2, which is impossible. :frown:

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Original post by ElizabethLeeder

My sociology teachers told me I had to get 60 in both papers for a c :/ im starting to thinks i haven't done so well :frown:

Hmm, maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, have a look at this

2015 Grade boundaries
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BDY-JUNE-2015.PDF

2014 grade boundaries
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BDY-JUNE-2014.PDF

2013 Grade boundaries
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GRADE-BDY-JUNE-2013.PDF

2012 Grade boundaries
http://store.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BDY-JUNE-2012.PDF

I'm pretty sure you did well. Maybe you should show your teacher and see what they think

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Original post by ~Lily~

Despite the many stupid silly errors, I don't think I did terribly bad to the point where I feel depressed; I think I probably did good enough to get around 63-70 approx. Hopefully I do better on unit 2, which is impossible. :frown:

Ah I know what you mean, I feel exactly like that. Unit 2 is really kicking me. In my mock on both Unit 1 and Unit 2 last week I got an A* but that was a fairly easy paper. I've only been doing this course for 8 months too

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username2013595

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Original post by siyah99

Guys you know for the five mark about previous policies that helped people to stay in educational achievement would i get any marks for talking about EMAs helping materially and financially deprived children ??? I mentioned that it wasn't successful because people may have spent it on things other than stationary and stuff for school - at this point in the exam my mind was drained so i chatted nonsense but is this a valid point

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I hope so because that's what I wrote, I was just blabbering on, thankfully i remember what it stood for (education maintenance allowance, and spoke about the same things as you

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Km99

Original post by ElizabethLeeder

My sociology teachers told me I had to get 60 in both papers for a c :/ im starting to thinks i haven't done so well :frown:

that can't be right. However, teachers can access the paper after 24 hours so then they can make an educated guess as to grade boundaries, but it ultimately depends on the distribution of how everyone did, if the majority did good then high grade boundaries, likewise if they did bad then low grade boundaries. C is usually something like 46-48/90.

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username2013595

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Original post by ~Lily~

I think as a whole the exam was easy.
But I'm still beating myself up about the things I got wrong. Like the Social Mobility question; idk how I forgot about meritocracy. Instead I made up a whole load of bull about how scholarships can encourage social mobility in schools. That's 5 marks gone. Then I also kinda messed up on the families 12 markers about socialisation. Shouldve chosen the other one. Oh well, still got thursdays exam...

social mobility woah, i don't recall this, do you remember what the question said because i don't remember anything about social mobility

Reply 111

Jaazal

So glad with that paper today! I was expecting there to be some horrible questions. Other than a few things that I could have added to the social mobility 5 mark question I felt pretty confident with all the other questions. Hopefully Paper 2 on Thursday goes smoothly too...

Reply 112

siyah99

I dont think the grade boundaries are going to be that high, considering that this is the last year of this specification. The exam boards need to show that the grades are getting better each year therefore the exam grade boundaries will probably be more lower - just and educated guess.

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username2013595

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Original post by rojda

Guys the paper was okay., but question

You see for education 12 marker I picked the first one where you had to speak about educational achievement

I spoke about the diferent school types pupils attend

And for against i spoke about gender/ethnicity

Is this wrong?

Not sure if Im completely right but for 12 markers you're supposed to talk about 2 different sociological perspectives and what they believe, for example I spoke about how marxists believe that education enforces the class system and how they believe that ethnic minorities & working do worse at education because they tend to be materially deprived and how they are labelled at school leading to the self fulfilling prophecy...... not sure if it's right though

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Km99

Original post by siyah99

I dont think the grade boundaries are going to be that high, considering that this is the last year of this specification. The exam boards need to show that the grades are getting better each year therefore the exam grade boundaries will probably be more lower - just and educated guess.

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that is exactly my theory behind why they would make the exams 'easier'/lower the grade boundaries. yet, everyone i asked thinks they would make them harder/ higher the grade boundaries, which makes no sense because the whole reason of the 9-1 specification is to be hard, so by making these exams 'easy' it'll show improvement. alternatively, they could just higher the grade boundary for a C higher and A* lower..... just guessing though :smile:

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Khoyes

Original post by Taahira_

Omg what I talked about free school meals would that be correct?

I think you are wrong. I checked my revision guides, and there isn't anything talking about that. Hopefully i am wrong xD I aint very smart, but because the test was easy, i feel smart ;-;

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james77717

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lol me too i messed up that questiion saying schools encouraged children but some came from fatalist backgrounds but in general i think studying society was pretty easy

Reply 117

Khoyes

Original post by TSAntidote

Hmm, maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, have a look at this

2015 Grade boundaries
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BDY-JUNE-2015.PDF

2014 grade boundaries
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BDY-JUNE-2014.PDF

2013 Grade boundaries
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GRADE-BDY-JUNE-2013.PDF

2012 Grade boundaries
http://store.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BDY-JUNE-2012.PDF

I'm pretty sure you did well. Maybe you should show your teacher and see what they think

I don't know if our teacher is smoking weed or something, but C is usually about half the marks together from both papers. My teacher even told me that, and he is very good at teaching sociology. It may be high though this year, because they base it on the how everyone in the country did (idk if just country)

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Khoyes