Surely the stunt AQA pulled today will destroy their reputation.

Let's see, if 100,000+ people are complaining then why won't they go back to the drawing board and re-think this?

This is appearing all over the media so hopefully something happens because that exam was totally unfair.

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Reply 1

M14B

Original post by HyperVoxel

What happened exactly?

Reply 2

M451

Nothing will change. Students will find a way to complain about the exams every year.

Reply 3

HyperVoxel

Original post by M14B

What happened exactly?

Most of the paper was not relevant to the subject of BIOLOGY, it asked us about under-aged drinking and alcohol addicted rats to give a few examples. Pretty much everyone sitting it across the country complained and it caught the attention of newspapers etc.

AQA claim nothing was wrong with the exam.

Reply 4

hello654321

AQA said they found "no problem" in today's exam. They also said "exams are meant to be hard". I'm afraid they are being stubborn and won't go back on this or lower the grade boundaries, as much as I'd like them to.

Reply 5

Serine Soul

Wait till you meet AQA at A Level biology lol

Reply 6

HyperVoxel

Original post by M451

Nothing will change. Students will find a way to complain about the exams every year.

While you are correct, this situation has had an impact on almost every candidate taking the exam so surely this has to capture the attention of the exam board since practically everyone is complaining.

Reply 7

M14B

Original post by HyperVoxel

Original post by hello654321

The boundaries will automatically lower if a lot of students have done badly.

Reply 8

TheonlyMrsHolmes

Original post by HyperVoxel

Was this GCSE?

Reply 9

lolatmaths

AQA have always been dicks. Plus if everyone found it hard the grade boundaries will be lower.

Reply 10

HyperVoxel

Original post by M14B

The boundaries will automatically lower if a lot of students have done badly.

Good news then, I guess we will wait and see.

Reply 11

Lord Samosa

Lmao students complain about this same **** every year, just focus on your next exam buddy x

Reply 12

HyperVoxel

Also, check this out to see the aftermath: https://www.change.org/p/aqa-lower-the-grade-boundaries-for-aqa-biology-2016-examination?recruiter=543162137&utm_source=share_for_starters&utm_medium=copyLink

Reply 13

username2041985

Lol, they messed up the marks for A levels last year. A lot of people went through clearning and lost their places in their firmed.

Reply 14

Kaneki

Is this the 20th or 30th thread? :doh:

Reply 15

SirAlexFerguson

OCR > Edexcel > AQA > CIE

Reply 16

spotify95

Original post by lolatmaths

AQA have always been dicks. Plus if everyone found it hard the grade boundaries will be lower.

Thank goodness I used the OCR exam board when my school (and me obv) took GCSE Biology about 5 years ago!

Reply 17

lolatmaths

Original post by spotify95

Thank goodness I used the OCR exam board when my school (and me obv) took GCSE Biology about 5 years ago!

I dont know much about OCR, ive heard its GCSE course is quite tough tho, more tough than Edexcel IGCSE, the one i did last year.

Personally this year should consider themselces lucky; the gcse reforms mean that theyll all follow the 21st century board and that is CRAZY hard, they have negative marking and their course is 10x harder

Reply 18

Cherry82

Original post by M451

Nothing will change. Students will find a way to complain about the exams every year.

Though I agree- 100,000 students though? I mean that's a lot. This reminds me of the 2012 situation where apparently a similar case happened but with the marking system.

Reply 19

Cherry82

Original post by noticemesenpai

Lol, they messed up the marks for A levels last year. A lot of people went through clearning and lost their places in their firmed.

My friends who had taken Btec courses were so happy they didn't choose to do A levels. While some of us are repeating year 12, a lot of them have offers from Russell group universities such as Manchester. They've all basically secured their places for uni to be honest.