A-Levels are Too Easy

So I'm assuming you found the physics exam today terribly tedious? And, of course, the chemistry exam tomorrow will be a walk in the park also?

I don't really believe this is for real. If you compare the past AQA physics spec papers with the one I sat today then there is no way that old specs are harder. The same is true for biology and chemistry.

Sit my psychology exam on Tuesday please...

Well, I'm actually sitting the new AS Spec exams, and for revision I have done every past G481/G482 and the Physics breadth and depth paper was nothing like the past physics exams and it seemed a lot easier. I've also sat the Chemistry breadth and that was also incredibly easy. I also do Maths and Further Maths, but they have not changed though.

I never mentioned anything about grade boundaries, stop trying to make me look like a mug - I know how grade boundaries work. When I said "easier", I was referring to the content of the exams, and to be precise, the mean amount of marks that the population score on these tests I would assume to be higher; not a higher proportion of A/A* candidates. QED.

i think the most difficult exam i'll sit this year is FP2.. absolutely everything else is a walk in the park compared to FP2

Psychology is a Mickey Mouse subject, get off this thread.

Maths and Further Maths definitely agree with, if your're doing MEI OCR for further, try to stick to the latest past papers, especially for FP1, I found the 2006/07 papers for that a lot easier than the 2011/12 ones.
Anyway, back on to the topic at hand,

Hand to look up G481/82, I did Physics and Chemistry with AQA which is where I was getting my information from, should have put which bored really coz that makes me to be a bit of a hypocrite considering I said you were being general, from people at Uni, I've not heard great reviews from the OCR course the two sciences so I've always though of AQA as the best ones.

However, I did just look at some of the past papers, I looked at the AS ones and the material seemed very similar to what was already taught, different order to what AQA has (you don't do particle Physics till A2, which sucks), but I can't compare how hard they are compared to past exams for the OCR board.

So conclusion, I guess you could be right for OCR Science at the very least, AQA no, they are definitely just as hard if not harder, they've mixed the ISA into the exam, which is just cruel.
So are you currently in the middle of your AS exams?

i feel sorry for the current students sitting the new spec exams because your AS UMS can't count towards your final A2 grade...

That's not how 'QED' works. Please educate yourself.



Huh? FP2 is one of the easiest FM exams.

Quod erat demonstrandum is latin for "which is what had to proven" and its use was perfectly fine. Don't tell me to educate myself you protoplasmic discombobulated jelly.

You could say that, it wasn't a thorough assessment of Chemistry or Physics . I do OCR Physics and Chemistry not AQA. AQA might be a different ballpark, so I can't comment on that one.

You didn't prove anything... so please, you're embarrassing yourself.

Sure, funnily enough my post was not a mathematical proof or conjecture. It was merely a slice of humour. Please, your embarrassing yourself...

*you're

That's why I took Maths, Physics and Chemistry

Hi guys, as you can see from the thread title, I pretty much agree that the new a-level exams are too easy, I mean it's not our fault, but obviously the education secretary should change up the a-level playing field. Exam boards are asking ridiculously easy questions, and this is obviously unfair as previous years have sat daunting, but well set exams while we can just essentially sit "Mickey Mouse" exams. It honestly just defeats the purpose of calling these qualifications "A-Levels", the difficulty of these exams are incomparable with the difficulty of GCSE exams. The qualifications should be renamed to General Certificates of Secondary Education because it's honestly quid pro quo.

I took Maths, Further Maths and Physics so...

I also took Further Maths. However I do not point out grammatical mistakes made on forum posts because I actually have a life and you're a complete degenerate.

No, instead you make entire threads about random A-Level nonsense. Sounds like an exciting life you lead.

I was looking forward to the harder exam questions on new specs but just recently in my physics exam i was honestly asked what the distance between 2 points on a ruler is for 1 mark.......

or the "plot these points on the graph"
"Draw a line of best fit"
2 (marks)

Having done 23 past papers from the old spec for a subject such as chemistry and then going into the exam seeing questions that ask me to rearrange
Mass/Mr = moles

Yes i can agree the new spec is easy in the exam papers , even the specimen questions have all been harder than the papers..