The CIE thread 2010 (Results Day: 12 August)

Look, you can say what you like, but you need to work so much harder if you're doing CIE exams. Full stop. My school's been teaching CIE syllabi for ages and last year they introduced Edexcel and the teachers were laughing when they saw how ridiculously easy the whole thing was. In my school, if you struggle with CIE you switch over to Edexcel, never the other way round. And Edexcel is supposed to be one of the harder exam boards in the UK. I wonder how AQA is.


I will complain and moan and whine about how unfair it is until I die.

Not the hardest. The cheapest and very unfair at marking the papers.

I'm so worried.

Someone help calm my fears.

Look, you can say what you like, but you need to work so much harder if you're doing CIE exams. Full stop. My school's been teaching CIE syllabi for ages and last year they introduced Edexcel and the teachers were laughing when they saw how ridiculously easy the whole thing was. In my school, if you struggle with CIE you switch over to Edexcel, never the other way round. And Edexcel is supposed to be one of the harder exam boards in the UK. I wonder how AQA is.


I will complain and moan and whine about how unfair it is until I die.

God yes! Complex Numbers were certainly a lot harder! All in all, they really changed the pattern. I was caught completely off guard. I mean, I was getting As in all the past papers I solved...but the final. I attempted as much as I could though. So hopefully I'll be able to bag a good bunch of method marks! And what worries me is that quite a few people were saying that it was the easiest paper ever! What the **** is up with that?!

Oh and I need to make a correction. I appeared for S1. Sorry! I had a B in Maths last year (P1 A and M1 B). I am hoping for an A in S1 so I really, really hope I don't end up with a C in Maths. I'd be devastated!

I found Chemistry P5 really, really easy! Came out expecting 28-29/30. . I also had P2 on the same day...which went pretty damn good.

Most people had a mixed response about P4. Said it was sort of lengthy so hard to finish in time. And thanks! Physics P5 is really easy (even easier than Chemistry P5) so yeah.

God yes! Complex Numbers were certainly a lot harder! All in all, they really changed the pattern. I was caught completely off guard. I mean, I was getting As in all the past papers I solved...but the final. I attempted as much as I could though. So hopefully I'll be able to bag a good bunch of method marks! And what worries me is that quite a few people were saying that it was the easiest paper ever! What the **** is up with that?!

Oh and I need to make a correction. I appeared for S1. Sorry! I had a B in Maths last year (P1 A and M1 B). I am hoping for an A in S1 so I really, really hope I don't end up with a C in Maths. I'd be devastated!

I found Chemistry P5 really, really easy! Came out expecting 28-29/30. . I also had P2 on the same day...which went pretty damn good.

Most people had a mixed response about P4. Said it was sort of lengthy so hard to finish in time. And thanks! Physics P5 is really easy (even easier than Chemistry P5) so yeah.

Btw the complex number was kinda a repeat of last years question, the last part atleast. When I saw it, I couldn't stop smiling cause I couldn't belive they had repeated the same question from just a year ago!lol ; the one of 1/z

what do you think about M1?

I did my M1 last year so I did S1 this year so I have no clue but people in my class that resat it said it was a good paper

Odd. My college found it hard. People struggled to finish it.
Does you class sit for variant 41 or 42? My college uses variant 42.

Odd. My college found it hard. People struggled to finish it.
Does you class sit for variant 41 or 42? My college uses variant 42.

Hi there,

this is my third year of the CIE results thread =)

If you took/are taking CIE exams feel free to discuss here. As I mentioned in the title, this year results come out on 12 August and will be available online at https://myresults.cie.org.uk for the second year now. You can get your username and password from the CIE coordinator in your school. Ask them if you didn't get these already.

Feel free to talk about anything exam-related but don't discuss exams until 24 hours after the they finished, as per TSR regulations.

This year I took Marine Science AS+A2 and A2s in Biology, Chemistry and Maths (with S2).

Anyone else?

How was marine science? I'm going back & forth abut taking this as a private candidate.

Not the hardest. The cheapest and very unfair at marking the papers.

Cheapest? I doubt that. Or maybe the rate differs. Its quite expensive where I live.

And I agree with the latter.

Uhh its pretty hard considering its not modular.