The CIE thread 2010 (Results Day: 12 August)

I am giving some subject together and its the same fore one whos doing AS for the first time, and one who is doing only A2 after being satisfied with his AS results. For us, whether you are doing only only component or both, it is less.


Half of what you are paying.

every1 pays those fees, then you gotta pay the centre where you are sitting too. gets really expensive

for CIE or edexcel?

I am not sure what you mean. For CIE, in my school, the price per subject is fixed regardless of the subject and the no of papers the subject has.

I dont know about edexcel, it may very well be more for the science but I am not sure.

thats your school then, ours is different. Theres no standard fee?? what does CIE ask for?

Interesting. P4 Chem was horrible, even those who get 80+ said so. P4 physics was perplexing. Surprisingly my college found M1 math tough but P3 doable. Do you do variant 41 or 42? We do 42.

I am not sure what you mean.

But I think is that CIE does have a standard fee for every subject. Every CIE approved center has to pay the same for the subject. But then it depends on the school. They add overheads to the fees such as paper delivery cost or invigilator cost etc.


If you go to a school where the tuition fee is expensive. they may obviously make the exam fee more expensive, even if there are 2 school in the same area and the other one charges less. Students dont obviously have a choice then.

all are papers are 42 i guess n yeah to be honest i just wrote the paper dats all i remember coz dere so many papers dat every morning u get up
i think abt oh paper 3 dat had to be done dis way n dat way fck man mi head is still nt out of exams.dey were the horrible exams ever i gave in my life.....i h8 CIE for dis

bt what subjects did u give??

my variant was 42 for chem n phy
n we had phy42 in mornin and den p3 in afternoon
i was f up as i cudnt do both the subjects n p3 paper was hard i coudnt do anythin the complex no. question was goin abt my head

yea CIE exams have fixed price and centres charge u sum addition additional cost such as conducting exam n paper delivery handling n as they have to pay per subject to CIE AFFILATION also bt yeah heard edexcel is expensive..
any idea how much do they chrge for science sub???

Same here my friend. P4 was alright...not too bad. I hoping my A at AS and my awesome P4 will help me with an A/A* overall.

Maths P3 ****** me up though. I really hope I don't go lower than a B. How did people find P3 where you live? I had a mixed response here, majority really ****** it up (LEAVING 20+ marks!) while some said it was the easiest paper ever.

My friend told me eco / bus have 3 hour papers :O :O

That is just killer

My friend told me eco / bus have 3 hour papers :O :O

That is just killer

Hey guys, good to see at least someone gave CIE exams

I gave A2 Computing, Maths, Chemistry, and Physics

Comp was good, but I missed the last question didn't see it all
However, my teacher told me I did really well in the project so A/A*

Maths was **** (insert 4 letter word of choice )
S1 (62) wasn't that bad, but I made some mistakes, ~80% but many people at my center thought it was hard
I don't know what happened in p3, I thought I did OK, but all my answers differed from the maths whiz in our class so they were probably wrong, and even he said it was a little tricky
Most people left a ton of questions from p32, so I hope threshold is lower
Hopefully I can maintain a B

Was worried about physics and chem, but the papers were soooo easy.
My friends found them OK but I think I killed them

So hopefully 3A*s and a B

Anyway no point worrying now until august 10th