OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD

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  1. Freddy-Francis's Avatar
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Ladotelli)
    Does anyone have an idea, of marks out of 55, for an A or B grade?
    It may vary.
    Could be 30 for an A*

    30-34 for A* is a good range
    26-29 for an A
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    Are you guys sure that we're allowed to be discussing this exam at the moment?
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by ZakariaMar)
    Are you guys sure that we're allowed to be discussing this exam at the moment?
    Why not?
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Freddy-Francis)
    It may vary.
    Could be 30 for an A*

    30-34 for A* is a good range
    26-29 for an A
    Right, thanks.
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by ZakariaMar)
    Are you guys sure that we're allowed to be discussing this exam at the moment?
    Yes, it's only edexcel we can't striaght after.
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Coke1)
    Yes, it's only edexcel we can't striaght after.
    Why not for edexcel. :confused:
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    Could someone help me here? I'm not sure what mark my chemistry coursework was at. I was at 38/40, then redid it and tried to get it up to full marks. So I'm guessing I got 39/40. That's about 98 UMS I think. I got 46 on both the C123 and C456, so that's 92UMS.

    98 + 92 = 190 UMS, so I need 80UMS in this to get an a*. This is an A I think but it's on the boundary, can anyone guess the raw mark needed for this? Pretty worried, things had gone well but I blanked a little today. :\
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    That exam was quite hard for me. the only easy bit was the first bit about Platicizers/Polymers/Pthalates. I counted up the marks i thought id get and it was 17 so i think i failed BADLY .
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    Well I can say goodbye to my dream of an A* in Chemistry

    Was going to need around 92 UMS on this test. NO WAY got. Maybe got an A.
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by HHJ)
    Do any of you guys know if we get a formula page, or are they going to be mean as usual??
    They were mean as usual babes
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Freddy-Francis)
    Why not for edexcel. :confused:
    Oh I guess because they are the exam board for iGCSE's? That seems to be the only logical reason why it's only them.
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    Does anyone know this? If i Fail This exam do i have to retake b1 b2 b3, c1 c2 c3 and courseworks? because people were saying that :/
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    For the volume one I put 25cm^3 for the water and 975cm^3 for the stock thing to make 1dm^3 I only did that because the other one used 25cm^3 of water. I think I got that one wrong then.

    Didn't go too badly the only problem I have looking back on it is that I went to 4 dp's with the values because I was revising probability for add.maths, and they want you to give 4 dp's... I hope the examiner doesn't mind!

    Also I wrote below the given lines a few times i hope that'll be okay aswell
    Last edited by ZakariaMar; 24-05-2012 at 17:00. Reason: .
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Disintegration)
    Could someone help me here? I'm not sure what mark my chemistry coursework was at. I was at 38/40, then redid it and tried to get it up to full marks. So I'm guessing I got 39/40. That's about 98 UMS I think. I got 46 on both the C123 and C456, so that's 92UMS.

    98 + 92 = 190 UMS, so I need 80UMS in this to get an a*. This is an A I think but it's on the boundary, can anyone guess the raw mark needed for this? Pretty worried, things had gone well but I blanked a little today. :\
    If you get 26 or 27 in this exam paper then you will get an A* overall. This is using last years grade boundary.
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by mKiDGrime)
    Does anyone know this? If i Fail This exam do i have to retake b1 b2 b3, c1 c2 c3 and courseworks? because people were saying that :/
    B1 b2 b3 has nothing to do with this exam

    and whatever you get on this exam gets added to your UMS, and that is that. The final grade is given.
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Coke1)
    B1 b2 b3 has nothing to do with this exam

    and whatever you get on this exam gets added to your UMS, and that is that. The final grade is given.
    Yeah.
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Coke1)
    B1 b2 b3 has nothing to do with this exam

    and whatever you get on this exam gets added to your UMS, and that is that. The final grade is given.
    Do you have a rough estimate of the UMS grade boundaries?
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    (Original post by Coke1)
    B1 b2 b3 has nothing to do with this exam

    and whatever you get on this exam gets added to your UMS, and that is that. The final grade is given.
    Because my teacher said were doing the pre 2011 course and if you fail c7 if you want to retake it you have to do the new course. Therefore taking all your tests again in year 11
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    A323H 02 Chemistry A Unit 3: Ideas in Context plus C7 Higher Raw 55 31 25 19 14 10 8 n/a n/a 0
    UMS 100 90 80 70 60 50 45 n/a n/a 0
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    Re: OCR GCSE Chemistry A- C7 + Ideas In Context, May 24th 2012. OFFICIAL THREAD
    People said that they found it decent tbh I found it kinda hard
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