Pretty sure i just failed my economics EC1

I pretty much feel like dying in a hole after each of my exams this year. I don't know this year isn't good, or my new schools exam hall is pure bad luck but each of my exams has gone terrible

It was harder then previous years. I found the last one hard, my teacher said it as supposed to be an A2 question. I think overall for an A you will need 32/50. Just my guess.

Are you talking about the WJEC exam board?

Oh no I think today i was destined for failure, couldn't find my watch, spilt over a glass of water; whilst waiting outside the exam room, a kid got beat up by the vending machines which slightly uneased my 'calm pre-exam attitude', sigh...

mhm ... they have usually been around 33/50 ... look at the examiners reports.

Aaah same i agree , none of my exams have been good either can't do anything about it now other than hope for eveyrthing to b ok. Sometimes i feel like committing suicide , A-Levels are truly so difficult.

Haha yeah, i was just about to say; it's WJEC. But thankyou, this is all still very encouraging; i think my problem is the terms. I misunderstood the term 'trade defecit' and spoke about a budget defecit all the way through an 8 mark question, which is ridiculously stupid. I also couldn't decide whether an interest rate increase on a mortgage was a good or bath thing, which again.. pretty dull. And in regards to the importance of exams; to me they are more than just exams, I've been in college now for almost 3 years, I'll be turning 19 and in classes full of 16 year old (which isn't bad) but i could be in uni actually progressing with my life rather than being stuck in a time-bubble of failure and futile attempts at academia.. wow sorry.. slight breakdown. But thanks for your reply..

Your obviously referring to once the EC1 and EC2 marks are being combined right? 33/50 alone seems devastatingly low 0.e haha But yeah that last question is what got me. I'd have been fine with that question without the mention of 'trade defecit' totally misunderstood the term..

If you're in AS, then there are always retakes in january but you need to focus on EC2 now got C first time round in EC1 and 78/80 in January retakes, focus on EC2 next week!

Do they tell you the marks you get or just the percentage and grade?

If you're in AS, then there are always retakes in january but you need to focus on EC2 now got C first time round in EC1 and 78/80 in January retakes, focus on EC2 next week!

On results day, you'll get it in UMS, for 78/80, I got something like 42/50 in the exam.

No just EC1 paper. Then you have EC2 paper which is usually 50 or 55/80. Then to join them together you have to weight them ... I think EC2 is worth 70%, actually I don't know the weightings.

I have no idea why they are so low. Either students are not capable or because WJEC is only A-level and not GCSE so they think that you're learning everything for the first time so they put boundaries down. OR they mark really harshly. Time will tell.

http://www.wjec.co.uk/uploads/publications/15810.pdf

At A-level , your future depends on exams. If you resit... cant get into any good universities, cant 'get anywhere in life'. Same goes with failing the exams.

Haha yeah, i was just about to say; it's WJEC. But thankyou, this is all still very encouraging; i think my problem is the terms. I misunderstood the term 'trade defecit' and spoke about a budget defecit all the way through an 8 mark question, which is ridiculously stupid. I also couldn't decide whether an interest rate increase on a mortgage was a good or bath thing, which again.. pretty dull. And in regards to the importance of exams; to me they are more than just exams, I've been in college now for almost 3 years, I'll be turning 19 and in classes full of 16 year old (which isn't bad) but i could be in uni actually progressing with my life rather than being stuck in a time-bubble of failure and futile attempts at academia.. wow sorry.. slight breakdown. But thanks for your reply..

We tie so much importance on getting into university too I reckon.

OP, I don't know what it is you want to do in life, perhaps that economics A-level is very important for what it is you want to do. I just think that people make this assumption that if we do badly in exams, we have no future. Like the only thing we can do is go to university.

We tie so much importance on getting into university too I reckon.

OP, I don't know what it is you want to do in life, perhaps that economics A-level is very important for what it is you want to do. I just think that people make this assumption that if we do badly in exams, we have no future. Like the only thing we can do is go to university.

No i'm not going to be doing economics in university, but i only took 3 A levels, and the requirements i need are AAB, so i need to do well in all my subjects. There are other ways to get a good job in life, but university is a very 'safe' option, it provides you with a guarantee, almost. Or at least, a feeling of security and self-assurance. Other options may depend on luck of the draw, good people skills, technical skills, or talents such as signing, dancing, or art. Of which i have none. Haha. Therefore, I tie an awful lot of importance to university.

Hmmm, I don't understand. How do you get UMS? So you got 98% when in reality you only got 84%

UMS is the scaled raw mark. It depends how everybody else did.