OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15th
Chemistry exam discussion - share revision tips in preparation for GCSE, A Level and other chemistry exams and discuss how they went afterwards.
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15thYes I'm doing C4 and it's really easy I find just going through topics you don't understand and writing the information on all different pieces of paper really helps as you are just focusing on that topic not everything in C4!!!!!!
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15thapprantly according to the mark scheme you can actually loose about 20 marks in order to obtain a grade A* so thats getting all of either one of the 3 section questions(c4,c5,c6,) all wrong...
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15th(Original post by Simran Mars Foster)
apprantly according to the mark scheme you can actually loose about 20 marks in order to obtain a grade A* so thats getting all of either one of the 3 section questions(c4,c5,c6,) all wrong...
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15thI'm not doing this exam, however I took it in January. (We did the modules back to front, so I did C4,C5,C6 first). Here are some things I learnt from taking that exam:
1. It's good to do a lot of past papers. And after you've done them you will feel somewhat confident, however...
2. In the exam the wording is different, if you don't understand the wording, then you basically are in trouble. I knew a lot of the content and revised more for this exam than I have ever revised for any other exam. But it was the wording that let me down. There is no real way you can "revise" this, I knew all the topics. So you can only hope for the best - I don't mean that to put you off, what all I'm saying is read the question twice and make you understand it.
3. What I learnt from doing past papers is, your answer might be right and really you should get all the marks but the mark scheme says differently. So it's good to look at mark schemes. Towards the end even if you don't do the past papers because you don't have enough time, it doesn't matter, just flick through past papers and see what the mark scheme said.
Hope this helped.
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15thThanks.(Original post by >Username<)
I'm not doing this exam, however I took it in January. (We did the modules back to front, so I did C4,C5,C6 first). Here are some things I learnt from taking that exam:
1. It's good to do a lot of past papers. And after you've done them you will feel somewhat confident, however...
2. In the exam the wording is different, if you don't understand the wording, then you basically are in trouble. I knew a lot of the content and revised more for this exam than I have ever revised for any other exam. But it was the wording that let me down. There is no real way you can "revise" this, I knew all the topics. So you can only hope for the best - I don't mean that to put you off, what all I'm saying is read the question twice and make you understand it.
3. What I learnt from doing past papers is, your answer might be right and really you should get all the marks but the mark scheme says differently. So it's good to look at mark schemes. Towards the end even if you don't do the past papers because you don't have enough time, it doesn't matter, just flick through past papers and see what the mark scheme said.
Hope this helped.
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15thDo most people get higher, lower or about the same for the second paper as the first?
I got 99% for C1C2C3, but the CA was quite a bit lower (not sure exactly what) so I need another good mark from this paper to get an A*. -
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15thGot 89% on C1,C2,C3. One mark off an A*(Original post by Simran Mars Foster)
what grades did everyone get for the c1 c2 c3 exam? Im just curious... I got a b but i need an a* on this exam... :/
Feeling confident about this exam but some of the questions in C5 really throw me off...
Also, would anyone know what mark I need to get in this exam to get an A* overall? My coursework (Science in the news) was A* btw.Last edited by flink; 13-06-2012 at 17:06. -
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15thI got 3 a's but only just scraped an a in physics(Original post by Simran Mars Foster)
what grades did everyone get for the c1 c2 c3 exam? Im just curious... I got a b but i need an a* on this exam... :/
i think this ones going to be way harder though, because the questions in the biology were difficult and strange - did anybody else find that? I think it's because the exam board is changing next year. Good Luck Everyone!
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Re: OCR Gateway Chemistry C4,C5,C6- June 15th(Original post by The_Soul_Patch)
Has anyone got the jan 12 paper
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Same here
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yes, I would like to look at the jan 12 paper too
i think this ones going to be way harder though, because the questions in the biology were difficult and strange - did anybody else find that? I think it's because the exam board is changing next year. Good Luck Everyone!
