OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12

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  1. park1996's Avatar
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    OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    How did everyone find the OCR 21st Century Physics P1, P2 and P3 exam today?

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  2. southend1112's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    Quite easy, a few questions I didn't know, but otherwise it's all good!
  3. sos_'s Avatar
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    It was ok i guess. Finally, the first bit of maths!
  4. rudegyal's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    What did you guys write for the supernova question? i was like whaaaaaa?
  5. park1996's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    I found this actually quite easy, the supernova one threw me off but you needed to speak about how to protect yourselves from the gamma and high-energy particles.
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    I found it pretty difficult to be honest, the 6 markers seemed pretty vague as to what they wanted you to write and much of the stuff that we had learnt in class barely came up. Practically everyone in my year who took the exam was pretty thrown by it. I also noticed that in the case of the Biology and Chemistry exams you actually had to give reference to what you had learnt and apply knowledge, in my case I could have gone into the exam doing no revision whatsoever and probably get a better mark... It was a really poorly written exam in my opinion, and for the sake of me and many of my classmates hopefully the grade boundaries are generous
  7. TheSmartOne's Avatar
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    What did you guys do for the supernova question? And for the second part of it was pretty stupid. "Write what the Government could do about it"- nothing!!!
  8. TheSmartOne's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    Isn't it 35/60 for an A?
  9. Maat's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    is this the exam where there was a question about how this guy can see the moon in the pitch black even though the moon gives off no light etc?
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    it was soooo hard, i think i got a D!! hope the grade boundaries are low, because in my opinion this physics exam was harder than chemistry and biology put together. All the 6 mark questions were horrible and badly written. **** you OCR!!!!
  11. richards123's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    (Original post by TheSmartOne)
    Isn't it 35/60 for an A?
    hope so!!!!
  12. TheSmartOne's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    To be honest I found chemistry the hardest, and biology and physics were the same
  13. Krollo's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    I found Physics easiest, Biology mediocre and Chemistry hardest. I seem to be an anomaly in my school, most people found Chemistry and Physics equally hard and Biology easy. Thoughts?
  14. OCRScience's Avatar
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    Re: OCR 21st Century Physics 22/6/12
    (Original post by TheSmartOne)
    Isn't it 35/60 for an A?
    (Original post by richards123)
    hope so!!!!
    January's exam it was only 31/60 to get an A
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