What was YOUR paper of death in the Summer 2012 exam season?
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What was YOUR paper of death in the Summer 2012 exam season?
Just a simple question for everyone to answer, which paper, in your personal opinion was the hardest to do this exam season?
Edexcel (Edited in, forgot the exam boards are different) M2 and M3 for me, absolutely turned out horrendous, conerned about my Further Maths mark being dropped to a B over those papers.Last edited by IxI_Rhys_IxI; 28-06-2012 at 01:00. -
Re: What was YOUR paper of death in the Summer 2012 exam season?
AQA Maths Core4
AQA Further Maths FP3
Both of these on the same day, and I just had a really, really bad day
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Oh, and I dropped 5 marks that I knew how to do in FP4 'cos I ran out of time to do Kramer's rule, which annoyed me greatly. -
Re: What was YOUR paper of death in the Summer 2012 exam season?P3 was awful.(Original post by Frankster)
PHYSICS P3 (AQA)
AND BIOLOGY UNIT 1(B1 OLD SPEC.) - I was sooooooooo disappointed!! And it was nothing like the past papers before!
EDIT: They are GCSE Exams
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Re: What was YOUR paper of death in the Summer 2012 exam season?
In order,
Maths STEP1 (this paper nearly brought me to tears)
AQA Statistics Unit 6 (could do half of the paper so D or C)
WJEC Physics Unit 5 (paper was nice but i made wayy too many slips!, perhaps because i only got 3hrs of sleep the night before) -
Re: What was YOUR paper of death in the Summer 2012 exam season?
OCR Mechanics M1, missed out a 7 mark question and won't get more than 1-2 marks for a 6 mark question

OCR Core 4, missed out a few questions but generally speaking, June 2012 have been weird.
I don't know how to explain it but they've definitely been strange, you can kinda tell in Jan 2012 as well. It's as if they're experimenting with new sets of questions or something. Hope it means lower grade boundaries, as quite a few have also said they were hard papers.
Time will tell
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Re: What was YOUR paper of death in the Summer 2012 exam season?
Aqa Core 4 - made too many silly mistakes. Still angry on how I messed up the last question and differential equations are my forte. Lost 9 marks just because of a wrong substitution.
A2 French exam - ugh, this horrid exam told me that taking A Level French was a big mistake and my French teacher was right when he asked "Are you sure you want to continue? I doubt you would do well." Had no choice but to take it because my "insurance" requires it at grade B, but I doubt that it would be anything above an E, to be honest.
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