GCSE Edexcel Astronomy 2012-2013

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Reply 80

howletg01

I did it in less than a year and I don't know what I'll get.

Reply 81

hisdark

Original post by Mooliopunk

Just wondering how long your courses have been, ie. 1 or 2 years

I've been doing it for a year.

Reply 82

Lord Harold

Original post by Mooliopunk

Deffo harder than 2012 and 2011. Have you done the 2009 paper?

I thought the opposite!

Reply 83

Mooliopunk

I have been doing it for one year. in year 9. Been tough, but fun. I guess I would find some questions easy that you would find difficult and visa versa

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Reply 84

ozzyoscy

Original post by Mooliopunk

Just wondering how long your courses have been, ie. 1 or 2 years

Mine was about 7 months I think, but I was ready to do it after a month.

Reply 85

QuentinLau

I've been doing it for a week haha. I joined a year ago but I never learnt a thing (except for doing the coursework, one of which i did in one night!) and I started reading the star learner pdf's last Wednesday night. I've been doing three hours a night, along with revision for four exams I had on Monday and Tuesday :/. I think it went well, I know I've lost at least 8 marks from not knowing the answer at all on some questions, but the rest of it went quite well :smile:

. Can I ask you guys how many marks you think you dropped? I think I dropped around 30

Reply 86

CanisCanemEdit

I'm on year 11 and I just did the official final exam TODAY. It was alright, but there were a few weird questions.

Oh, and I have been doing doing the course for 2 years.

Feels so good to get off my back

Reply 87

OllieGCSEs

I started the course in September (I'm in year 12), really enjoyed the subject :smile:

If there was an AS, i'd definitely do it

Reply 88

howletg01

When I looked over I thought I'd got around 87/120, which is an A on last year's marks, but I doubt I'll actually score that high. I got 34/40 on my coursework which is an A* so if the grade boundary for A is still 110/160, I need at least 76 on the exam... So 11 less than I thought I'd got. Fingers crossed!

Reply 89

Lord Harold

I counted up the answers that I was certain on and had about 91. It was a definite improvement to the marks I was getting on my past papers last night, around 55!

Reply 90

username1006802

I think I dropped around 20-25 marks in total but I did well on the coursework (surprisingly!) so just hope for the best for everyone!

Reply 91

howletg01

I wish it was results day already so I could find out my grade! Argh!

Reply 92

username1167119

Are we allowed to talk about the exam?

Reply 93

username1167119

its been more than 12 hours

Reply 94

QuentinLau

Yeah so I'm gonna talk about some answers: on the last question I got 6.1
I got 2000 for the question on the bottom of the second last page. I put parsecs as the units but I know now it was mega parsecs.
I put 11 years for the solar cycle and "+33,-33" for the latitude of sunspots question.
I put 1.31 years for Mars orbit.
Those are all the harder ones I'm unsure about

Reply 95

howletg01

Original post by QuentinLau

I didn't get anything for the last question, I wasn't even sure what to do. I too got 2000 and put mpc, but only by luck as I copied from the previous question... :P
I got 11 years for the solar cycle too but put +20 because I've never understood that graph.
I didn't know what it meant by a solar... Solar SOMETHING so I just wrote 2002 x3
I got 1.31 years!

Reply 96

checkmate14

I started doing the course properly about a week ago too, using the astronomyGCSE.co.uk revision notes. There were a few things that I missed, (are we allowed to talk about the paper yet?) but overall I feel pretty confident on about 90ish, and I know about 20 are completely wrong... The other 10 or so, I guessed, out were things I'm not confident on- I suppose I'll just have to wait till August now :P

Reply 97

username1167119

I didn't know what to write for the water coming from comets question. I just randomly put 'analysis comet sample'. Will that get me a mark? :confused:

Reply 98

username1167119

Original post by howletg01

I thought they were meant to give us 'M = m + 5 - 5 log D' equation for the last question

Reply 99

Lord Harold

How about the question about Mars and its distance from the Sun and what the hell is culmination. I guessed and said the highest point in the sky that it reaches that night...