[Dark Fury]

(Original post by mills04)
I did the OCR one, what a joke. I forgot all of the maths bits.

Our invidulator kept breathing through his nose and he sounded like darth vader, seriously! Grr.

And the other invidulator's phone kept going off and she went outside to answer it.

Other than that, it was alright, I did the end question about the building new motorways.

Give an example of a mission to space?!

I did the motorway question too - however i didn't do great on part (b).

My calculator came in handy for question 1 - simply working through the instructions and understanding it was the key.

[eXis]

(Original post by jonjoe)
just done AQA one, was pretty easy, i chose Q1,2,4,5 as they seemed the easiest,

I did the same, but thought it was quite hard. I didnt know what to write at all.

[jonjoe]

I found the ASBO question hard, i ran out of time, i thought it be more based on recent news than it was. Just seemed like english gcse to me.

[Wenger's grey hair]

I had AQA A Unit 3 today.
I should imagine that people doing Politics raped this one..."how can PG success vary" or something along those lines.........Jeez! It could be in a Politics paper!

[c.h.r.i.s.s.y]

hey

i just did the OCR General Studies exam today and i belive it was ok...was the compound and simple interest question apply to like saving accounts yeh?

i belive that the rest of the paper was all good...everyone think it was ok!

[Stefan_M]

I did the OCR Scientific Domain paper this afternoon too and overall I think I have done "okay."

When I first opened the paper to the mathematical questions I was like "OMG - What on earth are they going on about?" however as I read through the formulas I was able to apply them to questions and managed to get reasonable answers, I think. In saying this these questions did take longer than I anticipated, so I lost a couple of minutes for answering the essay questions.

I was halfway through my comclusion when the invigelator said "Pens Down," however as I had an "Additional Sheet" to attach and fill in onto my exam paper, she collected all of the papers down my row and then came back to me, so I was able to finish it by writing a really crappy "end setence" lol!

[maze.e]

(Original post by jonjoe)
just done AQA one, was pretty easy, i chose Q1,2,4,5 as

I did OCR we only had to do 3 questions i found it hard, i wish i didnt take it as an extra 5th As.

[NickiM]

(Original post by tomdav)
Thats exactly how I feel!



Glad it went well for you Nicki, I had to work out maths as well lol, it wasn't a nice experience. Which question did you choose in section C?

Also for one of the percentages i got 133.3% (seems abit wierd, did you get that at all?)

No - was that the percentage increase one? I got 50% because I am stupid...but a friend said it was 233.3% - which I think is the right answer.

Which essay did you do? I did the last one about criminals and sentences.

It wasn't too bad, let's hope the examiners liked my answers, and I've moved up to an A

[Wilko_777]

(Original post by NickiM)
No - was that the percentage increase one? I got 50% because I am stupid...but a friend said it was 233.3% - which I think is the right answer.

Which essay did you do? I did the last one about criminals and sentences.

It wasn't too bad, let's hope the examiners liked my answers, and I've moved up to an A

If we are on about the Edexcel paper, then I think your friend is right with their answer; i said that aswell.

I didn't have a clue what was meant by deviance, but apparently what I said is about right.

Did anyone else do the essay question on the EU? That question was a gift, especially if you do Politics.

[NickiM]

(Original post by Wilko_777)
If we are on about the Edexcel paper, then I think your friend is right with their answer; i said that aswell.

I didn't have a clue what was meant by deviance, but apparently what I said is about right.

Did anyone else do the essay question on the EU? That question was a gift, especially if you do Politics.

No, but deviance was fine for me - it's GCSE Sociology, I haven't covered it this year but I remembered what it was. I did the last essay question, haven't done Politics.

[tomdav]

No - was that the percentage increase one? I got 50% because I am stupid...but a friend said it was 233.3% - which I think is the right answer.

I got 133.3% as the percentage increase from 3 to 7

3= 100%
1=33.3%

increased by 4 so 133.3% i thought. I also checked it with a calculator and it worked ok.

[NickiM]

(Original post by tomdav)
I got 133.3% as the percentage increase from 3 to 7

3= 100%
1=33.3%

increased by 4 so 133.3% i thought. I also checked it with a calculator and it worked ok.

I don't know...I was wrong though!

[teachercol]

(Original post by mills04)
I did the OCR one, what a joke. I forgot all of the maths bits.

Our invidulator kept breathing through his nose and he sounded like darth vader, seriously! Grr.

I invigilated the exam. Very boring watching students so we all amused ourselves doing Darth Vader impressions.

[MissSurfer]

(Original post by tomdav)
I got 133.3% as the percentage increase from 3 to 7

3= 100%
1=33.3%

increased by 4 so 133.3% i thought. I also checked it with a calculator and it worked ok.

Hmm.... I got 233% but I think your way sounds better. I probably got it wrong.

[tomdav]

Hmm.... I got 233% but I think your way sounds better. I probably got it wrong.

Well loads of people got 233.3% as well, they worked back and worked out the actual number of MPs and I didnt...ahh well its done now. Good luck with the rest of your exams!

[maze.e]

Hey on the OCR one what did people get for the First question with the equation and calculations just wondering?

[Wilko_777]

(Original post by tomdav)
Well loads of people got 233.3% as well, they worked back and worked out the actual number of MPs and I didnt...ahh well its done now. Good luck with the rest of your exams!

People I have spoken to do who do AS maths got 133.3%, so they must be right.

[NickiM]

The person who I spoke to who got 233.33% did Maths!

[AlmostInsane]

(Original post by jonjoe)
just done AQA one, was pretty easy, i chose Q1,2,4,5 as they seemed the easiest,
The stereotypes one, i talked about prejudice and how racism and sexism has improved greatly but new sterotypes in our youths (chavs and goths) may lead to more stereotypes in the future.
The self-employed one, well i watched this program on BBc1 earlier about a woman going into self employment so i used that and mentioned that self employed people earn £130,000 on average in the first year, i mentioned the risks and security, normally a house, mortgage or savings may be lost, then i got stuck and did bullet point of Advantages and Disadvantages which is obviously not going to get marked, but i didnt understand what continuous pose ment lol.
The Marriage one, i talked about religion, and history were it used to be illegal to divorced (no idea if that is true) 1 in 3 couples get divorced. People get married in leisure centres etc. Marriage is a sacrament, society views it as a sign of love rather than a life long commiment. Then i went off on one and said how can a man and woman getting married be realistic when gay people get married nowadays, I know but i couldnt think of any better arguement.
Finally the ASBO one, i was running out of time so mentioned there is no proof that society was more or less agressive before ASBOs came out. I mentioned that a positive was the givernment trying to resolve the issue of anti social behaviour and i mentioned youths are mainly the ones getting ASBOs which could lead to them doing further crime in the future.

I didnt revise at all so im happy with my answers, but my table was sooo wobbly but not the leg the desk bit was coming off lol very distracting.

Yeh I did 1, 3, 4, 5. I know next to nothing about self employment and the last question about pollution or something looked boring. I liked the marriage question and the stereotyping one but the other two I wrote complete rubbish for, nevermind. I considered writing 'I really don't care' on the BBC question.

[FruitcakeLiz]

(Original post by maze.e)
Hey on the OCR one what did people get for the First question with the equation and calculations just wondering?

stupid answers i think £6 then £400 ooops i did the calculations and the q about copound interest and simple interest really badly so hopefully i made up for it in the rest of the paper!