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Edexcel A2 6GP03 June 2015 Topic B: Introducing Political Ideologies

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Reply 640

George brim

Original post by lizmoo0721

Is anyone else doing feminism? Do you know if we have to learn the different waves?

I have defiantly seen questions that reference the waves of feminism...

Reply 641

lizmoo0721

Original post by George brim

I have defiantly seen questions that reference the waves of feminism...

Ok, Thanks :smile:

Reply 642

Shaqk

We do have a thread for the unit 4 exam

Reply 643

philerus

In Unit 3 it seems as though I was not thinking straight and did the essay question I did not know so much about, for which I still cannot forgive myself. Anyone know how papers with question choice are marked? Ie are marks for specific questions weighted according to difficulty, which could be reflected by average performance?

Reply 644

Shaqk

Original post by philerus

Sorry to be blunt but nope.

Reply 645

philerus

Thanks for the reply and no wories. You know this for certain or is this just an educated assumption? Its just that when there is a choice of questions to the extent that people end up doing completely different papers, it would make sense if they weigh them slightly different, as they do with the final ums conversion.

Reply 646

Shaqk

Original post by philerus

It was an educated guess but I can't imagine them marking you up because what you 'thought' you did was a difficult question. Difficulty is relative. Secretly it could of been the easiest set of questions and you just found it hard.

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Reply 647

Skellywren

Unfortunately they really are all weighted the same, they work the UMS out from the paper as a whole regardless of which questions you did.

Reply 648

philerus

Oh no, that is not what I was saying at all. I was implying something along the lines of a roughly equal amount of people picking, say, question X and qustion Y. The average scores, however, would be something like 30/45 and 40/45, with the number of candidates opting for either option being large enough to discount the probability of it simply being a less able group who picked question X. Therefore, once we look at it this way it is easy to see that one question was indeed more difficult than another. When one paper is judged more difficult, we have grade boundaries and UMS conversions. Surely it would make sense to apply the same logic to questions.

Mind you, if I was in the minority who did badly in this question then this means that the boundaries for this question will still not be as low. Of course, that should ideally depend on the number of people who opted for a specific question.

So as you can see, my logic had nothing to do with subjective judgements and assessments of difficulty, but was based instead on objective speculation based potential performance, which is assessed with a numerical score.

Reply 649

philerus

That would make sense since the calculations would increase exponentially in complexity if they do it otherwise. However, I do wonder if they perform calculations that are not included in the Raw/UMS converter they have on the website.

Reply 650

Skellywren

Why would they? It seems a bit strange that they would do that and not tell anyone. My teacher is a marker for the this paper and I asked her the same question a few months ago, and she said the ability to choose the right question was part of the exam.

Reply 651

philerus

Yeah, that makes perfect sense, and is something I was thinking about myself earlier. Thanks for the response!

The only reason I thought they would do that would be for the same reason that they do not give us the Raw Mark as a final mark.

Reply 652

Cath.1996

Does anyone have the examiners report from last year? (For further ideologies)

Reply 653

xxvine

Bump does anybody have tips with regards to this exam?

Reply 654

myhatmyrowntrees

probably no point now like, im studying
Unit 3
Liberalism
Conservatism
Anarchism
Unit 4
Feminism
ecologism
multiculturalism
Any revision resources you have and would share would a massive help!!!!
Thanks!

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