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TBH i'm not completely sure how they work it out. But i know it is something where they change the marks so you can compare across exam boards and also people who took it at different times such as last year. So for hard exams 50/60 could become 95% ums, but for easier exams 50/60 it might only be 90 ums Hope it helps :smile:

oh i get it now, thanks soo much :smile:

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username1974743

Original post by ziddy

oh i get it now, thanks soo much :smile:

No problem :smile:

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Undec

Original post by Xiuchen

I just about fitted everything I needed to say in the space provided :smile:

Hopefully I got UMS 100% in this test...

Can you explain to me what UMS is and how the grade boundaries convert into the overall mark? BEcause i heard that the UMS marks don't change
oh just saw post above ^

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M463

Eurgh that kettle question. I had 1.97x10-3. I showed all the relevant working but when I did p=e/t and rearranged to get t = e/p I must have written 2700W instead of 2.7KW or whatever the number was for power instead so I divided by too much.Do you reckon that is worth 1 or 2 marks?

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username1974743

Original post by Undec

Can you explain to me what UMS is and how the grade boundaries convert into the overall mark? BEcause i heard that the UMS marks don't change
oh just saw post above ^

I explained it earlier, but for UMS grade boundaries are different, if you don't get A* in the raw mark you can still get A* UMS (I THINK!)

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username1974743

Original post by M463

So for the first part if you used 2700W instead of 2.7KW you should have gotten full marks, for the second part if you wrote the correct equation you definitely get 1 mark, you did 2 parts correctly and just used the wrong value so I'd say they would give you 2, it depends on what the Mark Scheme says.

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Nathan.W

Original post by Xiuchen

I didn't think it was too bad TBH! I kind of knew what to write, but I'm not sure all the information I wrote was relevant! I thought they were both quite strange 6 markers, but I knew what to write for them, how did you find it?