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Reply 40
Hey can someone please help me i just wanted to know what the general grade boundaries are in an exam out of 90?
Biology BYA1 - 86/105 - A
Biology BYA5 - 77/90 - A :biggrin:

Chemistry Of Natural Resources - 84/120 - B (worse than the first time)
Chemistry of Materials - 63/90 -B

Maths S1 - 86/100 - A :wtf?:
Maths S2 - 63/100 - C
Maths C2 - 96/100 - A :eek: :biggrin:

Overall, now have:

Biology - 330/390 - Now only need 90/210 to get a B overall and meet my uni Offer.
Chemistry - 303/390 - Now need 177/210 to get an A overall and meet my uni offer
Maths - 331/400 - Now only need 89/200 to get a B and meet my Uni offer.

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Amazed. I can't believe I got 96 in C2, and also managed to get an A in S1. It makes it look like maths is my strongest subject, when it really shouldn't be! Biology I was also surprised with. Got an A in the retake, but also managed to get 77/90 from god knows where for unit 5. Thought i did pretty badly in that exam. Slightly disappointed with chemistry, given that it's the one subject i need an A in to meet my uni offer. I knew at the time i hadn't done amazingly, so I guess it's just a resit job for that exam.

Effectively what it now means is that I can just concentrate solely on chemistry in the main, to make sure I get the A, because perhaps somewhat ironically, i've steamed away with maths & Biology, when I only need B's in them.
Reply 42
Just got two of my marks so far;

AQA ECN4 - 111/120
AQA ECN5 - 78/90

Now I just need 24/90 in ECN6 to get an A :biggrin:
AQA BYB1- 88/90 Grade A
OCR Foundation Chem-74/90 Grade A
Reply 44
physics: a
business: a
maths bbb [bloooody c3 and c4!!] got altogether B in maths - kinda wohoo lol
general studies: eeu.... maybe I shouldn't have talked about aliens taking over the earth
i hate myself i really do...
c in psychology and c in my retake (no change there)
d in chemistry and u in my retake :frown: ....arent retakes meant to improve your grade? i hate myself so much i did worse in chemistry than before


how do you guys revise?? i need help...
Reply 46
Subject Business studies Coursework
Mark 88/90
What were you predicted?
Are you happy?Yes!
Any Resits?No

Subject Psychology
Module 3 (AS)
Mark 100/100
Are you happy? Shocked!
Any Resits?No

Subject IT
Module 1 (AS)
Mark 71/90
Are you happy?Nope, went down by 4 and this was the one I needed to improve
Any Resits?Yes but module 2

Subject History
Module 4
Mark 71/90
Are you happy? Nope, I worked very hard for this exam, I need to improve as well, so will consider remark
Any Resits?No
Subject: French Unit 1 (Listening)
Module: 74/90 A
What were you predicted? Dunno. But I went from an E to an A woop.
Are you happy? Yep.
Any Resits? not resitting this one no.

Subject: French Unit 2 (Reading and Writing)
Module: 104/120 A
What were you predicted? who knows.
Are you happy? Yes. I went from a low C to an A.
Any Resits? Not this module but I'm resitting the speaking I think.

went a bit down hill after french lol

Subject: German Unit 1 (Reading and Listening)
Module: 56/90 D
What were you predicted? Dunno.
Are you happy? No!!! pissed off a bit actually but I did improve a grade though.
Any Resits? Yep.


Subject: German Unit 2 (Writing)
Module: 56/105 (I think its 105) C
What were you predicted? Dunno
Are you happy? yeah I suppose I went from a U to a C.
Any Resits? Not sure if I'm resitting this.


Subject: Chemistry unit 1 foundations
Module: 65/90 B
What were you predicted? Dunno
Are you happy? yeah. I went from an E to a B so pretty good.
Any Resits? Don't think so.


Subject: Chemistry unit 2 chains and rings
Module: 52/90 D (2 marks off C)
What were you predicted? Dunno
Are you happy? No!!! pissed off I revised really hard for this and I improved by 1 mark???!! lol
Any Resits? Yep.

Subject:
Chemistry unit 4 chains, rings and spectrometry
Module: 39/90 (I think it's 90 anyway) E
What were you predicted? Dunno
Are you happy? Nope.
Any Resits? Yes!!!
Biology Mod 4 - 90/100 - A
Chemistry Mod 4 - 81/90 - A
English Pre-1900 Poetry & Prose - 81/90 - A
Music Listening & History - 120/120 - A

Overall, I need BBB to satisfy my firm offer (Medicine at UCL). I have...

Biology 378/400 need 42/200 for B (U)
Chemistry 381/390 need 39/210 for B (U)
English Lit 373/390 need 47/210 for B (U)
Music 398/420 need 22/420 for B (U)


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Pleased....especially when I worked out how much I need from Modules 5&6 in all my subjects! However I'm pretty competitive and my marks this time are a bit of a come down from August! I really wish I'd have got full marks in chemistry....just so my teacher would've been forced to give me a silver mirror to keep like he said he would

In general though....ecstatic!
Subject: AQA Biology BYB1
Module: 72/90 A
What were you predicted? B
Are you happy? Yep
Any Resits? Probably, as I only just scraped it this time.

Subject: AQA Chemistry Unit 1
Module: 80/90 A
What were you predicted? B
Are you happy? Yes
Any Resits? No

Subject: AQA Economics Unit 1
Module: 84/105 A
What were you predicted? B
Are you happy? Kinda.
Any Resits? Probably.

Subject: General Studies GSA2
Module: 83/100 A
What were you predicted? Dunno
Are you happy? Yeah
Any Resits? Hell no! This A level is useless! I wouldn't resit it if I got a U.

Overall I'm quite happy, but feel I could have done better in the Economics and Biology. I know where I went wrong in both exams, so I should get a better mark next time.
Reply 50
How do the grade boundaries work in these things? Is it by percentages: 80% is A, 70% is B, 60% is C etc?

Also did anyone take Edexcel Applied ICT Unit 3 in Jan? Did you find it horrendous and what did you get?
namakemono
How do the grade boundaries work in these things? Is it by percentages: 80% is A, 70% is B, 60% is C etc?

Also did anyone take Edexcel Applied ICT Unit 3 in Jan? Did you find it horrendous and what did you get?


Yes.
Reply 52
AQA Geography Paper 7 -115/120 - A!:biggrin:
What were you predicted? A
Are you happy? Very
Any Resits? No resits!
University Offer (if any): Need AAB for geography at Bristol
Marks Required from now on: so far i have 407/420 or 407/600 which gives me a C without sitting GGA4 or GGA5 I need 480/600 for an A overall. Therefore need to get 36/90 (an E!) for both GGA4/5 for an A overall in the summer !:biggrin:

Edexcel History - Unit 4 (?) Elizabeth: Settlement and Security
Full marks!!! 90/90 = A :p:
What were you predicted? A
Are you happy? unexpected because i got a D in my mock
Any Resits? nope
Marks Required from now on: 335/390 overall (23 marks above the A grade boundary). one more exam in summer which is out of 120 need to get 83/120 (B) as well as 63/90 in the cw to get an A overall.

OCR French AS resit - Reading and Writing
went up 11 marks to 79/90= A
What were you predicted? A
Marks Required from now on: total 259/300. For A need 221/300 - so 19 marks above the threshold. Need at least a good B in Oral, cw and A2 writing and listening exams
Original results, AS:
English = A overall
Critical Thinking = C overall
Gen Studies = A overall
Chem CDE = D overall
Physics DDC = C overall
Biology AAB = B overall

Retake Results:
Chem DE to AB = B overall (will resit chm3)
Physics DD to AB = B overall (will resit phb3)

A2 Mod 4 results:
Chem = B
Physics = C
Biology = A
Reply 54
Subject: Edexcel Biology Unit 1
Module: 78/100 B
What were you predicted? A/B
Are you happy? Frustrated, 2 marks off an A!!!
Any Resits? Nah

Subject: Salters Chemistry for life 2850
Module: 72/90 A
What were you predicted? B
Are you happy? Yeah!!!! The exam was the worst, I thought I'd get a C
Any Resits? No

Subject: OCR B Physics
Module: 84/100 A
What were you predicted? A/B
Are you happy? I'm bloody amazed.
Any Resits?
Reply 55
Well done to all- glad people are getting what they needed.

And to those of you that didn't get what you needed/wanted, I didn't either, so I sympathise.
Reply 56
Geography

Module B2: 62/100 C (2 less than last time, ah well.)
Module B5: 73/90 A (Nice one :biggrin:)
Reply 57
bio B
chem ABBA
maths AC

oh the whole not bad not brill
Reply 58
GRRRR i got a b in economics 4, which isnt bad but it was the exam i thought id done the best in, when infact, i did the worst, minus fp1 which, well, i was expecting
Reply 59
AQA ECN4 - 111/120 A
AQA ECN5 - 78/90 A
Edexcel History 1 - 101/120 A
Edexcel History 4 - 67/90 B
AQA Chemistry 2 - 70/90 B
AQA Chemistry 4 - 65/90 B
Edexcel Maths C2 - 69/100 C
Edexcel Maths Mechanics - 55/100 D

Really happy with my top three marks and the chem module 4 mark. I'm a bit disappointed with the History module 4 mark but a lot of the people in my class seemed to do really badly, and I would've liked to have done better in my chem module 2 retake. Really disappointed with my maths marks, my C2 only went up by 4 marks from last time, and although I knew I'd do terribly on M1 it's still not nice :frown:

So far:
Economics - 454/510 - need 24/90 for an A.
History - 309/390 - need 171/210 for an A (might resit module 2 or 4).
Chemistry - 290/390 - need 130/210 for a B (will resit module 3 (a C) in the summer).
Maths - 288/400 - need 192/200 for an A (:biggrin:), although I will definetely be redoing M1 and C2, and maybe S1 as it was easy and I only scraped an A.

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