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Hardest and easiest GCSE exams this year

Now that exams are basically over, we were interested in seeing the exams that stuck out in your memory as either horrendously hard or extremely easy :flip:

What were your hardest and easiest exams (and which exam board were they) this year? :juggle:

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Easiest exam: History Germany Paper Edexcel :u:

Hardest exam: Drama Live Performance Edexcel :angry:
Hardest: AQA French Higher Listening. I'm still bitter about that terrible exam.
anyone who did fsmq additional maths knows it was the hardest, screw you ocr

easiest was french reading, edexcel - pretty much a free a*
Hardest: for me edexcel maths paper 1 ( I just messed up)

Easiest: AQA Religious Studies B paper 3
Hardest- AQA French Listening Exam
Easiest- Edexcel Maths A Paper 2.
Easiest: Both AQA Religious Studies B Papers (Paper 3 & 6) Hardest: Edexcel Chinese (It wasn't really all hard, it was just...weird...Why was Gok Wan in my reading paper?). AQA Biology and AQA Physics, some of the Unit 2 and 3 papers were a bit dodgy at times.
Easiest: AQA Chemistry
Hardest: AQA Physics or AQA Textiles
Easiest: German AQA (particularly reading)
Hardest: Physics Edexcel P1
Easiest: wjec geography problem solving paper
Hardest: Aqa French listening
Easiest: AQA German Reading, Edexcel Maths (both papers), OCR 21st Century Physics (all 3 papers)
Hardest: OCR 21st Century Chemistry C456 and Biology B7, AQA Geography paper 1.
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Easiest: Either OCR 21st Century Physics P123 or AQA Further Maths non-calculator
Hardest: OCR 21st Century Biology B123 or AQA Maths Unit 1
Easiest: Edexcel Psychology unit 1
Hardest: Aqa Biology unit 1
Easiest: Edexcel Photography or AQA Religious Studies

Hardest: AQA Graphics or Edexcel Maths (Paper 1)
Reply 14
Easiest: Aqa Business especially Unit 1
Hardest: Aqa English Language (Mainly because my Course Work was terrible so i need very high Marks to even get a C
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Easiest: Both Edexcel maths papers, OCR 21C B1,2,3
Hardest: OCR Computing, OCR 21C P7
Original post by EnglishMuffin29
Easiest: Both Edexcel maths papers, OCR 21C B1,2,3
Hardest: OCR Computing, OCR 21C P7

Did you find OCR Computing that hard?
Original post by Knxwledge
Did you find OCR Computing that hard?


had everything i was **** at and nothing i was good at. Usually im pretty good at computing but oh well, my coursework is an A* so im sure itll bring me up
Hardest: AQA Biology unit 1 or AQA Physics unit 2

Easiest: AQA Chemistry unit 1
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Majority of the exams this year didn't feel as difficult and insane as I'd expected:
Easiest: Edexcel History, Maths Pap 1 & 2, Both RE Papers
Hardest: F****** Edexcel Music

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