Has anyone done any of these papers?

WJEC
- English Language
- English Literature
- Geography

AQA
- Music
- Food Technology

EDEXCEL
- Maths
- Additional Science

GCSE's

How did you find the papers??

Reply 1

annab1684

AQA music
it was a bit different to the other papers we'd done
but as for difficulty.. I reckon I got roughly what I always get - 65% (I've only ever done 3 papers and I got 65% on all of them :s-smilie:

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Reply 2

Markinnon

Edexcel Maths and Sciences, but that was 3 years ago so they might have changed a mite. I found them fairly easy to be honest, you'll do fine

Reply 3

Felicity_Ella

EDEXCEL
- Maths
do you do linear or modular?

- Additional Science
I thought chemistry and physics structured papers were awful, but the rest were okay.
what about you?

Reply 4

animallover222

annab1684

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Yeah I thought it was different from all the others. I found the Orchestral Landmarks hard I couldnt tell the different between all four.

Reply 5

BPat

I di Edexcel Maths. I thought both papers were going to be rock hard, but they were a lot easier than i expected. Hopefully i will get A*!

Reply 6

animallover222

Felicity_Ella

EDEXCEL
- Maths
do you do linear or modular?

- Additional Science
I thought chemistry and physics structured papers were awful, but the rest were okay.
what about you?

I did the writen ones not multiple choice.
I found chemistry structure paper okay but not great, i got a B on it. Physics was the worst paper ever but i found the multiple choice physics really easy. Biology i had to reseat because last time i did really bad.

Reply 7

annab1684

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=12347640&highlight=aqa+music+GCSE#post12347640

here is the thread we were discussing it on immediately after the exam..
it might reassure you a bit :smile:

Reply 8

animallover222

BPat

I di Edexcel Maths. I thought both papers were going to be rock hard, but they were a lot easier than i expected. Hopefully i will get A*!

I found them really easy but they may move the boundaries really high so its hard to get an A*.

Reply 9

Felicity_Ella

BPat

I di Edexcel Maths. I thought both papers were going to be rock hard, but they were a lot easier than i expected. Hopefully i will get A*!

are teacher told us what mark we needed to get to get A/A* but i was just thinking how could she do that wouldn't it depend on the grade boundaries?
btw, i did modular, thought it was okay but i reckon i made some silly mistakes.

Reply 10

BPat

animallover222

I found them really easy but they may move the boundaries really high so its hard to get an A*.

Yeah i know that's what i am worried about. I hope my grade doesn't get lowered because of the grade boundaries.

Reply 11

LiamSwainy

I did WJEC English Lang. and Lit.
I found the language quite difficult, and the unseen poem on the literature confusing !

Reply 12

animallover222

BPat

Yeah i know that's what i am worried about. I hope my grade doesn't get lowered because of the grade boundaries.

Yeah mine to.
What were you predicted? And what did you get in your mocks?

Reply 13

BPat

Felicity_Ella

it would depend on the grade boundaries and also how everyone else found it. if everyone got A*s, then they would increase the grade boundaries so fewer people can get A*s.

Reply 14

kim10893

I did wjec english lit and lang! i thought the english literature went pretty well but language didn't go as well as i expected especially paper 1!

Reply 15

BPat

animallover222

Yeah mine to.
What were you predicted? And what did you get in your mocks?

I am predicted A* in maths. Our school did two mocks, and in both papers i got A*, and the school took out the D grade questions. They put harder questions in.

Reply 16

Felicity_Ella

animallover222

are school refused to let us do any of the exams in nov or march.
this is really annoying as if i dont get good enough mark, i cant retake!
i didn't have a clue about physics, i just didnt get what it was on about.
and i think i didnt understand chemistry because of not be taught some of the stuff that came up.

we were told you can't retake, but do you think it might be possible to do in november...? if you were willing to pay? could you do it if you were unattached to a school?

Reply 17

animallover222

kim10893

I did wjec english lit and lang! i thought the english literature went pretty well but language didn't go as well as i expected especially paper 1!

im opposite i found lit hard and lang okay
i studied 'to kill a mocking bird' and ' an inspector calls' i did higher for lit and i decided to do foundation for lang