Edexcel A-Level Chem Paper 3 General + Practical Principles in Chemistry [Exam Chat]

also does anyone have a rough percentage of how much of the paper is available for students who havent revised practicals? do you think theres a chance at least 90/120 marks will be non practicals etc..? i think 30 marks of errors and procedures and practicals is surely more than enough?

Reply 84

Original post by charminggem

literally but i find chem so much harder and so does everyone i know so i dont understand how the boundaries are physically so high

the thing that keeps toying with my head is how they keep saying grades will be, 'back to normal' and same as during PREPANDEMIC. Keep hearing that all the time. which makes things worse because grade boundaries were 80,85 and 83 before pandemic and 72,71 and 78 last 3 years... so does that mean we need f***** 80+ on this cancerous paper to get an A....

Reply 85

Original post by a_level185

Genuinely I still don't know who's raising these grade boundaries because they are certainly not on TSR

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3ASTARSINSHALLAH

fr my class average is around 65 highest was 99 but hes an extreme variable

Reply 87

Original post by 3ASTARSINSHALLAH

fr my class average is around 65 highest was 99 but hes an extreme variable

we must be speaking about marks for paper 3 out of 120 surely since first two are capped at 90 marks? so u mean 99/120 right? because 99% for paper 3 is just not heard of ahah...
bruh 66 wouldn't be considered an A for any of the past 6 paper 3's... fun fact, in 2017 66/120 would only just scrape a B and in 2018 and 2019, 66 marks was a C....

Reply 88

Original post by Sarah__xxx

Genuinely I still don't know who's raising these grade boundaries because they are certainly not on TSR

its quite refreshing to know we're all in the same boat though- have u seen the maths threads they're awful💀

Reply 89

also does anyone have any good resources for HNMR I cannot for the life of my understand it

Reply 90

Original post by fawsa

its quite refreshing to know we're all in the same boat though- have u seen the maths threads they're awful💀

Me reading those comments about how paper 2 was easy when I KNOW I didn't get more than 52/100 in that paper :s-smilie:

Paper 3 was actually my saviour I loved paper 3 maths

Reply 91

Original post by fawsa

also does anyone have any good resources for HNMR I cannot for the life of my understand it

https://youtu.be/zjjR4iD9s8A

and yeah everyone on maths are probs further maths students lol

Reply 92

Original post by Sarah__xxx

Me reading those comments about how paper 2 was easy when I KNOW I didn't get more than 52/100 in that paper :s-smilie:

Paper 3 was actually my saviour I loved paper 3 maths

which exam board?

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Original post by Sarah__xxx

Me reading those comments about how paper 2 was easy when I KNOW I didn't get more than 52/100 in that paper :s-smilie:

Paper 3 was actually my saviour I loved paper 3 maths

no FR paper 2 was not as easy as they made it out, also that stats question with the spinner had me finishedddd

Reply 94

Original post by a_level185

which exam board?

Edexcel, this might be an unpopular opinion lol but stats>>>>> mechanics was lovely this year too, it was such a relief to finally finish a paper strong because both pure papers were awful for me lol

Reply 95

Original post by a_level185

https://youtu.be/zjjR4iD9s8A

and yeah everyone on maths are probs further maths students lol

i've seen it and still cannot understand it tho, thanks anyway!

Reply 96

Original post by fawsa

no FR paper 2 was not as easy as they made it out, also that stats question with the spinner had me finishedddd

Yeah no that spinner had me so confused for ages I think that was the only question I lost any marks for stats on (oh and the k=99 wtaf was that)

Reply 97

Original post by Sarah__xxx

Yeah no that spinner had me so confused for ages I think that was the only question I lost any marks for stats on (oh and the k=99 wtaf was that)

ok good same, even the integration was easy. what grades do u need?

Reply 98

Original post by fawsa

i've seen it and still cannot understand it tho, thanks anyway!

https://www.theexamformula.co.uk/edexcel-chemistry-tutorials/

this makes chem quite easy to understand. chemguide is good too but goes a little too indepth...

Reply 99