June 2011 G485-Fields, Particles and Frontiers of Physics

No one is blaming OCR. We are notifying them of this matter and to take it into consideration when marking and setting grade boundaries. Because after all it's equivalent to cheating!

Please write to OCR to voice our complaints about this paper.

Write to:

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It will hopefully bring the boundaries down, as in all honesty it takes the piss that some people were given extra time. At our school 4 people asked the invigilators about something, then about 10 minutes before the end of the exam we were told it should be 0.05cm. This as a result caused about half of us to not finish as we went back to redo that question and almost no-one had a chance to do any checking of their calculations, or go back to answer any missed questions.

Please write to OCR, it will likely do some good to the grade boundaries if enough people do. I hope OCR realise that this really does effect many of us quite severely, I need an A* for my uni offer and I no longer think ill get it.

James.

Why should students who did have extra time be docked marks? They were told by the invigilators that they were allowed an extra 10 mins etc.

Also I dont think they will try to find out all the candidates who were not given extra time and be more lenient with marking their papers. Just my opinion. I agree yes that some people were rushed for time, but for people who finished in time and were given extra time why should they be punished.

Somehow I don't think everyone is an A* candidate.

tbh, I think it's outrageous that people got extra time. That is exceedingly unfair to all those students who had to finish exactly 1h45mins on the dot, 10 extra minutes can make all the difference between an A to an A* or a B to an A, and I just think this exam is unfairly monitored and therefore should be taken into consideration when marking. I don't even know a simple way to put it. Without having any medical condition there is no reason why some (actually probably 20-50%) of candidates are given extra time. I might as well have spent 3 hours on that paper if I really wanted to. Really this is all quite ridiculous and definitely needs to be reported to exam boards for unfair invigilation.

Why should students who did have extra time be docked marks? They were told by the invigilators that they were allowed an extra 10 mins etc.
Ideally they shouldn't. But why should other people who could have that extra time be disadvantaged instead? Its basically the same principle, one party has the unfair advantage over the other.

Also I dont think they will try to find out all the candidates who were not given extra time and be more lenient with marking their papers. Just my opinion.

There's a user called "Zii" who's dad is the chief examiner of AQA, maybe we should get him to ask what happens when stuff like this occurs...
I agree yes that some people were rushed for time, but for people who finished in time and were given extra time why should they be punished.
No they shouldn't be punished, but it should be a fair exam, with the same conditions for everyone taking it. Who knows, that extra few mins could have tipped many people to 100%...

that's funny, cos I slept with yours too!

Bringing mums into the equation is not going to solve anything. I bet you're one of those bastards who got extra time. You heartless person.

Ahh good point, though surely it would be parabolic, not exponential?

I skipped that question, looks like it was srs bsns.

Could anyone please post the mark scheme on the site? I want to see how well I've done (or not, as the case may be).

Thanks to cleverbong for enquiring about the exam paper and to apo1324 for uploading it. I wish the mark scheme would be uploaded soon.

Thanks.

tommo_lcfc

That question worth a lot of marks.

4, And you only need around 65 for an A.