it has never really gone above 84% and if the 3H was much harder than most past papers i doubt it will be anywhere as high as that. Remember that many people will be aiming simply to pass and this is an International GCSE.... with people from everywhere. so they cant make it too high ! 82% is standard
it has never really gone above 84% and if the 3H was much harder than most past papers i doubt it will be anywhere as high as that. Remember that many people will be aiming simply to pass and this is an International GCSE.... with people from everywhere. so they cant make it too high ! 82% is standard
They don't work out the boundaries until they've got the marks for everyone's papers because say if they pre-set it at 90% for an A* and then no one got an A*? Grades are always relative. It depends on what everyone else got.
Hey i got a question which might be stupid, but im really stressed out about it, is it okay to draw the graphs using pencil?? Apparently pencil doesnt get scanned so if its true i would have lost alot of easy marks. So can anyone pleaseee let me know for sure whats gonna happen to all my graphs drawn using pencil, do i lose all the marks??
Hey i got a question which might be stupid, but im really stressed out about it, is it okay to draw the graphs using pencil?? Apparently pencil doesnt get scanned so if its true i would have lost alot of easy marks. So can anyone pleaseee let me know for sure whats gonna happen to all my graphs drawn using pencil, do i lose all the marks??
dont worry ALL graphs should of been done in pencil so you wont loose any marks
So for that cubic graph question, in the working, I put 'draw x=5' even though I drew y=5 on the graph and wrote down the correct answer, would Edexcel deduct a mark?
I got everything apart from the second lengths one where I used a slightly incorrect equation (accidentaly multiplied both sides by their respective shortest length) and then came to an answer. Will I get any marks?
I got everything apart from the second lengths one where I used a slightly incorrect equation (accidentaly multiplied both sides by their respective shortest length) and then came to an answer. Will I get any marks?
you will probably get one method mark, but nothing more than that im afraid. For the 2nd to last question with the impossible algebraic one, would x= 8 alone get me the full marks? cos -1 was the other value but if you put it into equation it didnt work
Overall i found it was a better paper than 3H BUT at the same time, both papers were pretty difficult, harder than June 2011 3H and 4H thats for sure! i reckon A* will be around 80, possible 79. i dont think its gonna drop below 79 though
wait if pencil doesn't show i got 0% in both exams... are you sure pencil doesn't come up when scanned?
they are generally OK with Graphs being in pencil, but working out and stuff must be in black pen! and dont worry if youve done it all in pencil, i heard that instead of getting 0% your paper gets sent back and you go over the pencil with a black pen with a dude looking over your shoulder, then you send it back for marking? i heard this is what happens but not sure
you will probably get one method mark, but nothing more than that im afraid. For the 2nd to last question with the impossible algebraic one, would x= 8 alone get me the full marks? cos -1 was the other value but if you put it into equation it didnt work
Overall i found it was a better paper than 3H BUT at the same time, both papers were pretty difficult, harder than June 2011 3H and 4H thats for sure! i reckon A* will be around 80, possible 79. i dont think its gonna drop below 79 though
both solutions worked out so you will probably lose one mark (can't remember what it was out of). I found paper 4H much easier than 3H although I didn't find either of the papers particularly hard, they just required you to concentrate on the questions more than you usually would. I agree with you with regards to the grade boundary not going below 79, I think it will be around 81-82 on account of the "easier" paper 4H.