Current Year 12 Thread Mark I (2013-2014)

is it just me or is C2 very boring

Mock results today, pretty interesting. Think just about everyone cocked up the chemistry, or it was really harshly marked

I scraped a B in chem, they are very harshly marked

Highest mark in our year was in the B boundary! I got an E Did spend most my time drawing Walter White so I probably deserve it

Got an A in Maths/Physics so either I'm okay at them or they're just marked very leniently!

How did you do in everything else?

Yikes! Our year was the same but highest was an A

Well done I scraped an A in bio, and French and Physics were full UMS I think

Is chem ocr a?

I scraped a B in chem, they are very harshly marked

Wow, well done!

We haven't got the actual marks for Mechanics/Physics yet Got 97% on the C1/C2 paper though which I was happy with, doubt I did anywhere as good as that on Mechanics or Physics though

OCR A for chem yes

oh why were they harshly marked ? example ?

and which unit is this

Thanks

Woah, well gone

Their Mark schemes are so annoying



f321 like saying an element is oxidized and reduce simultaneously in a reaction, and then giving changes is

1/3 marks

You have to say

Ox/red simultaneously
'Change one' oxidation
'Change 2' reduction

For the marks

ahhh so like Cl is both oxidised and reduced as it changes from 0 to -1 oxidation state in HCl and changes from 0 to +7 oxidation state in compound x (couldn't remember name )

No!!! That gets 1/3 still!!

You'd have to say:

Reaction is a disproportionation reaction because Cl is both oxidized (0 to +7) and reduced (0 to -1) simultaneously.

oh .... so i lose 2 marks for not putting simultaneously :O .... Damn , well i won't be losing them 2 marks anymore ;D

not just that, you need to write what the oxidation is exactly and reduction too!

ohh yeah :L i normally do that one, it's strange how much i remember when you put an exam in front of me ...

it's annoying though, because you know the answer but Mark scheme wants an exact way

true

in biology there was a 1 marker asking what else is transported in the xylem besides water ... you had to put mineral ions, not just ions..

and a very common mistake is putting cell membrane instead of cell surface membrane