can i still get an A* in triple science (AQA)

I think it definitely possible from my calculations. I scraped an A for the Physics ISA as well

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Original post by lawrencefrape1

Coursework!?!?!?!? For science!?!?!?!?!?

sorry i meant controlled assessment, why am I calling it coursework -_-

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Original post by GS98

I want an a* too....you find any areas hard ?

just a few topics but most of them I'm okay with, what I find is that when I'm marking them, I usually write down the answers they accept but not the actual answer? do you get what I mean? like in the mark scheme, one column has the answer, the second column has answers they they accept or don't accept, I usually end up writing the answers they have in the second column that they accept, but maybe it might be the revision guide I'm learning from...

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Original post by bubblegumcat

sorry i meant controlled assessment, why am I calling it coursework -_-

What does it consist of? For EDEXCEL IGCSE, we don't have anything like that; just two exam papers.

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Original post by ennahaspatience

I think it definitely possible from my calculations. I scraped an A for the Physics ISA as well

did you get an A* in physics?

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Original post by lawrencefrape1

What does it consist of? For EDEXCEL IGCSE, we don't have anything like that; just two exam papers.

I'm doing AQA, part of the gcse is the practical exam where we do experiments and we do 2 papers for it, the rest is made up from exams, we have 3 papers in each subject, for each unit

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Original post by bubblegumcat

did you get an A* in physics?

No, I am still in year 11 as well, I just did some calculations

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Original post by ennahaspatience

No, I am still in year 11 as well, I just did some calculations

ohh okay, what would i need to get in the exams to get A*? high A* ??

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Original post by bubblegumcat

ohh okay, what would i need to get in the exams to get A*? high A* ??

A*s in all the exams. Aim to get 45 and up in each exam as that is full UMS

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Original post by ennahaspatience

A*s in all the exams. Aim to get 45 and up in each exam as that is full UMS

thanks, i'm still waiting on my other isa results for physics, hopefully I got higher than I did in the first one. Are the exam marks out of 60? some of the past papers I did are out of 45 marks

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I think you can I got a C in my ISA last year (doing additional not triple science) but then I got 2 A's in the exam and still got an A overall.

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Original post by bubblegumcat

thanks, i'm still waiting on my other isa results for physics, hopefully I got higher than I did in the first one. Are the exam marks out of 60? some of the past papers I did are out of 45 marks

You are doing the wrong papers, they are old spec. For P1 and P2, stick to this page

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-4403/past-papers-and-mark-schemes

for P3, you can use old spec papers because they are sort of relevant. you can do the same for chemistry. But don't bother for Biology, the old spec is too different for this

this link is for the old spec papers

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-4403/past-papers-and-mark-schemes/old-past-papers-and-mark-schemes

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ISA marks go up to 50 and the new spec papers go up to 60

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Original post by ennahaspatience

You are doing the wrong papers, they are old spec. For P1 and P2, stick to this page

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-4403/past-papers-and-mark-schemes

for P3, you can use old spec papers because they are sort of relevant. you can do the same for chemistry. But don't bother for Biology, the old spec is too different for this

this link is for the old spec papers

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/physics-4403/past-papers-and-mark-schemes/old-past-papers-and-mark-schemes

thanks!

my teachers basically gathered all the past papers they could find so I have a lot of the old spec papers and yeah I looked at some of the old bio papers, they're very different

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