What was your hardest A-level exam and why?

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Reply 20

Changing Skies

Edexcel 6BI05 :sad:

looking at the mark scheme did not help how awful I felt it went.

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Reply 21

gingiegonzales

Maths- C4 with the WJEC exam board... that paper was definitely HIV infected! Worst exam I've had by a mile!

Reply 22

Motorbiker

What was your hardest A-level exam (A2 or AS)?

C3/C4. I find mental maths easy and all simple maths had always been easy. I got to C3/C4 and dropped from 90% to 60.

It was just too much "Learn all of these weird intergration rules and trig identities" for me.

Reply 23

Slowbro93

Biology killed me. So badly :erm:

Reply 24

Reynolds's#

OCR Physics. Unit G485.

That paper ended me.

Reply 25

crayolaguy

Unit 1 Accounting :frown:

Reply 26

the-black-lotus

I love how people instinctively reply with the paper codes :cool:

Reply 27

priley95

Physics Unit 4, PHYA4 for AQA. I don't want to talk about it, I never want to talk about it.

Reply 28

lauramercier

English Language. It was the definition of scraping the barrel.

Reply 29

usycool1

Further Maths for me

A2 that is (did FP2, FP3 and M3...did M2 too but that was fine). AS was pretty easy.

Reply 30

alexmufc1995

Original post by usycool1

Further Maths for me

A2 that is (did FP2, FP3 and M3...did M2 too but that was fine). AS was pretty easy.

Edexcel right?

FP2 and FP3 were more difficult than past years :frown:

Reply 31

29Bilal96

FP1 June 14...didnt even think the paper was that bad, i just screwed up :frown:

Reply 32

Mehhhh

Edexcel Bio 5 was the hardest one for me.

Reply 33

VannR

Edexcel FP2 Mathematics.

Question 6 was ambiguous, and cost me 10 marks a a result of me attempting to answer what the question actually asked me to do, and not answered the question based on the expectations I have from similar questions I answered during the revision period (I checked that I am right about this using Arsey's mark schemes).

I did better during FP3, but unfortunately I was just getting over a headcold that day and was dosed up on Paracetomol, but I was dizzy as hell :s-smilie:

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 34

VannR

Original post by Slowbro93

Biology killed me. So badly :erm:

Someone in my exam room was doing Biology, and at the end of the time, he said to the invigilator that he "spent 90 minutes starting at the page and did not answer a single question", before leaving very quickly.

There's doing badly, and then there's this.

Reply 35

alexmufc1995

Original post by VannR

It's unfortunate that you lost all ten marks! I agree though, it was ambiguous and a very odd question.

What raw mark are you hoping for on FP3?

Reply 36

Ilovemaths96

fp3 could have been much better as well as phya4

Reply 37

usycool1

Original post by alexmufc1995

Edexcel right?

FP2 and FP3 were more difficult than past years :frown:

Indeed!

FP2 was OKish for me until I got to the transformations question (and I made a couple of stupid errors elsewhere). I couldn't do the first easy part for some reason (didn't read that y = x :facepalm:

) but I knew how to do the second, harder part as I practised those types of questions...so I just said "If I had an answer to part a), I'd do..." :teehee:

And let's not even talk about FP3, worst paper I've ever done :facepalm:

Reply 38

alexmufc1995

Original post by usycool1

Indeed!

FP2 was OKish for me until I got to the transformations question (and I made a couple of stupid errors elsewhere). I couldn't do the first easy part for some reason (didn't read that y = x :facepalm:

) but I knew how to do the second, harder part as I practised those types of questions...so I just said "If I had an answer to part a), I'd do..." :teehee:

And let's not even talk about FP3, worst paper I've ever done :facepalm:

aha I managed to scrape myself through part a, then (with a minute left) separate into real and imaginary before running out of ideas - hopefully should get me 7 out of 10 available :P

FP3 was really tough, I wouldn't worry about it. I was consistently getting 70+ on past papers, but I'd snap your hand off if you offered me 65 right now!