How did your exam go?? The epic 2015 GCSE exam discussion thread!

I got frustrated too -where were the maths questions??! I didn't understand some of the shorter questions and what they were getting at and I hated the 5 mark question. Definitely lost at least 6 marks (I know for sure), probably many more too haha.

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On the Religious AQA paper, was the abortion question about the different alternative choices to abortion e.g. adoption, or on why a women may chose to have an abortion?

On the Religious AQA paper, was the abortion question about the different alternative choices to abortion e.g. adoption, or on why a women may chose to have an abortion?

did anyone do edexcel c1 today? I messed up the six mark question where you had to talk about the differences between petrol and bitumen: I spoke about gases instead of petrol. does anyone know if I can still get marks?

I was almost in tears in today's AQA GCSE Chemistry, C2 and C3 exams, anyone else do them? How did you find them?

It confused me for so long! I ended up doing alalternative choices to abortion and everyone I know who did the question did the same. You?

Smashed the edexcel unit 2 re. Anyone else do the same paper??

yeah i said the world is beautiful and there is so much undiscovered but my friends put stuff like its the only planet where human life can live, is a gift from god so i won't have got full marks on that. and ahhh thats a good point, wish i'd have put that in. we dont do sikhs but buddhists believe life starts before conception

Yh i pretty much just waffled through that one and made up some advantages and disadvantages for it. The only decent mark i could think of was that "method 1 has to be filtered and not all of the precipitate may go through and this will affect the results and accuracy of the experiment" apart from that it was all just lying really :P

Easily the worst question in the paper........

Me..hated the question about awe and the environment like wth???

The C1, C2, C3 paper I found it fairly easy. Both the Biology and Chemistry contained a lot of data questions. The 6 mark questions on the Nitrogen Cycle (in biology) and the one on the rocks magnetism (in Chem) I found the hardest on the paper.

Exam board: Edexcel
Exam Topic: Spanish reading and listening (Higher)
Feeling:
Please tell me im not the only one who found it extremely hard and royal f'd it up
The only thing that can save me now is my 'A' grade coursework

I wrote that the world is beautiful but some religions e.g. cristianity don't find it too important because their life will be eternal in paradise and that, that is more beautiful than this world

To find the empirical formula you have to divide the mass of the substance (g) by their Ar (relative formula mass) then ratio. So oxygen was 0.72g / 16 (Ar) which gives 0.045. Then lead was 6.2g / 207 (Ar) which gives 0.03. Finally, ratio both, which requires making them into whole numbers, so multiply by 1000 (as 100 only makes 4.5 which is not a whole number). Now you have 30 (oxygen): 45 (lead). Now divide by a common number, which is 15. This gives 2:3 which is as far as it can be reduced before they are no longer whole numbers. Therefore meaning that there are 2 lead atoms to 3 oxygen atoms and the answer is: Pb2O3.
Hope that helped x

I found it impossible and guessed most of the reading and listening! I mean the Argentinian meat eaters/non eaters? What even WAS that (seriously we're still trying to work it out) The writing questions were horrible and gave no leway whatsoever everyone said they thought so..I'm hoping the grade boundaries drop (from 90% for an A*!!!!') but apparently they never drop more than like 3%?! Crying now this was supposed to be my only safe exam


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haha same XD I mean i was aiming for an A but now i just want to pass it tbh

B2 and c2 were easy but the grade boundaries are apparently going to go really highly
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