AQA GCSE Physics Unit 2 and 3 (20th May)

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dons178

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someone do a unofficial mark scheme please

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GabrielleJoyxx

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This exam couldn't have gotten any worse. I literally was not prepared for any of those questions which appeared on the paper. I worked through radioactivity/radiation, parallel circuits, and mains electricity, and none of that came up. And then AQA asked us a chemistry question?! I mean I know people who are good at chemistry, would be pleased with that straight forward, six mark question- but when you're not some expert in chemistry, it's kind of a downer.. What did everybody else think?

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GabrielleJoyxx

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Original post by Sherriff08

Can anyone remember the wording of the 6markers (higher tier)

Wasn't it just 'describe the structure of an atom'?

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Nicholas Heaton

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Original post by Khank

I got 12 aswell ! Hope we're right

It is 12

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Sherriff08

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Original post by GabrielleJoyxx

Wasn't it just 'describe the structure of an atom'?

Yeah, what about p3

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ridaboo99

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Original post by ludo4

Everyone at my school said they put 12.
I wrote:
You needed to work out how many years it took to get to 40.

So i doubled 10g to 20g and halved the time of 36 years to 18.
Then I doubled 20g to get 40g and halved 18 to get 9.

But everyone else found that there were 3 half lives so you had to divide 36 by 3. (this is what my tecaher taught us)

oh no i put something completely off :frown:

how many marks was it worth?

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11Jason11

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There's an official thread for this.

THREAD CLOSED.

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dumb cabbage

2

What?

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Reply 308

AmyRevises

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Original post by Ed Jeffrey

Stop worrying! Do not fret. You do exactly what I do after an exam, think of the bad bits. Think positively! My mock back in December went really badly but it turned out I got a B. Grade boundaries can be unpredicatable thus your grade will be too! :biggrin:

Think about it, if you got a few equation questions wrong, some are 2 and 3 marks. That's what, only 6 to 7 marks down? You can still get a bloomin' good grade with that! :biggrin:

I do tend to convince myself I have got E's or F's after a hard exam but it wasn't just the equations it was my explanations for stuff too... I'm a terrible judge of how well a paper went though so I'll just have to wait and see :tongue:

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Hasan Almosoy

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Apparently I thought 36 divided by 3 was 13 years for the half life question... I'll get one mark for the working though.

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battenberg123

2

grade boundaries for p3?

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joelbo1

What did people put for one of the first questions in p2- you had to pick which line on the graph had the greatest resistance?

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Ian Roberts

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Original post by GabrielleJoyxx

This exam couldn't have gotten any worse. I literally was not prepared for any of those questions which appeared on the paper. I worked through radioactivity/radiation, parallel circuits, and mains electricity, and none of that came up. And then AQA asked us a chemistry question?! I mean I know people who are good at chemistry, would be pleased with that straight forward, six mark question- but when you're not some expert in chemistry, it's kind of a downer.. What did everybody else think?

'a chemistry question'? The structure of atoms has always been a question of physics, one of the main areas of studying physics is the atom and the subatomic particles that make it. The structure of the atom has always been a question of physics.

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battenberg123

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Original post by emmaalouisee

B I think? What did you put for the change in focal length for the 60 year old? P3

wasnt it for a 90 year old

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The Nail

2

I'm not sure how P2 went, I found most of the writing questions a lot easier than I had anticipated but the calculations a lot harder.

What did people get for the height of the rocket calculation question, I somehow managed to get 0m after rearranging some formula, I don't know how that can be right though.

Hopefully the grade boundaries will be similar to last years, in which case I might have done enough to get an A, which would be fantastic.