Official Cambridge Applicants Thread 2016 Entry

Yeah I heard it was a horrible paper. Just gotta pray the boundaries are low I guess. Didn't they ask questions in slightly different ways this year? I.e. the potato question which I seem to think has had everybody in an uproar lmao.

On the same boat
Thinking positively though, we are the Cambridge applicants so we should be better than average, yet we ****ed up so you know, this means if you look at the whole population everyone must have messed up pretty hard (hopefully LOL)

Be quite you You did better than most. I'd chop my right arm off to swap exam papers with you.

On the same boat
Thinking positively though, we are the Cambridge applicants so we should be better than average, yet we ****ed up so you know, this means if you look at the whole population everyone must have messed up pretty hard (hopefully LOL)

To be fair I didn't think it was "that bad" - I'm just **** at physics tbh. Harder than normal but I didn't see any impossible questions.

Keep your right arm you'll need it

Oh really? What for?

Oh really? What for?

There isn't a single person who hasn't complained about that paper in all honesty. I looked at the paper myself and saw exactly why people didn't like it. AQA are mischievous, one year they ask a question and give a model answer on the mark scheme. In another year they ask the same question and the wording in the mark scheme is completely different. It doesn't get much better at A2, but you are a hell of a lot more safer with the grade boundaries.

Oh dear

I was actually quite happy with the paper in some ways as although it was harder than normal that is good for me as it reduces how hard I get punished for making stupid mistakes

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You two have dirty minds .

Yeah, I always wish for harder papers. Make it less boring and you get a larger buffer for mistakes. There is a limit to how 'hard' they can make the papers and it seems this year the way they're doing it is in the wording of the question.

AQA Physics also has stupidly low grade boundaries, last year I think you needed 51/75 for the nominal A* in Phys5D and I think 56 for full UMS although I may be wrong. Even Phys4 which is the fields and mechanics section for AQA has low boundaries, 61/75 for the nominal A* last year iirc.

You provoked it!

Yeah, I always wish for harder papers. Make it less boring and you get a larger buffer for mistakes. There is a limit to how 'hard' they can make the papers and it seems this year the way they're doing it is in the wording of the question.

So you're second year? Do you have an offer?

Yes and yes

I think it was pretty useful in that test to have done physics questions not on our spec. Our teachers often give us tests with questions from other exam boards and I also did the physics challenge which I think helped quite a lot as I don't think I was affected by the different styles of question as much

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Omg what for and which college (soz if you've said these before but there's no way I'm scrolling back tbh).

You two have dirty minds .