Does anybody else feel the same as me - I go through the revision books, makes notes etc. but then when it comes to the questions in the exam, THEY'RE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO WHAT IS IN THE BOOKS. I really hope that specimen paper was purposely harder than the exam or something. Please can someone relate?! My entire class feels the same way
Arran i feel exactly the same way as you do. When i read through all my notes, and when i'm listening to the teachers it all seems to make sense, but when i did the specimen paper the questions made no sense at all. I just hope that the exam will be more straightforward than the specimen. GL
Arran i feel exactly the same way as you do. When i read through all my notes, and when i'm listening to the teachers it all seems to make sense, but when i did the specimen paper the questions made no sense at all. I just hope that the exam will be more straightforward than the specimen. GL
My teacher has spoken with someone at edexcel and they admit that the specimen papers are difficult. More so the locked specimen papers which were 10 times harder than the ones we can access from the pearsons website.
My teacher has spoken with someone at edexcel and they admit that the specimen papers are difficult. More so the locked specimen papers which were 10 times harder than the ones we can access from the pearsons website.
Do you (or anyone else) have a pdf of the specimen papers, if so, can you please post it?
Does anybody else feel the same as me - I go through the revision books, makes notes etc. but then when it comes to the questions in the exam, THEY'RE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TO WHAT IS IN THE BOOKS. I really hope that specimen paper was purposely harder than the exam or something. Please can someone relate?! My entire class feels the same way
I definitely know what you mean, best to keep trying questions tbh
I wish but definitely no, people are getting smarter so i guess if the paper is hard 66% might be an A but not 5/80 lmao
Normally they fit it to a normal distribution so approx top 10-20% get an A, next 10-20% B next 10-20% C etc so a much harder paper shouldnt reduce grades by too much... main problem is that an exam thats much harder than what people are expecting can throw people off and the results could be a complte mess
Looking at 2014 Grade boundaries, need 53-55/80 to get an A. That's 67.5% for an A on old spec (kinda handy for me since thats what I got on the specimens) If our paper is much harder then I'd anticipate lower grade boundaries for an A