CCEA GCSE exams 2016 *official only CCEA thread*

im sure you did better than you think and grade boundaries are always low so youll be grand.

yeah to be fair she is actually good with languages shes one of them people whos obssessed and can speak like ten.

im feeling alright i got at least 5/6 wrong but i think the reading will be worse.

Hey I did German today and I think I did reallllllyyy bad. I'm still aiming for an a. If I got an a in coursework what are the boundaries for me to still get an a overall

I almost ran out of time, I was finishing the last questions when the examiner was saying time up so I didn't get to check over it. How many questions did you not get to answer?

OMG MAJOR NEAR FAIL! So im sitting in the exam thinking oh happy days i have 10 minutes to spare but then with like 5 minutes to go i realise there is 2 pages at the end with sustainable waste management & tourism on it !!! I basically had a mini heart attack but by the skin of my teeth i got it finished !! It happened to my friend as well but she had to leave it out! Most people in my class were pushed for time thanks ccea :-) :-) ...

Listening 28/40 and reading 23/40

I just did the geography exam. I thought it was okay, I didn't leave out any questions which is a positive. Some of the case study questions I thought were a bit vague. What did everyone write for the 7 marker on Aid in LEDCs? I wrote about the boats in India and a bit on aid in Ghana and Tanzania. I've got a lot of mixed answers from my year about what they included in that answer so i'm just curious to see what people put.

there were a lot of questions that were vague, i agree. like the one on the graph and age dependency, well what age groups on the graph are the aged dependents? i didnt want to have to add up all of the percentages of both genders for age groups from 60-85, so i just did 85+. it would've been nice if they'd have told us. that aid question was weird as well. i had some stock standard benefits and drawbacks of aid to LEDCs, so I was able to remember two of those. we didn't have any place names though, so I just threw in a random LEDC.

i still don't know how to feel. roll on biology and business studies (im gonna commit)

that geography exam was... weird. i dont know how to describe it. part of me is thinking about how hard it is and the other part of me is also thinking about how it wasn't that bad. i remember thinking to myself 'dear god this is terrible' in the middle of it. i wasn't too pressed for time, although i do remember writing pretty furiously throughout.



there were a lot of questions that were vague, i agree. like the one on the graph and age dependency, well what age groups on the graph are the aged dependents? i didnt want to have to add up all of the percentages of both genders for age groups from 60-85, so i just did 85+. it would've been nice if they'd have told us. that aid question was weird as well. i had some stock standard benefits and drawbacks of aid to LEDCs, so I was able to remember two of those. we didn't have any place names though, so I just threw in a random LEDC.

at least that's geography over. both papers were pretty mediocre and honestly paper 1 still gives me PTSD. many found it easy but I think I kinda screwed up on a question or two :s my controlled assessment mark was really good though, so hopefully that helps out. little scared.

i still don't know how to feel. roll on biology and business studies (also along with the 5 other exams i have left after those) (im gonna commit)

**ALSO HELLO HISTORY PEOPLE:** im unsure if this is true but i heard from a friend in school today that the grade boundaries for history will be lower since we're the first students doing the new spec. im not sure if this is true (if anyone could confirm that'd be nice) but if is indeed true then that's great.

Yes that's exactly the same reaction I had to it when I came out, that it was 'weird.' I kinda came out of unit 1 thinking, if I do decent in unit 2 I've got the A* in the bag, but now I just don't know how I did. Simple as that. Between vague questions, a roasting exam room and being pushed for time, I think it has certainly affected my mark. (I want to do geo for Alevel this is why it's annoyed me so much)

I found a lot of the questions to be vague, infact for the question on what age group was the largest I wrote 5(something)-59 cos that was the age group with the longest bars but then I started to doubt myself and thought maybe it was 85+????? idk

As for history, last year was the first time the new spec was on a paper. Although I thought the history paper this year was pretty good

I found a lot of the questions to be vague, infact for the question on what age group was the largest I wrote 5(something)-59 cos that was the age group with the longest bars but then I started to doubt myself and thought maybe it was 85+????? idk

As for history, last year was the first time the new spec was on a paper. Although I thought the history paper this year was pretty good

im pretty sure i got that for the largest age group too. i just looked at the longest bars and was like ok sure. i thought about it for a little bit and did some addition and stuff but im pretty sure that was it.

and oh i see (everyone in our school does unit 1 and unit 2 this year) so they mightve thought it was the first time. history for me was alright. idk what units you did, but for me germany was great and PWN was alright, but the 17 mark question had me crying.

I'm pretty sure the aged dependant start at aged 65+. That's what I did anyway. I started by comparing the age of 65-69 year olds between the two places then did 85 year old to give it some spread. Again it was another vagueish question

Ccea have a habit of being quite shady in exams so I thought for 1 or 2 marks that it was too easy :/

My school's the same, we do unit 1 and unit 2 for all subjects this year except the sciences. My school did America and Northern Ireland: Changing Relationships and I wasn't too keen on the 17 marker but I think I wrote enough for it! I heard that history grade boundaries are normally quite low anyway but I checked the uniform mark boundaries and 160/200 is an A

that geography exam was... weird. i dont know how to describe it. part of me is thinking about how hard it is and the other part of me is also thinking about how it wasn't that bad. i remember thinking to myself 'dear god this is terrible' in the middle of it. i wasn't too pressed for time, although i do remember writing pretty furiously throughout.



there were a lot of questions that were vague, i agree. like the one on the graph and age dependency, well what age groups on the graph are the aged dependents? i didnt want to have to add up all of the percentages of both genders for age groups from 60-85, so i just did 85+. it would've been nice if they'd have told us. that aid question was weird as well. i had some stock standard benefits and drawbacks of aid to LEDCs, so I was able to remember two of those. we didn't have any place names though, so I just threw in a random LEDC.

at least that's geography over. both papers were pretty mediocre and honestly paper 1 still gives me PTSD. many found it easy but I think I kinda screwed up on a question or two :s my controlled assessment mark was really good though, so hopefully that helps out. little scared.

i still don't know how to feel. roll on biology and business studies (also along with the 5 other exams i have left after those) (im gonna commit)

**ALSO HELLO HISTORY PEOPLE:** im unsure if this is true but i heard from a friend in school today that the grade boundaries for history will be lower since we're the first students doing the new spec. im not sure if this is true (if anyone could confirm that'd be nice) but if is indeed true then that's great.

I thought it was quite hard😭 A big part of it was describe questions which I'm terrible at😂 I didn't get it finished either so I'm screwed.....