AQA AS Chemistry 7404/1 and 7404/2 - 27th May 2016 and 10th June 2016

The exam wasn't easy in my opinion. Some questions were quite hard. The grade boundaries might look something like this:

A-59
B-53
C-49
D-44
E-38
Give or take some marks
Remember there aren't any resists to skew the marks higher as well and these are the first set of exams for us!

Oh right.
Did you multiply by 1000, when you did moles/vol btw?

yeah I also got this

The exam wasn't easy in my opinion. Some questions were quite hard. The grade boundaries might look something like this:

A-59
B-53
C-49
D-44
E-38
Give or take some marks
Remember there aren't any resists to skew the marks higher as well and these are the first set of exams for us!

Tbf, 59/80 would mean an A is 73%, an A grade for the unit 2 paper in past years is always 80-85%. So I highly doubt it will be 73%, closer to 85%

I agree with you. There aren't any resists to skew it. It's a new spec. It's not entirely organic, and some questions were ambiguous. There were practical details in the exams. And, yes, they were harder after all, just look at the past papers and compare it to these. I think you have the right idea that it will be lower.



I very much doubt it will be any higher than 80%. It won't go up, it will stay the same or go down, most likely go down.

I put fractional distillation instead of just distillation for the separating isooctane and that other isomer idk, is this ok??

I put fractional distillation instead of just distillation for the separating isooctane and that other isomer idk, is this ok??

I put fractional distillation instead of just distillation for the separating isooctane and that other isomer idk, is this ok??

I hope its lowered but I'm being realistic.

Did you guys get 1.31% for the uncertainty question?

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It will be lowered, don't worry my friend. It's always lower for a new spec.
You just need to think of the factors that do affect boundaries, and they all favour lower boundaries, the papers were also just straight up harder than old spec exams.
What I fear is, however, the whole point of the new exams is to reduce those people getting top grades, e.g. A's and B's, even C's, so they'll keep the boundaries high to reduce the amount of people getting those grades. My prediction's are as follows based on a few quick averages and teachers opinions:

63 - A
56 - B
C - 48
D - 45
E - 39
U - 0

Am I the only one who found this exam hard? I struggled to complete it in the time limit as well :\

63 for this paper is fair. Whats your predictions for the 1st paper?

Am I the only one who found this exam hard? I struggled to complete it in the time limit as well :\

I agree with you. There aren't any resists to skew it. It's a new spec. It's not entirely organic, and some questions were ambiguous. There were practical details in the exams. And, yes, they were harder after all, just look at the past papers and compare it to these. I think you have the right idea that it will be lower.



I very much doubt it will be any higher than 80%. It won't go up, it will stay the same or go down, most likely go down.