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Reply 20

idiopathic

eggnog

Those 'describe the graph' questions are really boring.

But they're usually easy.

Reply 21

undiscovered

I hate describe questions with a passion.
I also hate questions with huge tables, questions with loads of into at the beginning and questions about experiment techniques - all of which are common in UC :eek:

Reply 22

Sian01

Ah Ah Ah. Unifyng Concepts - Eurghhhhh.
How much does cswk count for it?

Reply 23

Asian cutie

i think its 2.5% of the entire course but im not sure its jus what ive heard.well thats how much the plan is worth

Reply 24

violet

Coursework is 10% of the whole AS and A2 couse (20% of A2).
And the coursework and unifying concepts make up a module so coursework is like half of unifying concepts.

Reply 25

Sian01

violet

Coursework is 10% of the whole AS and A2 couse (20% of A2).
And the coursework and unifying concepts make up a module so coursework is like half of unifying concepts.

Half of UC?? wow, that really helps :smile:

Reply 26

Pete.S

yeh im doin it, and the max im gettin right now is like 35/60. The worst part is learning the central concepts stuff over again which i hated and glad not to be doin this summer again. Hopefully my cwk mark 52/60 would help me. What option modules are you lots doing? Im doin mammalian physiology

Reply 27

kurupt1

mammalian here, its easier but papers are harder.. :frown:

Reply 28

Asian cutie

kurupt1

mammalian here, its easier but papers are harder.. :frown:

reallly i find it the opposite, i find if u learn it (which i still have to do) its okay but there just so much to learn. :fisheye:

Reply 29

kurupt1

well it changes every year, basically what they do - or i assume they do, is see how many people have got whatever mark, and dole out the ums in a way such that x% will have an A, x% a B, x% a C etc etc

so really theres not really mcuh way to tell what an A is, its always gonna be 240/300 or 480/600 UMS

but if you had a hard practical compared to other years then itll be lower, if easier then higher

Reply 30

Asian cutie

god my practical is really going to bring that mark down. i hate synoptics. has anyone done the jun 2003 paper the answer to all questions was enzymes!

Reply 31

gaming_goddess

Yeah I'm doing Mammalian as well. It's okay ~ I've still got a few holes in it but nothing major. Does the UC paper do that stupid thing where youhave a paper ut of 60 but they round it up to 90? Only that's wot they did for some of my OCR Chemistry papers (chains and rings!!!!!!). Can someone help that way i can figure out wot mark i need to get to get in the exam to get each overall grade. :biggrin:

Btw those past papers were helpful :biggrin:

thanks

Reply 32

DavidnotMark

For this module, around 72/120 is an A

Reply 33

undiscovered

93, 89, 88, 89 and 93 (out of 120) have been the raw marks needed to get an A in the last five exam sessions for UC. Apparently, most people get a good mark on coursework which helps them, but I never do. :frown:

I think I got 42/60, but it could have gone up or down since.

Reply 34

Pete.S

damn thats quite high, means gotta work harder on the option paper to make up the lost marks in UC

Reply 35

undiscovered

Me too, I need about 90/90 on the option paper lol

Reply 36

Pete.S

lol hopefully the AS modules were good this year so we would need less marks on these

Reply 37

kurupt1

hopefully i just get a high mark on the papers my writing as much that could possibly have to do with the topic of the question..
i always finish the paper with about 20mins spare no matter what subject it is so ill just have to use that time adding to the answers ive already put, with random bullet points that are totally obvious but might still get me a mark.

dam it i hate biology