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OCR a-level maths is the hardest, or am I just imagining it?

Why is OCR maths so hard, I can do most of the past paper questions from AQA and edexcel quite easily, although some of the stuff in edexcel M1 is quite different (i.e. moments). Like in the AQA and edexcel motion questions, all they have to do is put the figures into an equation, for ocr many of them have more one unknown, so you have to do a use two or more equations!

Also edexcel and aqa past papers are so widely available, but why aren't there any ocr ones? (not MEI ones). Sometimes I get a bit frustrated with doing the edexcel/aqa questions as they're easier, and I always feel I just can't be bothered with them anymore.

I've done lots of miscellanous questions in the ocr m1 book, but for some reason I don't feel content!!! I just want more!!!! Its a shame that mechanics past papers aren't that accessible, must be because not many people choose OCR.

Anyway, would it be fair for me to say that OCR is the hardest out of the 3?
Reply 1
gordon2002
Why is OCR maths so hard, I can do most of the past paper questions from AQA and edexcel quite easily, although some of the stuff in edexcel M1 is quite different (i.e. moments). Like in the AQA and edexcel motion questions, all they have to do is put the figures into an equation, for ocr many of them have more one unknown, so you have to do a use two or more equations!

Also edexcel and aqa past papers are so widely available, but why aren't there any ocr ones? (not MEI ones). Sometimes I get a bit frustrated with doing the edexcel/aqa questions as they're easier, and I always feel I just can't be bothered with them anymore.

I've done lots of miscellanous questions in the ocr m1 book, but for some reason I don't feel content!!! I just want more!!!! Its a shame that mechanics past papers aren't that accessible, must be because not many people choose OCR.

Anyway, would it be fair for me to say that OCR is the hardest out of the 3?


See this thread:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/t166188.html

[Edit: Sorry, I've just noticed that you actually made several contributions to this thread!]

I think that AQA is the only board to make all of its past papers available free on line. This does seem very odd.

Also, the way that different boards distribute topics very differently over the various modules seems equally odd.

I've only done one or two practice OCR questions in the past, so can't really offer a worthwhile opinion on the relative difficulty.
Reply 2
gordon2002
Why is OCR maths so hard, I can do most of the past paper questions from AQA and edexcel quite easily, although some of the stuff in edexcel M1 is quite different (i.e. moments). Like in the AQA and edexcel motion questions, all they have to do is put the figures into an equation, for ocr many of them have more one unknown, so you have to do a use two or more equations!

Also edexcel and aqa past papers are so widely available, but why aren't there any ocr ones? (not MEI ones). Sometimes I get a bit frustrated with doing the edexcel/aqa questions as they're easier, and I always feel I just can't be bothered with them anymore.

I've done lots of miscellanous questions in the ocr m1 book, but for some reason I don't feel content!!! I just want more!!!! Its a shame that mechanics past papers aren't that accessible, must be because not many people choose OCR.

Anyway, would it be fair for me to say that OCR is the hardest out of the 3?


I agree why is it that there are no OCR papers online (not the bloody MEI ones) yet for the other boards there are. Edexcel doesn't put its papers free online, yet there are a large number of sites with them on. Why not the same for ocr?
Reply 3
Aitch
See this thread:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/t166188.html

[Edit: Sorry, I've just noticed that you actually made several contributions to this thread!]



Oh yeah, I forgot about that thread, I thought it was about chemistry for some reason :rolleyes: !!!!
Reply 4
rpotter
I agree why is it that there are no OCR papers online (not the bloody MEI ones) yet for the other boards there are. Edexcel doesn't put its papers free online, yet there are a large number of sites with them on. Why not the same for ocr?


yeah.... I mean there are solomons papers as well, and again, they are for edexcel!!!!! There are tons of edexcel, aqa, MEI ocr, but no OCR!!!!!:mad:

I do edexcel biology and chemistry and there aren't any edexcel past papers (extensive ones), but there are sites with tons of papers for OCR!!!!!!! WHY?!?!?!?!!?!?
Reply 5
How big's the difference between OCR and MEI OCR?
Reply 6
OCR is probably isnt as popular as edexcel in maths, hence lack of papers online. I dont think anyone has botherd to scan papers up either, so if someone doing OCR was to start it, I am sure the papers would spread.
Reply 7
gordon2002
yeah.... I mean there are solomons papers as well, and again, they are for edexcel!!!!! There are tons of edexcel, aqa, MEI ocr, but no OCR!!!!!:mad:

I do edexcel biology and chemistry and there aren't any edexcel past papers (extensive ones), but there are sites with tons of papers for OCR!!!!!!! WHY?!?!?!?!!?!?


I know! I can never find the past papers for my syllabus but can for everone else's its really really annoying
Reply 8
for me it's just mechanics, because the core stuff is quite similar across the 3 boards.
Reply 9
Libertine
How big's the difference between OCR and MEI OCR?


Like a different board, especially as the past papers are structured completely differently