AS/A Level Results Day March 8th Megathread

Are the boundaries available now? Always thought it was a day before exams.

Ey where did you see this? On the website they dont have any raw mark grade boundaries.

I'm always just normal when I get my results.

these are the boundaries from last year but my maths teacher said that they do not change by more than 1-3 marks each year
http://www.ocr.org.uk/download/admin/ocr_56047_admin_unit_level_raw_mark.pdf

As a general rule, they may not change by much, but it depends entirely on the difficulty of each exam; can sometimes me a 7+ mark difference.

I'm with WJEC for Math. The grade boundaries dropped by around 5-7 marks for a C1 paper set last year because of the unusual nature of the paper meaning many students across the country sitting the exam that rely mostly on rote learning weren't able to apply any knowledge to something different than what they were expecting under exam conditions.

If your on edexcel, you can get a taste of what grade you got as the QPs and MSs are available.

You have to count the 8th otherwise you are saying that it is 18 days till the 7th. Trust me it is 19 days; don't worry simple mistake

BUN ME! at least i aint waiting for a maths result haha!

60 UMS is 20% of AS which is 2 grades so every mark counts. 89% is very credible, you can concentrate on the A2 exams for the A* knowing that it would take some doing for you to drop to a B average wise.

That sounds quite horrific ha-ha, I shall stay away from that one when it comes to it!

Other past spec sites are quite a good call actually.

I will be thanks for that, I think it is quite important to relate it to the "sensors function" in mine but I will certainly be looking for lots of improvements (With some BS for good measure ;-) )

I'm crap at practicals Thanks, although generally courseworks aren't really that high on UMS. I got 77/90 on the 1st exam, 131/150 on the second (panicked though) and 60/60 on the coursework => 268/300, or 89%. My head of 6th (also my physics teacher) predicted me an A* - hopefully I'll get there. LESS PANICKING NEEDED!

It is. I'm having to guess at errors in CERN's experiment, but at the moment I don't know exactly how they did the experiment because I'm struggling to find a decent citeable source on synchrotrons. Gah.

The mark scheme's handy. Look at the OCR site - mark schemes are on there. Or other past paper sites (will be useful for getting old spec papers for G491/2/4/5 revision). Yeah, good luck with it Make sure you mention loads of improvements on each experiments and be critical of each error - on the last test, perhaps you could mention how it could be done in a lab setting with better equipment. Like with mine, I would have done it over a much larger distance with much more precise distance measurements, and would have used something to ensure all my equipment was parallel.

No probs