Anyone else have 0 faith in the exam system?

Yes. People that do Sciences are lucky in the respect that they're answers are black and white, whereas we face the brunt of subjective markers.

It goes both ways. In my experience, people that do sciences can't really get away with not learning the content, while people that do humanities (particularly English) can bs their way through A level and get a solid mark. A few of my friends did no substantial revision for their AS English Lit exam and came out with a solid A. Try doing that for a subject like Biology and you might as well already arrange a resit...

I completely agree. For AS Literature last summer I did zero revision and came out with an A, yet I revised my arse off to the point where I could recite the syllabus by heart for Biology and I came out with a C and a D for Unit 1 and 2. Similarly for Unit 4, came out with a D yet hardly revised for Psychology and got an A.

Exams are a complete piss-take. They don't give you the opportunity to actually show your knowledge and instead it's just your ability to say what exactly what the mark scheme says, even if the answer you give is technically correct.

It goes both ways. In my experience, people that do sciences can't really get away with not learning the content, while people that do humanities (particularly English) can bs their way through A level and get a solid mark. A few of my friends did no substantial revision for their AS English Lit exam and came out with a solid A. Try doing that for a subject like Biology and you might as well already arrange a resit...

I think English is pretty unique is this regard though. It's a lot more about analysis which I suppose could naturally come to someone and be well-done without much revision.

However, bearing in mind I'm on OCR and my experiences are limited to this exam board, history in particular requires a mass amount of memorisation and technique. Even source-based papers require a solid level of subject knowledge. I would even argue that history has a subject knowledge requirement akin to that of biology, especially when considering the added need of eloquence in relaying this subject matter.

I think it's a giant stretch to say people that do humanities can just bs an A-level.

It's took me hours today to condense notes on the Weimar Unit and Hitler's foreign policy. 2 units!

My business teacher actually marks Buss4 papers and even she said you need about 20% knowledge and the rest is just learning how to write the essay how they want you to She even said that you can even take an educated guess at any statistics used as they're not even checked.

My experience is that only people who get bad grades have no faith in the exam system

Do your work and you'll get the grades. I don't see the problem.

Typical of you to use English Lit as an example It's probably the only subject your point is valid for.

Exactly! I completely feel you. I literally just spent hours this evening on a 33-page ppt. covering 1/8 of one of my two AS-modules. History does not seem to get the respect it deserves...

I've had friends say the same about Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Business. These are all people who come out with As without really doing much (nor being particularly clever).