Edexcel A2 Biology Unit 4 (6BI04) - 15 June 2012 - Official Exam Discussion Thread!!!

My Biology teacher is contacting Edexcel about this. He really wasn't happy either with the standard of the questions.

hey h about making a facebook group and we all join it and write our comments there im sure many pple will join in this group worldwide even those who didnt see our comments on TSR will see it on fb and u knw wat by this we might also attract the media's attention like wat had happened with the AQA when the independent news wrote about there exam
sounds a great idea ryt? and im sure that the media has its own pressure that will certainly push edexcel to do an action isnt or i dream alot

I got a reply:

Thank you for your email regarding the Biology Unit 4 (6BI04) exam you sat on Friday 15 June. I understand that you are concerned about the content of this paper and the length of time you were given to complete the exam.

We read all feedback from students and your specific comments have been passed to our assessment team. From time to time, we do get comments from some students that they were unable to complete an exam. The reasons for this can be varied and range from the amount of reading, the difficulty of the exam, or the level that the student is able to work at.

Our examiners will monitor all students’ actual responses carefully and take any action that is necessary to ensure that you are fairly rewarded for your performance. This may include adjusting the mark scheme or the grade boundaries for the paper depending on what we find once we have marked responses.

Unfortunately we cannot provide individual responses to students about the outcomes of an investigation or on our grading decisions.

If you haven’t already, we advise that you raise the issues you have mentioned directly to your school or college. Your teacher is in the best position to guide you and if they feel they need to formally raise your concerns with us, they can do so on behalf of all students at your centre.

We will issue a formal reply to any centres who contact us with concerns once the grade boundaries have been awarded.

Yours sincerely

Sheila Bugembe
Complaints Coordinator
Edexcel
Pearson UK

One90 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7BH

D: +44 (0)20 7190 4096
E: [email protected]
Please note my new e-mail address from January 2012
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& wat grade did u get??

i have the same mail from them;
Dear Demet Dilaver

Thank you for your email regarding the Biology Unit 4 (6BI04) exam you sat on Friday 15 June. I understand that you are concerned about the content of this paper and the length of time you were given to complete the exam.

We read all feedback from students and your specific comments have been passed to our assessment team. From time to time, we do get comments from some students that they were unable to complete an exam. The reasons for this can be varied and range from the amount of reading, the difficulty of the exam, or the level that the student is able to work at.

Our examiners will monitor all students’ actual responses carefully and take any action that is necessary to ensure that you are fairly rewarded for your performance. This may include adjusting the mark scheme or the grade boundaries for the paper depending on what we find once we have marked responses.

Unfortunately we cannot provide individual responses to students about the outcomes of an investigation or on our grading decisions.

If you haven’t already, we advise that you raise the issues you have mentioned directly to your school or college. Your teacher is in the best position to guide you and if they feel they need to formally raise your concerns with us, they can do so on behalf of all students at your centre.

We will issue a formal reply to any centres who contact us with concerns once the grade boundaries have been awarded.

Yours sincerely

Sheila Bugembe
Complaints Coordinator
Edexcel
Pearson UK

One90 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7BH

D: +44 (0)20 7190 4096
E: [email protected]
Please note my new e-mail address from January 2012
Tell us how we're doing! Take our 30 second survey.

Pearson
Always Learning
Learn more at www.edexcel.com and www.pearson.com/uk

so now what happens?

Found two protest links from last years January AND June exams on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Edexcel-SNAB-Biology-24012011-was-ridiculous/124534277616954

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protest-against-Edexcel-Biology-Unit-4-Exam-130611/130890383657523

It seems as if Edexcel received the same response to 2011's exams, and in my opinion they won't be changing their exam style in the future, unfortunately. I hope the numerous complaints do work, because the exam was just diabolical, but by the fact that TWO Facebook groups already existed for exactly the same reasons last year and nothing's changed since then, it doesn't look hopeful.

and they got no response bk so wat we r doing is just a waste of time ;(

and they got no response bk so wat we r doing is just a waste of time ;(

But that may be because not many people joined the group...I mean almost every1 i talk 2 hated the paper and if a group is created and say 3000 people join it edexcel would have no choice but to review the paper

They replied! Interesting

Thank you for your email regarding the Biology Unit 4 (6BI04) exam you sat on Friday 15 June. I understand that you are concerned about the content of this paper and the length of time you were given to complete the exam.

We read all feedback from students and your specific comments have been passed to our assessment team. From time to time, we do get comments from some students that they were unable to complete an exam. The reasons for this can be varied and range from the amount of reading, the difficulty of the exam, or the level that the student is able to work at.

Our examiners will monitor all students’ actual responses carefully and take any action that is necessary to ensure that you are fairly rewarded for your performance. This may include adjusting the mark scheme or the grade boundaries for the paper depending on what we find once we have marked responses.

Unfortunately we cannot provide individual responses to students about the outcomes of an investigation or on our grading decisions.

If you haven’t already, we advise that you raise the issues you have mentioned directly to your school or college. Your teacher is in the best position to guide you and if they feel they need to formally raise your concerns with us, they can do so on behalf of all students at your centre.

We will issue a formal reply to any centres who contact us with concerns once the grade boundaries have been awarded.

Yours sincerely

Sheila Bugembe
Complaints Coordinator
Edexcel
Pearson UK


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