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Edexcel Unit 1: Physics on the Go ~20th May 2014

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How did you find the Unit 1 physics exam (Edexcel- A level 20/5/14) ?

There doesn't seem to be a thread regarding this exam so I thought I would create one. Is anyone doing this exam? If so, share your revision tips and feel free to discuss anything (ideally, related to this exam :tongue: )

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Original post by BP_Tranquility
There doesn't seem to be a thread regarding this exam so I thought I would create one. Is anyone doing this exam? If so, share your revision tips and feel free to discuss anything (ideally, related to this exam :tongue: )


I am. :P This will be my third and last attempt :redface:
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This is my first year of Physics, I dropped it at gcse in year 9 but decided i wanted to take it as an A level. Unit 1 is on the 20th May as I'm sure many of you guys know, can anyone help me on getting up to exam speed, it usually takes me another 15-20 minutes to complete a paper. I know the longer questions are at the back, so am thinking about starting from the back to try and cover more marks in my exam, is this a good idea??????? :s-smilie:
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Try to stick with a minute per mark. My second time I'm taking this paper, have to smash it!


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12 days until this exam, are many people here doing it? I was surprised to see how low the grade boundaries were last year, 55/75 for an A seems very reasonable!
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Original post by jay_em
12 days until this exam, are many people here doing it? I was surprised to see how low the grade boundaries were last year, 55/75 for an A seems very reasonable!


yep I really hope they remain that low lol :colone: How's prep going? I think unit 1 is a piece of cake compared to unit 2
Damn i nailed the unit3 paper (well i think so) lets see what happens in unit1! :biggrin:
I'm doing it! My revision tips are just to do past papers and correct them haha.
Original post by jay_em
12 days until this exam, are many people here doing it? I was surprised to see how low the grade boundaries were last year, 55/75 for an A seems very reasonable!


Hi there! I'm repeating this.

Yes..last year was a shocker...the paper was freaking long..it seems never ending. I'm repeating this year cause I never managed to complete it last year. I ran out of time. People were crying after that exam!

Mind you, even though its that low..it isn't that easy to score.

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Original post by TheKingOfTSR
Hi there! I'm repeating this.

Yes..last year was a shocker...the paper was freaking long..it seems never ending. I'm repeating this year cause I never managed to complete it last year. I ran out of time. People were crying after that exam!

Mind you, even though its that low..it isn't that easy to score.

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Yeah bro, I had five minutes to do the last two questions and I had to rush like mad. I even scribbled on the stem of the last question to send a message that they shouldn't give unnecessary long reading **** when only a question is enough. I was surprised I got a 120 but reading the examiner's report on the last two questions it seem very few students had difficulty finishing the paper. Maybe spending a lot of time on earlier questions (such as the stupid one mark per question MCQs) is a bad idea.
Original post by RoyalBlue7
Yeah bro, I had five minutes to do the last two questions and I had to rush like mad. I even scribbled on the stem of the last question to send a message that they shouldn't give unnecessary long reading **** when only a question is enough. I was surprised I got a 120 but reading the examiner's report on the last two questions it seem very few students had difficulty finishing the paper. Maybe spending a lot of time on earlier questions (such as the stupid one mark per question MCQs) is a bad idea.


Yeah lol. I got literally pissed off when they started describing something about Galileo. I did just what you did, scribbled at it and just went into the question.
I didn't spend much time on the MCQs though...spent under 5 mins on it.
Lol

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Original post by TheKingOfTSR
Hi there! I'm repeating this.

Yes..last year was a shocker...the paper was freaking long..it seems never ending. I'm repeating this year cause I never managed to complete it last year. I ran out of time. People were crying after that exam!

Mind you, even though its that low..it isn't that easy to score.

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Yeah. Me too:/ im resitting it this year. Got a D on it despite the fact I achieved an A on my mock. Pissed off. Hows your revision for it?

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Original post by RoyalBlue7
Yeah bro, I had five minutes to do the last two questions and I had to rush like mad. I even scribbled on the stem of the last question to send a message that they shouldn't give unnecessary long reading **** when only a question is enough. I was surprised I got a 120 but reading the examiner's report on the last two questions it seem very few students had difficulty finishing the paper. Maybe spending a lot of time on earlier questions (such as the stupid one mark per question MCQs) is a bad idea.


120??? Wow. Any tips/notes/whatevers you could share?:tongue:

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Original post by jtbteddy
Yeah. Me too:/ im resitting it this year. Got a D on it despite the fact I achieved an A on my mock. Pissed off. Hows your revision for it?

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Started revising stuff for it yesterday (after 11 months! Lol). I will be doing the Jan 2014 under timed conditions as a mock. And some more revision on the day of the exam. That's pretty much it.

Did you do the exam last may? How was it?



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Original post by TheKingOfTSR
Started revising stuff for it yesterday (after 11 months! Lol). I will be doing the Jan 2014 under timed conditions as a mock. And some more revision on the day of the exam. That's pretty much it.

Did you do the exam last may? How was it?



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I remember you were the guy that helped me with tge magnet question.. Emf and all that. Thanks :smile: how did your jan exams go? What grades?

I did m1 this year in maths, so im fairly alright with the mechanics contents of it. I hted the jan14 pper:/ no like. Awful! Ran out of time but couldnt even unferstand half the questions- got a D. You?
Original post by jtbteddy
120??? Wow. Any tips/notes/whatevers you could share?:tongue:

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Well I just didn't expect it for unit 1 but as you could see the grade boundaries were very low that time. Going through the revision guide was enough :smile:

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Original post by jtbteddy
I remember you were the guy that helped me with tge magnet question.. Emf and all that. Thanks :smile: how did your jan exams go? What grades?

I did m1 this year in maths, so im fairly alright with the mechanics contents of it. I hted the jan14 pper:/ no like. Awful! Ran out of time but couldnt even unferstand half the questions- got a D. You?


Yeah I was.

My jan exams went alright. I sat the unit 4 of biology, chemistry and physics and got A in all three. So yeah :smile:

Yeah..doing mechanics makes the paper so very much easier. I do M1-M5, so that aspect of the paper is a piece of cake.

I haven't done the Jan 2014 paper yet. Yeah..I'm going to make sure I do it very fast and rush at the word go. The main problem for me is the time.

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Original post by TheKingOfTSR
Started revising stuff for it yesterday (after 11 months! Lol). I will be doing the Jan 2014 under timed conditions as a mock. And some more revision on the day of the exam. That's pretty much it.

Did you do the exam last may? How was it?



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Do you have the link to the jan 2014 paper? My school only has papers up to jan 2013 on their website
I'm resitting too!:tongue: That paper was just soooo long!!i thought i was gonna fail!my hands were literally shaking when i sat for unit 2. but at last ended with a B!

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