ANSWERS: OCR Physics B(Advancing Physics) G491~ 20th May 2014~ AS Physics

My physics teacher told me that teachers all over the country, including grammar schools, have been complaining to OCR about this paper because everyone is pissed off about how hard it was. The question on materials was hardly even related to the specification. But the most significant problem with this paper is the amount of work you had to do in 1 hour, and very few people completed it. The grade boundaries should be very low, about 50-60% for an A grade because every year, the same percentage of candidates need to get a certain grade. The paper was inaccessible to most high grade candidates so the grade boundaries will come right down.

have teachers really been complaining to OCR? o.O i completed the paper so hopefully will have enough marks, but i wasn't able to check my answers and i wanted to change one but didn't get the chance

Apparently yes. There are a lot of angry teachers emailing each other about how ridiculous the paper was and OCR have received a number of complaints. I can't wait to see the examiners' report for this paper, they have some explaining to do. This is a complete and utter fiasco.

Thank you very much! Good luck! (Thought surely u don't need it.) u mean the (z-w) one? Yeah I panicked but figured it out later- I checked on forum- everyone got stuck on it so don't worry. If u got the diagram but not the last bit, I heard u only loose 3 marks ish as most marks are for argand diagram.

My mistake was copying out the equation wrong from the question onto the page before I substituted new 3alpha+1, beta, gamma roots in. All co-efficients were wrong so that's like 5 marks. Hahah maths why are you so easy to even loose marks on gaaah I can't... Literally you lose concentration for a second and loose 100 ums...

And then physics happens.

Are u taking c2, s1, c3, s2 and m1?

what can OCR do? apologise? that's not going to up people's marks and they are only going to do what they would need to do anyway and that was lower the boundaries so there's no point complaining as they can't do anything, they can't even issue a replacement paper for us to do instead as it would be too short notice.

50-54/60!!! You have no problem mate. 100% ums will be way lower than 50/60 for that paper.

So I had to do this exam straight after a 2.5 hour German exam. This was THE WORST EXAM EVER. I got home and cried for 2 hours solid. I go to a Grammar school and I'm always the worst in my class even though I try hard.... what even was that code question?! I didn't answer any of it. I hope something is done about this because I just don't think that exam was a fair test of anything we have had to learn. I REVISED WHAT WAS ON THE SPECIFICATION NOT HOW MUCH WATER DROPS AND WOOD WEIGHS. Boo.

Do you do German on AQA as I too had the German exam yesterday and also was distraught after that paper - failed to even get half way in the physics due to time constraints - worst exam I've ever done PERIOD.

The German paper yesterday on AQA was 2 hours. I'm assuming that they did Edexcel perhaps

Did you do AQA? How did you find it?

have teachers really been complaining to OCR? o.O i completed the paper so hopefully will have enough marks, but i wasn't able to check my answers and i wanted to change one but didn't get the chance

I was with my teacher today, and I asked if I could stay and listen to a phone call he made to OCR. He absolutely ripped the **** into them - but in a polite way!!! He's been teaching for 37 years and said that this paper was totally unacceptable and was one of the hardest AS-level papers he's seen!

Thats providing the questions I couldn't remember my answers were correct. If only I had known the density of water/wood and real life applications of graphene! Plus, I'm not 100% if they'll accept my reason of the three squares in the corner so that the camera can clearly see the edge of the QR code and that the QR code has the advantage over the barcode due to how many more alternatives there are. Only time will tell.

But, I hope so mate, I really do.

Yeah I did AQA GERMAN ! Thought it was mostly alright except the cloze test - lots of possible mistakes to be made and the essay questions were quite vague and difficult in my view. What about you?

Density of wood was 1 right? As m-3 was for kg and the density of most wood is 0.7~g/cm^3


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