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OCR FSMQ Additional Maths 6th June 2016 Official Thread

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Original post by kennethdcharles
It is but your school probably decided to give it to you next week like mine.
Ah, okay. Irritating, but I'm glad that's all it is. Thanks :smile:
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Original post by M451
Thank you!I did think about that but 45 UCAS points on the current tariffs is far too much. I checked on their website and it's 20 for 2016 tariffs and 10 for 2017. Apparently the 45 is the number of points for another scoring system that nobody really uses.


Oh yeah sorry I just checked and you're right. I just assumed it was UCAS points, oh well doesn't really matter. I wish we got our mark back though.

Original post by BriannaTheBreeze
So is today results day for add-maths? Because I haven't got my results yet


Yes it's a level 3 qualification so results come out the same day as A levels. Might be worth contacting your school? Or if you've sat any GCSEs this year then go into school on results day next week and you should be able to get it.
Grade Boundaries for 2016.

Under 6993.
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/322748-level-3-certificate-and-fsmq-grade-boundaries-june-2016.pdf

These are lower than last years.
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Statistics for this exam are given below.
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If you have any questions about this exam, please do feel free to ask me!
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any1 else received their results?


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I have, I got a B :smile: I'm over the moon considering that I was genuinely expecting a U after that horrible exam
Original post by hebeb
Oh yeah sorry I just checked and you're right. I just assumed it was UCAS points, oh well doesn't really matter. I wish we got our mark back though.



Yes it's a level 3 qualification so results come out the same day as A levels. Might be worth contacting your school? Or if you've sat any GCSEs this year then go into school on results day next week and you should be able to get it.


Thanks :smile: I tried contacting them, but haven't got a reply. Hopefully I'll get them next week. (Haven't taken any GCSEs this year, I'm year 9)
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Original post by nwmyname
If you have any questions about this exam, please do feel free to ask me!


Hi, I got a B in the FSMQ exam even though my predicted grade was an A and I had achieved a high A in all of the previous past papers that I had done.I am disappointed with my grade because I want to study economics at a top university, preferably Oxbridge or LSE. Will a B be a disadvantage? Please advise me on what to do next.
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Hi, I got a B in the FSMQ exam even though my predicted grade was an A and I had achieved a high A in all of the previous past papers that I had done.I am disappointed with my grade because I want to study economics at a top university, preferably Oxbridge or LSE. Will a B be a disadvantage? Please advise me on what to do next.


Not really.
As far as I am aware, even doing FSMQ reinforces your application for any of the universities as it shows that you have studied applications of maths at an advanced level, rather than the standard GCSE and A-level pathway, regardless of whether it was an A, B or C grade.

This is what the admissions officer for Oxbridge told me.
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Hi, I got a B in the FSMQ exam even though my predicted grade was an A and I had achieved a high A in all of the previous past papers that I had done.I am disappointed with my grade because I want to study economics at a top university, preferably Oxbridge or LSE. Will a B be a disadvantage? Please advise me on what to do next.


Someone asked at university open days, and apparently half the world (you know what I mean,) doesn't know that Add Maths exists - and apparently a lot of Maths graduates haven't taken Add Maths, so I doubt it.

I got a B as well after a lot of high A marks in practice papers - as did most of my class.
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Original post by bonnie_x
I have, I got a B :smile: I'm over the moon considering that I was genuinely expecting a U after that horrible exam

Nice well done. It really was a terrible paper


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Original post by nwmyname
Not really.
As far as I am aware, even doing FSMQ reinforces your application for any of the universities as it shows that you have studied applications of maths at an advanced level, rather than the standard GCSE and A-level pathway, regardless of whether it was an A, B or C grade.

This is what the admissions officer for Oxbridge told me.


Thanks for the help. I was really worried about this :smile:
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Original post by iwishicouldfly14
Someone asked at university open days, and apparently half the world (you know what I mean,) doesn't know that Add Maths exists - and apparently a lot of Maths graduates haven't taken Add Maths, so I doubt it.

I got a B as well after a lot of high A marks in practice papers - as did most of my class.


Thanks for the encouragement :biggrin:
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Original post by nwmyname
If you have any questions about this exam, please do feel free to ask me!


Hi, can you explain what that statistic thing meant? What's it showing briefly? Haven't got my result, I think my school will give it to me with the rest of my gcses
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Hi, can you explain what that statistic thing meant? What's it showing briefly? Haven't got my result, I think my school will give it to me with the rest of my gcses


The statistics that I published show how many people got the grades.
For instance, 40% of applicants got an A, 60% got a B or above.

Yes, if you are in Year 11, your results come with the GCSEs you have taken.

Hope it helps :smile:
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Original post by nwmyname
If you have any questions about this exam, please do feel free to ask me!


What is the points thing we see next to our grades


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any1 else received their results?


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I have, somehow got an A :eek:
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UCAS points.
They're needed to get into university.
The higher the grade, the more points you get and the more points you get, the more likely you can get into a specific uni.
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Original post by nwmyname
UCAS points.
They're needed to get into university.
The higher the grade, the more points you get and the more points you get, the more likely you can get into a specific uni.


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