A2 OCR Chemistry Raw Marks To UMS Tables

I got 79 for Chains Rings and Spec. Does that mean I actually got 86Raw?? Because if so, it's really unfair that I didn't recieve 86UMS! I've never known of UMS marks being lower than Raw marks. Crikey!

Reply 5

OP

my chemistry teacher told me that when we were going over that paper (and he usually knows his stuff quite well) but nobody in my skool actually sat it though so i'll let u be the judge of the accuracy. Although u guys have sat it so should know the grade better than my teacher probably.

70 raw marks for 63 UMS sounds a bit unfair?????

Reply 6

emzie

for ocr salters exam i took in jan, I got 62 raw, this was pushed down to 54 UMS!! i was livid to say the least.

Reply 7

allodoxa

Crap, they'd better not do that with last weeks synpotic paper or I'm so screwed.

Reply 8

OP

how do u all know yer raw marks anyway? did u all request yer papers back? I personally found Chains and Rings and Spec this year not too hard and some people found it really easy, so it looks like that papers grade boundaries are gonna f**kin go up big time!!! They should make a limit to how far they go, such as 85% is a guaranteed 80UMS no matter how many people get 90%.

I just asked my friend on MSN today, and she says that she also remembers the teacher saying 70/90 raw marks to get an A - 80 UMS in Jan 2004's paper, but then she said "I think the teacher probably just did a brief estimate or probably got mixed up with June 2003"

Reply 9

OP

oh yeah peeps, how did u find Chemistry Unifying Concepts and Chains and Rings overall?

I thought ChainsRingsSpec was not too bad but definitely not "easy" or "really easy" as some of my modest/foolish friends propose.

Unifying Concepts was alrite a few tricky questions, but luckily I do maths. Those in my chemistry group who dont do maths thought it was a bit of a painful paper. Looks as if Mathematicians get the benefit for this paper (probably the same for the past couple of unifying concepts exams, as I've done past papers and they are also quite "mathematically" conceptualised). Another lucky thing is that not everyone do Maths and Chemistry combination at A2 level, so the UMS will probably be quite fair.

Ive got Biochemistry on Tuesday and I personally find there's quite alot to learn and it'll be a challenge to get a decent grade since almost everyone takes chemistry and biology combo (yeah, I do both but unfortunately im crap at biochem!!). It only takes a handful of amazing grades to screw up the UMS!

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Well, in my college my teacher actually telephoned the OCR exam board and talked to them about the grading in Januraray, there were people in my class who got a UMS equivalent to 70%, a B ended up with a D. This was found out because one was one mark from a C and wanted to see their paper and they actualy had 75% which should be a B almost an A, so what my teacher found out was that they based the UMS score and grade on past experience, funny thing was that I was the odd one from everyone. Last year in my AS I scraped a C and ended up with an A and UMS 75 whereas a girl in my class with a reasonabely high A in AS got a UMS 1 less than for an A. So my teacher figured I stormed the exam which I thought I had and she had messed it up very badly, but putting past experience into it - its all dependant on past results for some stupid reason. Sop basically its all that crap OCR were doing a few years ago to A-Levels. But, he found out to balance it up the Foundation Chemistry results are marked up in AS.

Reply 11

OP

Stunt-101

so what my teacher found out was that they based the UMS score and grade on past experience

soz, I think im not the only one confused, but what do u actually mean by past experience?

Reply 12

ResidentEvil

soz, I think im not the only one confused, but what do u actually mean by past experience?

I meant what you got in other modules and stuff

Reply 13

OP

Stunt-101

I meant what you got in other modules and stuff

yer serious? omg that's so wrong. So how does it work? If u do well in the previous modules but do crap in this module then and vice versa???

oh and is this from what u know, for OCR only?

Reply 14

ResidentEvil

yer serious? omg that's so wrong. So how does it work? If u do well in the previous modules but do crap in this module then and vice versa???

oh and is this from what u know, for OCR only?

To be honest I dunno how they work it out but if you did mint in loads of other modules and failed Chains, rings and spec then u should be getting a UMS higher than what u really did get. But, they sed it balances up with foundation chemistry. Really, its all that crap from 2 years ago again where it was impossible to get an A and stuff i think they marked ur coursework down that year

Reply 15

MJ_23

what are raw marks and ums marks?

Reply 16

MJ_23

what are raw marks and ums marks?

Raw marks are the number of marks u get in the paper and from my findings UMS are the marks you are actually awarded that are then used to findur grade.

Reply 17

OP