I did the 2007 versions of those papers, and I thought that the grade boundaries for the actual papers were fair, but the Science in The News/can'do task element brought most people's grades down by loads- there was one girl who got 100 UMS on one paper and something like 95 UMS on the other and she still got an A because of her Science in The News.
Do you know if the papers and mark schemes for the Biology (B1, B2, B3) Chemistry (C1, C2, C3) and Physics (P1, P2, P3) are on the website too? I did these in January. Physics was awful- the worst exam paper I have ever had and everyone thought the same, but somehow I managed to get 96 UMS when I didn't even finish and I know I got some wrong out of those I did, so the grade boundaries must be really low
Helena xxx