Oxford PAT 2019

Hi guys! Just finished PAT. How did everyone find it? Personally, I found the maths questions more straightforward than the physics ones.

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Reply 1

Kahoot my noot

Found it was so much harder than any past paper I'd done

Reply 2

Spicklepop

I dont even know what that pile of crap was

Reply 3

stressed0ut

The worst paper I’ve ever done ugh genuinely i thought I’d do ok given I’d done a lot of revision but no......

Reply 4

ormnc

Much more new information to process as opposed to other papers which focuses more on problem solving. More difficult than 2017 paper.

Reply 5

username3353732

That paper was absolutely awful, It was harder than even the 2012 paper which was pretty bad. I must have missed out like half the paper

Reply 6

Harry.Ell

Anybody have any links to any unofficial mark schemes that people have put together? I feel like I’d be lucky to get about 70/100 at this point

Reply 7

Toednote3363

To be honest I am quite glad that the general consensus at the moment that it seems to of been hard for many. I know I made many silly errors and I felt as if the questions could have been worded differently. For some questions I spent longer trying to figure out what it was asking me than answering it. As well as this I felt as if there were quite a few sequences questions of which I haven't covered yet in school and so only had very limiting knowledge.

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Reply 8

Nabil2003

Mood after the exam:
Excuse-a-me what de ****

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Original post by Callum_Brown_

What a pile of horse **** like on the past papers was cruising w 80-90%, I was so f***ing ready. I mean wtf did the [] even mean?!?! Like towards the end I was just missing question after question, like I’ll b happy to get an interview now and I was hoping to cruise in.

Same here .. just hoping they meant to make it harder because of the [].

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Reply 11

Callum_Brown_

Original post by Ligretto Cowboy

Same here .. just hoping they meant to make it harder because of the [].

Like if it makes u feel better I found it impossible and yet just a couple months ago I came top 30 in the country for the senior physics challenge. It was criminally hard.

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Reply 12

Harry.Ell

I believe I am in a similar situation. Instead of considering marks on a past paper I always used to look at percentiles as my range here was a lot smaller. The effect of a hard test (while it may have a large effect on your mark) shouldn’t change your percentile too much. In essence it’s just a translation of that cumulative frequency curve you see in all the paper reports to the left a little bit. You’ll probably find you’re still hovering above the 10th percentile.

Realistically speaking, a hard paper favours people in your position, and spreads out the higher percentiles more which should be in your benefit.

Hope this calms you down a little bit after what was certainly a very rough exam 🙂

Original post by Callum_Brown_

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Reply 13

KarolisB

Original post by Harry.Ell

Anybody have any links to any unofficial mark schemes that people have put together? I feel like I’d be lucky to get about 70/100 at this point

Get in the bin

Reply 14

Hisksjd

Original post by Harry.Ell

Anybody have any links to any unofficial mark schemes that people have put together? I feel like I’d be lucky to get about 70/100 at this point

F**k*ng hell, I’d be lucky to get that on a good day. P*ss off

Reply 15

Harry.Ell

Original post by KarolisB

Get in the bin

Big emphasis on the word “lucky”, btw

Reply 16

Ligretto Cowboy

Original post by Harry.Ell

Anybody have any links to any unofficial mark schemes that people have put together? I feel like I’d be lucky to get about 70/100 at this point

I’m hoping that much as well now. For every physics question, I only finished half or at least about a quarter left (didn’t do most of that [] tho).

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Reply 17

forre

Original post by Harry.Ell

Anybody have any links to any unofficial mark schemes that people have put together? I feel like I’d be lucky to get about 70/100 at this point

I’d be lucky to pass😭😭😭😭

Reply 18

D201J

Original post by Callum_Brown_

Like if it makes u feel better I found it impossible and yet just a couple months ago I came top 30 in the country for the senior physics challenge. It was criminally hard.