Where could I find all the past grade boundaries, for the BPhO Intermediate Physics Challenge Competition?
Thank you very much in advance!
See here for the BPhO write-up of the Intermediate Physics Challenge - January 2022. Boundaries appear at the top of page 4. See here for the same for March 2021, with grade boundaries at the bottom of page 2.
You say you're looking for "all the past grade boundaries". There are none other than the above on the BPhO web site, and I can't find any further afield either.
See here for the BPhO write-up of the Intermediate Physics Challenge - January 2022. Boundaries appear at the top of page 4. See here for the same for March 2021, with grade boundaries at the bottom of page 2.
You say you're looking for "all the past grade boundaries". There are none other than the above on the BPhO web site, and I can't find any further afield either.
Are you sure they published them prior to 2021?
Late reply, but these are the grade boundaries for the online challenge, not the proper paper one (hence scoring out of 40 and not 50)
Also this may be true for the older papers but I would bear in mind that the boundaries fluctuate a lot depending on the difficulty of the paper that year - one set of grade boundaries I was shown set gold as low as the high 20s.
Also this may be true for the older papers but I would bear in mind that the boundaries fluctuate a lot depending on the difficulty of the paper that year - one set of grade boundaries I was shown set gold as low as the high 20s.
That's reassuring to know... I found this year's paper so hard there's no way I will get high thirties
Seems reasonable Did you do this year's paper? How did you find it? (I know we can't explicitly talk about questions)
I had hoped to do a bit better but I got 28 which is a decent score all things considered. Depending on how hard everyone found it this year it could either be a silver or a gold so idk. Imo though the paper wasn't horrible although it was a bit tougher than other papers I have done, especially near the end. My teacher only reminded me the day before so I didn't get to revise as much as I would have liked to, but it is what it is ig.
I had hoped to do a bit better but I got 28 which is a decent score all things considered. Depending on how hard everyone found it this year it could either be a silver or a gold so idk. Imo though the paper wasn't horrible although it was a bit tougher than other papers I have done, especially near the end. My teacher only reminded me the day before so I didn't get to revise as much as I would have liked to, but it is what it is ig.
That sounds good! I haven't been told my score yet, any idea when boundaries will come out?
Wait, how did you ig revise for the ipc? and for how long
I didn't really revise for the ipc this time but I have done a lot of ipc past papers last year for sixth form entrance exams.
At least for me, I found this year's paper's longer questions noticeably harder though, like I remember getting venus' speed as faster than the speed of light and feeling like laughing and crying at the same time