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Malpractice, possible disqualification?

In my physics paper 2 exam (the last gcse for me)

I wrote some facts and anagrams down on the front of my exam paper before I was instructed to start writing on the paper by an invigilator, they took my paper said I wasn’t allowed to do that and gave me a new one and at the end of the exam they made me stay behind and do a statement as they were reporting it to AQA.Currently bricking it

What will my punishment be? Will I get disqualified I hope I don’t as I didn’t open the paper or anything I just wrote some notes on the front of the exam paper

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Reply 1
Original post by Gcsesss24
In my physics paper 2 exam (the last gcse for me)
I wrote some facts and anagrams down on the front of my exam paper before I was instructed to start writing on the paper by an invigilator, they took my paper said I wasn’t allowed to do that and gave me a new one and at the end of the exam they made me stay behind and do a statement as they were reporting it to AQA.Currently bricking it
What will my punishment be? Will I get disqualified I hope I don’t as I didn’t open the paper or anything I just wrote some notes on the front of the exam paper
I am stressing so hard man
Reply 2
Sorry but don't get your hopes up
Reply 3
Sorry but don't get your hopes up
What do u think my punishment will be?
Reply 4
I'd rather be brutally honest but that will almost certainly (provided I interpreted the information you gave correctly) result in loss of aggregation, meaning you'll lose your physics gcse. It is cheating really
Reply 5
Original post by Gcsesss24
What do u think my punishment will be?

You may be lucky and only lose paper 2, but your max mark will be heavily capped. How long did you write on your paper
Reply 6
I'd rather be brutally honest but that will almost certainly (provided I interpreted the information you gave correctly) result in loss of aggregation, meaning you'll lose your physics gcse. It is cheating really

Damnnnnn the invigilator said it would most likely be a warning but I’m overthinking hella
Reply 7
You may be lucky and only lose paper 2, but your max mark will be heavily capped. How long did you write on your paper

If ur talking about how long I wrote on the paper it was only like 10 secs before the invigilator took it off me and replaced it
Reply 8
Original post by Gcsesss24
If ur talking about how long I wrote on the paper it was only like 10 secs before the invigilator took it off me and replaced it

Oh fine sorry, that should only be a warning, but possibly you'll lose a few marks depending on aqa's decision. Just pray
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Reply 9
Oh fine sorry, that should only be a warning, but possibly you'll lose a few marks depending on aqa's decision. Just pay

Ahh what would of made it been worse then a warning?
Reply 10
Original post by Gcsesss24
Ahh what would of made it been worse then a warning?

1 minute of writing
Reply 11
1 minute of writing

Oh I see, as soon as I wrote a couple notes on the front of the paper she took it from me and gave me a fresh new paper so it was approximately like 10-15 secs
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Reply 12
Original post by Gcsesss24
Oh I see, as soon as I wrote a couple notes on the front of the paper she took it from me and gave me a fresh new paper so it was approximately like 10-15 secs

Consider yourself on the lucky end of a spectrum. Writing before an exam would be equivalent to writing after the exam finished, so really more than half a minute would count as "writing for a significant period of time" outside the duration of the examination. That would lose you marks. Much more than that, and you are disqualified from the subject or exam series (but that would be more for obvious attempts of cheating and hiding cheating from invigilators
Reply 13
Consider yourself on the lucky end of a spectrum. Writing before an exam would be equivalent to writing after the exam finished, so really more than half a minute would count as "writing for a significant period of time" outside the duration of the examination. That would lose you marks. Much more than that, and you are disqualified from the subject or exam series (but that would be more for obvious attempts of cheating and hiding cheating from invigilators

I didn’t open the paper though I only wrote notes on the front of the paper, where u write ur candidate number and stuff, that makes a difference right?
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If the worst case scenario is that you lose your physics GCSE, I understand that it is very frustrating, but I it is not the end of the world. It is, to be honest, only a small qualification. Once you have done your A-Levels, one GCSE won't be too important overall. It sounds like you might be fine, so hopefully you are lucky and just get a warning. At least it wasn't Maths or English, that could have gone much worse if you had to repeat one of them. Don't stress over it, you have done your exams now, enjoy your summer.
Reply 15
Original post by bertielarter
If the worst case scenario is that you lose your physics GCSE, I understand that it is very frustrating, but I it is not the end of the world. It is, to be honest, only a small qualification. Once you have done your A-Levels, one GCSE won't be too important overall. It sounds like you might be fine, so hopefully you are lucky and just get a warning. At least it wasn't Maths or English, that could have gone much worse if you had to repeat one of them. Don't stress over it, you have done your exams now, enjoy your summer.

Okay Thankyou.
Original post by Gcsesss24
Okay Thankyou.

That's worse case scenario though. Literally in our Geography Paper 3 Exam, when the invigilators were collecting the papers, some kid was still writing for at least a huge extra 30 seconds and I saw an invigilator watch him but nothing happened to him. That was on Friday though, and I don't know if they inform you of your misdemeanour where you see your grades on results day or something.
Reply 17
bro dont worry ur fine these ppl dont know what they are talking about that happened to some1 in my school when i did gcse 2 years ago and nothing happened to them
Reply 18
Original post by maths1414
bro dont worry ur fine these ppl dont know what they are talking about that happened to some1 in my school when i did gcse 2 years ago and nothing happened to them

they might of got a warning but nothing major happened
Reply 19
Original post by Gcsesss24
I didn’t open the paper though I only wrote notes on the front of the paper, where u write ur candidate number and stuff, that makes a difference right?

Sadly yes. They can't be sure you didn't open the paper.

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