help my friend pick an exam board

My friend has just sat her A-level Physics exam (AQA) and is planning to resit (for sure).
She is stuck between sticking to AQA or changing it to Edexcel.
What would you suggest and why?

thank you~~

Reply 1

DataVenia

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Original post by _fafa233

My friend has just sat her A-level Physics exam (AQA) and is planning to resit (for sure).
She is stuck between sticking to AQA or changing it to Edexcel.
What would you suggest and why?

thank you~~

She should stick with AQA, simply because there are more resources available from which to learn. This is down to simple market forces. Last year 20,003 students took A level Physics with AQA (source) whilst just 3,739 took A level Physics with Edexcel (source). More students means more resources, more people who've done that spec to ask questions of, etc.

Reply 2

UtterlyUseless69

Original post by _fafa233

My friend has just sat her A-level Physics exam (AQA) and is planning to resit (for sure).
She is stuck between sticking to AQA or changing it to Edexcel.
What would you suggest and why?
thank you~~

As above, AQA has more resources available and more people to ask for help from. Although of late the AQA physics exams have allegedly been unreasonably difficult, I expect they will make the papers more accessible in light of feedback from this year and the last.

Besides, AQA the course she’s done over the last two years and will be the one she’s more familiar with. Edexcel has some considerable differences.

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