I answered an essay on the wrong topic HELP will i get zero marks ?!?

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today i sat my OCR A Level Religious Studies Paper 1 Exam and there was a question about ontological argument. I was so stressed about this exam because Philosophy is my worst paper and i got in there and opened the question paper and nearly cried because i was so stress so i guess because of my hazy stressed out brain i mixed up the ontological argument with the cosmological argument and wrote a whole 7 sheet essay about if the cosmological argument justifies god or not intead of the ontological argument. these essay are worth 40 marks so do you think im iust gonna get a straight up 0/40 or is there anything i can do or anything i just realised right now and i just broke down crying i dont know what to do i will obviously try my best in the next two papers but all past two years ive been averaging a C and i dont know how the next two papers will go

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HoldThisL

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If there was another question on the paper relating to the cosmological argument or some of your argument can be applied to the question you answered, you may well scrape some marks but unfortunately you're not going to get much and there's nothing that can be done now I'm afraid

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luluLMH2006

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by starzshira

today i sat my OCR A Level Religious Studies Paper 1 Exam and there was a question about ontological argument. I was so stressed about this exam because Philosophy is my worst paper and i got in there and opened the question paper and nearly cried because i was so stress so i guess because of my hazy stressed out brain i mixed up the ontological argument with the cosmological argument and wrote a whole 7 sheet essay about if the cosmological argument justifies god or not intead of the ontological argument. these essay are worth 40 marks so do you think im iust gonna get a straight up 0/40 or is there anything i can do or anything i just realised right now and i just broke down crying i dont know what to do i will obviously try my best in the next two papers but all past two years ive been averaging a C and i dont know how the next two papers will go

in re they only like mark positively, so you wont get marked down at all. any places where you answered the question or included relevant scholars ect you will be credited. like if you used the phrase 'this proves the be the strongest argument' ect you will def be given marks. I wouldnt stress about it, you will def pick up marks where due and hopefully they are super kind!

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ilovebagels!!

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oh noo! try not to worry too much, how did your other 2 essays go? if they went well, then hopefully they will bring up the grade? i do ocr rs as well and i did the ontological question and i think i messed up some scholars too 😥

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Henry.peech

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by starzshira

today i sat my OCR A Level Religious Studies Paper 1 Exam and there was a question about ontological argument. I was so stressed about this exam because Philosophy is my worst paper and i got in there and opened the question paper and nearly cried because i was so stress so i guess because of my hazy stressed out brain i mixed up the ontological argument with the cosmological argument and wrote a whole 7 sheet essay about if the cosmological argument justifies god or not intead of the ontological argument. these essay are worth 40 marks so do you think im iust gonna get a straight up 0/40 or is there anything i can do or anything i just realised right now and i just broke down crying i dont know what to do i will obviously try my best in the next two papers but all past two years ive been averaging a C and i dont know how the next two papers will go

Hi there, I was involved in marking papers last year and anyone who did not answer the question is likely to get 0/40

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barca_fan

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by starzshira

today i sat my OCR A Level Religious Studies Paper 1 Exam and there was a question about ontological argument. I was so stressed about this exam because Philosophy is my worst paper and i got in there and opened the question paper and nearly cried because i was so stress so i guess because of my hazy stressed out brain i mixed up the ontological argument with the cosmological argument and wrote a whole 7 sheet essay about if the cosmological argument justifies god or not intead of the ontological argument. these essay are worth 40 marks so do you think im iust gonna get a straight up 0/40 or is there anything i can do or anything i just realised right now and i just broke down crying i dont know what to do i will obviously try my best in the next two papers but all past two years ive been averaging a C and i dont know how the next two papers will go

I think this happened with English Lit a while back when many people wrote between Mr and Mrs Birling. I think the examiners may give structural marks, but might take away content marks. They cannot give you 0/40 for writing something, but it might help to send them an email to see what can be done.

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starzshira

OP

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by ilovebagels!!

oh noo! try not to worry too much, how did your other 2 essays go? if they went well, then hopefully they will bring up the grade? i do ocr rs as well and i did the ontological question and i think i messed up some scholars too 😥

i dont think i evaluated enough for the other two questions tbh cause i was so excited at seeing ontological question (which my brain thought was the cosmological argument) that i was so focused on that question i only dont want to check if i wrote the other two questions right or not or i will actually have another breakdown about this paper so far have had like 10 breakdowns about it

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ilovebagels!!

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by starzshira

i dont think i evaluated enough for the other two questions tbh cause i was so excited at seeing ontological question (which my brain thought was the cosmological argument) that i was so focused on that question i only dont want to check if i wrote the other two questions right or not or i will actually have another breakdown about this paper so far have had like 10 breakdowns about it

ahh i'm soo sorry!! :frown:

( hopefully it's better than you think? how are you feeling about ethics and paper 3? hopefully they will be good to help your grade 🤞have you tried emailing the exam board? i'm not sure what else you could do otherwise..

which 2 other questions did you answer in the paper? i did ontological, religious experience and falsification :smile:

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starzshira

OP

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by ilovebagels!!

ahh i'm soo sorry!! :frown:

( hopefully it's better than you think? how are you feeling about ethics and paper 3? hopefully they will be good to help your grade 🤞have you tried emailing the exam board? i'm not sure what else you could do otherwise..
which 2 other questions did you answer in the paper? i did ontological, religious experience and falsification :smile:

im hoppng i wrote better than i think i did honestly. and im gonna lock in so hard for ethics paper and christianity paper i find them easier anyways than philosophy paper so i am really hoping they will bump up my frade (parying for a kant question for ethics kant is my best topic). ive not trued yo email the exam board cause i dont know they will be able to do anything about it honestly.
i answered the soul mind and body question and religious experience for the other two ! i HATE religious language

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Reality Check

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by Henry.peech

Hi there, I was involved in marking papers last year and anyone who did not answer the question is likely to get 0/40

You really weren't though, were you.

OP - I'm sure some of your essay will gain credit for relevant argument, even if tangental, to one of the questions on the paper. It's not going to score highly - obviously, but with any luck, not all is lost.

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