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philosophy exam ocr - wrong q???

heyy, basically i had my ocr exam on philosophy, im doing alevels, and i realised that i wrote about conscious which is an ethic topic on a question asking for soul mind n body which is a philosophy topic.
will i lose marks, is the entire question going to be disregarded?? or will i get some marks at least??
please helppp!

Reply 1

Hey I'm an OCR examiner. If you wrote about the conscience topic (Aquins, Freud, etc) then yeah that is wrong unfortunately. Maybe you'll get a bit of marks since Freud is a materialist and Aquinas is a dualist. For students who fail to answer the question - if they at least address the topic you can get 4 AO1 marks. But if you don't address the topic it's 2. Your AO2 would be similarly limited to 4 if you didn't answer the Q at all, or 8 if you partially answered it. If I had to guess I'd say you'd be around 3 for AO1 and 4 for AO2.

It happens! You've got 9 essays in total across the exams. One mistake doesn't drag the average down that much so focus on doing good in ethics and christianity.

Reply 2

Original post by Joe312
Hey I'm an OCR examiner. If you wrote about the conscience topic (Aquins, Freud, etc) then yeah that is wrong unfortunately. Maybe you'll get a bit of marks since Freud is a materialist and Aquinas is a dualist. For students who fail to answer the question - if they at least address the topic you can get 4 AO1 marks. But if you don't address the topic it's 2. Your AO2 would be similarly limited to 4 if you didn't answer the Q at all, or 8 if you partially answered it. If I had to guess I'd say you'd be around 3 for AO1 and 4 for AO2.
It happens! You've got 9 essays in total across the exams. One mistake doesn't drag the average down that much so focus on doing good in ethics and christianity.

ok thank you and do i still have a chance of getting an a if i missed out around on 40 marks in the first paper?

Reply 3

Original post by user88663
heyy, basically i had my ocr exam on philosophy, im doing alevels, and i realised that i wrote about conscious which is an ethic topic on a question asking for soul mind n body which is a philosophy topic.
will i lose marks, is the entire question going to be disregarded?? or will i get some marks at least??
please helppp!

bru i did the same thing

Reply 4

Original post by pinkmangoes
bru i did the same thing

nooo stop really , i need an a at leasttt

Reply 5

Original post by user88663
ok thank you and do i still have a chance of getting an a if i missed out around on 40 marks in the first paper?

Yeah your other essay can make up for it if they are sufficiently over the A grade boundary.

Reply 6

Original post by user88663
nooo stop really , i need an a at leasttt

u can do it !! just lock innn for ethics & dct😫

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