AS/ALEVEL EXAM DISCUSSION HERE ONLY

[Reechna]

chem p2 for chemical energetics, sme1 told me that it was supposed to b 2humps n i did only 1.

looks lik u did ok overall

[ilmarien]

I've only done Bio Paper 3 and Physics Paper 3.

Bio paper 3 was...  I don't know, I didn't follow the safety procedure for the lab, I think they'll deduct some points out of it. For question 1, the fourth solution (S4) contains the most starch, the first has no starch at all (S1), but S2 and S3 were interchangeable, I was confounded. (The S1 through S4 is the same for each school, right?)
For question number 2, I measured the WIDTH of the guard cell instead of the LENGTH.
Question 3 was just okay.

Physics paper 3 was also quite a failure for me. Question 1 was good.
Question 2 was awful. The threshold weight kept changing. I repeated about 10 times and it kept changing DRASTICALLY! From 260 grams, to over 500 grams. The feeling of desperation all come back to me just as I talk about it.

(By the way, I got all 'U's for all paper 3, I'm currently retaking them. I'm hoping to get at least 'E' this time around. Maybe I'm just retarded in the field of Paper 3)

[MaNi_DaDuDe]

I loved paper 3 physics...it was great
paper 3 chem i didnt finish on time... it kicked my mood out of me
paper 2 chem i kept swearing the name of marie curie for her F******g discovery of radium (it's the same paper right?)
paper 1 maths was good.just lost marks on vectors
paper 6 was ok, did silly costly mistakes
how u found it?

wtf.

you prolly did chem p2 variant 1. (21)

[falafail]

Physics paper 3 was also quite a failure for me. Question 1 was good.
Question 2 was awful. The threshold weight kept changing. I repeated about 10 times and it kept changing DRASTICALLY! From 260 grams, to over 500 grams. The feeling of desperation all come back to me just as I talk about it.

(By the way, I got all 'U's for all paper 3, I'm currently retaking them. I'm hoping to get at least 'E' this time around. Maybe I'm just retarded in the field of Paper 3)

aw, i'm sorry D:
i thought you only got Us if you didn't sit the exam, though? as in, ungraded? 
and if it makes you feel any better, i wasn't sure about the weight either..


oh By the way, did your results support the theory thing? the last question, i mean. in physics paper 3. anyone?

[Sorceres]

maths paper 1 and 6 was ok.. though the first question of paper six made me kinda panic.. and yeah i definitely got that wrong..

for the practicals, i'm most satisfied with chem, then physics and then bio.. my first question for physics, gah i didn't have enough time to "alter" the values and draw a nice best fit line.. so yeah that kinda sucks especially since i had to do question 2 first and sat there idle for like 20 minutes    bio pracs was horrible.. my 'slide' was really shiteous and i couldnt really see anything or rather don't know what to see.. so yeah i crapped out my observation

chem 2 was the worst of all.. and somehow i THINK that i can do variant 1 better than variant 2.
how many ppl think that its damn hard? hopefully the threshold will be lowered.

[Lana Wolf]

http://www.brain.net.pk/~hivicky/cie/a-level/physics/9702_y07_asb.pdf

that has everything you'll need to know...
my school printed the whole thing for us...

[pastyear]

Ya stat is harder this time
I think the mean is 51
Is it correct?

[Lana Wolf]

maths paper 1 and 6 was ok.. though the first question of paper six made me kinda panic.. and yeah i definitely got that wrong..

for the practicals, i'm most satisfied with chem, then physics and then bio.. my first question for physics, gah i didn't have enough time to "alter" the values and draw a nice best fit line.. so yeah that kinda sucks especially since i had to do question 2 first and sat there idle for like 20 minutes    bio pracs was horrible.. my 'slide' was really sh*teous and i couldnt really see anything or rather don't know what to see.. so yeah i crapped out my observation

chem 2 was the worst of all.. and somehow i THINK that i can do variant 1 better than variant 2.
how many ppl think that its damn hard? hopefully the threshold will be lowered.

i'm with you...variant 2 was really horrible....but u kno actually dey never change d difficulty in 2 variants of the same paper only questions basically...but still i wantd to do variant 1...damn we shud hav had an option....this sux.. X[

[Tyserius]

Well, for me let's start off with Thinking Skills :
Paper 1 : Some were easy, some were hard. I hate the critical thinking part. I preferred problem solving.
Paper 2 : Once again, I did not have enough time to write my last 3 sentences!

Mathematics :
Paper 1 : I guess it was more of a breeze compared to P6.
Paper 6 : I made a careless mistake like everyone else on the SD of the first question. And my 1,3,5 and 6 arrangement. (Was too confident about it the day before till I neglected it for Economics ~_~)

Economics :
Paper 1 : (Not done)
Paper 2 : I just had 10 seconds left when I was done! I hope I did great. I didn't like the choice of essay questions. I picked the one with the lighthouse and light bulb. That was the easiest there ~_~

Physics :
Paper 1 : (Not done)
Paper 2 : (Not done)
Paper 3 : I think I had one limitation wrong ~_~ I hate it when they ask for limitations! D: But my values for k had only a 4% percentage difference! So I guess it was okay overall.

How about everyone else?

[Reechna]

wtf.

you prolly did chem p2 variant 1. (21)

um yea i think it's variant 1.

any one dng A2 physics soon?

[Reechna]

Thank You

any1 ready 4 A2 physics???

[top_dog77]

I think I did the Chem P2 variant 2. I liked the organic chem + kinetic theory in it but not so much the oxidation numbers part, though I was lucky to have remembered the exception for metal hydrides.

Does anyone know the correct answer for the permutations Q in maths P6? It was the one that asked for for the different 3 digit and 4 digit numbers able to be produced from the numbers 1,3,5,6 and the digits formed had to be >500 as well as being odd numbers. So far I've heard varying answers
thanks

[kratos009]

Well for that permutation question i got 18 ways but I'm not sure if that is the right answer. Yeah I've also heard varying answers, i think the correct answer might be 28 but i'm not 100% sure. And for the chemistry paper 2, the question asked for a common carbon compound that had a similar structure to SiC, was it by any chance diamond?

[falafail]

I think I did the Chem P2 variant 2. I liked the organic chem + kinetic theory in it but not so much the oxidation numbers part, though I was lucky to have remembered the exception for metal hydrides.

Does anyone know the correct answer for the permutations Q in maths P6? It was the one that asked for for the different 3 digit and 4 digit numbers able to be produced from the numbers 1,3,5,6 and the digits formed had to be >500 as well as being odd numbers. So far I've heard varying answers
thanks

I got 20something..
I actually wrote down all the 3 digit numbers >500 and counted the odd ones, then i multiplied 3/4 by the total value of permutations i got in the first part and added them up.

[haro]

FREAKIN HARD!!!! it was a DISASTER 4 me!!!!