IGCSE/GCSE/O & A Level/IB/University Student Forum

Qualification => Subject Doubts => GCE AS & A2 Level => Sciences => Topic started by: [Spy] on May 21, 2010, 09:48:07 am

Title: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: [Spy] on May 21, 2010, 09:48:07 am
Share Your Misery With Us :P

Until Now Its 32/40 For Me.

Here's The Good News, one of my friends (the top in the class) was leaving the hall after the exam and there was an examiner there i dont know why, so he asked him how was the exam? he said it was crazy and hard. so the examiner tells him, gooood, low thresholds ;)

If you look at the grade thresholds highest mark for an A in the past 4 or 5 sessions was a 32. june 09 was a 29 even. so we're looking at 26-30 for this time ;)

just do good in paper 2 and 3 :D
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Twinkle Charms on May 21, 2010, 02:33:14 pm
looollll amazing i do the same sumtyms....ask the topper how was it n when they reply it ws hard or tricky or did went well.....looll i jump around spreadin the news thresholds gonna be loww  :D
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: vserian on May 21, 2010, 03:31:02 pm
Man i have to say this was the hardest paper 1 ve ever seen despite some repeated question, many questions were very tricky and some very hard. i took like 45 mins to do only 19 question and when it ws only 5 mins left to end, i saw i left 5 blank and my head was blowing and i just put them randomly!

i swear, i practiced the past papers the day before i did 7 papers in one day and in 6 papers i got all over 32!

but this one i think i can get between 20-25 ;(
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Twinkle Charms on May 21, 2010, 03:47:42 pm
ohhh :O
i did my paper the way they said here...to do last 5 first then from 20 to 28 then from beginnin...i finished my ppr on time...buh ofc all not right -.-
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Lovee on May 21, 2010, 03:49:51 pm
Hoping i can get 35-36. I know i have 2 careless mistakes already though :(
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: aldehyde1612 on May 21, 2010, 05:47:32 pm
ohhh :O
i did my paper the way they said here...to do last 5 first then from 20 to 28 then from beginnin...i finished my ppr on time...buh ofc all not right -.-


i did the same thing... but then when i got to some of the earlier ones i got stumped... ran out of time.
i marked in like 6 or 7 randomly as the supervisor person said pens down...lol. hoping for anything above 30. :P
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: leebux101 on May 21, 2010, 09:41:57 pm
i am soo sorry to ruin the threshhold happiness for u..it sucks for me too..but there is no threshold starting from this year..80% is A...i noe i am sooo maDdd!!!!!!
 >:(  :'(
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: leebux101 on May 21, 2010, 09:55:02 pm
ok i am gna take tht back cuz i just read the thread on the thresholds stuff and WOOPS!! SORRY GUYS!! really i am soo sry!!
anyway!! u cant blv how happy i am to know tht thresholds still exist! i am gna kill tht frnd of mine who told me no thresholds..!!
soo..*CHEERS* !!!
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Joseph_COOL on May 21, 2010, 10:50:12 pm
i am soo sorry to ruin the threshhold happiness for u..it sucks for me too..but there is no threshold starting from this year..80% is A...i noe i am sooo maDdd!!!!!!
 >:(  :'(

when i saw that i was like wtf !!!  >:(  >:(
but u made happy again with the next post :D :D
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: leebux101 on May 22, 2010, 04:37:04 pm
haha!! ok!  ;D
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Ykov on May 26, 2010, 01:53:18 pm
Honestly.... the paper wasn't that hard. I finished this one with 10 minutes left and had enough time to mull over some possibly tricky questions, especially the one that asked us to find the acceleration at the t = 3. You basically have to draw a tangent rather than find it directly by using the formula, then you use the points on the tangent to find the acceleration aka its gradient.  I took careful note of this one XD
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Joseph_COOL on May 26, 2010, 03:03:03 pm
Honestly.... the paper wasn't that hard. I finished this one with 10 minutes left and had enough time to mull over some possibly tricky questions, especially the one that asked us to find the acceleration at the t = 3. You basically have to draw a tangent rather than find it directly by using the formula, then you use the points on the tangent to find the acceleration aka its gradient.  I took careful note of this one XD
which variant did was ur exam ???
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Ykov on May 26, 2010, 03:10:15 pm
I forgot which variant it was -_- It was pretty okay
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Joseph_COOL on May 26, 2010, 04:19:39 pm
well maybe u got another varient cuz the one we took was a killer  :-\
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: princesszahra on May 26, 2010, 08:07:47 pm
i am expecting one or two mistakes!!!
so what do u say abt thresholds?
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Joseph_COOL on May 26, 2010, 10:52:12 pm
i am expecting one or two mistakes!!!
so what do u say abt thresholds?
well that's really good but which variant was ur paper 1??
Title: Re: Physics paper 1 expected grades + good news ;)
Post by: Twinkle Charms on May 27, 2010, 04:33:44 am
i am expecting one or two mistakes!!!
so what do u say abt thresholds?
:o :o :o :o :o
then why do u even care about the thresholds??!!! dude ofc st. away A that is...2 or 3 mistakes only..lol mashallah.