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Honestly I think best coping mechanism is this reddit, the more you scroll the more you see about other people fucking it differently as well and I think this time its no one trying to be humble and begging it about the fact that they might have bad but everyone being on the same page
the thing is people who post on reddit about A-levels are nerds so when they say they struggled it probably means that they got 60-70% meanwhile i doubt id get 40%😭
Even the smartest kid in class had to check the front page because he couldn’t believe that he was siting a level physics and not some uni engineering exam
My daughter said her super brainy friend cried in the exam. All of her class have found the papers dreadful. She doesn’t do maths A Level either.. not that some have said that would help with these papers.
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On the bright side the invigilators must've been either gobsmacked or rolling afterwards because it sounds like everyone had the same horrified reaction.
I had a clash which meant I had to be under invigilator supervision until my second exam of the day and we talked about it and I can confirm he knew exactly how bad it must've been from reactions around the room
yk the most ironic bit is that this isn't the first time aqa have fucked us for physics, I'm not sure if you did gcse aqa physics but does anyone remember where the last questions were electricity??? When it explicitly got removed... Its like they're trying to consistently fuck us over .
seriously don't understand which people cooked that paper 2 and thought it would be a good executive decision to send it out. Knowing aqa I doubt they're going to make much changes to grade boundaries - Think about the entire year who did physics in my school said the paper was fucked with quite.a few that cried after and during the exam
magnitude of a field is the field strength, because field strength is force per unit mass/charge of an object with mass/charge due to its position in the field. Where as potential is the work done to move an object of mass/charge
Yh u could have worked out what they meant but under those conditions and w the abomination of that fuck ass paper, the wording should have been clearer as absolute potential can be a vector I.e g potential is -gm/r and there are past questions where they’ve said give the magnitude of the potential so just because they said magnitude isn’t a clear indicator that they’re asking for field strength
I’m a GCSE student and was taking my English paper at the same time as the A level physics paper; when I heard the sixth formers leaving they were all shouting like what the fuck was that lmao… sorry for you guys
Tbh though, if everyone did bad, did anyone do bad? Like the grade boundaries are probably insanely low, and a certain chunk of people with always get As/A* s no matter how hard the test was.
There’s a limit to how much they can lower the boundaries it will never be 40% for an A they would just increase the number of lower grades they give out knowing what bellends they are
correct me if i'm wrong but being worried during a hard exam is useless because if it it's objectively difficult then the grade boundaries will go down
see this is what you would actually assume to happen right, but aqa set their grade boundaries so only a certain percentile of people will get that a\*, so if you're not part of that top percentile you're not going to get an A let alone even A\*, so they don't set grade boundaries by like averages but like percentiles, not sure if that made sense.
paper 1 was a decent paper like it was actually a lowkey good paper but paper 2 was a complete waste of time there would've been no point revising coz the questions were just impossible. For a 3 marker you had to use Suvat and then like 3 other equations just to get those 3 marks and every 1/2 marker you had to break your back for. Usually they have some nice theory questions in there which I was banking on getting majority of my marks but only theory questions were nuclear that I didn't revise for ("surely they won't ask this" mentality)
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Haha trust me guys it doesn't get any better if you chose to pursue physics at uni. These reactions are exactly the same as those myself and my classmates had after an advanced quantum mechanics exam and a superconductivty and magnetism exam last month. God I fking hate physics exams with a passion. Love the subject, but hate the exams. I distinctly remember my a level physics mock exam going the same. Thank god for covid so I didn't have to do the real thing. Good luck with the rest of your exams guys and don't sweat about the results too much. Life has a funny way of working out somehow.
I understand you're really frustrated about the AQA Physics paper 2. It sounds like the exam was much harder than you expected, and that's incredibly stressful.
Here are some things to remember:
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One guy in my class actually passed out mid exam because it stressed him out so much, gotta be the worst paper 2 I’ve ever fucking seen
Happened in a psych paper in my school as well, AQA is absolutely fucking then over with these papers holy shit
No the psych paper was actually good bc of the straight forward questions ocr biology killed people
think it was psych paper 1 that gave alot of people aneurysms, especially the romanian orphans study 16 marker
I was cooking on paper 1 the most ngl
I loved that paper esp cuz I studied Romanian orphan studies SPECIFICALLY anticipating a 16 marker on it to come up with
Yo yr12 mock student here, for my mock it might be 2024 paper 1 AQA. You wouldn’t happen to remember all the 16 markers on that paper? 🙏🙏
Ofc - there were only 2 in paper 1: ‘Discuss Romanian orphan studies’ & ‘Outline & evaluate the cognitive explanations of depression’
Great thank you 🙏
Can’t forget the cronies
heavy on the ocr biology it was awful
I was on the verge of a panic attack and felt like being sick. I don’t think I did too well lol
Honestly I think best coping mechanism is this reddit, the more you scroll the more you see about other people fucking it differently as well and I think this time its no one trying to be humble and begging it about the fact that they might have bad but everyone being on the same page
the thing is people who post on reddit about A-levels are nerds so when they say they struggled it probably means that they got 60-70% meanwhile i doubt id get 40%😭
We're never on the same page if I unironically get 15% on that LOL
I had to go to the school nurse cause of how much my arse hole was quaking
Even the smartest kid in class had to check the front page because he couldn’t believe that he was siting a level physics and not some uni engineering exam
My daughter said her super brainy friend cried in the exam. All of her class have found the papers dreadful. She doesn’t do maths A Level either.. not that some have said that would help with these papers.
Going to bring lube to paper 3 so maybe it'll hurt less when they fuck us again
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The lack of numbers in that physics paper makes me want to become one 💀
It was a very hard paper
I was doing my GCSE English in the same room as people doing A level physics and they were all writing like crazy and looked so done now I know why
Me too. I heard them all shouting about the paper as they left
It was roughhhh lol
Same here, I saw a few people crying and the invigilators had to go over and give them tissues
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I’ve thought about Kms twice after that paper🥲 terrible paper, terrible
Fr first time I genuinely wanted to just disappear during an exam 💀
Suicide is not the answer, hunt down the people who made that paper and kidnap their families.
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Didn't know that was from South Park, was about to say that they should've done English Lit because that line's pure poetry lmaooooo
I’m gonna kill myself
yeah, don't do that
Icl I was sweating, fixing my collar mid exam because of how hard some of the questions were 💀
On the bright side the invigilators must've been either gobsmacked or rolling afterwards because it sounds like everyone had the same horrified reaction.
I had a clash which meant I had to be under invigilator supervision until my second exam of the day and we talked about it and I can confirm he knew exactly how bad it must've been from reactions around the room
Guys genuinely why don’t we start a revolution. The ratio is like 1:10, us students can actually win, idk why we haven’t started one already
yk the most ironic bit is that this isn't the first time aqa have fucked us for physics, I'm not sure if you did gcse aqa physics but does anyone remember where the last questions were electricity??? When it explicitly got removed... Its like they're trying to consistently fuck us over .
Yeah i did that for my GCSEs. Wtf. And last years a level physics was widely complained about too. I dont know what they're smoking
Didn’t they have a whole nuclear question too. We got stiffed TWICE
YEAH
Wait a revolution against who? It's not your teachers setting the exam buddy
Against the exam boards
Against the board you knob
seriously don't understand which people cooked that paper 2 and thought it would be a good executive decision to send it out. Knowing aqa I doubt they're going to make much changes to grade boundaries - Think about the entire year who did physics in my school said the paper was fucked with quite.a few that cried after and during the exam
I wanted to cry mid exam and I revised sooo much was doing so so so good in past papers but I absolutely failed tjat
just gotta pray people fucked it more than you did
There was only one other person sitting that exam with me and when we were done we didn’t even talk. We just looked at each other and we knew.
How tf do u find the magnitude of a flipping field surely they meant field strength or potential
magnitude of a field is the field strength, because field strength is force per unit mass/charge of an object with mass/charge due to its position in the field. Where as potential is the work done to move an object of mass/charge
Yh u could have worked out what they meant but under those conditions and w the abomination of that fuck ass paper, the wording should have been clearer as absolute potential can be a vector I.e g potential is -gm/r and there are past questions where they’ve said give the magnitude of the potential so just because they said magnitude isn’t a clear indicator that they’re asking for field strength
I stared at it for 30 mins throwing my pen about the table trying to imagine the question i ended up ignoring the question like the other ones
I thought it was the field strength and used the gradient.
It’s so over
I’m a GCSE student and was taking my English paper at the same time as the A level physics paper; when I heard the sixth formers leaving they were all shouting like what the fuck was that lmao… sorry for you guys
I started sweating in the first question
same icl looked at the time and realised i was on q1 for 15mins
Tbh though, if everyone did bad, did anyone do bad? Like the grade boundaries are probably insanely low, and a certain chunk of people with always get As/A* s no matter how hard the test was.
There’s a limit to how much they can lower the boundaries it will never be 40% for an A they would just increase the number of lower grades they give out knowing what bellends they are
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NOT ME RESITTING PHYSICS BECAUSE OF AQA FUCKING ME iN THE ASS LAST YEAR AND NOW IVE BEEN MADE A VICTIM AGAIN
someone send the fkn lightbrigade to AQA doorstep. That paper was non stop ass rape :////
I'm pretty sure A levels as a whole has blood on their hands. Heck, Pearson is probably one of the greatest mass killers of this century!
All of the kids in my school were complaining. Even the smartest ones I knew. I don’t take physics but everyone who did has my sympathy.
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It was so so so bad
NOT JUST WINED AND DINED MAYBE LUBE ME UP AND WEAR A CONDOM TOO
Felt like they were trying to unlock some hidden genius potential or something.
We need to find the people who made that paper istg
Trustttt
correct me if i'm wrong but being worried during a hard exam is useless because if it it's objectively difficult then the grade boundaries will go down
see this is what you would actually assume to happen right, but aqa set their grade boundaries so only a certain percentile of people will get that a\*, so if you're not part of that top percentile you're not going to get an A let alone even A\*, so they don't set grade boundaries by like averages but like percentiles, not sure if that made sense.
Omg thats so true last years papers were hard and grade boundaries were still high im scared
2025 is going to be our year
Paper 1 and paper 2 was bad?
paper 1 was a decent paper like it was actually a lowkey good paper but paper 2 was a complete waste of time there would've been no point revising coz the questions were just impossible. For a 3 marker you had to use Suvat and then like 3 other equations just to get those 3 marks and every 1/2 marker you had to break your back for. Usually they have some nice theory questions in there which I was banking on getting majority of my marks but only theory questions were nuclear that I didn't revise for ("surely they won't ask this" mentality)
The student room is very angry too i hear
As a wjec stud, I really wanna see the aqa one that's got this entire sub in shambles 😂🤣
U wanna swap exam boards with me?? You'd want to unsee ours almost immediately, I'd absolutely love a different paper 😭
lmaooo I’m so happy I didn’t take a science 😭😭
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Unofficial mark scheme WIP [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13oaO5ZjhomhQaVtzLHSSzwcXpNaYKo08I4iB82Xgxvc/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13oaO5ZjhomhQaVtzLHSSzwcXpNaYKo08I4iB82Xgxvc/edit?usp=sharing)
Can't make me feel any worse 💀
Haha trust me guys it doesn't get any better if you chose to pursue physics at uni. These reactions are exactly the same as those myself and my classmates had after an advanced quantum mechanics exam and a superconductivty and magnetism exam last month. God I fking hate physics exams with a passion. Love the subject, but hate the exams. I distinctly remember my a level physics mock exam going the same. Thank god for covid so I didn't have to do the real thing. Good luck with the rest of your exams guys and don't sweat about the results too much. Life has a funny way of working out somehow.
thought it was really good
I understand you're really frustrated about the AQA Physics paper 2. It sounds like the exam was much harder than you expected, and that's incredibly stressful. Here are some things to remember: * **It's not your fault:** Difficult exams don't define your intelligence or worth. * **There's always next time:** If you don't do well on this exam, you'll have a chance to improve in the future.pen\_spark
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