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...dog poop!
I just did unit 6 of A level edexcel geography B, and I am really annoyed. they gave us an overlay in the pre-release pack which did not fit the maps and some maps showed the boudary of the study area as being in a different place to others.
They word questions poorly...they asked a question about greenfield sites on a greenbelt area.
One of my friends does Edexcel history and her teacher has rung up to complain about a badly worded question on one of their papers.
Has anyone else had similar problems? It really annoys me that these exams are so important to the people taking them, but the exam boards seem to keep getting things wrong. Grrrrr :mad:
I just did unit 6 of A level edexcel geography B, and I am really annoyed. they gave us an overlay in the pre-release pack which did not fit the maps and some maps showed the boudary of the study area as being in a different place to others.
They word questions poorly...they asked a question about greenfield sites on a greenbelt area.
One of my friends does Edexcel history and her teacher has rung up to complain about a badly worded question on one of their papers.
Has anyone else had similar problems? It really annoys me that these exams are so important to the people taking them, but the exam boards seem to keep getting things wrong. Grrrrr :mad:
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I feel for those people who took that unanswerable maths question last year in the AS.
Just like the refs in the World Cup, they need to get their act together.
Last year when they moderated our geography coursework they marked it all down, some people went down by like 20 marks which affected their grades. They marked me down 3 marks, and I ended up 3 marks off an A...grrrrr. anyway, the school complained, Edexcel remarked them and put most people including me, back to their original higher marks.
Also the exam papers always have typing errors in or wrong figures. Just what you need to worry about! My geography coursework was marked down from a D to a U!!! Was not impressed!!! I only just passed because of it. For A level I'm looking to get a C overall with resits and that.
Got one more EDEXCEL paper on wednesday for Maths D2. God help me!
and the last question, on how the BNRR would affect the area...what the hell was that about?! There's not even gonna be a slip road anywhere near. grrrrrrrr.
Although there are a lot of mistakes made, I think it's the same with most exam boards. Edexcel are national rather than regional (e.g. MEG) and so they will cope with more exams and are probably more likely to make mistakes.:(
Any mistakes they do make are emphasised upon more by the fact that it's Edexcel, the exam board everyone knows makes mistakes. :rolleyes:
What has been suggested to me as I have taken exams with Edexcel is to ask for photocopies of the exams on results day. It's perfectly legal and will allow me to look at any queries which I can bring up with my teachers. It will also allow me to look at areas I can improve on for next year. I don't know if many schools will offer this opportunity to you, but it can't hurt to ask
Hope this helps
Good idea about getting the exam papers, but I think that would apply more to people doing AS levels. Hopefully there won't be a "next year" of public examinations for me!!
I honestly thought, tho, that Edexcel would be really careful not to make mistakes this year, after all the bad press coverage last year.
The sad facts of the education system is that some colleges place higher emphasis on other things that they can spend their budget rather than exam boards. Everyone knows that Edexcel are crap, practically every week now, it's committed some cock up, but everyone also knows that colleges only use them because they are cheap.
My college uses AQA for most of it's exams and there are relatively few problems, although in January, there was a problem with the law papers being marked too harshly by an inexperienced marker, but thankfully with AQA, these mistakes are few and far between.
My condolences go out to all those who are unfortunate enough to have either sat exams or will be sitting exams with this shambles of an exam board. Adcice for people not yet at college is make sure that they use AQA. In my experience it is Further education colleges that use Edexcel as opposed to Sixth Form Colleges, dunno why this is the case though.
Did anyone see the Private Eye cartoon? "Edexcel biology. Answer 7 of the following 4 questions. You have 2 1/2 secs. Write on all 3 sides of the paper. 3) Explain the difference between the following parts of the body: a- arse, b- elbow. 6) If you were unable to answer qu3 would you like a job with Edexcel?"
Pretty much sums it up.
So it's not possible that the people did actually get E's, and you'd been taught poorly, which the teachers had tried to cover for by claiming you were A standard and it was Edexcel's fault?
Just a thought.