If you're resitting any of the AS or A2 exams from January, or want to know where you went wrong in the mock, then I'd recommend having a good read of the examiner's report.
It also includes such gems as:
"Examination Tip: The use of ‘etc’ to truncate a list rarely gains credit in any answer"
"Some inventive candidates suggested the dichotamous key was so called because it was named after its inventor “Mr Dichotomous”."
"Examination tip: Candidates should not just repeat or adjust words that are in the stem of the question for an answer – it is unlikely to be credited."
"As ever, some candidates had not read the question stem carefully and lost a mark by failing to round to a whole number."
http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/137489-examiners-reports-january.pdf
Sunday, 12 May 2013
"Where am I going wrong?"
Quite often we hear student's complain that they're working hard, they think they've got in and then when they get their test and mock results back they can't work out where they went wrong.
Quite often, even if you have generally the right idea, you don't write it the level of detail required for A Level. Keywords may be missing or you didn't think of enough points to gain full marks.
So here are a couple of completed papers for you to analyse. It's based on this speciman paper which might be worth having a go at yourself first.
Quite often, even if you have generally the right idea, you don't write it the level of detail required for A Level. Keywords may be missing or you didn't think of enough points to gain full marks.
So here are a couple of completed papers for you to analyse. It's based on this speciman paper which might be worth having a go at yourself first.
- A grade answers and examiner comments
- C/D grade answers and examiner comments
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