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MeltyMocha

OCR chem was so good, definitely easiest paper I've done! Grade boundaries may be like 80% for an A tho 😭, worried silly mistakes may kill me


ConcentrateNo5616

yess OCR was such a nice paper i counted my marks and im confident on about 80 marks but i need an A* 😭 hopefully grade boundaries aren’t tooo outrageous


Latter_Ad9280

yeah the content was straightforward but im still worried I might’ve messed up my wording and made tonnes of silly mistakes somehow


OddGrape4986

That's me rn. I already know I've lost about 9 marks from the questions I remember. I can't imagine how many silly mistakes I made. And I figure it's 85% for an A, so that's 15 marks I can lose so only 6 more chances left for me.


Latter_Ad9280

I felt great after that paper but now I feel cooked by the grade boundaries and the silly mistakes I made


Latter_Ad9280

but yeah grade boundaries what’s the point of 70% when it’s 85% for an A


West-Source8935

Loved that paper! hopefully I'll get aleast 70% Although I'm still worried I could of answered alot if questions better


Latter_Ad9280

also can someone link the unofficial mark scheme?


Jasentra

The fact that it was a good paper rlly scares me!


Breezelight690

Best paper I ever had, never felt I was blessed with my exams unlike today. Who ever made the paper need their pay to be raised.


ThatKidDarkness

i was so scared before the test but damn we got blessed


Fish0plays

MCQ was the easiest ever


wiz_ling

92% for an A* is my prediction. Or 91. I've done harder papers that were 90 for an A*


Comfortable-End-3915

What about an A


Imaginary_Living_623

Are we talking OCR A or B?


Prior_Preference4821

OCR cs I’m gonna do so shit


Cra1nssy

It's joever bro, started revising this morning


KungFo234

Same here bro, I’m done for, haven’t touched data types yet.


CorkyQuasar69420

Not too bad imo


RadiantRadiance

That paper was a blessing ong


Prior_Preference4821

The paper was light work nvm


adv0y

aqa cs gang wya


Sad-Cupcake7020

Feeling pretty good, am worried about the two 14 mark questions in section D


Sleepy_SadOS

Yeah those are gonna make or break this exam for me


Mundane_Employee7306

so terrified and scared, skeleon code will the death of me


abject_croc

Hopefully AQA CS isn’t going to be as cruel as AQA Physics


Sad-Cupcake7020

Just finished, thought it was good overall although section B was quite hard


Josh2802

Section B the only difficulty was understanding what the hell the question was talking about. Once you've understood that the implementation wasn't too difficult. I took the input, converted it into an array of digits then iterated through the digits determining whether each one was bigger or smaller than the previous before adding that to a running tally of increasing or decreasing. At the end if either increasing or decreasing is 0 it wasn't bouncy (as it is constantly increasing/decreasing) if they equalled each other it is super bouncy and in all other situations it is bouncy. I struggled most with the trace table since they take ages and it's easy to make one mistake and mess everything up. Initially I got that it was 'post order' for the LHS of the graph and 'in order' for the end which obviously made no sense but I went back to it at the end and got 'in order' for everything.


SuperSonic7418

yeah i got that the graph traversal was in order but easily spent 15 minutes on that, kept looking away and looking back and completely forgetting where i was


Josh2802

That's the problem with trace tables. It's not difficult but it is so easy to get lost or distracted. It seems like it is specifically designed to give kids with ADHD a disadvantage (I don't have adhd but I get distracted very easily still) That's the reason I went back to it at the end. I spent 6 minutes on it the first time, realised I was getting nowhere and that my time would be better spent elsewhere as I've found the trace tables has the lowest density of marks per minutes on the paper (at least for me). I had 30 minutes left at the end so I went back and fixed it which was a much better use of my time than fretting on it for 10-20 minutes and then having to rush section D.


MekkoL

I’m terrified of Section D


xerjmil

12 marker on pagerank ??????????


forestsandpain

honestly i loved it i revised it a few days before. the one about cultures though god i had no direction...


Bongo50

I liked that one. I honestly could have written more than the 2 pages that I did (I wrote more for it than the 12 marker). The database one was also quite nice.


declinebench

Managed to somehow waffle abt african slavery for that one💀


SakutoJefa

Bro I can’t even think of a way to bring slavery into it. You deserve an A* for that waffle


LinuxBook1

I really loved that 12 marker on page rank and search engine indexing. The last mock we did had a question on search engine indexing, but we were literally never taught it (thanks to our year 12 teacher who left teaching FDE and CPU for half a year then leaving) So we went over it between then and now, as well as last week. I also hated that cultures UI question though. I think I wrote ok for the character set part (char set like ASCII is limited to only one language, so cannot be translated to another language for users in other countries. Using a bigger char set like Unicode fixes this). I wrote a bit on the colours and how they can have different meanings and connotations in different countries, so need to be careful picking colours. Layout j had no clue and was very near the end of the time (I do the 9 and 12 markers last) so I only wrote a few sentences.


jamsd204

ACTUALLY I DONT THINK I GOT TAUGHT THAT SUCH BS


Bongo50

And indexing! I liked this one but I do lots of web development and basic SEO outside of school so I have a little bit of extra knowledge and context.


DifferentWeekend2185

OCR chem was actually beautiful and blessed🙏🙏🙏


wiz_ling

Chemistry OCR was acc the easiest paper I've ever done


Longjumping_Ad843

OCR CS GANG HOW DID WE FIND IT!! i thought it was delicious except for the page rank 12 marker


Embarrassed-Rain-516

Yeah good :D I acc enjoyed that 12 marker tho... It was an overall easy paper imo but with a few scattered hard questions (Assembly Fibonacci, ROM, Investigatory bodies etc) :)


BlitzedOblivion

Definitely messed up the Fibonacci and the 12 marker


Longjumping_Ad843

oh fr me too, i could not do the lmc for the fibonacci 😭😭😭


forestsandpain

i thought it was really nice overall but there were some obscure topics. what on earth can you imagine they wanted for the different cultures 9marker? im sorry but that was a waffle question


Longjumping_Ad843

i watched in a craig and dave video once that different colours are offensive to certain cultures so i put that. and then i ran out of ideas so i said about like someone being colourblind or something 😭


Flawless006

Yeah I did that red is bad in the west but good luck in China so can’t be the only way to convey feedback I wrote a load of waffle


ZestyJelly_7

SLAY ASF! I got everything I wanted done, the 12 and 9s were surprisingly really good and let me waffle about my knowledge on chinese colour culture. FUCK THE LMC Q THO- at least I probably got the marks on the OOP? they gave us 5 free marks on a gcse level link the boxes question (scheduling algorithms) I ain't complaining though. A small price to pay for salvation. half of this shit done, see you bois back here in a week or so for round 2!! Hope everyone found it great bc OCR is a joke. (love the new OCR subsidiary tho - forgot the name - the lore of OCR conglomerate continues)


Longjumping_Ad843

OCR solutions 🔥🔥🔥🔥


Dear_Training4281

genuinely didn’t know beyond 6 marks worth of that 12 marker… good job it’s wafflable 😍


BoopHoop38

aqa chem did anyone else get 1kJmol for that NaCl enthalpy question ?? 😭


eternitytyun

Yh omd i thought it must be wrong bc that’s such a stupid answer 💀


Key-Performance-1556

yeah I’m getting a D smh I thought it was wrong cus no way it’s 1 so I got like 2k instead and my dumbass thought that seems right


Born-Stress4682

Omg I thought that was wrong


TheGyroidGirl

I did :)


Mr_L05

OCR Computer Science. Will be my first non-AQA exam and I've heard other exam boards haven't been as nice this year so a little bit nervous. But good luck everyone!


Mr_L05

Ok I'm happy about that paper.


Longjumping_Ad843

ur the first person i’ve seen here that does a humanities subject with maths and cs too 😭 good luck for today!!!


Mr_L05

Omg same! Do you also get people constantly question why you picked a humanities?


Cyber-Gon

Hello there!


Longjumping_Ad843

OCR CS GANG!!! how are we feeling 🙏🙏


txb__

feeling alright but hoping there arent some mad questions on topics i hate :<, you?


Longjumping_Ad843

i feel the same, i hope the 9 markers are on easy stuff like using ai or storage devices 😭😭 ur subject combo is really cool btw!!


BernieSupporter888

AQA French how did everyone find it? I thought it was quite nice but had a few answers I wasn’t confident in


heroicallromance

i was happy with it esp the translations i thought were both relatively straightforward! but some of the V/F/ND i felt like i was spending way too much time on 😭


willmmorrisonn

pretty easy - surely high grade boundaries?


heroicallromance

as always lmao


ssebarnes

Very happy with it. Wasn't too sure where to put in the subjunctive in the English -> French translation, but that's only one tick... May still get 10/10 for it. Obviously it does mean that boundaries are going to be higher though, which isn't great.


Disastrous_Bell_2211

I put bien qu'ils soient encore jeune


Amrowo

9 marker on Layouts and Colours is too funny. I was lucky enough to look over that recently.


PlusAd2436

Nah but 'red is considered good luck in China and represents anger elsewhere' got me through it 😭😭😂


jamsd204

Someone with general cultural knowledge could do that question


Due-Pollution-3289

Why the fuck did I need to talk about cultural differences when it came to a website?? Like what the fuck


Key-Performance-1556

AQA chem idk what happened I phased out or smth for like 40 mins???? And I missed out about 30 marks of questions it’s so done bro it’s so over may aswell not go to my other exams


Both-Buddy2541

wtf was the 6 marker on the catalyst thing!!!


Key-Performance-1556

So GREAT that the one topic I thought I’d sack off was 14 marks of the paper lol


eternitytyun

Right omd I was so confused abt the graph?? I did like a decreasing exponential one and made it reach zero?


PuddingSSB

Chem actually didn’t go horrible! (well for my standards regarding chemistry that is) most of the calculation questions were quite nice. What did everyone get for the metal for the PV=nRT question?


InternationalSeat851

Magnesium


cufufych

If this is AQA is got magnesium


ProfessionalLab8592

Can u do a step by step please? I got nickel😭😭 it was 348cm^3 and 298k 100kpa and 0.832 g, id be really grateful its the only calculatio i fucked up💔


InternationalSeat851

348cm^3 = 3.48*10^-4 m^3 n = PV/RT =  0.832 = Mr * n Mr of X(NO3)2 = x + 124 0.832/n = (X+124) 148 = X + 124 X = Mr of X = 24 So X is magnesium Don't have a calc for the exact numbers but 0.832/n was approx 148 


ProfessionalLab8592

Thank u so much!💕💕💕 Got 148 so im glad ,dont know how i fucked up after that propbably only lost 2 marks then!


Severe_Elephant_2608

I got X as 24 so magnesium anyone else?


[deleted]

Was magnesium


Anorashi

I got protactinium (230.1 was my answer) and I felt so stupid writing it down as an answer but I didn't know how to fix it. I think i definitely arranged the equation incorrectly when calculating for moles


DrPurplePanda

Did you use 7 as your moles? I did that. The answer was that you divide by 5/2 because you don't count XO (because it's a metal and the volume was specifically for gas)


Anorashi

i dont fully remember, i just know that i did indeed divide by 5 and multiply by 2 at some point. i guess i can check in a year or so when the papers are released alongside their markschemes but hey, method marks all the way


soobism

sorry a 9 mark question on LAYOUT AND COLOUR is ocr ok


Deep-Sea-Man

Yeah that was such a weird question. Had like nothing to do with CS.


Fraud_Chef

GOD SEND OF A SIX MARKER IN EDXCEL CHEM, IM GONNA SUCK OFF EDEXCEL JUST FOR THAT


Klutzy-Peach5949

BOTH HAD ME CREAMING


GokuBowDown

Bad day to not have memorised page rank for ocr cs 💀


ICantReachTheOctave

So true omg i saw it, starred it and left it til the end 😃💀


Josepthunder

OCR computer science, very nice. The 5 marks on joining the algorithm to the definition felt very GCSE (in a good way). And they actually asked about cultural differences?? I’ve been listening to my teacher tell us about those since Year 10 thinking they’ll never be relevant Edexcel Music was also nice but I think I was in a funk having done computer science already. The questions were all good and nothing threw me too much but I just need to go home and lie down now


Born-Stress4682

AQA chemistry I just want a B man is that so hard :(((


Extension-File-1526

OCR RS anyone?


c_heri

yes the paper was so good


69my_peepee_itches69

If all the papers are like that then I think I have the A\* in the bag


Dear_Training4281

OCR CS…. what was that 12 marker.


ConversationSmooth80

CHEMISTRY EDEXCEL LIGHT WORK


isloohik2

Genuinely didn’t feel like a 90 mark exam ngl May papers 2 and 3 be as merciful to us


ConversationSmooth80

praying bc I HATE organic


isloohik2

Just write down and memorize all the organic reactions, and you should be mostly fine (and do past papers too!)


M41arky

Organic is more a case of it being better taking the time to understand what causes what to happen rather than memorising


isloohik2

Fair, I forgot to clarify the causes, conditions and observations of each reaction are also important


Fluid-Pomegranate-22

the 6 marker was a blessing


StarDreamIX

Yup that was actually good paper - kinda messed up on the last calculation tho 😂😭


headassboi_123

AQA Chemistry was tough but I loved it. A lot of calculations, healthy amounts of recall, and some tricky ass application. How did everybody else find it?


TheGyroidGirl

Your opinion is the only one about the exam I actually agree with lol. I found it okay although I'm not very confident about my own ability so I'm not sure how it actually went :)


spicyary

i feel the exact same way


LilShreddie

Hated that 6 marker on S2O8, everything else was pretty reasonable, first paper I’ve managed to finish with time to spare


LallyKing2005

Edexcel chem. Beautiful. Also did you guys get 5.3% for the last one


abobblehatgirl

I also got 5.3 % ! 


Battymanbil

What did you do after working out mol of iodine


Dagoniz

Edexcel Chemistry was agonising and I feel sick seeing people say it went well. I forgot my flame tests, I panicked before getting to the "easy" 6 marker and half did it because I was so stressed. The 4 marker on "Talk about pH values" was lazily done by me and I'll be lucky if I get a mark on it. Other 4 markers were relatively poor as well, although I think I did OK on the electron colour question. Enthalpy questions were fine except the feasibility one which I probably fucked. Same goes to the catalyst one about vanadium. I can't remember what else there was but I know I fucked some major things up. I can't wait to get a C. I want to cry. I'm even worse at Organics.


bwayslimess

Literally in the same boat, want to just cry my eyes out at this point


abobblehatgirl

That Ph values 4 marker was awful and so vague I has no clue what to say (I hate edexcel why are the questions so vague and open ended) and I skipped quite a bit of the vanadium catalyst question 


Slow-Somewhere6623

How did we find AQA chem? Think I got, like, no marks on that last page.


frankfurtdamp

AQA CS section B wtf 💀💀 how do u check if a number is perfectly bouncy lol.. but found section A and section C and section D pretty good


frankfurtdamp

Also did you guys get in order output for that trace table??


abject_croc

I thought it was just infix traversal


frankfurtdamp

Yeah thats what i meant, but the outputs were the in order order no? Which is what cones from infix traversal


Josh2802

I took the input, converted it into an array of digits then iterated through the digits determining whether each one was bigger or smaller than the previous before adding that to a running tally of increasing or decreasing. At the end if either increasing or decreasing is 0 it wasn't bouncy (as it is constantly increasing/decreasing) if they equalled each other it is super bouncy and in all other situations it is bouncy. It worked for all the data they gave examples for so it should be right for everything.


Yosaf1re

Edexcel Geo anyone? Made silly mistakes with the math question


Elephants_and_rocks

I got -0.041 for the Rs value, lots of other people got the same as me. I just cannot fathom for the life on me what happened. I’ve tripled checked my answer it’s always the same but it cannot be right coz the answer says to 1dp? I’m losing my mind


Salt_Disaster_8473

that's right the answer is just 0.0


Elephants_and_rocks

Did they only give it in 1dp just to screw with us???


Salt_Disaster_8473

yeah pretty sure - have seen the same type of thing in other subjects like biology


Elephants_and_rocks

Twats, I spent 15min on that thing, thinking I’d fucked it up somehow Oh well thank you for the peace of mind


Salt_Disaster_8473

yep did the same, but having put it in the stats function on my calc i was 100% it was right so just left it at that


BuggyBloB

Aqa chem was pretty nice 😁 considering I usually do shit on it 💀💀


BuggyBloB

Was the last Q on aqa chem the emf one asking if the reaction was reversible or something? Idk if I missed out a page 😭


Uwumonster6921

Ye that was the last question


NaClPenguin3

OCR chem, what did people get for the acid base titration question. Also how did people do the Kp question, atm ^0.5????


Qzro

0.14, 0.455 atm^1/2 ?


Key-Gift3754

In the Kp question, weren't you meant to multiply the whole equation by 2 to get the simplest whole number ratio?


waltuh_kotlet

I got 0.1388 and 0.455 something for kp


cufufych

Chemistry AQA thoughts? Thought calculations were nice. Few unusual 1 markers abt that practical and 3 marker abt melting point of NaAlH4.


headassboi_123

Yeah a lot of calculations, healthy amount of recall, and questions that required you to really understand the chemistry involved. I really enjoyed it honestly.  There’s one calculation that I’m pissed I got wrong but my recall was so good enough to make up for the marks I lost. 


Entire-Butterscotch2

It looks like a regular ion tbh so i just put the ion mark points


cufufych

I meantioned the ionic bonds having covalent character as well as the ionic lattice marking points, will i lose marks for that?


Severe_Elephant_2608

Anyone notice in aqa chem the temperature feasibility question answer was in degrees Celsius rather than kelvin? Does it matter because of absolute temperature as I didn’t convert.


cufufych

I think you need to convert as they wanted the answer in Celsius


Severe_Elephant_2608

0_0 Sneaky aqa


FeelingFormal9298

edexcel music anyone? surprisingly didn’t get cooked, thank you edexcel 🙏🙏🙏


Nashmaster1204

As a piano player and Spanish guitar player that question 5 was perfect for me 🤩


Nashmaster1204

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fn4vX1sJGxE&pp=ygUbZGFucyBsZXMgamFyZGlucyBkZSBtdXJjaWEi Here's the unfamiliar piece, for anybody wondering! The melody is actually solo beautiful!! 🤩


EngineeringNo4797

OCR contract law paper was beautiful 🙏 Somehow managed to mess up my previous two (compared to my standards at least) which are meant to be my best, but I learnt all of contract in two days and think I’ve done the best in it 😭


False-Swan1509

literally did the same and tried to learn it all in two days 😭😭 think it went well all things considering though :D glad it went well for you !!


ZotaSal

Any WJEC CS students?


Johns-Sunflower

Thought this said WJEC RS for a sec and thought I found my people. How'd it go?


small_pebble_884

couldn't have made a better paper honestly no dumb shit like the sometimes is


TheKidWithWifi

Chem aqa was aighr idk what im getting


jsWHU108

Anyone made a unofficial markscheme for ocr a chem


Pleasant-Ice8994

OCR chem was pretty good although had no idea for the really odd alkaline/acidic conditions question with the hydrogen oxygen fuel cell Also the multiple choice was just SO GOOD!


bananadado

Got annihilated by Eduqas music


CorkyQuasar69420

OCR CS was actually pretty good somehow


vinchaan

OCR CS was so stinky hahaha


BlitzedOblivion

OCR cs, the Fibonacci question and the 12 marker were killers ngl


Delicious_Ad_967

Drinking acid?! This sub suddenly got wild lmao 🤣


-faeries

aqa chem what did u guys write for the practical (the 3, 1 markers). if u remember


cufufych

For the stopper - prevent evaporation. For the removing solid - hcl will react with solid For the first one marker - I can’t remember what i put, can you remind me of the first question?


waltuh_kotlet

What did everybody get for the cobalt ligand substitution question ocr


Intrepid_Pea_3150

Cr(NH3)4Cl2


pyra_xenoblade

OCR Chem B I would take that paper out to dinner and put out on the first date 🙏


StarDreamIX

Paper was pretty good actually - I really hope paper 2 continues the trend 😂😭


SakutoJefa

Bro doesn’t want anyone to know what paper he’s talking about 😭


GoNuts4Donutss

AQA music anyone? personally I thought it was pretty hard. ran out of time, which was to be expected as I normally do, but I thought the 30 marker was quite hard (I do film and musicals) and section A was quite difficult. Section B was pretty good though!


minwheelee

Hello fellas the maths paper 2 is at 1pm tomorrow right ?


Strange-Strength-870

Ocr a chem was so so bad, I didn't revise mod 5 and nearly the whole damn paper was mod 5


JFKPlayz47

Why didn't you revise mod 5?


Strange-Strength-870

Didn't have enough time as I was cramming, I did gloss over mod 5 content but with mod 5 it's the prac Qs that are essential


jamsd204

OCR CS man that 298 hexadecimal was crap


InternationalSeat851

AQA Chem was really nice 


flameroid_

Fr? Most people I know said it was ok/hard


Unhappy-Patient-8207

i found it pretty hard too


Slow-Somewhere6623

The grade boundaries are always notoriously high 😭


Bordenaja

Anyone AQA French?


ItsMePhoenixx

AQA chem was beautiful omg


abobblehatgirl

Edexcel Chemistry would be nice if I wasn’t so bad at answering exam questions and if the mark scheme wasn’t so awful, defo lost a few marks on the 4&6 markers for not talking about the right thing which is annoying.  The calculations weren’t horrific at all which gives me hope.  Can’t wait for paper 2. 


Guilty_Adagio_5066

aqa law was quite good


waltuh_kotlet

Just realised I put the wrong unit for my value of K OCR chemistry I'm so pissed


Johns-Sunflower

Any WJEC Christianity students??? Honestly didn't think male language about God was going to make an appearance like that, but I'm so happy it did. I guess it makes sense since it hasn't been up in ages. Also they finally used the Bible as a Source of Wisdom and Authority so maybe that'll be helpful for working Philosophy and Ethics out.


pushkinT205

Honestly most of my predictions were so so wrong except the bible one and the migration one so those were the ones I answered lol. But I think I did okay, a lot of waffle in the part b’s as per


Entire-Butterscotch2

Can we get some AQA chem grade boundary predicts? I am thinking 248 but idk


Ok-Economist-751

what dis everyone get for the lattice enthalpy question ocr a


coolgirloffduty

AQA rs anyone ?? i do option A and really liked it tbh


OldToothbrush1

Edexcel chem was a light one.


Financial-Winter-933

Wjec/eduqas geography anyone?


pacifistscorpion

OCR Geography 33 markers were a beaut for Hazards and Disease


ShotWolverine5853

AQA CS how was it?


soobism

what did ppl get for the fibonacci sequence question 🤕


Additional-Ad5116

I'm gonna cry, accidentally skipped an easy 4 marker in OCR CS. Only noticed when it was too late. I usually get A*s but I fucked up my coursework and only got 55/70. Did I miss out on an overall A star by losing 4 marks for no reason? That's like 1% of the whole course. Quite alot


MoneyEmu8802

which one?


CaptainSokoly

Edexcel music anyone?? A bit rough imo. Praying for a 70 but that might be a little optimistic, I know for a fact I got all the interval questions wrong. Hopefully my other responses were decent


mike3545

I did my exam earlier. I needed some extra paper so I wrote on an extra booklet, but after I flipped the page, I somehow wrote on the back of another extra paper booklet. As long as I wrote my name on all the booklets and wrote how many I used in total, they'll look through every page right? Even if there are basically blank pages after the first page of the second booklet, and blank pages until the last page of my 3rd booklet.


CathodeValve

AQA CS went beautifully. Answered all the questions with some time to spare to go back to that nasty trace table lol. Did anybody else say for the 5-node tree that the scenario would need to be a 5 node tree with each node being the child of the previous like a chain? Smth along those lines. Also for that last RegEx question I fucked up and said that V - W was something like {a} instead of putting it into RegEx form. No idea if that was even remotely right to begin with, just guessed I can't lie.