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brendude13 said:
Conegamer said:
brendude13 said:
Conegamer said:
Rainbow Yoshi said:

Edexcel I believe.

Edexcel? Well there's no need to worry then :P

Grade boundaries are still created using the national averages, I'm with Edexcel and it's pretty hard to get an A*.

Oh, it's meant to be hard. But the content is less taxing. I'm doing M3 currently for OCR, and most of the stuff in that is on par, or harder, than the stuff in Edexcel's M4, and tey give more marks for it (e.g. a 5 marker on an OCR paper would give 9 marks in an Edexcel paper).

And the head of Edexcel admitted on BBC Breakfast that he was amazed they gave the Edexcel Law/Biology/English papers the same weighting as the other boards because they were far easier.

Admitaddly, all of them are hard. Test different areas. 

So exam boards can have the same boundaries for the same papers? Didn't know that, that could lead to some pretty skewered results.

Pretty much. But 90% of all exam questions fall under the same specification. So, there's no real issue. It's more the English/Law exams where the big gaps ae. Sciences are smaller.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.