Do you think that if a DC is regularly scoring the grades they are predicted in mocks and class tests and revises the whole syllabus well, that they should achieve predicted grades? I suppose I am wondering if there is an element of luck. I was woefully underprepared for mine, so I was dependent on the stuff I had manage to cram coming up in the exam. Nor were the syllabus, past papers and mark schemes published online for reference. So my results weren't really bad luck.
However, given the statistics recently quoted on another thread, of students dropping at least 2 grades on their university offers, if there were other factors at play to do with the exam itself. Reading the threads on the results pages last year, I got the impression that marking was subjective, lots of mistake made by examiners and that especially in the case of GCSEs , questions were asked in a format that wasn't predictable.
I am wondering could the exams really contain something unpredictable, especially in the new Linear A level exams?
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Eeeeeek330 · 06/03/2017 12:05
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