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Physics: Post your doubts here!

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Yeah I got 0.5 too, precisely 0.47 something (got a photographic memory about certain things lol), so rounded up to +/- 0.5. And yes pressure statement was A. Everything else was utterly ridiculous from what I recall.
 
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Yeah I got 0.5 too, precisely 0.47 something (got a photographic memory about certain things lol), so rounded up to +/- 0.5. And yes pressure statement was A. Everything else was utterly ridiculous from what I recall.
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lol i got the pressure one wrong
later on i was told it was A :p
 
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anastasia grey113 said:
IA same goes for u
idk i heard from ppl in our school n especially the seniors that i u get a low A in AS then u r probably not going to get an A* :/

n yh that rhymed lol
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IA Hmm I'm certain after extensive searching that CIE has a very straightforward process. All that matters for an A* at the end is whether the total marks you get add up to the minimum for A* or not. They said in one of their pdf files about grading:

"To determine a candidate’s syllabus grade we compare their syllabus total mark with the grade thresholds for the syllabus. You cannot usually work out a candidate’s syllabus grade from their component grades. This is because a candidate whose component grades were A, A and B might receive an A*, an A or a B overall. This will depend on where they came within the A and B ranges for each paper, and on the relative weights of the three papers."

So really you CAN get an A*, don't lose hope, work really hard, get like 25 ish in the Paper 5 and 85 ish in Paper 4, A* for sure, it'll easily compensate for A*. :D
 
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Nah bro compared to the medical college admission tests, I kid you not, A levels were a vacation. XD
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pity you guys, Admission tests are such a hassle and a pain in the neck. Alhamdulilah we don't do admission test for medical colleges here in Saudi arabia! :D
 
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IA Hmm I'm certain after extensive searching that CIE has a very straightforward process. All that matters for an A* at the end is whether the total marks you get add up to the minimum for A* or not. They said in one of their pdf files about grading:

"To determine a candidate’s syllabus grade we compare their syllabus total mark with the grade thresholds for the syllabus. You cannot usually work out a candidate’s syllabus grade from their component grades. This is because a candidate whose component grades were A, A and B might receive an A*, an A or a B overall. This will depend on where they came within the A and B ranges for each paper, and on the relative weights of the three papers."

So really you CAN get an A*, don't lose hope, work really hard, get like 25 ish in the Paper 5 and 85 ish in Paper 4, A* for sure, it'll easily compensate for A*. :D
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isnt that impossible? getting 85ish n 25ish?
cuz the gt as far as i know drops down to 50 something which pretty much shows how difficult p4 can be :/
idk its just an assumption
u know more since youve taken this paper
which school btw?
 
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anastasia grey113 said:
isnt that impossible? getting 85ish n 25ish?
cuz the gt as far as i know drops down to 50 something which pretty much shows how difficult p4 can be :/
idk its just an assumption
u know more since youve taken this paper
which school btw?
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Hmmm well, in Chem we ALL unanimously agreed that it was easy and we getting 25 ish in Paper 5, in Physics P4, almost the entire batch found it to be simpler as all of prepped well for it, and the smarter among us are easily sure about 90, soo really, if you do work hard enough you'll get there. Thing is perhaps that people tend to not do as much in A2 than in AS, the whole college application processes, creating a balance between school and self-studying, and then there's the guys who have the same approach as O Levels, "Screw everything, we'll just party all year and study in the last few months like we did in O Level", and then, it doesn't work :p So I think factors like these make the grade thresholds fall low, not just that the paper is difficult. Keep your confidence up, you'll do great.

And school, lol, don't ask. XD I actually stopped going altogether in A2 by December 'cause I was so sick of the pace at which they were teaching us and the lack of emphasis on Paper 5, overall been a bad experience in my highschool years, so I don't even want to recall it. XD
 
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