However, in
their almighty rush to get on to the questions with more marks, many candidates
can get a question or two wrong on Paper 2 Question 1.
Now, you
may not think that losing a mark or two makes much of a difference. After all, there are 160 on the two papers.
However, at
the risk of sounding Dickensian, that way lies the potential for great
tragedy. Every year since the new
curriculum started I have had students (invariably boys, sorry lads…) who have
missed out on a higher grade by one mark.
When we
look at the grade breakdown we always seem to find that they got three out of
four on this question. I guess that there
is no need for a nervous breakdown if you missed out on a grade 7 and had to
settle for a six.
However,
each and every time this has happened, it has been the difference between a 4
and a 3. We all know what happens when
candidates get a 3 – they have to do the exam all over again the following
year. Well, that is tragic and not in
any Dickensian way either, melodrama it is not.
Their
friends sometimes find it hilarious. The swine.
Like any
other GCSE question, there are strategies here.
All the
advice we can think of is on our VLE.
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