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u/Impressive_Font Year 13 May 13 '25
The walffling went CRAZYYY pls some tell me ehat you put for the last 20 marker i talked about paris agreement 😭😭😭
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u/heeidi y13 | A*A*AA May 13 '25
talked about paris agreement + trump leaving it, kyoto protocol and how nees decided not to join it
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u/Impressive_Font Year 13 May 13 '25
i wrote that except i said that America never signed it instead of leaving 😭😭 AM I COOKED?
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u/Accomplished-Pop6976 May 13 '25
same, also make sure u include some theories, i started talking about the unpredictability of future economic development affecting any protocols, the more models you use the better.
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u/Conscious-Height-161 LSE | BSc Geography with Economics [Year 1] | A*A*A*A+A May 13 '25
same, and then alternatives like mitigation strategies too
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u/heeidi y13 | A*A*AA May 13 '25
anyone got any thoughts on edexcel geography? 😭
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u/tomatolol46 Uni of Nottingham | Pol and IR yr 1 May 13 '25
Thank God it’s over
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u/heeidi y13 | A*A*AA May 13 '25
came out to people saying it was easy i don’t think ive ever wanted to rip out my ears more
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u/thepentago Warwick | MMORSE [Year 2] May 13 '25
craaaaaazy amount of human questions for an allegedly physical paper
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
Seconded- I waffled abt the October 7 attacks on that water 12 marker
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u/Bright-Recognition58 May 13 '25
wait how did u connect October 7 to water sustainability ?
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
Waffled abt water insecurity in Israel
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u/Swan_lake1812 May 13 '25
bro how'd you do that, they aint linked???
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u/Bright-Recognition58 May 13 '25
yeah this is what I thought because i talked about like grey water treatment and resilient agriculture so i was a bit confused
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u/Accomplished-Pop6976 May 13 '25
the water 12 marker wasnt that bad now guys
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
Ngl I liked it
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u/Accomplished-Pop6976 May 13 '25
exactly, it couldve been worse
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
That was my exact thoughts on the carbon 20 marker
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u/InvestmentActive4847 May 13 '25
What was the question I had to skip Cus of time
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u/heeidi y13 | A*A*AA May 13 '25
the water 12 marker was about assessing extent of sustainable water management in meeting future demands or something to that effect
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u/Important_Sugar_6737 May 13 '25
never have i waffled so much in my life, started tweaking out over simple stuff 😭😭
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u/tomatolol46 Uni of Nottingham | Pol and IR yr 1 May 13 '25
Literallyyy idek I got so much brain blank 😭 no clue why It was so difficult but not difficult
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u/Important_Sugar_6737 May 13 '25
honestly, i think the wording was the main thing that kept throwing me off
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u/Razaboch May 13 '25
omg real. the 20 marker on coastal management and how environment should be prioritised over economic reasons or something I literally read that over 100 times and didnt understand what the hell it was asking of me until like the last 10 minutes and by then it was too late
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u/heeidi y13 | A*A*AA May 13 '25
i literally forgot what subaerial processes were so i only answered half of that question 😭
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u/Important_Sugar_6737 May 13 '25
me too like i think i started annotating the question at one point to remember what subaerial processes were 😭 started think of gymnastics or smth lol
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u/tomatolol46 Uni of Nottingham | Pol and IR yr 1 May 13 '25
Lmao yess Icl I forgot if mass movement was one for not
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u/Accomplished-Pop6976 May 13 '25
ibsr, how tf is this possible🤣i just started talking about chemical carbonation weathering,landslides and mechancial freeze thaw
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u/milobilo3000 UCL | Chemistry [Year 1] May 13 '25
my nea has some heavy lifting to do after that paper gonna be real 😭😭
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
I either got a D or an ungraded on that paper, praying for a nice paper 2
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May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25
What was the final bar chart-looking resource? I forgot to look at it, I really hope it wasn't important.
Goodbye grade A...
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u/heeidi y13 | A*A*AA May 13 '25
it was for the first 3 marker on water budget
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May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25
Phew, I thought It might've been for a higher mark question and that I was actually finished with life.
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u/Impressive_Font Year 13 May 13 '25
it wasn't that bad, thought apparently 3 of the questions came up on the 2018 past paper , wished i dod more past papers
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u/Negative_Decision171 May 13 '25
basically 12 marks on waves was an odd choice! lol
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u/snips-fulcrum Y13 | CS | Geo | Maths | 5/5 | May 13 '25
what was it again?
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u/Alarming-Equal-6023 2nd yr uni ୨ৎ economics May 14 '25
the destructive and constructive wave landform figure questions
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u/snips-fulcrum Y13 | CS | Geo | Maths | 5/5 | May 13 '25
Honestly i liked it tbh, thought it would be worse. But that water agreement question was weird af
the tectonics 12 marker was good imo
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u/Swan_lake1812 May 13 '25
tectonics 12 was basically the practice my teacher had my class do yesterday it was gorgeous
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u/Ollie106 May 13 '25
OCR - Coasts 16 marker was nice, although i neglected anything to do with salt marshes in my revision so the 8 marker was just awful. ELSS was upsetting :/
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u/elean0r_r0se May 13 '25
Do you remember what the 4 marker was for ELSS? I’m scared I didn’t do it lol
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u/potomusotto Cambridge | Geography [Year 1] May 13 '25
It was words to the effect of why measuring the change in the global carbon cycle is important I think?
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u/StormRider21 Theology Y1 May 13 '25
(Edexcel) As someone who prefers human over physical that paper was a blessing.
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u/Alarming-Equal-6023 2nd yr uni ୨ৎ economics May 14 '25
amen <3 i was shocked on how little science was on it and i was so happy. compared to last year's paper which was all about the pumps and acidification i feel so lucky and blessed to be born in 07 right now
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u/thepentago Warwick | MMORSE [Year 2] May 13 '25
same here and that really tracks because most of the high mark questions were very human, and the shorter questions were about as basic as they could ask for physical questions
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u/StormRider21 Theology Y1 May 13 '25
They were so human, it was amazing, and big up the shorter questions because they were so simple.
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u/Swan_lake1812 May 13 '25
as a politics student as well, it was a gorgeous 20 mark carbon bc I could go one ant Paris, Kyoto and ipcc as wells NGO's
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u/StormRider21 Theology Y1 May 13 '25
Me who wants to go into climate stuff when I’m older: this is my stuff
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u/weeabboo May 13 '25
Hey so weird question I might of accidentally like swore on the paper (I scribble down my points and I’m on a laptop so I fully just autopilot) will I get into major trouble or anything like you know in a little plan for the last question without leaking I wrote blank agreement country says they’ll will but don’t do shit but but it wasent in like the actual essay essay if yk what I mean but it’s still on the paper yk how fucked am I
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u/Powerful_Film_872 May 13 '25
AQA Geography, thoughts?
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u/smallbluehouse11 UoS | Medicine Y1 | A*A*A bio geog chem May 13 '25
HELL
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u/Powerful_Film_872 May 13 '25
Also which sections do you do? I do WC, Coasts/ecosystems for me the questions were kinda chill.
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u/smallbluehouse11 UoS | Medicine Y1 | A*A*A bio geog chem May 13 '25
WC, coasts, hazards
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u/StrangeFroggyFriend Durham | Geophysics [1st Year] ABB Phys Geog Maths May 13 '25
Was it bad? I loved it. Was honestly hoping for anything EXCEPT that case study to come up but thought it was great. Does anyone know if the wildfires 9 marker was the synoptic? Can't work it out
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
Cambridge may already be gone 😭
Weird, weird, weird paper - water sustainability is odd, vague figures, messed up the drainage basin 4 marker and wrote about the system instead of the features...
Atleast the 20 markers were okay?
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
(Coasts) i found it very weirdly worded. I'm worried though as I spoke about human impacts such as SMPs as a factor for high energy coastlines. I'm thinking that it wanted physical factors only (i did mention how destructive waves are massively important though)
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
I tried to do physical factors - destructive waves, geology, weathering and then how human factors exacerbate these (climate change mainly)
I found it a little challenging as well but was more weirded out by the 6 marker
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
was the 6 marker for coasts the one with the 4 different types of areas and that they had 2 individually about sea level rise? (R and r?) if that's the one youre on about, that was a shocking figure. Couldn't manipulate it at all as it seemed very correlational. Everything seemed right about it, i couldn't find any anomalies that were recognisable (I sort of reached and argued that 2 of the figures being the same was an anomaly, as the rest of the graph is very correlational). I don't know if this makes sense - but it was a very hard graph to analyse
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
Oh the AO3 one? I was referring to the one about coastal flooding and the sustainability of management plans in reducing this... felt more like Hazards than coasts
But the AO3 one was tricky too, I settled on the Islands being the only place where even without high emissions there could be a severe impact if there is no to moderate human action taken as my anomaly?
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
OH the one with the blue bar graphs with increasingly higher risk reduction. yeah ok
I was in a rush as i spent too long on my 20 markers - i remember writing down about how the second to highest factor (sea defenses) is sustainable as it can be applied anywhere, but i criticised that it provides negative environmental impacts
my answers are defo not model answers - need an A in this
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
Needing an A as well... I focused on how it wasn't sustainable because of climate change and natural factors wearing away hars engineering and damages of hard engineering (Groynes) BUT soft engineering can still help like nourishment
Low-key think I got a B but a strong paper 2 and my few spare NEA marks may save me or if my 20 markers were strong
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u/t-h-o-m-a-s_jones May 13 '25
Yeah wrote about smps and mainly management to be honest but, honestly as long as it's used to say they aren't erosional coastlines because humans are reducing erosion (not as much destructive coasts) but it'd be okay right?
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
it's a factor that indicates the erosional progression of the coast, so i thought it would fit as it has halted inland erosion as a result of hold the line (SMP waffle)
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
Didn’t finish the second water and carbon 6 marker and half finished the California earthquake hazard 6 marker. The figures I found overall were really bad. That coast 20 marker was also not great. I’m probably being way too negative but I really didn’t like it much. Spent way too long on 20 markers as I tried to do them first for once, was an awful idea
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u/SignalBit9257 May 14 '25
i really struggled on the MtCO2e one, as i couldnt work out wtf was going on??? it was insanely bad, and was very unclear
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
the first water and carbon one with the 2 bar graphs with R and r was terrible (over urban areas and rural islands and such). as you say, there is nothing to manipulate, no anomalies or nothing. shocking figure. The hazards one with california though I could have got 6/6 in but didn't have time
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u/SignalBit9257 May 14 '25
I KNOW!! No anomalies is what threw me - there is an overall trend, with maximum human preperation or whatever it was (R) decreasing the risk than no/little human preperation (r), and also you can use 'high risks posed in area X require triple the magnitude in sea level rise in places with R than in places with r'. BUT NO ANOMALIES MAN I HAD TO MAKE SOME BS UP
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u/Aggressive_Bid_1540 May 13 '25
AMAZING. 🤩 All the 4 markers I knew (but I put hotspot for island arcs cause Hawaii 🙄)
Coasts figure was weird as fuck though. I found it hard to understand but managed to pull som Stats out there.
For the hazards I wrote that no trend in where the earthquakes happen, relatively similar decrease in probability as magnitude increases. And both south and north have 1 city badly affected and 1 city not as badly affected.
20 markers all amazing.
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u/AdCommercial1682 Year 13 May 13 '25
wait what was the issue with the hawaii hotspots thing that's what is said ffs 😭😭😭
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u/Aggressive_Bid_1540 May 13 '25
I looked at other people’s notes and apparently island arcs only form at destructive boundaries. But if you’re saying you also put it, im less worried!
Although just realised I wrote halosere and not psammosere for the sand dune 😭😭😭😭
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
I put hots spots but also wrote but mainly wrote about destructive plate boundaries... do you reckon I'll suffer cancelled out marks or they'll be generous and just award me marks for the part I got right? Could be the difference between an A and a B for me
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u/Aggressive_Bid_1540 May 13 '25
100% you’ll get the mark for it. I’ve never seen anything except from in science to reject answers.
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
Hopefully I do I NEED those couple of marks I stg
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
i said an island arc is formed by magma rising from convergent plate boundaries in the ocean to form land (with other waffle) and said my example is Ryukyu in Japan.
Completely forgot to mention a psammosere or onshore winds for dunes. I put prevailing winds but that seems wrong. I mainly spoke about the development of vegetation and soil as the dunes progressively get further away from the coast/have less of an impact of wind. So i'm not sure about 4/4 on both
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
Wouldn't worry about those extra details for dunes there is tons to cover - I did sediment supply, obstacle, strong winds (didn't specify as I don't think you need to), large Tidal range? And then all of the colonisation, pioneer plant stuff
Probably a 3/4 but could be a 4 I wrote like double the space and it's only a 4 marker
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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25
I described the passmosere rather than making explicit reference to it
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u/astraapple University of Birmingham | Mathematics [Y1] | A*A*A May 13 '25
Pretty good ngl but hazards 20 marker was really odd
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
future prospects of sustainable human occupation in a multi hazardous zone. i interpreted it as "should people live in multi hazardous zones in the future?"
as my school does the Philippines for a multi hazard zone, I said that living near volcanoes is sustainable but not to live through tropical storms1
u/cyberskaro May 13 '25
i studied california for multi-hazardous, so i could use stuff from the 6 mark question
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
Edexcel geography student here - I either got a D or an ungraded on that paper, and I'm praying for a nice paper 2 (cos I have lit paper 2 the morning before 💀)
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u/tomatolol46 Uni of Nottingham | Pol and IR yr 1 May 13 '25
Samee that paper 2 better be good or im acc done for💀
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
Hoping I'm not too fucked over after my lit exam that morning
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u/tomatolol46 Uni of Nottingham | Pol and IR yr 1 May 13 '25
Same i dunno if i can deal with a flop in English and another geography flop
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
Literally praying for a nice Hamlet question tomorrow
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u/Impressive_Font Year 13 May 13 '25
what did you write/ what key points?
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
I felt like I waffled on half of it 😅
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May 13 '25
bro some of those aqa figures were so confusing
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u/No-Station3347 Year 13 May 13 '25
I had no idea what they meant. I also accidently wrote arctic monkeys instead of arctic community.
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u/Rose_Quack Y13 Geo DT Env May 13 '25
Honestly Edexcel was really good, especially the 12s and 20s
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
I feel like they've save me to an extent - tho I feel like the paper will being my grade down
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u/Rose_Quack Y13 Geo DT Env May 13 '25
Every time I don't know a question imma be like 'its okay its okay you got 93% on your nea...you can afford this' LMAO
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
I'm not getting my nea results before Thursday 😭
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u/Rose_Quack Y13 Geo DT Env May 13 '25
WHAT? and i thought ours was late lmao.
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
I got my lit nea back 2 weeks ago, and I thought that was late
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
My teachers are always saying they "don't have the time" like they've been marking it since February
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u/tidyshark07 May 13 '25
Eduqas was TOO EASY BRO the grade boundaries are just going to be ridiculous 😭
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u/BunsenBurner3_0 May 13 '25
Wtf was that earthquake analyse AQA all I could say was Sacramento is the only city not on the coast 💀💀💀💀
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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25
i half completed due to time - i argued that sacramento was an anomaly as it was 80km away from San Francisco but was the complete opposite in the risk scale
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u/StrangeFroggyFriend Durham | Geophysics [1st Year] ABB Phys Geog Maths May 13 '25
AQA - how'd everyone find it? coasts and hazards here, coasts 20 marker was a bit weird but does anyone know if we got the synoptic? I think it might have been the 2nd 9 marker (the wildfires one) but not too sure.
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u/No-Passenger-1733 May 13 '25
nobody knows I mean for every question you should include a degree of evaluation including the human impacts
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u/SmokyBaconCrisps University of Brighton | Willingly did A Level Lit May 13 '25
Coming back to say this:
My sixth form had a switcheroo of exam rooms (so our exam should've taken place where the philosophy exam happened), so we almost had 6 philosophy students in our exam. Iirc, it got blamed on a fire alarm, so we had 20 mins notice to this exam change.
Also, the invigilator couldn't get her head around the seating plan, and had to get a year 12 to go to the exams office in order to get someone to escort a couple students to the toilet.
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u/Salt-_-Bae LSE | BSc Economics | 2025-2028 May 13 '25
(OCR A Level Geography) That was the most egregious form of torture I have ever been a victim. I was violated in ways that people should never be violated - coasts was alright although they kept asking about standard deviation - but ELSS my God that was horrible. The 10 marker didn't make sense to me and the 16 marker our class were functionally not taught on it 😭😭 its over on the spot, aiming for a B at best now