we actually did it, they officially announced the grade boundaries are coming down. honestly i still cant believe this worked but im so glad we kept pushing because your support is the only reason this happened. let's just keep an eye on things to make sure the results reflect the …
August 17, 2015
Lower The Grade Boundaries For Edexcel Paper 1H Non-Calculator (04/06/15) & Edexcel Paper 2H Calculator (08/06/15)Exam
Final supporters
Over the past 5-10 years Edexcel have been putting in Maths questions that students are capable of doing. This year however the non-calculator and calculator exams have both been appalling as they contained questions that were seen to be A-level in some case or were worded quite difficultly, as a result of this many students around the UK would agree that the grade boundaries should be dropped and that the examiners be very generous when marking. I think it is disappointing to see that the exam board have been very tough on students this year compared to other years. In all fairness every students exam papers should be marked according to what they deserve as they have worked really hard in preparation of these exams. The system needs to become organised as you are playing with many lives and possibly ruining the chances of students who are trying to achieve their goal in life through the Education System. By challenging students across the country through these tough exams it gives the indication that there is some sort of division among the Intelligent and not so intelligent students and also gives us the connotation that students should accept their role in society by labeling them as Working Class and limiting them to go onto further education due to tough exams like the ones that we have done. So we demand the lowering of the grade boundaries for the maths exams (non-calculator/calculator)
Updates
June 7, 2015
just saw we hit 1,000 signatures and im honestly blown away. its pretty clear that everyone felt the same way about those papers and i dont think we should back down now.
June 5, 2015
we just hit ten thousand signatures which is totally wild. seeing everyone agree that these papers were unfair makes me feel a lot better about how things went down in the exam room. lets keep this energy going because edexcel needs to see that we arent just going to stay quiet about this.
Reached 25,000 supporters
June 5, 2015
June 5, 2015
im honestly blown away by how many people are feeling the exact same way about these exams. this momentum shows that we all know something went wrong and we arent just gonna let it slide.
Reached 10,000 supporters
June 4, 2015
Reached 1,000 supporters
June 4, 2015
15,359 Comments
It wasn't that it was completely difficult, it's just that the papers that were given to us to practice with was nothing like the two exam papers, which gave us a shock on the exam day! For this reason I believe the grade boundaries should be lowered.
i am appalled with way I have been treated after taking this exam for the second time. I have been getting Bs and As in past papers I have paired a tutor to help me pass and this exam just knocked my confidence yet again. Thank you very much Edexcel.
I am very dissapointed with the maths exam, my daughter revised hard for months on end and she felt the maths question were not to the expected ability range (they were to hard) i think you should take this into account and lower the grade boundaries!
my son has studied so hard, had additional lessons, private tutor and questions in paper yesterday not covered and paper extremely hard. This is so unfair and the examiners board need to look into this before they destroy the confidence in our kids.
I found the test a lot harder than every other past paper i have done and i find this unfair because people that did previous exams got better results for an easier exam and i worked very hard to achieve a target i think is a lot less achievable now.
I’m singling innit
It was awful
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we actually did it, they officially announced the grade boundaries are coming down. honestly i still cant believe this worked but im so glad we kept pushing because your support is the only reason this happened. let's just keep an eye on things to make sure the results reflect the …
August 17, 2015
Lower The Grade Boundaries For Edexcel Paper 1H Non-Calculator (04/06/15) & Edexcel Paper 2H Calculator (08/06/15)Exam
Final supporters
Over the past 5-10 years Edexcel have been putting in Maths questions that students are capable of doing. This year however the non-calculator and calculator exams have both been appalling as they contained questions that were seen to be A-level in some case or were worded quite difficultly, as a result of this many students around the UK would agree that the grade boundaries should be dropped and that the examiners be very generous when marking. I think it is disappointing to see that the exam board have been very tough on students this year compared to other years. In all fairness every students exam papers should be marked according to what they deserve as they have worked really hard in preparation of these exams. The system needs to become organised as you are playing with many lives and possibly ruining the chances of students who are trying to achieve their goal in life through the Education System. By challenging students across the country through these tough exams it gives the indication that there is some sort of division among the Intelligent and not so intelligent students and also gives us the connotation that students should accept their role in society by labeling them as Working Class and limiting them to go onto further education due to tough exams like the ones that we have done. So we demand the lowering of the grade boundaries for the maths exams (non-calculator/calculator)
Updates
June 7, 2015
just saw we hit 1,000 signatures and im honestly blown away. its pretty clear that everyone felt the same way about those papers and i dont think we should back down now.
June 5, 2015
we just hit ten thousand signatures which is totally wild. seeing everyone agree that these papers were unfair makes me feel a lot better about how things went down in the exam room. lets keep this energy going because edexcel needs to see that we arent just going to stay quiet about this.
Reached 25,000 supporters
June 5, 2015
June 5, 2015
im honestly blown away by how many people are feeling the exact same way about these exams. this momentum shows that we all know something went wrong and we arent just gonna let it slide.
Reached 10,000 supporters
June 4, 2015
Reached 1,000 supporters
June 4, 2015
15,359 Comments
Please lower the grade boundaries, some questions seemed as if they were a level style questions!! Please lower the grade boundaries for C especially, as then people will have some hope of at least passing and doing a levels or college in the future
It wasn't that it was completely difficult, it's just that the papers that were given to us to practice with was nothing like the two exam papers, which gave us a shock on the exam day! For this reason I believe the grade boundaries should be lowered.
i am appalled with way I have been treated after taking this exam for the second time. I have been getting Bs and As in past papers I have paired a tutor to help me pass and this exam just knocked my confidence yet again. Thank you very much Edexcel.
I am very dissapointed with the maths exam, my daughter revised hard for months on end and she felt the maths question were not to the expected ability range (they were to hard) i think you should take this into account and lower the grade boundaries!
my son has studied so hard, had additional lessons, private tutor and questions in paper yesterday not covered and paper extremely hard. This is so unfair and the examiners board need to look into this before they destroy the confidence in our kids.
I found the test a lot harder than every other past paper i have done and i find this unfair because people that did previous exams got better results for an easier exam and i worked very hard to achieve a target i think is a lot less achievable now.
I’m singling innit
It was awful
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Please lower the grade boundaries, some questions seemed as if they were a level style questions!! Please lower the grade boundaries for C especially, as then people will have some hope of at least passing and doing a levels or college in the future