Complaint to AQA - Unit 1 and 2 Sociology exam 11/05/2015 and 14/05/2015
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Nikki Hopkins
11 years ago
I think this is completely unfair and you need to give the poor kids a break!!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
That is so unfair as students have not been taught about some of the questions that came up on the exam and it is not fair if they lose marks for something they have not been taught.
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Aqsa
11 years ago
LOWER THE GRADE BOUNDARIES!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Disgusting
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Some exam questions were unfair as some of the keywords were not included in the GCSE syllabus.
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Cleo
11 years ago
Unfair
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Anomie
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Anonymous
11 years ago
THE paper was very hard.
We need to stand up to thuis and fight for our right
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ismail
11 years ago
WTF is this
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Anonymous
11 years ago
We haven't learnt this content
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Anonymous
11 years ago
what was anomie!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
This is all because of the conservatives. David Cameron ruins lives.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
I agree
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Daniel
11 years ago
lets get this issue trending and tag @AQA in the process! they cannt get away with it :( it's so unfair, test me on the content I've learnt
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shannon
11 years ago
Has anyone heard anything back from AQA, have they even admitted they were wrong or written a statement to confirm grade boundaries? I'm reporting them to the media as this is an issue that needs to be highlighted and altered! They cannot be allwoed to get away with this! Make as much noise as possible as this will not go away, each time I think I'm alightly calm, I think about my grade in August and get upset and angry all over again! AQA you cannot sweep this under the carpet!
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Dilan
11 years ago
hated those keywords
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Ahmed Moustafa
11 years ago
a) As far as I'm aware, concepts which are to be the subject of "explain what sociologists mean by x" must be on the specification (that was a QCA requirement). Anomie is not on the spec. It appears on a glossary, but that is not the document that states KEY CONCEPTS to be taught. "Anomie" is a concept, not just a 'term', and if AQA feels it's key, it should have been in the spec.
b) The Nelson Thorne -endorsed by AQA- again mentions 'anomie' only in the glossary (amidst many other words which are neither in the spec OR the AQA glossary!)
c) 'Content analysis' is also NOT on the spec (neither the Studying Society nor the Mass Media topics). Again, it's a concept / method of data analysis and NOT just a term that is a subset of a wider concept to be thrown in the glossary. Indeed, the only viable place for it to be a subset is under 'qualitative data analysis', but that also is NOT on the spec.
Given the effort invested by my students leading up to this debacle, can AQA please comment on why we shouldn't be joining WJEC instead?
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Aj
11 years ago
You might aswell give us university spec in addition to this nonsense
I think this is completely unfair and you need to give the poor kids a break!!
That is so unfair as students have not been taught about some of the questions that came up on the exam and it is not fair if they lose marks for something they have not been taught.
LOWER THE GRADE BOUNDARIES!
Disgusting
Some exam questions were unfair as some of the keywords were not included in the GCSE syllabus.
Unfair
Anomie
THE paper was very hard. We need to stand up to thuis and fight for our right
WTF is this
We haven't learnt this content
what was anomie!
This is all because of the conservatives. David Cameron ruins lives.
I agree
lets get this issue trending and tag @AQA in the process! they cannt get away with it :( it's so unfair, test me on the content I've learnt
Has anyone heard anything back from AQA, have they even admitted they were wrong or written a statement to confirm grade boundaries? I'm reporting them to the media as this is an issue that needs to be highlighted and altered! They cannot be allwoed to get away with this! Make as much noise as possible as this will not go away, each time I think I'm alightly calm, I think about my grade in August and get upset and angry all over again! AQA you cannot sweep this under the carpet!
hated those keywords
a) As far as I'm aware, concepts which are to be the subject of "explain what sociologists mean by x" must be on the specification (that was a QCA requirement). Anomie is not on the spec. It appears on a glossary, but that is not the document that states KEY CONCEPTS to be taught. "Anomie" is a concept, not just a 'term', and if AQA feels it's key, it should have been in the spec. b) The Nelson Thorne -endorsed by AQA- again mentions 'anomie' only in the glossary (amidst many other words which are neither in the spec OR the AQA glossary!) c) 'Content analysis' is also NOT on the spec (neither the Studying Society nor the Mass Media topics). Again, it's a concept / method of data analysis and NOT just a term that is a subset of a wider concept to be thrown in the glossary. Indeed, the only viable place for it to be a subset is under 'qualitative data analysis', but that also is NOT on the spec. Given the effort invested by my students leading up to this debacle, can AQA please comment on why we shouldn't be joining WJEC instead?
You might aswell give us university spec in addition to this nonsense
You might aswell give us uni topics to revise to
ANOMIE!???!?!?!??