Does anyone know the mark scheme to the ocr science 'ideas in context' from june 2008, or has anyone done it?

Question

If you dont but have done it, how did you find it!

And have you lot done the b3 c3 p3 exam?

Answer 1

Wilma - I am not sure this will help.  Usually the mark scheme is not published for public consumption until about 6-8 months after the exam was taken.  That said, I am not sure about OCR, but you could access their web-site and use their search facility. Good luck.

Answer 2

I did this in June - how come you need them now? It was a two week pre-release.

EDIT: I had the kind of teacher who chooses whom he wants to teach, and whether or not we deserve the right to learn, based on his incompetence. I kinda ran with this, and never really revised the pre release until about two days before the exam.

I'd say the physics portion was the hardest, due to the whole "Ideas in Context" relying on your knowledge and understanding of the context itself. Physics tends to require much practise, so you can understand the concepts and such, so I pretty much winged that and used all of my English/Sociology skills.

I think the key to this was the structure of your answers - so you didn't write too much or too little and waste the 45 minutes you got. I only really remember dinosaurs and some kind of natural disaster - I think volcanoes.

The only real reason I'm not too worried, is that as it's modular, I did really well on the other "normal", non-context/non-answer heavy, exams. Also, since I did 21st Century Science, and I'm amongst the first year groups to be doing it, I figure that the grade boundaries will be passable.

ANOTHER EDIT: Scratch that first line; I thought you were asking for the criteria, must have read the question wrong.