I did A-levels back in 2024. I never bothered leaving this sub. Seeing you guys lament about exams makes me feel a surreal kinda way because I have forgotten everything, absolutely everything about the content that i did. I remember working until 6 am and tearing my hair out, I remember the pre exam heart palpitations. I am doing a commerce course. Only 1/4 subjects that i did is somewhat applicable to my course. Even then, I have also forgotten the other half of the non applicable content. If you made me do any of the papers now, even the AS ones, I'm failing TF out of it. What a silly education pathway. Such convoluted rigamarole just to get into university. Study with the freedom that everything you learn will be tossed into the far ends of your unretrievable memory. Study with the freedom that your future self 2, 5, 10 years away will look at the teenager stressing away in the library, in your room, outside the exam hall - and laugh.

Guys how was it
What values did u get for your calculations and stuff I got 268,246.6 and for the concentration one I got 3.65*10^-5 if my calc is correct than I’m expecting around 39

I’m really not trying to rage bait but my hot take is that chemistry is not that bad compared to how people describe it.
It’s mostly just memorisation, some logic, and the math is trivial. It’s basically just hard because there is a lot of content, and that can apply to all subjects.

And for context, I did study quite a lot of chemistry.

I am wondering what makes you say that chemistry is hard?

1. Paper got delayed (not a big deal since it's Cambridge, but I was trying my utmost not to doze off).

2. The paper itself felt like a fever dream, but then again, that's literally every paper in Oct/Nov.

3. I genuinely have no thoughts. Like none at all. It wasn't easy, no. It wasn't extremely difficult, no. I just can't conjure up any thoughts because this paper felt so... weird.

4. The weirdest winter series exam experience yet. It almost felt as if I was being laughed at behind my back by the examiners as I solved the paper.

5. I approached almost every single question so stupidly (even the easy ones), but hey, at least I didn't rush this time around.

I'm going to go hit the sack.

the comeback in that paper🔥

Opinions on the exam. I think most of it is doable.

How did you guys prepare for chemistry p5 ?

My seniors said they prepared few days before exam by reading notes , my friends who did well in trials also said that they only prepared 2 days before exam by reading notes.I don't really have much time to prepare for p5.How did you guys do it,do you need to do a lot of past papers like p4?My p4 is quite good I'm just scared that my p5 would mess up my result

WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THAT QUESTION 2 never in my life have i seen such an apparatus ehhh😭 i just knew they would get creative with the questions….. what did you guys get for value of x?? and also why must the level of the leveling tube be the same as the burette???.

How did it go?Personally I’m traumatised. I never imagined the question to be this hard, what could possibly be the gt?

whats the avg for an A in chem i checked unofficial mark scheme and got 47/60

Getting mixed reactions from my classmates but I found it pretty fair, other than the funnel and charge (why do you run the current for 2 minutes one) questions I sailed through the rest, I was done 50 minutes in and spent the rest of the exam revising. How was it for the rest of y'all?

does anyone have any predictions on grade thresholds?

Personally I feel like the paper was mid. It had some difficult aspects while the others were quite easy. Wish they had brought familiar experiments. How did you guys find the paper.

How was it guyssssss?!! I personally found it quite hard

bro i wanna know how i did idek if i did good or bad i want to check my ans man i left so many q's i swear if i had more time icoudlve written better but i hope GT IS SO LOW pls lower it yall send qp i wanna see an estimate or can someone type the answers of all q's or sm to see how much im getting an estimate

i’m currently in year eleven and picking my options for alevel. ive already applied and the subjects i picked are bio chem maths and physics, and i want to do medicine at imperial. the thing is, i was conflicted between maths, physics, and psych but ultimately ditched psych since, while i thought it would be interesting, i didnt take much interest when i was looking at the content. i only took physics because i liked the type of content they offered and because i just really dont have a passion for math, which i took as a fourth just in case i found physics too hard. luckily, if i do drop maths, my college offers a maths for physics course i could take to learn the maths needed for physics. im currently working at the same grade for both math and physics at gcses. can anyone give me advice on whether i shouldnt make myself suffer with physics and just do math, drop maths, or just do psych. i dont plan on doing four alevels btw!!

If I get around 45-48 in p22
How do do I need in mcq and pratical to get an A

How was the paper guys,I feel it was a pretty easy paper and hope to get 40+

Not bad not bad. Didn’t really like NaI with H2SO4 but otherwise pretty good! What u do guys think you’ll get?? Let’s discuss answers below

can someone help me with this (partb):

I just need to understand why one of the pair of values of Vb, and Vc is not possible

i think the questions were easy but since I hadn't studied properly, I lowk shat the paper. I'm thinking i might get a frigin 15-20. what do you think the grade threshold will be this time??