I haven’t seen any of my Yr 11s this afternoon, but social media is awash with how bad the #ComputerScience Paper 2 #GCSE was. Anyone got any feedback from their class?
@GrumpyCompSci What ocr wanted them to do wasn't that difficult. It is how they have worded the questions that is the problem and it mainly focused on functions so little access for your lower ability students
@GrumpyCompSci Snap. "Hardest exam ever" a few said. Lots of thumbs down.
@GrumpyCompSci My target is a 8/9 after that exam there is little chance of me getting a 7 the questions were purposely confusing and converted topics my whole class have never heard off
@GrumpyCompSci Those replying to your tweet might want to give OCR their honest feedback here:
@GrumpyCompSci Those replying to your tweet might want to give OCR their honest feedback here:
@GrumpyCompSci Yep! Even my best students found it hard! No one was happy with it at all…
@GrumpyCompSci Spoke to one of my grade 9 potential students and he was with his friend from a grammar school and both said it was the worst paper and nothing like any they’d seen before.
@GrumpyCompSci Wording of the questions was atrocious which made the content seem way more complicated than it was. I am also pretty sure the expectations around sorting algorithms is against the spec info as it state a no expectation of knowing the code.
@GrumpyCompSci A file read write and a 2d array question allegedly. Will see the paper in the morning. Student room is lots of kids decrying how hard it was.
@GrumpyCompSci Teen boy "grown men were crying & birds were dropping out of the sky dead from the shock" also "tell me Twitter says that OCR are complete (list of expletives)"
@GrumpyCompSci My son is predicted an 8, he said he was really hard and didn’t make sense at all 😞 such a shame when he’s worked so hard. I have a feeling results in all subjects will drop for everyone this year.
@GrumpyCompSci It was certainly a tough paper today.
@GrumpyCompSci Wording of questions was very confusing. Word loop was used in one question 9 times, just to confuse them. Absolutely not needed.
@GrumpyCompSci my AQA bunch were really happy but this was their theory paper. the programming /CT paper was last week and it was imho fair but very very long
@GrumpyCompSci My son's (Grade 9 in Mocks) first reaction after the paper was it was WEIRD!! He couldn't exactly explain what he meant, but he said the questions were weirdly worded and hard to understand...
@GrumpyCompSci Everyone in my class struggled , even the grade 9 students
@GrumpyCompSci Same picture here. I had one of my best say that the paper was made up of all the most difficult parts of the course.
@GrumpyCompSci Is there a link to the paper anywhere?
@GrumpyCompSci Which examining board are you referring to?
@GrumpyCompSci My son said it was awful, apparently one lad broke down in the exam and a couple freaked out after, all agreed it was very, very difficult!
@GrumpyCompSci Yes - spoke to several this afternoon - nothing but moans from them all, including the good ones
@GrumpyCompSci Which board are you - I'm seeing a lot of upset about the @OCRexams paper but fortunately we sit the @AQA one. Students felt that both papers were fair.