Posted 19 February 2004 - 06:37 PM
After studying Credit at SG, and getting a 3 for the final exam, I took Int2 last year. This year i'm sitting the higher, and am finding it extremely difficult.
Our prelim, which we had last monday, was very hard - paper 1 wasn't bad, but paper 2 was deplorable.
I don't know how much everyone's been told about the exam board adding more marks into the papers this year, but it was certainly the case in our prelim. We were told that all the Scottish teachers and centres were unhappy that we were being examined on such a narrow area of topics (only 100 marks worth), so decided to increase the amount of marks available to 125.
Whichever company made our prelim actually made a mistake when making the paper - according to the marking scheme there should be 125 marks worth of questions, but the question paper only says there are 124 marks. When you count up the marking scheme there are only 124 marks, so everyone's scripts had to be re-marked.
For my paper 1, I got 26/55, and for paper 2 I got 27/69. These are dreadful grades but i'm still pleased about it - it's encouraging - 43% is still a good mark considering our prelim was more difficult than usual, and I'm not just saying that - half of the top class failed totally! According to my sources, the lowest mark this year was around 20%, the highest being 97% (1 person from the 160 people sitting).
Don't let what I've said put you off whatever you do. Go in with an open mind, and if you have time, try and count up the marks that you think you've totally thrown away by not answering some questions.
