CIE iGCSE Chemistry 0620 Exam Analysis



CIE iGCSE Chemistry 0620 Exam AnalysisTopics in Rank Order LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\Users\\Paddy Smashing\\Dropbox\\aaiGCSE\\iG Chem Analysis PAPER 3 TOPIC MARK TOTALS s01 to w15.xlsx" "Display Info Word!R31C2:R35C15" \a \f 4 \h \* MERGEFORMAT Topic143107811459112613Rank ALL Papers24531698117121013Rank P3: A* Focus12345678910101213All Syllabus Word Count RANK12536497108121113Greener = Better; “Words per %...” refers to the words in the syllabus versus weighted marks awarded since w2001Key PointsTo do well, you must learn T8 (40 and 10.5% of P6 & P3) but to get an A* T14 is essential (20.2% of P3). Papers 1 and 6 are changing this year to include the supplement (harder) material, so whilst the questions will be harder a reasonable prediction would be the relative marks awarded per topic will be the same. Paper 3 historically is the most important paper, with the new changes, the higher level questions (dealing with the Supplement section) might be more spread out across the 3 papers, meaning that more core material will be examined in paper 3. However, a student determined to get an A*should be most concerned about topics ranked highest in P3, which is why the table above is ordered according to P3, for “A* Focus”. These are just averages, so for instance T13 is not often examined, so appears less relevant, but when it is in a paper (P3) it will be on average 5 marks, and because it is all supplement material, these will be a lot of the higher marks. This data should hopefully allow you to prioritise topics in your revision. T4 is the most efficient topic to learn (least to learn per mark awarded), provided you are good at maths (predicted to get at least a B grade), otherwise it is by far the least worthwhile topic (which these numbers don’t show but has been my experience in teaching). If there was a fire and you had to leave one topic behind, T5 would be the one taking a hit for the team.Most important topics to your grades are 14, 8, 3, 10, 7 and 11, in that order.Above are the main experiments and the main question types in Paper 6. Word files broken down by these categories are available on my website (e.g. sRaw Data Info LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\Users\\Paddy Smashing\\Dropbox\\aaiG Chem\\iG Chem Analysis PAPER 3 TOPIC MARK TOTALS s01 to w15 (Autosaved).xlsx" "Display Info Word!R1C1:R18C16" \a \f 4 \h ?TopicAverages134567891011121314P1% of Marks8.612.04.16.04.36.210.29.712.112.10.02.112.77.7P1# of Questions27.044.025.028.027.032.045.036.041.039.00.016.039.030.7P1Average marks per Q2.82.41.41.91.41.72.02.32.62.70.01.12.81.9?P3% of Marks3.313.26.65.61.110.810.53.611.29.63.31.020.27.7P3# of Questions20.058.039.025.06.046.053.019.054.046.014.05.079.035.7P3Average marks per Q3.85.34.05.24.35.54.64.54.84.95.44.86.04.9?P6% of Marks12.90.01.95.512.118.740.10.03.61.70.60.42.57.7P6# of Questions40.00.04.017.017.032.093.00.07.06.02.02.010.017.7P6Average marks per Q6.10.08.86.113.411.08.20.09.75.55.54.04.86.4?ALL% of Marks (Weighted)6.89.94.95.74.411.517.24.29.68.41.91.114.47.7ALL# of Questions87.0102.068.070.050.0110.0191.055.0102.091.016.023.0128.084.1ALLAverage marks per Q2.12.72.02.22.42.92.52.12.62.53.21.43.12.4Rank Order74981031115612132Papers Used and Statistics needed to produce merge the 3 papers into the ALL Paper 1, 3 and 6 graph LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\Users\\Paddy Smashing\\Dropbox\\aaiGCSE\\iG Chem Analysis PAPER 3 TOPIC MARK TOTALS s01 to w15.xlsx" "Display Info Word!R1C18:R4C27" \a \f 4 \h \* MERGEFORMAT % Total ALL Papers% Total P3: A* FocusTopicRank ALL PapersRank P3: A* FocusAll Syllbus Word Count RANK?1st PaperLast Paper14.420.214211Paper 1s02w129.913.23422Paper 3w01w159.611.210535Paper 6w01w15 LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\Users\\Paddy Smashing\\Dropbox\\aaiGCSE\\iG Chem Analysis PAPER 3 TOPIC MARK TOTALS s01 to w15.xlsx" "Display Info Word!R1C25:R4C34" \a \f 4 \h \* MERGEFORMAT ?1st PaperLast PaperTotal PapersPaper Total MarkTotal Marks All PapersActual All MarksDifferenceWeight per paperWeight per markPaper 1s02w122240880869-11300.75Paper 3w01w1529802320233616500.63Paper 6w01w15296017401890150200.33CommentsYellow indicates the paper range for P1 is not the same as for the other papers, this is because P1 is changing, and taking apart that paper is particularly soul destroying, I can’t justify the hours of mind-numbing tedium if the information is going to be increasingly irrelevant.Blue indicates the substantial difference in the total number of marks I should be able to account for (Total Marks All Papers) and the ones that have gone into the topic calculations. This is hopefully the result of a RANDOM error where some questions have had parts duplicated and I have not filtered these duplications out. Realistically, though it isn’t. When I started to break this paper down by topic I was not systematic in my process; my intentions were disorganised and I wasn’t thinking about being able to account for every mark, just for every question. So some topics were duplicated Words per topic LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\Users\\Paddy Smashing\\Dropbox\\aaiGCSE\\iG Chem Analysis PAPER 3 TOPIC MARK TOTALS s01 to w15.xlsx" "0620 Syllabus 2016!R1C1:R13C16" \a \f 4 \h Topic134567891011121314TotalsCore Syllabus Word Count2183441311305818327320924128744563632537Suppliment Syllabus Word Count821411221917324568411341242923521604All Syllbus Word Count30048525332113142834125037541173587154141Core Syllabus Word Count %5.38.33.23.11.44.46.65.05.86.91.11.48.8Suppliment Syllabus Word Count %2.03.42.94.61.85.91.61.03.23.00.70.08.5All Syllbus Word Count %7.211.76.17.83.210.38.26.09.19.91.81.417.3All Syllabus Word Count RANK82971136105412131% Total ALL Papers6.89.94.95.74.411.517.24.29.68.41.91.114.4% Total P3: A* Focus3.313.26.65.61.110.810.53.611.29.63.31.020.2Words per % ALL Papers44495157303720593949395149.8Words per % P32511183466236.51112139217.4Although this is only one course so there is very little data at present to go on, a possible generalisation which might be of value when studying for other CIE subjects is that the more words there are in the syllabus, the more important that topic is to the exam. So to get an idea, count the words (can be done electronically: 1. Mark for redaction all of the section of the syllabus for supplement 2. Redact 3. Copy and past all of it to word 4. Do the same for supplement 5. Highlight the topic and word will give you the number of words). The actual results of this will not probably be too surprising, but outcome of this exercise and why it will help is it will force you to think objectively about the syllabus. Instead of thinking about the things that you didn’t like or you didn’t think you were good at, you will have the opportunity to get a different perspective on the subject. And hopefully, instead of thinking of the subject as a whole, you will start to break it down into more manageable chunks and begin the process of prioritisation, which when done well, is perhaps the most important principle in thought. ................
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