AQA Exam papers missing for GCSE Humanities

[reddwarfer]

Today I had my first offical GCSE examination - Humanities.
With this exam you are given a 'sources booklet' a couple on months beforehand to study in lessons and at home. This allows you to concentrate more on the questions that are likey to come up. You are allowed to annotate this as we please as we are given a fresh copy in the exam to avoid cheating.
We need this booklet to answer most of the questions in the paper as it contains vital information that isn't in the sylubus and statistics to be able to answer the questions properly.

After entering the exam room today we all sat down to find an invidulator informing all of us that: "The sources booklets were not sent to us, this is the same for all the 150 schools taking this examination. Please carry on and answer the questions as best you can, this mistake will be taken into account when marking your papers."

see this page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5005642.stm

[reddwarfer]

It isn't an aid for cheating mate!
The subject in question is such a wide one which contains everything from politics, war, geography, religion etc... so it isn't humanly possible for your average student to learn everything in detail in the time we get. We scrape the edge of all of these subjects over the two years and then when given the sources booklet WHICH CONTAINS NO DIRECT QUESTIONS we can guess what subjects the paper is going to specilize on and so we can go into great depth in lessons on the particular subjects.

I strongly diagree with you Nicholas as you are obviously significantly older than we GCSE and A level students and so have had more education in life and possibly further education and so you probably could answer the paper possibly easily. We on the other hand have not had as many life experiences and significant history to learn of these in life or further eductation.
Heres an example - I took my KS3 SATS paper 2 years ago and that was moderatly hard going but if given a paper tomorrow I could answer it very easily - you see!

If you don't agree with that you're just jealous :lol:

[reddwarfer]

Think what you like matey!
There was a programme on television about this controversial debate and it was found that they were no easier than before.

We are a growing technological generation, moreso than before and so are better and evolution tells us that things improve slightly through the generations.

I'm holding my ground on this issue, we are put under more examinaination pressure than say thirty years ago.

[reddwarfer]

You lot are so stereotypical :-P

[reddwarfer]

Yes, The people capable of getting higher grades in the GCSE's , A levels etc is shown to be able to learn new things as it all comes to show.