AvifromtheOC Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 So, all you folks, how went it?I thought it was a perfectly average paper with a lot of conventional questions though there were some tricky and slightly difficult parts. I did mess up a bit in the Section B orbitals question. Apart from that, considering the fact that Physics HL has the lowest grade boundaries among all IB subjects, 7 in Physics here I come. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrypton Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 So, all you folks, how went it?I thought it was a perfectly average paper with a lot of conventional questions though there were some tricky and slightly difficult parts. I did mess up a bit in the Section B orbitals question. Apart from that, considering the fact that Physics HL has the lowest grade boundaries among all IB subjects, 7 in Physics here I come.I also thought it was a pretty good paper. Section A went great, so I think I'll almost get full marks there. Section B was not so great, and especially since I found out that I should have picked another question. I didn't have time to finish section B, but I think I should get half of it right at least. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovakov Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 (edited) For me Section B went much better than Senction A (I did Q 1 and 3). I got lost in the first task in section A and I lost a ot of time there. Then I rushed through whole section A to make up for the time I lost, and eventually section B was what I needed. I particularly enjoyed the question about orbita motion and the power and efficiency one.In general, this paper seemed average, but turned out to be rather tricky, for me. I feel that paper 1 went much better. Edited May 12, 2011 by Slovakov Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchorschmidt Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 Paper 2 for me was good but not great. My weakness is electromagnetic induction and I had to guess a bit for that one. Paper 1 on the other hand was really hard but Paper 3 was great! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slack Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 I feel like I made so many stupid mistakes! It makes me sick! I hope I'll be okay Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son Young Kim Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 SL paper 1 was quite difficult, but papers 2 and 3 went great!!!! I personally think I killed paper 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawliet Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 I personally thought P2 was brutal!! Now I get to understand why the grade boundaries for physics are low in general... Geez, after all my preparation for physics I still thought it was a massacre.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kero Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 I thought it was alright. Not great, but not terrible. However, I missed a page in section B. >< So it looks like I'm redoing a year. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 I thought P1 was harder than P2. For P1, I had to practically guess some MCQ questions because I totally did not know how to approach it. For P2, Section A was fine, I'm sure I'm okay, but Section B was bad. I chose B2 and B3 because I couldn't do the other two at all, and in B2 itself I screwed up the power production and volume expansion questions. What's more, the topics that appeared in the exam were the ones that I paid less attention to. P3 also screwed me over. They totally changed the pattern. I noticed that in the past year papers, they always asked the same type of questions, but they changed everything this year. I'm really stressed. I want a 7 in Physics HL so bad, but I probably will only get a 6 (my IAs were good), or 5, if I'm unlucky. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovakov Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 (edited) I'm not sure whether it's worthy to start a new thread, so I'll ask here: and how about Paper 3? How did it go for you?I did Option F and G (communication and em waves). Generally it wasn't that hard, but it could have been better. Option G was fine, I managed to do almost everything (got a bit messed up with X-rays, but hopefully everything will be alright).In the Communications part I had to leave nearly whole question about op-apms. I totally don't get it and I'm sure I've lost 6 points on the beginning there .Edit: If the moderating team thinks that there actually should be a separate thread about P3, please, extract my post Edited May 13, 2011 by Slovakov Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted May 14, 2011 Report Share Posted May 14, 2011 I'm not sure whether it's worthy to start a new thread, so I'll ask here: and how about Paper 3? How did it go for you?I did Option F and G (communication and em waves). Generally it wasn't that hard, but it could have been better. Option G was fine, I managed to do almost everything (got a bit messed up with X-rays, but hopefully everything will be alright).In the Communications part I had to leave nearly whole question about op-apms. I totally don't get it and I'm sure I've lost 6 points on the beginning there .Edit: If the moderating team thinks that there actually should be a separate thread about P3, please, extract my post I did option E and option G, astro and EM waves. EM waves killed me. I thought they would tell us to draw a telescope and then ask us crap about wedge films or thin film interference (observed pattern from doing past year papers). NONE of those came out. And I did not study for X-Rays... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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