I’ve often heard how methods exams and also spec exams have gotten a lot harder in the past few years, and I’d have to agree.
I’m in year 12, but I pretty much pre-learned the whole course. So I’ve been looking at the past exams and tried picking the hardest questions from each. The past 5-6 years have had some really tricky ones (quite visual), and some questions have an average mark of say 0.1/2.
I tried the 2006 spec exams and they are very easy compared to the recent ones. Both combined, I still managed to score 119/120. And just extrapolating, if I were to sit the recent exams, at this stage having not done revision, I’d definitely lose more than 1 mark. At least 5 overall.
Why are the exams becoming harder? It’s as if there’s some natural rate of ‘inflation’ in difficulty.