r/Edexcelial

guys I am so scared for August I don’t want my resultssss

pls answer i need to know

Hi everyone. I’m a private candidate in the UAE affected by the May/June 2026 Edexcel IAL exam cancellation situation, and I’ve now been placed into the Portfolio of Evidence (POE) assessment route through British Council.
I’m doing:
Physics Unit 4, 5, 6
Chemistry Unit 4, 5, 6
Biology Unit 4, 5, 6
I wanted to ask anyone else in the UAE or Gulf region who has already given their POE assessments:
What kind of papers/questions did they assess you on?
Were the questions taken from old past papers directly or modified?
What range of years should we mainly focus on?
Did you notice repeated questions/topics?
Was the difficulty closer to recent papers or older papers?
For Unit 6 specifically, what type of practical/data-analysis questions came the most?
I’m currently focusing mainly on papers from 2023–2026 and trying to understand whether that’s enough or if I should go further back as well.
Since this whole situation is very unusual, I’d really appreciate any guidance from people who have already gone through the POE assessments or have information about how they’re conducting them.
Thanks alot!

It wasn't too bad. what do you guys think

IM SORRY I CANT ANYMORE WHAT THE HELL IS THIS EVEN WHY ARE THE GRADE BOUNDARIES SKY HIGH LIKE HELLO ARE WE REACHING FOR THE STARS 😭😭😭 AND I HAVE P2 IN LESS THAN 1HR 30MINS AND IT WAS MOSTLY FINE UNTIL I STARTED SEEING THE WEIRDEST QUESTIONS UPON MANKIND WHY ARE U ASKING 16 17 YEAR OLDS THIS GO SHOOOOO THE SYLLABUS IS SO STRAIGHTFORWARD AND THEN THEY WANT US TO ASSUME SM THINGS OURSELVES 😭

no but fr its all my fault i should’ve studied earlier and harder 😔

BUT I HATE EDEXCEL DOESNT EVEN KNOW HOW TO MAKE A SCHEDULE I GAVE 4EXAMS IN A ROW THEN NOW IM GIVING 2CONSECUTIVE AGAIN LIKE DUDE i hated cambridge too but atleast the schedules weren’t sooo packed 😭

i might delete this rant but for now thank you for listening 🐙

UPDATE: no. just no.

Yall i have been focusing on chem so much i completely forgot about bio if yall have any tips pls share from tmrw it will be 3 days till the exam and i need to get an A in bio

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Please if anyone has them send me really need

I know this is very late, but i just found out that since i was too busy study for 4 other subjects i forgot to revise for maths P2. And I’ve forgotten most of the content, applications and how to solve questions If you can help me in any ways it would be highly appreciated

I am never able to understand the mass spectrometry questions what do i do also is there gonna be a databooklet given tmrw???