Biology 3/4 Exam Discussion

[Mellyboo]

Yep that's what I got, as only in ETC is oxygen used up so you need a mitochondrion present to have any effect on the O2 concentration.

I got that too.

[Sine]

Anyone with access to a copy of the Biol exam please scan and upload??

I think brenden will upload it when he gets it.

[HasibA]

^^^^ yeah definitely
How did everyone go on that bloody last question

found that easy tbh, i liked it was application, dont rmbr what i wrote but i just used logic, and slight Bullshit tbh, but i think im right (im generally really really good with application and logic in those type of q's, so hopefully its aight)
BIO IS DONE- i swear my whole cohort felt fked after it, but and my mate literally studied a little bit, and everything that we studied was on there -> god bless!
im sure everyone did better than they thought!!!

[FatimaEl]

BIO IS DONNEEEEE 
honestly, bio will be missed, it was my fave subject of the year
how's everyone feeling?
Also, for the "design an experiment" question, are multiple types of answers suitable as long as its logical and would actually test the hypothesis?

[heids]

Yacoubb: I'm currently doing MC questions, Thush is doing SA answers, and it'll all be uploaded soon.

[Rob16]

Did not like that exam at all it marks awarded for each question felt kinda weird, I think the pressure got to me a bit. How would u guys compare it to last years exam?

As for particular questions:
1. The question about long living cells in immunity or something was it just memory B cells for one of them and memory T cells for the other?
2. The W molecule??? wtf were you meant to write? I described transcription but have no idea because it was only worth 2 marks
3. I wrote during apoptosis the organelles go into vesicles when they are broken up, but they break into membrane bound organelles - would this be wrong?
4. Anyone find the natural selection/speciation questions kinda hard? especially 4 marks for natural selection and 2 marks for allopatric speciation?
Can't think of any other question at the moment, but felt it was pretty difficult overall compared to previous years, but still doable (although I think i didnt' do as well as I would have hoped)

[Nosheep]

God Bio is done!!!!!
kinda upset as it was on everything I'm weak in, I'm like the only person who liked 2015 exam, smashed that one.
hate all the experimental design and application q's...

[Yacoubb]

Yacoubb: I'm currently doing MC questions, Thush is doing SA answers, and it'll all be uploaded soon.

Haha I want to see the exam to also do it! My tutoring students are dying for answers :p

[Mellyboo]

God Bio is done!!!!!
kinda upset as it was on everything I'm weak in, I'm like the only person who liked 2015 exam, smashed that one.
hate all the experimental design and application q's...

2015 was amaaaayyyyzing :/ shouldve done it last year dammit

[The Usual Student]

2015 was amaaaayyyyzing :/ shouldve done it last year dammit

agreed, 2015 was piss easy compared yet everyone said they found it harder

[HasibA]

agreed, 2015 was piss easy compared yet everyone said they found it harder

found this to be the easiest exam  :p oh well, only cutoffs will tell haha

[Sine]

The thing about comparing years is that once the exam has been done teachers and tutors begin to target those areas in their teaching therefore making the older exams seem easier than they would've been for the students who sat it in that year.

[FatimaEl]

The thing about comparing years is that once the exam has been done teachers and tutors begin to target those areas in their teaching therefore making the older exams seem easier than they would've been for the students who sat it in that year.

yes, agreed

[argent]

I didn't find the exam too bad, it was pretty fair and covered most concepts well - I'd probably rank them 2015, 2013, 2016 and 2014 from hardest to easiest

[Calebark]

I'm a bit peeved that it didn't involve much recall at all. I like application, but it seemed excessive. I did find it fairly easy though, hope I did well.

I just realised that I accidentally wrote that glucose won't cause a change in oxygen concentration with cytosol+mitochondria, bahhhhhhh, I didn't pay attention.