Biology: Discussion, Questions & Potential Solutions

[Joseph41]

This thread is for all exam-related discussion. Was it easy? Was it hard? What did you get for each question? Feel free to post any and all of your thoughts below.

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[Scribe]

What did people write for the question asking to predict two structural features?

[O2square]

Did anyone else think that was pretty tough...? Or just me?

[vox nihili]

Already hearing that was a pretty tough/odd exam from a few sources. That's good news if you also thought it was tough. Remember, your exam score is whatever your performance was RELATIVE to everyone else. So hard exam means lower scores are fine


PhoenixFire and I will do answers as soon as we can get our hands on a copy of the exam!

[PhoenixxFire]

I heard something about a Botox question?

What sort of things were in it? Did they do a bit more on immunity this year?

[Yacoubb]

Already hearing that was a pretty tough/odd exam from a few sources. That's good news if you also thought it was tough. Remember, your exam score is whatever your performance was RELATIVE to everyone else. So hard exam means lower scores are fine


PhoenixFire and I will do answers as soon as we can get our hands on a copy of the exam!

Hearing this too! Will be doing some corrections for my students too so hopefully we can get our hands on a copy of the exam soon!

[benmcleod]

I heard something about a Botox question?

What sort of things were in it? Did they do a bit more on immunity this year?

yep, botox as a protein (enzyme?) inhibitor, 1Mark question of how this would happen. 3Marks: secondary doses don't last as long as the first dose, explain. I treated it like a vaccination question in a way, so hopefully that worked.

[crawlingvines]

yep, botox as a protein (enzyme?) inhibitor, 1Mark question of how this would happen. 3Marks: secondary doses don't last as long as the first dose, explain. I treated it like a vaccination question in a way, so hopefully that worked.

I did the same thing, woo!

[Maya24]

I found the exam easier than last years. All the questions were doable.

[PhoenixxFire]

I found the exam easier than last years. All the questions were doable.

That’s awesome! Great job

[Erutepa]

What did people write for the question asking to predict two structural features?

My friend was laughing (not literally) because he was randomly reading about that species (whatever it was) and knew its characteristics quite well.

[Anne Boleyn]

yep, botox as a protein (enzyme?) inhibitor, 1Mark question of how this would happen. 3Marks: secondary doses don't last as long as the first dose, explain. I treated it like a vaccination question in a way, so hopefully that worked.

I wrote that memory T cells form would that be wrong or did I have to specify memory B cells ??

[benmcleod]

What did people write for the question asking to predict two structural features?

1. Wide, broad feet: allow better movement on sand and swimming ability, ( I assumed it was some kind of half whale half hippopotamus amphibian.)
2. I think i said something about a vestigial pelvis?

If you google ambulocetus you can see the actual animal, but i think that's irrelevant as long as the features you proposed and the explanations were reasonable.

[vox nihili]

My friend was laughing (not literally) because he was randomly reading about that species (whatever it was) and knew its characteristics quite well.

Probably the worst tangent I ever went on this year with my tutoring students was to talk about the way that headlice and pubic lice are different species and that they'd evolved to latch onto different hairs. Nek minit they had a whole SAC on it the next day :')

[benmcleod]

I wrote that memory T cells form would that be wrong or did I have to specify memory B cells ??

I'm not sure how memory T's work, but given the botulinum toxin will be injected, I would assume you needed to talk about the Humoral response? Not sure, depends how specific they require the answer to be.