Higher Level Biology

Cruel Sun

I got a C3 in the mocks. If I were to write out all answers from Exam Papers from 2010, 2009 and 2008, and learn them off, would I get at least a B3 in the Leaving Cert. Would it be enough? Are the sample answers from examinations okay as answers, some of them seem fairly short, do you have to expand on them?

Thanks.

Boeing777

Martin_94 wrote: »

I got a C3 in the mocks. If I were to write out all answers from Exam Papers from 2010, 2009 and 2008, and learn them off, would I get at least a B3 in the Leaving Cert. Would it be enough? Are the sample answers from examinations okay as answers, some of them seem fairly short, do you have to expand on them?

Thanks.

What I do is practice EVERY exam question possible. Not just those years you said, each and every one of them. I've been doing exam paper work in biology since 5th year. It has paid off so far as I got an A1 in the mocks. I would suggest that you do the questions out without notes and correct your work using the marking scheme. That way you will become very savvy with the marking scheme and you wont be giving unneccesary detail. Biology is a subject where literally one word will get you the marks provided you only need 1 point if info of course.
Hope that helps

David1994

It would definitely be a great help but I would also study all the answers to previous years too And test yourself on them frequently to see if you can remember them!

ChemHickey

It would of course help, but remember, quite a lot of things that came up in last years long/experiment questions won't be repeated on this year's exam ( they could, but not very likely) So it'd be more beneficial to do the previous years and focus on topics they haven't asked for a while. And especially learn the two reproduction chapters! They are a(n) (almost) definite!

certifiedcrepe

Yeah exam questions help but make sure you know at least 80% of the theory.. and know all the experiments, they're not too hard to learn and they're easy marks Got an A2 in Honours!