** 2013 Biology HL Before/After **

Slow Show

I think it's really reassuring reading this thread because this thread was a bit intimidating at the start with everyone ever being like 'Will probs get an A1'. The bell curve can be a wonderful and mysterious thing lads, for example look at last year's Section A, they seemed to go like 8 + 7 + 5(1) etc. so their questions must've been relatively tough too (it's impossible for me to judge if they were really, everything seems scarier/harder in that room ). That'd be grand like as my short questions were definitely my weakest part of the paper. Those kind of marks would mean I'd get like 16 or 17, heck one might say 18, out of 20 for the absolute shambles I made out of that runner question, or the turgor pressure one (neglected to study that since roughly October of 5th year, heh). There's hope for us all yet!

I mean there was one infamous year in Accounting (2008 for my fellow accounters) that my teacher told us about once where the paper was just absolutely crazy and so many people thought they'd failed and I, in my curiosity, looked up the boards thread and loads of people who'd been distraught got their A1's and such. The power of the curve lawds.

I hope we're all pleasantly surprised, not coming back to this thread after this as I've wasted enough on my life on this paper.:)

shanelad95

so.. anyone want to just have a crack at polish or something? id probably do better than that biology paper

FrankLamar

Stupid paper ONE organ system on it and they seemed to almost completely forget plants were on the course. Learned all that plant **** for almost nothing!!

HugsiePie

conan955 wrote: »

so.. anyone want to just have a crack at polish or something? id probably do better than that biology paper

I'd love to meet someone doing agricultural ecconomics, only 6 people (I think) did it last year.

HugsiePie

Slow Show wrote: »

I think it's really reassuring reading this thread because this thread was a bit intimidating at the start with everyone ever being like 'Will probs get an A1'. The bell curve can be a wonderful and mysterious thing lads, for example look at last year's Section A, they seemed to go like 8 + 7 + 5(1) etc. so their questions must've been relatively tough too (it's impossible for me to judge if they were really, everything seems scarier/harder in that room ). That'd be grand like as my short questions were definitely my weakest part of the paper. Those kind of marks would mean I'd get like 16 or 17, heck one might say 18, out of 20 for the absolute shambles I made out of that runner question, or the turgor pressure one (neglected to study that since roughly October of 5th year, heh). There's hope for us all yet!

I mean there was one infamous year in Accounting (2008 for my fellow accounters) that my teacher told us about once where the paper was just absolutely crazy and so many people thought they'd failed and I, in my curiosity, looked up the boards thread and loads of people who'd been distraught got their A1's and such. The power of the curve lawds.

I hope we're all pleasantly surprised, not coming back to this thread after this as I've wasted enough on my life on this paper.:)

Well from this thread I can deduce no matter what the bell curve I'll still be devastated with my result. Boards=Soul Crushing
Ah well theres always Off-topic

shanelad95

HugsiePie wrote: »

I'd love to meet someone doing agricultural ecconomics, only 6 people (I think) did it last year.

thats what we need haha i often wonder do people just do things like that or arabic for the craic? haha

eoinoc2509

HugsiePie wrote: »

I'd love to meet someone doing agricultural ecconomics, only 6 people (I think) did it last year.

Im doing ag ec like 80 people are doing it:)

LCchancer

internet_user wrote: »

from being killed no?

i said running around using their energy up hahaha

HugsiePie

eoinoc2509 wrote: »

Im doing ag ec like 80 people are doing it:)

Whoops, my bad, hmmmm what subject was I thinking of

LC 2013 SURVIVOR

HugsiePie wrote: »

Whoops, my bad, hmmmm what subject was I thinking of

there was only 1 A1 last year in ag ec

eoinoc2509

LC 2013 SURVIVOR wrote: »

there was only 1 A1 last year in ag ec

and only 1 person did ordinary level

abrobin

I thought the paper went alright, not much plants on it though which I preferred tbh. And for a lad who skipped all of Genetics it had a nice outcome. Good enough paper, hope I get the C1-C2.

ReemAddict

The question was :

'Suggest a value to dogs of the relationship between their body temperature and environmental
temperature.'

It had nothing to do with numerical values so you were right. This question was made to trick people and that's why the numbered the graph.

EoghanIRL

I wish I sat the paper this year it looks like a really nice paper .

RabbitHearted

HugsiePie wrote: »

Whoops, my bad, hmmmm what subject was I thinking of

There's only 6 people doing swedish I think

yournerd

Do russian guys, 68% get A1s

HugsiePie

EoghanIRL wrote: »

I wish I sat the paper this year it looks like a really nice paper .

BLASPHEMOUS LIES :mad:
Ah no I say it was grand for most

HugsiePie

yournerd wrote: »

Do russian guys, 68% get A1s

is that 68% Russian?

internet_user

LCchancer wrote: »

i said running around using their energy up hahaha

Thats a reasonable answer!

aoifemcg94

I've have been so upset. Biology is one of my strongest subject. I was hoping for an A1 in it or an A2 atleast, but after that exam I don't think so.
Normally I fly through section A and B but not yesterday !
I am so disappointed.

anniehilate

No kidneys, no heart, no lungs, no senses, no plant reproduction or transport, no digestive system, no skeleton, no nervous system, no lymphatic system but a whole question on bacteria ... well no one could have predicted that

Thataone

Right, thinking I may have done the enzyme graph wrong. Mine's possibly more along the lines of the effects of temp. experiment. However I do clearly state at which point the enzyme is denatured (boiled) and show a dramatic difference between enzyme activity at "normal" temp and the denatured one. I know it's prob not right but perhaps I might at least get a bit of a mark, depending on the marking scheme?

Oh well, won't know til August.

Hamza Malik

RabbitHearted wrote: »

There's only 6 people doing swedish I think

There's only 8 people doing chemistry in my class, 7 HL and 1 OL

woopah92

Hamza Malik wrote: »

There's only 8 people doing chemistry in my class, 7 HL and 1 OL

There's 6 people in my Chemistry class and 7 people in my French class. Beat ya

Thataone

woopah92 wrote: »

There's 6 people in my Chemistry class and 7 people in my French class. Beat ya

There's 5 people in total in our year's accounting class.

woopah92

Thataone wrote: »

There's 5 people in total in our year's accounting class.

Mine was it total too, but I guess 5 people wins. :pac:

peekachoo

Thataone wrote: »

There's 5 people in total in our year's accounting class.

there's 2 in my schools accounting class

Hamza Malik

peekachoo wrote: »

there's 2 in my schools accounting class

Lol our school has no accounting class We have an accounting/business teacher but everyone is afraid of her

Monty4life

Jesus the paper wasn't that hard! There was a full question on hormones which was piss easy, human reproduction was nothing out of the ordinary and a full question in bacteria which was expected to come up??? The ecology question in section c, you could have got almost full marks from just reading a passage!! The marking scheme will be open to interpretation to some of the questions such as that last question on bacteria in hospitals... If you done your work throughout the year you can't complain... Obviously people who crammed didn't do well and are giving out coz biology is the biggest syllabus on the leaving cert, yop A1 thank you state examination

meleanor

Horrible biology paper. Did three mocks during the year and got straight A1s. I worked so hard, but the real paper was a nightmare.