** 2013 Biology HL Before/After **

Phoenix Wright

Awkward paper to say the least..

yournerd

5 and 2 of us in my exam classroom im the first girl loool

Hamza Malik

yournerd wrote: »

5 and 2 of us in my exam classroom im the first girl loool

I'll be the only one in my exam classroom for chemistry. That will be awkward :c

niamhhealy86

RabbitHearted wrote: »

i said wait until the birds abandoned the nest and take it apart to weigh it :P

I said the exact same! :P

Leaving Cert Student

My school has -4 people doing hebrew studies. theyre all ordibary level too. beat that B-)

yoppo

Do you know this question: "Using the chromosomes referred to in part (b) (ii), show, using a Punnett square or
otherwise, that a child stands an equal chance of being male or female. "

Did you have to draw a chromosome cross out or just use XX and XY and cross those?

ray2012

yoppo wrote: »

Do you know this question: "Using the chromosomes referred to in part (b) (ii), show, using a Punnett square or
otherwise, that a child stands an equal chance of being male or female. "

Did you have to draw a chromosome cross out or just use XX and XY and cross those?

I think you could have done it any way. I just crossed the XX and XY

internet_user

i done a square thing with an x and y on each axis so thai t came out as 2 xy's and 2 xx's

yoppo

ray2012 wrote: »

I think you could have done it any way. I just crossed the XX and XY

Thanks a mill. That's what I done too. It was the simplest cross I have ever done. I was surprised the genetics question wasn't harder.

niamhhealy86

Hamza Malik wrote: »

First they made a serious error in a question on Maths and now rumours of this being a backup. Sec have really messed up this year

Its 2013!! the unluckiest year of them all! :P what did we expect? :P

Hamza Malik

niamhhealy86 wrote: »

Its 2013!! the unluckiest year of them all! :P what did we expect? :P

Haha bad year to repeat for me I need over 500 points!!

Jackobyte

yournerd wrote: »

Do russian guys, 68% get A1s

Would rather not. Prefer the russian girls tbh. :P

barrhe

yournerd wrote: »

Do russian guys, 68% get A1s

That's because the majority of people who do it are Russian, same with Polish, Bulgarian, Czech etc.

shanelad95

Monty4life wrote: »

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

i want to see how you do in august, youre gonna look like an absolute gob****e if you dont get an a..

internet_user

im just after remembering for the hormone question i couldnt think of any other than sexual ones, so for advantages/disadvantages for adrenaline i wrote it can give you energy and make you happy and for disadavantage i wrote too much can make you too energised and find it hard to sleep :pac:

meleanor

internet_user wrote: »

im just after remembering for the hormone question i couldnt think of any other than sexual ones, so for advantages/disadvantages for adrenaline i wrote it can give you energy and make you happy and for disadavantage i wrote too much can make you too energised and find it hard to sleep :pac:

Had adrenaline and couldn't do the second part with it, had to change to thyroxine! :pac:

internet_user

meleanor wrote: »

Had adrenaline and couldn't do the second part with it, had to change to thyroxine! :pac:

i cant think of any advantes/disadvantages of that now so i think think that would have been any better then :P

meleanor

internet_user wrote: »

i cant think of any advantes/disadvantages of that now so i think think that would have been any better then :P

XS: Grave's disease/weight loss
Deficiency: Cretinism/weight gain

woopah92

internet_user wrote: »

i cant think of any advantes/disadvantages of that now so i think think that would have been any better then :P

Advantages and disadvantages? That wasn't even asked.

internet_user

meleanor wrote: »

XS: Grave's disease/weight loss
Deficiency: Cretinism/weight gain

pity didnt have this convo pre tuesday :L

internet_user

woopah92 wrote: »

Advantages and disadvantages? That wasn't even asked.

it was i think?

bluejay14

woopah92 wrote: »

Advantages and disadvantages? That wasn't even asked.

It was symptoms of over and under production of the hormone.

woopah92

bluejaymraz wrote: »

It was symptoms of over and under production of the hormone.

That ain't advantages and disadvantages to me anyway.

internet_user

bluejaymraz wrote: »

It was symptoms of over and under production of the hormone.

think my exceptional of the cuff answer might get some attempt marks? :pac:

internet_user

woopah92 wrote: »

That ain't advantages and disadvantages to me anyway.

sorry i couldnt think of how it was phrased exactly, its kind of the same thing though?

yoppo

Would cretinism alone be ok for deficiency and bulging eyes for excess? Couldnt think of graves disease!

meleanor

yoppo wrote: »

Would cretinism alone be ok for deficiency and bulging eyes for excess? Couldnt think of graves disease!

In the exam I said weight loss for XS and weight gain for deficiency.
Bulgeing eyes is a symptom of Grave's so you're grand!

yoppo

meleanor wrote: »

In the exam I said weight loss for XS and weight gain for deficiency.
Bulgeing eyes is a symptom of Grave's so you're grand!

Thanks! I done my LC in 2003 when is was much harder so this one was nice enough! :pac:

Inspector Coptoor

ladymacbeth wrote: »

I said movement. I was thinking of the similar question from Ag. Crap. Hopes its accepted

The correct answer is heat as every organism uses the chemical energy they obtain (food) to carry out respiration.
Respiration is only about 40% efficient, the rest is lost as heat and is stored in the bonds of H2O and CO2.

I've been teaching Biology for over 7 years now and that was definitely a strange paper.

The very fact that Ecology didn't come up as Q.10 was extremely strange.
Ecology is a banker topic and it proved that way again yesterday with a short question (20 marks) and experiment question (30 marks) and a part of a long question (30 marks).
There's really no excuse for not knowing your Ecology.
It made up 80/400 marks or 20% of the paper if you wanted it to.

Many students can complain that there wasn't much human biology BUT, there was an entire question on human reproduction and another one on hormones.

I liked the photosynthesis question, but the topics of respiration and photosynthesis are STILL being asked at a very basic level, even on the higher level paper so students are still getting away lightly IMO

The OL paper was ridiculously hard, a lot of students who dropped down on the day were in for a shock.

yoppo

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

The correct answer is heat as every organism uses the chemical energy they obtain (food) to carry out respiration.
Respiration is only about 40% efficient, the rest is lost as heat and is stored in the bonds of H2O and CO2.

I've been teaching Biology for over 7 years now and that was definitely a strange paper.

The very fact that Ecology didn't come up as Q.10 was extremely strange.
Ecology is a banker topic and it proved that way again yesterday with a short question (20 marks) and experiment question (30 marks) and a part of a long question (30 marks).
There's really no excuse for not knowing your Ecology.
It made up 80/400 marks or 20% of the paper if you wanted it to.

Many students can complain that there wasn't much human biology BUT, there was an entire question on human reproduction and another one on hormones.

I liked the photosynthesis question, but the topics of respiration and photosynthesis are STILL being asked at a very basic level, even on the higher level paper so students are still getting away lightly IMO

The OL paper was ridiculously hard, a lot of students who dropped down on the day were in for a shock.

Could you have said excretion instead of heat?