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14-06-2005 4:59pm

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well i left it around 3pm!
I moved from higher to pass just before I sat it.

Kind of regret that now!
Was still a hard old paper!!

Howd ye find it??

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#2 14-06-2005 5:03pm
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There were some mightily accurate predictions here about what would come up. It wasn't impossible but I found some of it quite hard. I know I've at least passed it anyway.

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#3 14-06-2005 5:07pm
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Very true actualy!!!

So has anyone any ideas on higher business and lower history for 2moro??
lol

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#4 14-06-2005 5:08pm
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Did the DNA experiment come up?

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#5 14-06-2005 5:15pm
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WHAT A GEM!!!!!!!!

I loved the paper!!!! IT was amazing!!! DNA came up! Hurrah!!!

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#6 14-06-2005 5:16pm
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yeah, pretty much everything that was predicted here came up...nothing on enzymes or vegetative propagation in the long questions though...thank god..!!
i was aiming for a high c in this paper so i wouldnt be the best at biology but to me, that paper seemed VERY do-able, bit of a bluffers paper really especially with questions 12 and 13

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#7 14-06-2005 5:23pm
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Can anyone who remember tell me what topics were covered in section B and C.

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#8 14-06-2005 5:25pm
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GDM wrote:

Can anyone who remember tell me what topics were covered in section B and C.

I am doing up the solutions Here

ok respiration,genetics,ecology,sex(male testes,contraception), viruses+lymphocytes/ bacteria/ a few more too!

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#9 14-06-2005 5:29pm
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Lovely paper... nice short questions, two of the very few experiments I know properly came up and genetics/respiration/ecology/reproduction made for an easy Section C.

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#10 14-06-2005 5:33pm
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short questions were a bit of a joke tbh.

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#11 14-06-2005 5:34pm
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Predicitions were spot on. Pity I didnt study at all. I knew ****in nothin at all. Just bu*lsh*t*d through the whole paper. Hope I passed.

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#12 14-06-2005 5:35pm
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I loved the short questions, the best part of the paper, section A was quite nice and as it's something like 25% of the marks I didn't do too badly.

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#13 14-06-2005 5:56pm
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That was the easiest biology paper I've EVER done. Amazing! One of the qustions (bird one) was just a reading comprehension!

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#14 14-06-2005 5:57pm
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Am really sh!ttin it - did the genetics question and really worried....argh why am I so stupid??!!! (I didn't do ecology ...grrrr)

thought it was a fair paper, rewarded work done and all that....bit surprised at the lack of human biology besides the reproduction ques(which I didn't do)....

The first question : vitamins are water - soluable or ______- soluable was laughable...hope thay don't adjust the marking scheme and make it harder to get marks!!!

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#15 14-06-2005 5:59pm
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What the fook was with that ecology question, the answers were in the passage! Insult to our intelligence tbh

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#16 14-06-2005 6:01pm
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My diagram of the penis was hilarious, i drew the shaft too long and ended up drawing a MASSIVE sack - bigger than a bulls this was. I also added a few pupes here and there to give life to the diagram and to show my understanding of our secondary sexual characteristics!

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#17 14-06-2005 6:08pm
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Didn't think it was as easy as ye're all makin out but i spose it was fair alright. Only noticed the reading comprehension question with 15 mins left so scribbled it down at the end bit pd off bout that! What the hell was label C in the villi short question??

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#18 14-06-2005 6:17pm
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Absolutely beautiful paper - I'm just a bit worried that, because it was so easy, it'll be hard to get an A if you know what I mean! Cos they might adjust the marking scheme!
Section A was nice, loved the fill-in-the-gaps part, that always makes me laugh!
Section B was absolutely perfect - all three experiments were ones I knew really really well, I'd say I got the full 15% there
Section C - I did Q10 (genetics), Q12 (ecology), Q13 (reproduction) and Q15 (viruses and bacteria). All topics I knew really well so I'm very happy! What was with the reading comprehension in question 12 though? I mean, they practically gave away the 27 marks - that's almost 7%!!

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#19 14-06-2005 6:28pm
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Cotsy wrote:

Didn't think it was as easy as ye're all makin out but i spose it was fair alright. Only noticed the reading comprehension question with 15 mins left so scribbled it down at the end bit pd off bout that! What the hell was label C in the villi short question??

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Haedes1987 wrote:

What the fook was with that ecology question, the answers were in the passage! Insult to our intelligence tbh

Haha yeah, that was great. Couldn't believe it.

For a horrible moment I thought.. ****.. has that dumbass given me an ordinary level paper?

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#21 14-06-2005 6:38pm
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Fishie wrote:

Absolutely beautiful paper - I'm just a bit worried that, because it was so easy, it'll be hard to get an A if you know what I mean! Cos they might adjust the marking scheme!
Section A was nice, loved the fill-in-the-gaps part, that always makes me laugh!
Section B was absolutely perfect - all three experiments were ones I knew really really well, I'd say I got the full 15% there
Section C - I did Q10 (genetics), Q12 (ecology), Q13 (reproduction) and Q15 (viruses and bacteria). All topics I knew really well so I'm very happy! What was with the reading comprehension in question 12 though? I mean, they practically gave away the 27 marks - that's almost 7%!!

Am i right in thinkting, that they will end up marking the easy questions as in ecology and sex easier, and leave the others as they are, i hope this is the case, as i want that A!

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#22 14-06-2005 7:01pm
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well they'll find it hard to adjust the marking scheme as it was actually printed on the paper.

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#23 14-06-2005 7:11pm
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a reading comp came up like that in our mock and we were told by our lovely teacher it wud never in a MILLON YEARS COME UP!!! lol!! i moved from honours to pass today too!! and i actually found it a bit hard!!!

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#24 14-06-2005 7:20pm
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sorry to blow the buzz for the lot of ye, but that was possibly one of the most deceiving papers you may ever get.everyone saying that they thought it was piss, I've never not got an A1 in Biology and that was a pretty tough paper. Like for example what did ye right for where testosterone is produced?

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#25 14-06-2005 7:25pm
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its produced in the testis!

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#26 14-06-2005 7:26pm
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ya but you've lost marks allready, the interstitial cells.
And the whole paper is riddled with this sort of accuracy

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#27 14-06-2005 7:34pm
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Bud!dont worry!as bob marley said!everything is going to be alright!if you check the book.the biology revision book and my biolgy skool book both said it was the testes!question was asked in our mocks!got full marks for it!ah well even if ur rite!cant do nought now

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#28 14-06-2005 7:40pm
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sixdraw wrote:

ya but you've lost marks allready, the interstitial cells.
And the whole paper is riddled with this sort of accuracy

yeah that's what I thought too, but then I looked at the marking scheme for 2004 and I thought it was a joke! V little precise accuracy needed imo for 2004.....hope it will be the same for 2005

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#29 14-06-2005 7:55pm
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the 2004 paper was quite difficult to get much work done at all so they had to give marks for very little correct info. like for the heart disection exp. you got marks for saying wear a white coat or use a cutting board

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#30 14-06-2005 7:56pm
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on this paper the questions were easy but the answers are gonna be really hard

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#31 14-06-2005 7:57pm
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damn you and your parade raining!!!!

Well wasn't really having a parade but it would be very wet by now if I was....

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