General Thoughts: Biology (2 Viewers)

[Rafy]

Share your overall exam thoughts here.

 

[Roscosmos]

I thought it was a pretty good exam, just the right degree of challenge to make you think but not so hard you fail miserably.

 

[Alkanes]

I didn't like it.

 

[cartoonmaiz]

I thought it was pretty good, but I felt that there was a lot of long mark questions...

 

[Kimyia]

Pretty good, I thought. Happy with most of it. Not too sure about a few multiple choice though. Anyone else think they were harder than previous years?!

 

[Alkanes]

Yea definitely harder. I didn't really like the communication option.

 

[ZombieApocalypse]

Everyone at my school hated it. I found it was okay.

 

[Chulbul Pandey]

An alright exam. So many of the mulitple choice questions got me!! Some of them, I felt all 4 options were right!!
Lots of the questions confused me ..most weren't straightforward
The 8-marker was okay, except it doesn't actually say in the syllabus we have to learn what Macfarlane Buret does, so why did they ask a question on him?? Pasteur and Koch, I could write heaps on, but not Macfarlane

 

[ZombieApocalypse]

Yea definitely harder. I didn't really like the communication option.

I nearly died when i realised that B was the ossicles. I thought A, B and C were the components of the ossicles. Thank god i realised last minute.

 

[ZombieApocalypse]

An alright exam. So many of the mulitple choice questions got me!! Some of them, I felt all 4 options were right!!
Lots of the questions confused me ..most weren't straightforward
The 8-marker was okay, except it doesn't actually say in the syllabus we have to learn what Macfarlane Buret does, so why did they ask a question on him?? Pasteur and Koch, I could write heaps on, but not Macfarlane

I wrote about the clonal selection theory, and how it provided an understanding of immunity.

 

[Boonyak]

i enjoyed the exam found it fairly easy on a few multiple choice got me (agar plate, biscuit and a few more cant remember), and for communication i felt i did well only the sound of insects hadnt studied it fml

 

[gonewrong]

Could have been better, could have been worse.
Just thanking god there weren't any major questions on transcription/translation.

 

[ZombieApocalypse]

Was I the only one who finished really early? I finished the exam at like 11:15, and we started at 9:35


I went to the bathroom to pee and then spent my time going through my answers. It's very messy though. I wish I paced myself more

 

[rayya555]

what was that quantiative data thing ? in communication for the eye experiment ?

 

[Kimyia]

Yea definitely harder. I didn't really like the communication option.

I didn't find it too bad. Especially the 8 marker on technology

 

[Chulbul Pandey]

Was it:
A-tympanic membrane
B- ossicles
C-oval window???

I nearly died when i realised that B was the ossicles. I thought A, B and C were the components of the ossicles. Thank god i realised last minute.

 

[BlakeOlivo]

I nearly died when i realised that B was the ossicles. I thought A, B and C were the components of the ossicles. Thank god i realised last minute.

OMG SAME!!! I like died when I saw that, then had another look and derp. I was like wtf, functions of the middle part of the ear ossicles :S

 

[eXanimo]

Multiple choice questions were a bit rough, but do-able. Hopefully 19 or 20 for that.

The main section i felt was a breeze. Yes, lots of long-ish questions, but they all offered good opportunities to pick up marks.

The genetics Option topic was a bit of a scam XD Im SO lucky that i studied transposons like 5 minutes before entering the exam, so i nailed that, but most people in my cohort were ???????????? clueless.

 

[ZombieApocalypse]

what was that quantiative data thing ? in communication for the eye experiment ?

I thought it referred to recording the focal length required for a clear image to be formed on the retina.




But wtf was that question about the inherited/recessive/sex linked mother? i was so lost. and i spent way too much time trying to figure out that enzyme activity graph.

 

[BlakeOlivo]

what was that quantiative data thing ? in communication for the eye experiment ?

I wrote distance of the candle from the lens. There was a ruler in the diagram, and as you know from english, nothing is placed randomly, it all has a reason!