• Best of luck to the class of 2024 for their HSC exams. You got this!
    Let us know your thoughts on the HSC exams here
  • YOU can help the next generation of students in the community!
    Share your trial papers and notes on our Notes & Resources page
MedVision ad

Exam Thoughts (4 Viewers)

what-for?

Member
Joined
Apr 25, 2007
Messages
44
Gender
Female
HSC
2007
i thought it was a good exam.
im worried about my 8 mark question though.

i asked my teacher about q14 on multiple choice about aldosterone and ADH. she said it was A which is what i put.

when i first found out my class was doing The Human Story, i couldve died. i mean, knowing off by heart the names AND characteristics of humans' ELEVEN immediate ancestors who have bloody hard names (Australopithecus afarensis- thats just ONE!) is crazy. throw in all that other bullshit and theres no way you could learn it all.

when i saw the question for human story in the exam, i totally ate my words. i could not have been happier. managed to fill out all 8 pages for those questions.

im hoping i get a band 6. *knock on wood*
 

FUFU

New Member
Joined
Apr 22, 2006
Messages
8
Gender
Female
HSC
2007
i thought this exam was ok, it wasnt so much in detail, i thought it at times to be quite weird especially the one where you had to design an experiment! but overall it was ok, i was rushing through it, but when i realised no-one had finished i just took my time till i finished it! communication was good it wasnt that hard, i was expecting it to be far worse! hope i dont jinx myself! LOL
 

Buiboi

Member
Joined
Apr 24, 2006
Messages
610
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
i dont care what your teacehr said was the answer for 14...but its CCCCCC!!!!:burn:
 

melbell2046

New Member
Joined
Nov 13, 2006
Messages
11
Gender
Female
HSC
2007
im so glad most people found that exam easy! i had almost an hour left to check my answers at the end. we did the communication option and i found even those questions relatively straightforward as long as you read the question completely.so glad im not the only one that thought this!:wave:
 

toohonest

New Member
Joined
Jun 18, 2007
Messages
1
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
2007
half the year doin biology walked out after about 2 hours... either it was really easy or we missed alot of trick questions.... that q about genes & health stumped me as well.... ehhh im expectin nothing special for that exam.....

we were allowed to take the booklets with us.. thinking of burning it...
 

shanti96

ya hasra and goodnight
Joined
Sep 14, 2006
Messages
261
Location
Tally Room
Gender
Female
HSC
2007
14 is C... well thats what I put. ADH increases reabsorption and aldosterone controls water and salt reabsorption though people always think that it only controls reabsorption of salt.

For Q3.. I think I put A but Im scared b/c the circles look like sieve plates like in the phloem.

What did you guys put for 4? I put C but it looks really wrong to me.

Also for Q12 I put A but Im not 100% sure. Since it says interation in the question, the T cell releases a soluble factor (1 of 2 mechanisms in T/B cell interation) that stimulates the B cell but in the t cell box, it doesnt mention the soluble factor.
 
Last edited:

chronicfootball

Member for Bennelong
Joined
Sep 14, 2006
Messages
35
Location
Limbo
Gender
Male
HSC
2007
joshuaali said:
http://community.boredofstudies.org/743/biology/157142/multiple-choice.html#post3162785

Amylou222: Well, aldosterone's true purpose is to retain sodium ions. Water is conserved in the process, but I don't know.
I was talking about this with my mates. Yes even though aldosterone retains Na+ ions and therefore water, not strictly rehydrating, the question is, why inhibit it?
That was a specific of the question. I cant see how the body would benefit from inhibiting aldosterone as it increase water absorbtion via osmosis, while thats not its original fucntion the fact is, by having both hormones acting there is more water absorbed
 

chronicfootball

Member for Bennelong
Joined
Sep 14, 2006
Messages
35
Location
Limbo
Gender
Male
HSC
2007
asparagushills2 said:
The DNA percentage question was easy! there complimentary strands, therefore A=T and from the remainder G=C. I found that test quite easy, im hoping for a good mark, our biochemistry option was easy, made me happy. only one im worried about was the phloem/xylem question. i said phloem only cos it was closer to the outside and was fatter, whilst the xylem (which relies more on capillary action i reasoned) would be narrower, also its closer to the centre, so i said that one.
Mate i said exactly what u did, it was a nice thick tube on the outside of the vascular bundle, and it had those rings all the way up and they sure didnt look like lignin. But one of my friends said it was xylem sooo... lol wait and see aye
 

emma123321

New Member
Joined
Jul 7, 2007
Messages
1
Gender
Female
HSC
2007
yea our group finished about 2.5hrs early to.i thought it was way to easy but i dont think we all could have bombed:bomb:
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 4)

Top