Assessment of SACs

[Voltman]

  I understand that quite a few biology SACs are practicals. Are we being assessed on how we carry out the practicals as groups or is it only the written report or questions that come up later based on it that matters?

[jackinthepatch]

You are marked on:
-aim, title, name, partner's name, date, method/materials, etc (usually 2 or so marks)
-results (5 marks or something)
-discussion questions (around 15-30 marks...these are the most important part of a prac)
-conclusion (about 2 marks)

That's how our school does it anyway.

[Voltman]

That's how our school does it anyway.

Strangely we are not doing any practical reports just questions on the experiment. Does anyone also do this instead?

[jackinthepatch]

Oh really? Lucky. We have to do the whole experimental method, including hypotheses and things.

[hard]

That's how our school does it anyway.

Strangely we are not doing any practical reports just questions on the experiment. Does anyone also do this instead?

same

[paulii]

Yeah in my bio we do it the same as jacks school, including hypothesus and everything.
Disscussion questions are worth the most marks.

[khalil]

we have q's.. a sac from tssm

[Richiie]

Phew, i've got it luckier than some people here. Our school just does the prac, then a few discussion questions.

[bugmeenot]

we get given the experiment printed out when we do it.

for the SAC we take in results and prac sheet and all questions are theory and discussion questions based on experiment. the way you do the prac isnt assessed but the written SAC is, and if you didnt do the prac right or were messing around, your esults will be inaccurate making discussion questions difficult to answer.
the written SAC has questions that are pretty much like a write up aswell such as, what are the variables? what was your hypoth, was it supported?

[physics]

Oh really? Lucky. We have to do the whole experimental method, including hypotheses and things.

SAMEEEE! but we get open book and stufff

[shinny]

Advice for those who have to do a full prac report; use your introduction as a cheat sheet, especially if you're given the discussion questions before hand. You can pretty easily hide relevant stuff into that intro and pretend its just part of the theory, or its an observation relevant to the prac.