Biology Exam Discussion

[SwagG]

How was it?

[Yacoubb]

Anyone have a copy of the exam that they could scan & upload? Will try and get answers up for it!

[notverygood]

I did well, but it was definitely a difficult exam.
I wrote that  T helper cell was apart of the innate immune response, which im not sure if its correct or not seeing since its apart of both innate and adaptive but either way. There were quite a few pages on Evolution, and there was also quite a few questions on immunity, one was asking differences between humoral and cell mediated.
But there were very few questions that I found were 'easy' when it came to the short answer.

[Yacoubb]

I did well, but it was definitely a difficult exam.
I wrote that  T helper cell was apart of the innate immune response, which im not sure if its correct or not seeing since its apart of both innate and adaptive but either way. There were quite a few pages on Evolution, and there was also quite a few questions on immunity, one was asking differences between humoral and cell mediated.
But there were very few questions that I found were 'easy' when it came to the short answer.

That's great to hear :-)
Yeah it's one of those things with T-helper cells. It would probably be more accurate to describe them as being a part of the adaptive immune response, but all is well don't worry! The exam seems to be by general consensus tricky, which is good because grade distributions should work in your favour.

Just out of interest, how can you compare it to 2013 and 2014 in terms of difficulty. I really want to get my hands on a copy of the exam! #desperatetutor

[notverygood]

I've done the past 12 exams and I think this was the hardest one, there were alot of questions I feel as though no one would know. One question asked about which theory was being discussed, and the answer was the Out-Of-Africa Theory. I doubt many know the answer, it just happened to come to me somehow. Also quite of the multiple choice were tricky, one happened to be a codon chart that took me about 5 minutes to figure out. A lot of the multiple choice questions were phrased oddly, but back to the short-answer, we were lucky enough to get photosynthesis instead of cellular respiration, but I messed up and put NADPH+ as an input instead of NADPH, hopefully the assessors are nice enough.

[heids]

Yacoubb, head over to the real Bio board (discussion has broken out there not in its rightful place) and there's a copy there, plus suggested answers going up