Post Exam Discussion

[bridgetkelly123]

I don't know guys. My teacher said it was multi regional. Maybe they accept both

Let's pray that they'll take either, depending on your justification....

I wonder around what mark the A+ cutoff will be?

[LoadedWithPotatoes]

A+ cut off will probably be around low 90s again..

[Biology24123]

A+ cut off will probably be around low 90s again..

Honestly the only hard questions were the last 2. Can't believe there was so little on inheritance

[julijulib]

The question about the comparison of structures in fossils was so unexpected.. i got it so wrong

[Alsci]

An A+ last year was 87%

[TwinNerd]

Let's pray that they'll take either, depending on your justification....

I wonder around what mark the A+ cutoff will be?

 I thought that the exam was pretty good, easier than last year in my opinion. However, I thought the multiple choice questions were a bit tricky like some of them I had to toss up between to answers. People at my school had mixed response some saying it was okay others saying it was a disaster

I think the last question you could write either out of africa or multi regional as long as your reasoning is right.
I think I stuffed up the piercing membrane question...

[The Peasant]

my teacher said it was out-of-africa so idk

I honestly think that its out of africa. I'll try reason for this.
So basically homo sapiens evolved in africa first before emigrating and displacing other homo species.
-I think that the DNA evidence also supports this
-So basically why the African individuals do not have neanderthal DNA is because their homo sapien ancestors remained in Africa, instead of migrating.
-Other homo spaiens (which originally evolved in Africa) moved to other continents (from africa to middle east -->europe/east asia---. and finally Australia). Basically interbreeding occured and hence neaderthal dna exists in homo sapiens of which inhabited these regions.
So both DNA evidence supports this.

I honestly didnt write my answer like this (I panicked and contradicted myself to rip marks).

[BakedDwarf]

The question about the comparison of structures in fossils was so unexpected.. i got it so wrong

ahah i guessed comparative morphology.

[julijulib]

I thought that the exam was pretty good, easier than last year in my opinion. However, I thought the multiple choice questions were a bit tricky like some of them I had to toss up between to answers. People at my school had mixed response some saying it was okay others saying it was a disaster

I think the last question you could write either out of africa or multi regional as long as your reasoning is right.
I think I stuffed up the piercing membrane question...

For the membrane one I put that the extracellular fluid would come into the cell changing the pH of the neuron and preventing chemical reactions catalysed by enzymes from occurring, causing cell death

[bridgetkelly123]

The question about the comparison of structures in fossils was so unexpected.. i got it so wrong

Was it comparative morphology or comparative anatomy? Lel I am defintiley not getting an A+ unless it was out of Africa AND I didn't drop a mark on MC...

[Biology24123]

I thought that the exam was pretty good, easier than last year in my opinion. However, I thought the multiple choice questions were a bit tricky like some of them I had to toss up between to answers. People at my school had mixed response some saying it was okay others saying it was a disaster

I think the last question you could write either out of africa or multi regional as long as your reasoning is right.
I think I stuffed up the piercing membrane question...

How did you find that easier than last year. Last years exam was the easiest exam I've done

[julijulib]

Was it comparative morphology or comparative anatomy? Lel I am defintiley not getting an A+ unless it was out of Africa AND I didn't drop a mark on MC...

According to my teacher who marks the papers, it's not on the study design so everyone should get a mark as long as they wrote something..........

[LoadedWithPotatoes]

How did you find that easier than last year. Last years exam was the easiest exam I've done

Yeah.. honestly found this year's exam much harder than the 2013 and 2014 one.

[warya]

No joke I was staring at that meiosis diagram for a good 10 minutes
The gene cloning mcq, was it because bacteria undergo mitosis exponentially?

The linked genes question took me ages, I ended up drawing a corss and wrote one line of justification hope its enough haha

[The Peasant]

ahah i guessed comparative morphology.

Likewise. I wrote comparative morphology as well. Pretty sure its right.