2010 Biology Exam 1 Discussion

[matt123]

ok guys ... is it just me .. or did any 1 else find that like 10X harder than last years exam??
i didnt even finish in time lol .. last years exam i got 94% ... this years .. ill be lucky to get 70-75% ...

wtfff?? how did you guys go??

[matt123]

lol i know dude ... half the stuff on there i had never seen before ....
i like dont get under 90% for any of my prac exams .. and i rekon i literaly will be lucky to hit a B+ or A .. ( 75%)
im scared .. dont wanan get my mark back now .. fuaaaaaaarkkk

[Russ]

so it was harder than last year? anything you thought was out of place on the exam?

i'm not a student anymore, but i tutor VCE Biology and I'm interested in seeing the paper so I can call my students and talk to them about it. I remember back when i went through exam papers for the midyears usually came online the same day...reckon this will happen this year?

[LFTM]

lol can't wait to hear my friends reactions. good thing i did bio last year.

[matt123]

probably wont come online for a few weeks , if not month or 2  ( until the results come back) ... but there is a possibility
 
and dude look

personally i found the exam HARD compared to last year ... basically because it was majorly based on hormone signal transduction and immune responses ... .. like .. out of the 8 or so questions .. 5 were based on that ... the other 3 where like gimmie marks .. e.g . what is this organelle

overall . there was some VERY easy questions .. such as . .describe the 3 processes of cellular respiration .. which was needed to be in such a breif explanation .. that you didnt even have to mention that where it occurred or how .. but just . what happened ( inputs/outputs)

but in saying that .. there was some DIFFICULT questions for me . which i had literally no idea over
and i got 94% on last years exam ..

so yeah . i thought it was WAYYY harder this year . but then again . thats just me .. some people may have focused more on signal transduction and immune responses and smashed the exam .. so who knows

[stonecold]

get ready to see a+ cuttoffs drop (y)

that was sorta like the chem 09 exam.  dificult and came out of nowhere.
already know I lost 2 marks on mc I am pretty sure.

laundry powder question = the hieght of gayness.

I found short answer okay though,  but maybe that was just me.

[matt123]

2 marks?
lol i lost about 18-19 marks .. so just cut in for 70% ... and since every 1 says its hard this year
i think 70% would get me an A or a B+

[Russ]

probably wont come online for a few weeks , if not month or 2  ( until the results come back) ... but there is a possibility

I meant a copy of the paper gets uploaded by someone other than the VCAA. I remember seeing those the same day/day after my midyears, but maybe things are different now?

Well what you said sounds interesting, I'm surprised it was such a narrow exam. But if the cutoffs go down then at least you'll do better than you think

[slothpomba]

I didn't find it terribly difficult.

It was much longer than i was expecting, i was completing practice exams in 45-50 minutes on average. In this exam, i was writing up until the very last questions in a mad rush to finish the last two, I'm not sure if they made any sense or they were complete gibberish.

Im not sure if thats poor time management on my part, losing track of time or it being excessively long. Probably all three.

Like most of the bio exams ive done some of the multiple choice has 2 answers which both kind of seemed right and as the bio lecturer at VU put it, there are always 2 retarded answers.

I've already forgotten most of the questions, so maybe if someone mentions one i can remember.

Most of my friends forgot the baby would have passive immunity for a couple months after birth and didn't put this in their graph.

Don't remember much else.... but most of all im relieved william can keep his cat


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Edit: Ah yes, laundry powder. I rationalised that it was the one with PH range around water, unless you wash your clothes in acid, this knocked out two, the temperatures were 30ish and 120 ish... now i dont know much about washing clothes (fail i know) but i thought 100 is boiling... we dont seem to boil our clothes, so it must be the one witth 30.

However they had extreme in their name i think... reminds me of extremeophiles which survive at high temperatures.. so i am not really sure

[matt123]

haha yeah dude

umm ...let me list you all the short answer questions i remember

the last question .. about the embryo .. mrs smith was the answer ( .. i giberished on about some random embryo weeks .. - 0 marks_
the graphh second last question ( the grapgh needed to have a continous rise in antibodies as the vaccine keeps causing cells to be produced)
the ths question ( the answer was .. the incorrected enzyme complex was the "wax l " or what it was called? lol the first enzyme
a question on cellular respiration .. list all the stages explain em
a question on organneles .. name them and list function
a question on antibodies . which 1 is better .. i said cell z .. not sure if im correct

[matt123]

in a month or so

[slothpomba]

when do we get teh results back?

August 2nd

[slothpomba]

haha yeah dude

umm ...let me list you all the short answer questions i remember

the last question .. about the embryo .. mrs smith was the answer ( .. i giberished on about some random embryo weeks .. - 0 marks_
the graphh second last question ( the grapgh needed to have a continous rise in antibodies as the vaccine keeps causing cells to be produced)
the ths question ( the answer was .. the incorrected enzyme complex was the "wax l " or what it was called? lol the first enzyme
a question on cellular respiration .. list all the stages explain em
a question on organneles .. name them and list function
a question on antibodies . which 1 is better .. i said cell z .. not sure if im correct

(1) The one with the earlier baby was more in danger. The eyes, limbs, etc would not be fully developed and it would be more affected. Common Sense i reckon.

(2)


Feature A: Passive immunity from the mother, since it is passive, slowly declines after birth (In hind sight i should of dropped this to near 0?)

Feature B: 1st immunisation

Feature C: 2nd immunisation - stronger response (higher)

(3) For the antibody question, i wrote the end one (produced the most plasma cells and fewest memory cells). The plasma cells would produce antibodies, more antibodies quicker fighting of the infection.

[crayolé]

I don't think it was difficult overall, the length was just crazy compared to other years. I took it way too slow at the start thinking i had plenty of time as other exams were finished on the hour so i rushed the last few questions :/

[matt123]

yeh crayola .. true true
i think everyone did that . hence the last few pages will be rushed
and A+ cut off will drop to 80%