2010 Unit 3 Bio Exam Discussion

[fujiismydog]

Hey guys just had the bio exam this morning. Just wondering how you guys thought you went. I personally found it very long, cutting it short at the end of the exam as I seem to write too much.. Some of my classmate found it short and other found it long. How did you think you went?

[slothpomba]

I also found it long, almost excessively long.

All the practice exams i finished in 45 minutes roughly, an hour max.

This i was cutting it fine, in the last seconds i was madly rushing to fill in the last 2 questions. I *just* finished, don't know if those answers will get me anything or complete gibberish.

Anyway overall, im pretty pleased on how i went.

Pretty stoked william can keep his cat too

[matt123]

HAHAH WILLIAM KEEPING HIS CAT .. LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

dudeeee .. personally . that was the longest exam .. crappest exam ever made lol ...
i usualy also finish in 45 mins ... i didnt finish this one .... the last question .. i didnt even answer it logically .. just wrote some random crap about the nervous system and the weeks of embryo ... 0 marks .. lol

what % do you think you guys got?

[matt123]

is this drug going to effect me in any way?

if there are any side effects . what should i do



how bout you?

[slothpomba]

Theres a tiny bioethics section in Nature of biology (Chapter 4 - Molecular Bio in Medicine, Pg 126) i think that is what the question was shooting for.

I wrote:
(A) What benefits will i get from this drug?

(B) Can i be sure i will get the real drug and not a placebo?

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Edit: I didnt talk about side effects because in the question it said it was proven to be safe in humans

[matt123]

true true
i think ur gonna get an A+ hahaha u freaaaked it

umm .. it does say in the question that it has no side effects
but the patients dont know that .. of course they will ask the doctor if its going to show harm to them

but i doubt the examiners will take my answer after hearing the correct response from you hahaha

[fujiismydog]

Haha the cat. For the last one I wrote the younger child will have more of a chance to be deficient because it is more likely, relating it to the graph. It was basically scribble by the time I got to it.

[matt123]

hah yeah you guys answerd it well

i wish i just left it blank .. my answer makes the examiners think im some dumb nut hahah

[slothpomba]

true true
i think ur gonna get an A+ hahaha u freaaaked it

I play to win

umm .. it does say in the question that it has no side effects
but the patients dont know that .. of course they will ask the doctor if its going to show harm to them

Didn't think of that in this way but yeah that is a good point.

[matt123]

along my answer with side affects i also said .... the paitent might want to know which drugs he can take with this .... hence if there is also any side effects
so hopefully ill atleast get 1/2

[10weid]

can sum1 post the exam up on the site?
i'd love to have a look

[lisa_1193]

it didn't say the drug had no side effects, it said it was safe on humans. many drugs are safe but still have side effects.
i asked:
does the drug have any side effects?
and how and when should the drug be administered?
although i'm not sure.
did the question on photosynthesising animal/plant thing confuse anyone else?
i wrote about photosynthesis when the question asked about aerobic respiration

[stonecold]

I wrote will this drug make me more suscpetable to infection from other diseases?, as it is an immunosupressant.  I thought this was right, but who knows what they will take.

For the second Q, I just wrote side effects/ any foods I can't eat?

I thought about changing it to how often should I take it, but ran outta time...

[bubsy]

Uh oh, I didn't say that William got to keep his cat because it seemed like such a stupid response.

I asked, a) does the drug work by suppressing the action of T lymphocytes?
b) if so, to what extent does the drug's action increase my chances of developing cancer
>.< i think i missed the point a bit...
what did everyone put for the part before that question? i didn't know what marked gluten as a non-self substance so i drew little spiky things on it and never specified what they were :P sigh
heaps of errors, but all in all i think i didn't do too badly

[slothpomba]

Some of my friends mixed up the photosynthesis/cullaular respiration thing too.

Heres how i understood it: