Biologists! How was it?

[username]

LOL my answer to that rational drug design was such BS. We never really studied it - so I just made up something about how it's to do with considering the target cells/cell components at a molecular level and designing highly specific drugs that exert their effect by integration with cellular processes.. :S

thats 100% right actually, since rational drug design is all about molecular specificity

Oh..yay!

For anyone who's interested, I just checked the cutoff mark for an A+ in Exam 1 last year...it was 60.5/75

That's great and stuff but I think it'll be a lot higher this year, since the exam is supposedly 'easy'. ((

[Jed]

Where does it say the cut off mark for an A+?

[Toothpaste]

Where does it say the cut off mark for an A+?

2007:
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2007/section3/vce_biology_ga07.pdf

2006:
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2006/gradeassess/vce_biology_ga06.pdf

[JL_91]

Yes, I realise that unfortunately! For 2006 it was 54/70. This year...I guess we may be looking at around 65? Hopefully not much higher!  

Jed - http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/subjectstats.html you can see the statistics for yourself here, this link has them for 2001-2007  

[Jed]

Thanks

[username]

I guess... Here's to hoping everyone else did worse than us. >_>

[nvl]

come on... someone upload the paper.....

[Essein]

Yeah upload the paper i want to see it.
I done bio last year and got an A for mid year.

[BA22]

Hey guys

This years bio exam was always going to be a little more difficult as last years was considered "easy". I'm suprised you guys were thrown by drug design, as it was a poorly addressed question in the 2006 mid year exam.

As for the virus membrane question, a lipid coat is always the outermost coat, which surrounds the capsid, or protein coat.

Don't stress about individual questions too much though, have a break for a bit then get back to the slog of year 12, still a way to go yet . .

[Nick]

come on... someone upload the paper.....

If someone doesn't upload the psych paper tomorrow I think I shall cry hahahaha

[JL_91]

Hey guys

This years bio exam was always going to be a little more difficult as last years was considered "easy". I'm suprised you guys were thrown by drug design, as it was a poorly addressed question in the 2006 mid year exam.

As for the virus membrane question, a lipid coat is always the outermost coat, which surrounds the capsid, or protein coat.

Don't stress about individual questions too much though, have a break for a bit then get back to the slog of year 12, still a way to go yet . .

That's the thing, BA22...a lot of us are saying this year's bio exam was pretty easy :p That's why we're panicking a bit about the cutoff marks! Hah..yes...we're only 1/2 way through the slog...

come on... someone upload the paper.....

If someone doesn't upload the psych paper tomorrow I think I shall cry hahahaha

Where on earth do people get the papers from so soon?! I'm not so sure I want to see that bio paper again just yet...I'll be slapping myself everytime I find a new mistake!

[Nick]

The exam supervisors usually have spare copies which you can get at the end. LOL

[JL_91]

The exam supervisors usually have spare copies which you can get at the end. LOL

Ah ok. Lol, the supervisors in my school today were scary 0_0 they were so stone-faced and intimidating-looking that I almost freaked for a moment!

Did anyone else here put Drug Two when we were asked to choose which of the drugs would most effectively treat high blood pressure?

[annie]

Yea of course, cause the big circle blob and the other bits fit with the active site of the ACE enzyme..
thats what i wrote, i think i forgot to mention that its negatively charged bit matched the + charge of the enzyme as well....

I wondder if i'll drop marks for that

[JL_91]

Oh! Good point about the charges. :S I didn't mention it either, although it was in my mind at the time. But It's only a 1-mark question, so maybe 1 point about the situation would be enough to gain that mark?