After the EXAM (feedback)

[JL_91]

Sorry I don't think I expressed myself too well when I said what I thought the question was about! No, I didn't mean control, experimental group etc. - although those are things I believe would be accepted in the mix. My answer had more to do about what your teachers thought - mutations, genetic history of the family, other factors etc.

*Edit: Saraime2003 - I put 2/3 for that question too I think it's right, because we already know that the individual was expressing the dominant phenotype. Therefore we remove the chance of him being pp.

[username]

Sorry I don't think I expressed myself too well when I said what I thought the question was about! No, I didn't mean control, experimental group etc. - although those are things I believe would be accepted in the mix. My answer had more to do about what your teachers thought - mutations, genetic history of the family, other factors etc.

*Edit: Saraime2003 - I put 2/3 for that question too I think it's right, because we already know that the individual was expressing the dominant phenotype. Therefore we remove the chance of him being pp.

Exxxxcellenntttt. Thanks JL, you're one smart cookie.

[Abansal]

one would think the writing of the exams would gradually get better.

[username]

one would think the writing of the exams would gradually get better.

Guess they're wrong .

[Abansal]

Biol joke to lighten the mood:
If i could be an enzyme, Id wanna be a DNA Helicase so i could unzip your genes.

[JL_91]

Biol joke to lighten the mood:
If i could be an enzyme, Id wanna be a DNA Helicase so i could unzip your genes.

LOL that's so bad it's good XD

I should share some of my biology teacher's quotable quotes. He is the KING when it comes to those.
"One person's peas are another's fun!" (when we were studying Mendel's experiments)

"It's a doozy!" (in reference to everything good, tough, or just plain funny, that we came across)

"Don't think about too much!" (when he was wishing us good luck for our mid year exam)

[username]

Do you guys reckon, since majority have found this exam quite difficult, that Biology won't go down this year (cuz of the easiness of the midyear), or stay the same?

In other words, do you reckon it'll still go up by 1?

[JL_91]

Well from looking at the scaling from previous years, it generally goes up. So I don't expect that to change to something like, say, Psych, where if you get anything 45 or under, you get scaled down. I sure hope it doesn't go down!
What do you all think it will take to get a 50? I heard about some guy in 2006 who got a 50 with full marks on his SACs (after scaling), 63/75 on exam 1 and 72/75 on exam 2. I don't know how 'difficult' 2006 was though...

[username]

Wasn't 06 considered really easy, but 07 extremely hard? I think for a 50 you'd want A+ across all three GAs and losing no more than 5 marks on both exams (together, without doubling). I read somewhere on another board (can't remember which) that someone lost 5 marks and still got 50. Unsure about sacs but I'm guessing you'd want as high as possible.

[JL_91]

I have no idea about 06. But those are the marks that guy got for a 50 - he posted them on BoS to answer someone's question about getting a 50.
07..the end of year was tough for sure - way too much reading required to answer the q's.
Do you mean that person lost 5 marks on one exam, or 5 marks across both exams, to get a 50? And was that 07?

[username]

Ha I think we're talking about the same dude on BoS. He lost 5 across both exams though, pretty sure (but you might want to double check). I'm not sure what year though, sorryy. Y'aiming for a 50?

[JL_91]

I'll copy and paste his exact comment from BoS:

"haha 2006. what a year
these scores got me 50 in '06-

GA1 (exam 1) - 126/150
GA2 (SACs) - 200/200
GA3 (exam 2) - 144/150

not as high as you'd think huh! hope that helps"

..well, to answer your question, no I'm not specifically aiming for a 50, although of course it would be great XD My teacher really wants me to hit the high 40s, and personally I'm aiming for 45+ but my gut feeling is I won't get it lol.

[NE2000]

lol, 126/150 is in reach ...but 2006 midyear was the first in a new study design and was considered really hard. Also, that guy was dux of MHS last year...

I think (hope) A+ is around 110/150, and two st. devs of the mean is around 130/135...

[akwilkie]

God, that exam was horrid. I mean, it didn't give us an opportunity to show off what we know. The questions were poorly-worded and dodgy. I am pretty mad - I did 27 practice exams in preparations for this examination, and also made notes and that, and I feel like most of it was for squat. Anyone agree with me?

[akwilkie]

hey is bateria a vector? I was gonna write plasmids but i don't know why i didn't my brain just went stupid.

i put virus for vector - think that's alright?