After the EXAM (feedback)

[bridgethuss]

i hope everyone in the state did shit like me!!!

[susien7]

i just wrote a general answer about cactus not being in a suitable environment for fossilisation allowing decomposers and stuff.. how much was that question out of?

[carolyncarolyn]

im so stupid, i crapped up  the first question i circled 22 autosomes instead of 44 autosomes. garrrr!

[Ekky]

im so stupid, i crapped up  the first question i circled 22 autosomes instead of 44 autosomes. garrrr!

I'm pretty sure it wasn't an uncommon mistake...

[NE2000]

Pretty annoyed coz with the Hobbit vs. Sapiens question I thought they wanted fossil evidence, but it just says evidence, so I could have put mtDNA evidence as to the point of divergence. Pretty annoyed with myself now...

And the beta haemoglobin molecular clock thing probably won't work either...

[Ekky]

Pretty annoyed coz with the Hobbit vs. Sapiens question I thought they wanted fossil evidence, but it just says evidence, so I could have put mtDNA evidence as to the point of divergence. Pretty annoyed with myself now...

And the beta haemoglobin molecular clock thing probably won't work either...

oh dear...same mistake as you...

[gemgem49]

Argh I can't believe I wrote 22 for the first MC, instead of 44.
Also, could you have said lysosome for the vector question?
Meh doesn't matter, I left so many parts blank. Screwed.

What SS could I get with A+ midyear and like a C on the end of year?

[NE2000]

Also, could you have said lysosome for the vector question?

A liposome should have got the mark...

[gemgem49]

Yeh that's what I meant.... Ok not really haha I wrote the wrong word. I am an idiot.

[susien7]

haha don't be too hard on yourself, if i had even thought about liposome i'm sure i would have wrote lysosome aswell lol

[KeyMan]

I stuffed up that exam so bad, had no idea what to write for the bomb question. What three factors scientists needed to consider. I blanked out and just wrote what ever came into my head. Most of it was psychology stuff so i just rambled on about confidentiality, informed consent, participation....... LOL

0 marks here I come

[JL_91]

^ Don't worry too much about that first bomb question. Both my school's bio teachers were bitching about that question straight after the exam! We all came to the consensus that basically - most reasonable answers will be accepted.

[username]

^ Don't worry too much about that first bomb question. Both my school's bio teachers were bitching about that question straight after the exam! We all came to the consensus that basically - most reasonable answers will be accepted.

Were you teachers 100% absolutely sure they were looking for experimental design stuff such as control, experimental group etc though? My teacher had a conflicting opinion and said that it sounded more like the things they might've considered like past history of mutations and stuff.

[Saraime2003]

lol i came out thinking wow that was easier than i expected... i then went to my teacher with the spare book i got and we figured out the answers to the MC and some of the SA.... i haver either 20 or 21 out of 25... a few of the quetsions were very ambiguous. with the one about PKU (questions 13 and 14) my teahcer n i weren't sure. for 14 it said:
the chance that individual III-3 was Pp with regard to the PKU locus is:
A. 1/3
B. 1/2
C. 2/3
D. 3/4

I chose C because on the pedigree it already shows that he doesn't have PKU so he can't be pp so its only out of 3 not 4.
I then did a punnet square and crossed out the pp and the double checked that there was only 2 Pp's. So i got 2/3. My teacher reckons it could of been 1/2 or 2/3 lol.

I stuffed up majorly on Q4 (SA) (the bomb one) lol... its good if everyone stuffs it up. lol.

Aimee

[Abansal]

i agree on the past history stuff. the question stated to consider factors while designing the experement. this had to have meant genetic pre dispositions and the like.