After the EXAM (feedback)

[JL_91]

Virus is one type. Other options include a plasmid (I put this one) or a liposome..I may have missed some.

[Toothpaste]

So many posts...
I'll just reply to one .

Virus is one type. Other options include a plasmid (I put this one) or a liposome..I may have missed some.

Woo yay, I wrote liposome.

[simi]

i THOUGHT THE RXAM WAS RELATIVRELY EASY - WHAT DO YOU THINK???

[username]

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...

Hells yes that sounds good..

[chlloe]

^^^

Wow. So a 73% is an A+ or thereabouts!

There is hope for me yet!

What would you say would be an SS of B+/A/A or even b+/A/A+??

[luluish]

i thought the exam was pretty hard :|

[cookie_dough]

i thought the exam was pretty hard :|

yeah i found it harder than trial exams. it was so random compared to the others! so much more focus on evolution.. and so little on like pedigrees, pcr, electrophoresis, dna hybridization etc. ALL THE THINGS I STUDIED IN DETAIL D=< *jawdrop.

[bridgethuss]

to put it simply - i HATED this exam.

[ryley]

Ok, I finally feel calm enough to talk about the exam: I hated it. In the two weeks leading up to the exam, I did more than 25 past and practice exams, scoring A+'s on all the past ones back to 2002. I went to a revision lecture at monash, and the revision night at school, read checkpoints and two different textbooks compulsively(doing ALL review questions from both textbooks), wrote my own notes, read other peoples notes, listened to Douchy's biology podcasts and I really was not ready for this exam. The short answer was a massive departure from all previous exams, both in content and structure, I was in shock when I saw it. I answered everything in good time, but I could have sat there for hours and still not honestly believed what I wrote were acceptable answers. Some questions were simply terrible, such as question 4 in the short answer. After an A+ on the midyear, and being ranked first for outcomes in my school, I can honestly not see myself getting higher than a B on this exam. Why did VCAA have to change it so much? Surely after last years pseudogenes debacle, they would have been tentative about any major changes. That said, I found the multiple choice fine, maybe droppeed 2 or 3 marks, but any chance I had of a 40 was lost in the short answer.

Wow, I feel better after venting that.

PS: I'd like to thank those of you who uploaded all those praqctice exams, really appreciate it.

[bridgethuss]

wow, it makes me feel better to know im not the only one who hated this exam, especially because youre a top student!
i myself am not the best at biology, its probably my worst subject, i got a c+ on the mid year, but this time i did heaps of revision i went to lectures i made millions of notes, and i felt it was just a waste.
but i hope you get your 40 cos you clearly deserve it, and i hope that everyone did bad so vcaa can get a little wake up call!!! i only hope we all did bad so they would mark easier or something!!! but that exam was shit!!!!

[ryley]

Jesus, your not talking about me are you? Not even my parents are that nice! I'm with you on the whole "hoping everyone does bad thing", as thats the only way I can see myself doing as well as I hoped going into the exam. I'm not sure how VCAA will respond everyone scoring lower, their new thing for bio seems to be put in analysis type questions (pseudogenes last year, sailors this year), I just hope they opt for more straightforward analysis questions. Either way, I hope you do well, my bio teacher reminded us all year that its the kids who do more work, not necessarily the smarter ones, who do well in bio. December 15 seems ages, but at least I've got meaningless year 11 exams to distract me . Goodluck to everyone else here, hope you found it easier than me.