AQA BIOL5 Biology Unit 5 Exam - 22nd June 2011

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did the cycle question but i only wrote about Krebs, Calvin, Cardiac and some muscle-y thingy about the myosin head..... im just not a very quick writer tho :/ especially when it comes to essays!! :frown:

did anyone do the other question?

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5mattcolour

And that was so mach harder than the June 2010 paper!

Reply 2442

TlanTlan

I did cycles essay, got 6 cycles:

Krebs,
Calvin,
Nitrogen,
Carbon,
Cell,
Menstrual.

Reply 2443

jendra9311

Original post by M | k e

Wonder if first question threw anyone with it being RNA instead of DNA.
The 2 fragments were Phosphate and Ribose, but alot of people I know just put sugar, wonder if they'll accept it :tongue:

Ribose!!!

I put sugar

(edited 12 years ago)

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Gemma2010

Original post by JONNYCMW

I loved this exam! what a broad essay title! and the questions were very related to the spec and past papers. it was a beaut

I wasn't expecting so much synoptic stuff in the actual questions and there to be almost nothing on responses and action potentials!

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M | k e

Original post by *QueenBeee

found this solid
I cant believe it in comparison to june 2010, which i thought was a fairly decent paper I thought this one was horrible!!
I just pray grade boundarise are super low - no one has said it was easy
IN june 2010 the grade boundaries were as follows:
A*- 69
A - 62
B - 55
C - 49
D - 43
E - 37

This year I reckon
A* - 64
A - 57
B - 50
C- 44
D - 38
E - 32
anyone agree?? too harsh?? to nice ????? xxx

People seem to have found the paper itself harder than last year, but the essay easier. The essay is a biggg chunk of it really. I wouldn't be surprised to see it about the same. Could be wrong though :tongue:

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*QueenBeee

Original post by NRican

Anyone else find the exam harder than June 10?

I dont even think they should be compared - completely different league!! June 2010 was alot off application, this paper was full of graphs and hsw!! grrrrrrrrr what do you think grade boundaries are gonna be like??

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Tericon

I didn't try any of the maths ones, thats about 5 marks down the drain. Missed out about 5 questions, 20 marks down the drain.

Ill just have to hope the few i answered were right.

I need an A in this exam, if grade boundaries are as low as they were last year, im in with a small shout, otherwie, goodbye uni :tongue:

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joyce996

screw this, imma be an air stewardess instead.

okay not really but yea AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GOODBYE A AND POSSIBLY A B IN BIOLOGY :frown:

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woods.vanessa

Original post by Orihime

Question 2: What does "very large" represent?

Answer????/

Lol I didnt understand that at all!

Reply 2450

empop92

loved the cycles essay! i predicted it would come up and did practice essay on it before hand (i think im psychic)
also it was 80 0 0 for the % question cus it was only asking about nervous stimulation and at 1 it was 8 units whilst at 1 hormones was 2 units.. therefore 80%! at 2 and 3 hours nervous stimulation didnt affect it at all!
and 5:1 for ratio i think is right too! messed up all the pupa questions or whatever they were :P

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M | k e

Original post by Orihime

Question 2: What does "very large" represent?

Answer????/

Lol seemed such a stupid question I didn't really know what it was asking for. I just said something like "The rest of the plasmid and unknown DNA" :s-smilie:

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-Iffy-

I hated question 9 :/ missed 3 2 mark questions out cos I was rushed for time to complete the essay, so I didn't complete the paper. Found it harder than June but that's partly because there was so much DNA technology in there. I spent ages revising nerve impulses and muscle contraction but there were no questions on it. I wish I spent half as much time on DNA tech than I did for nerve impulses and muscle contraction :mad:

Reply 2453

James_mcfc

Thought the essay was brilliant - did the use of DNA question. The other questions were difficult, but I hope I've done enough for a B/C.

My tactic was to do the essay first, to get that out of the way. Ended up answering all of them bar one 1 marker.

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woods.vanessa

Original post by M | k e

Cut it twice? :P

O whole
(_) one cut
( ) 2 cuts?

So yeah it showed the plasmid would be cut once leaving (_) so if 2 fragments were produced, the unknown DNA must have contained the recognition sequence for the restriction enzyme to cut again, hence ( ) formed.

Yeah but the question said it was cut once?
Im confused :frown:

Tell me you put 2 in the answer for number of cuts or something :biggrin:

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Gemma2010

Original post by cheekymon999

Did nobody do the DNA essay? i thought that was a beaut! made up for the stupid questions on this essay that hardly related to this unit!

I did and alomst everyone I know. I got a bit confused on the whole 'use' part though, did it want you to explain how the process worked or how the process could be applied or both?

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5mattcolour

Original post by woods.vanessa

Lol I didnt understand that at all!

Me neither :frown:

Reply 2457

my_username_rocks

i put that the large fragment represented most of the unknown dna and most of the plasmid.. very scientific..

Reply 2458

Funzo

Well revising the first section of this unit was a complete waste of time why didnt they just say this year were gonna comeplete ignore a whole section of the syllabus so dont bother learning it!!