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WJEC BIOLOGY BY1 2016 (NEW AS) Thread

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Reply 140

Miz1

Does anyone have the exam paper?

Reply 141

lemonandlime1

Any 9 mark predictions?

Reply 142

lemonandlime1

can anyone explain the tissue fluid thing
Like what happens at the arterial end and the venule end and why it's important please

Reply 143

clairebear101

Original post by RasputinReborn

It'll be something easy. They won't discriminate against pupils on a 9 mark question. I think it will be describing and explaining the effects of temp, light, humidity and wind speed on the rate of transpiration, or how water moves up from the roots to stomata. Definitely feel something plant related coming up. On the specimen papers, for WJEC, it was describing how the the electrical excitation from the SAN causes them to contract, and for Eduqas, it was comparing oxygen affinity between a frog and tadpole. So in conclusion:

Plant stuff as mentioned above.
Describe how x is digested and absorbed.
Describe how various organisms have evolved and how various methods can prove this.
Describe and explain the adaptations for gas exchange in mammals and fish.

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Im so glad the spec 9 marker was on oxygen graphs cuz i hate em ahah I agree with your prediction about the plant stuff, i'm thinking it might give us data and then say compare the transport in xylem and phloem but im eduqas

Reply 144

valbrechts

Original post by lemonandlime1

can anyone explain the tissue fluid thing
Like what happens at the arterial end and the venule end and why it's important please

Hydrostatic pressure> osmotic @ arterial end so net movement out (ultrafiltration)

Reverse in venous end via osmosis

Not really sure of its importance though :/

Reply 145

AsiaEH

Original post by RasputinReborn

"Comparable to the legacy specification." I surely can't be the only who was comfortably getting A grades, and now begging for a B/C. If they want to make it comparable, then Lord there's going to have to be some real low grade boundaries.

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I'm in the same position as you , It's so unfair I doubt I'll even pass biology this year :frown:

someone should start a petition or something ! :confused:

The most annoying part is that the revision guides didn't have any questions that were similar to those on the real paper?!

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Reply 146

clairebear101

Original post by RasputinReborn

Ironically, the textbook/revision guide is written by the same ***** that write up the exam paper.

Hey guys am I write in saying the grade boundaries come up the day before results day? if we see that they are not lowered to reflect that exam then we need to complain

Reply 147

tinadehban

FOR EVERYONE THAT THOUGHT THE EXAM PAPER WAS UNFAIR / TOO DIFFICULT

http://qualificationswales.org/news/summer-exams-2016/?lang=en&

ANSWER THIS

Reply 148

lemonandlime1

I can't remember anything because nothing is sticking in my head

Reply 149

username2324343

dreading BY2 today, praying it wont be as crappy as the BY1 because I know I'm failing that

Reply 150

science2001

did anyone do the legacy paper? if so what did you think?

Reply 151

Luketidley

Did anyone do the new spec BY2 paper today? How did everyone find it? I personally found it quite easy

Reply 152

Dom1!

I thought it was horrible, but still better than Unit 1 😂

Reply 153

ActuallyIDo

On the question where they talk about which two animals could be classified in the same group and showed you 3 pictures....

do you think they will mark me down for spelling incisors as insicors

And on the bat frequency graph thing, how many pulses did you put in a second?

AND, what did you put in the heart defect question?

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Reply 154

clairebear101

Original post by ActuallyIDo

On the question where they talk about which two animals could be classified in the same group and showed you 3 pictures....

do you think they will mark me down for spelling incisors as insicors

And on the bat frequency graph thing, how many pulses did you put in a second?

AND, what did you put in the heart defect question?

Well is said that they both has large canines and indents on their jaw and skull. I put that there was no septum and that the atrium and ventricles had no values between them and i got 41 pulses, check out the tread i made for this exam as this is educas not wjec

Reply 155

alevelsarepoo

Original post by science2001

did anyone do the legacy paper? if so what did you think?

Yeah I did, is there a thread for it? I thought it was okay, some questions were worded weirdly and I think I read into it wrong but who knows. How did you find it?

Reply 156

username2324343

Original post by clairebear101

What is exam was this ? There was no dentition of animals or heart question on WJEC BY2 I did

Reply 157

pharmhopeful16

There are two WJEC BY2 papers, one Eduqas and the other just WJEC. I did the one you did with no heart. I thought it was better than BY1 but it wasn't that nice either xx

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Reply 158

username2324343

Original post by pharmhopeful16

There are two WJEC BY2 papers, one Eduqas and the other just WJEC. I did the one you did with no heart. I thought it was better than BY1 but it wasn't that nice either xx

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Ahhh thank you ! That one sounds better than the ones we did :c I can do dentition and everything to do with the heart and nothing came up!! Yeh both were crap , BY2 slightly less crap

Reply 159

pharmhopeful16

Same! Those were my favourite topics. I found the last diversity question threw me a bit. They gave an index of 10.24 but I thought it couldn't exceed one 😕 but the essay question wasn't too bad though

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