The Magnificently Revamped Superduper Shiny Revision Thread 2011/12

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"Harder exams" is a double edged sword. The exam is harder, but the A, B and C boundaries will be lower, because more people will have done badly.

However, I agree that a "normal" exam is quite enough already without examiners making it tougher :smile:

Why are they doing that though? It's getting so frustrating, they've changed it up enough from last year, it's getting super irritating because it feels it's just so impossible to ever complete. I can't wait to be done with them :frown:

Reply 3241

LifeIsGood

Original post by EffKayy

****.
I hated it. AQA have definately stepped it up this year, well all exam boards have. AQA chem 1 was awful too. Biol1 was pretty tricky, well the 'passage' was about aspirin and i spent a good 10-15mins trying to figure out if it was a competitive or non competitive inhibitor as they wrote "permanently binds"( so non competitive) then it said another thing that suggested it was competitive (active site). I come on here to find out that other people were just as confused. :frown:

The questions were phrased weirdly toooooooooo.

Now im dreading BIOL4.
Hate life.

Is it more HSW questions or just the way they phrase their questions? - because that's always been a problem :frown:

I'm sure you'd have done fine, I've got BIOL2 Wednesday :/

Reply 3242

Llewellyn

Original post by LifeIsGood

It sucks, I totally agree. My physics exam on Thursday was horrible - my catholic teacher called it "a nasty bugger"..

I mean, everyone has it the same, and everyone hates a difficult exam. What is nice is just to get them over with (although I still have 2 exams :/ ) the feeling of relief is at least a little compensation I guess.

Reply 3243

AmyLH

- ~~Finish off Water Supply~~
- ~~Mining~~
- ~~Earthquake Hazards~~
- ~~Earthquake precursors/monitoring~~
- ~~Mass movement hazards~~
- ~~Mass movement monitoring~~
- ~~Management/control of effects of volcanoes, earthquakes, and mass movement.~~

- ~~Past Paper~~ 66%
- ~~Past Paper~~ 72% Skipped the essay bit though :s-smilie:

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 3244

Lakhvir.Singh

Heyy

- June 2010 paper 52/60
- January 2011 paper49/60

I have the June 2011 paper now too aswell :smile:

I'll do that tomorrow. Right now I will do some generic reading on sketchy topics :P

Reply 3245

FuzzySheep

Tomorrow:

*Listening exercises on both Spanish papers
*2 practice writing exercises
*Reading lots of articles!
*Revising all cue cards (grammar + expressions)
*Make extra notes from philosophy past papers and type them up if possible

Then first Spanish exam on Monday, eeeeeeeeek.

Reply 3246

AmyLH

Tomorrow
Geology:
- Finish off the little bit of Key Idea 2 I have left.

Civil Engineering planning:
- Ground instability.
- Hydraulic system.
- Coastal system.

- Dams and Reservoirs.
- Cuttings and rock tunnels.
- Buildings.

Then for my ISA crap on Monday:
- Go over cell membranes
- Go over osmosis
- Go through the practice booklet

I'm hoping the game's called off tomorrow so I have all day to do this :colondollar:

Reply 3247

Lakhvir.Singh

Original post by AmyLH

Where is it that you ref? :smile:

Reply 3248

AmyLH

Original post by Lakhvir.Singh

Where is it that you ref? :smile:

Well I'm registered to Central Warwickshire youth leagues so I can get allocated anywhere in Central Warwickshire really. The match I've got tomorrow is only down the road but I really can't be bothered to do it :redface:

Reply 3249

Fatcho10

Original post by Fatcho10

Chemistry
-~~F322 past paper~~ 71%
-ENTHALPY

Biology
-~~BY2 past paper~~ 70%
-~~BY2 revision questions online~~

Psychology
-Aggression

Coming back to this now. Hopefully I'll finish all of Aggression before I sleep.
Haven't done enough to day - definately need to work harder tomorrow! :colondollar:

Reply 3250

Fatcho10

Today:

Psychology
-~~Group display of aggression~~
-~~Evolutionary explanations of aggression~~

-sleep

Chemistry
-~~f322 past paper~~ 77%
-~~read notes and equations~~
-~~definitions/key words~~

Biology
-BY2 past paper
-gas exchange
-taxonomy/classification
-essays

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 3251

Lakhvir.Singh

Now:

Computing
~~- June 2011 paper.~~ - 48/60 - missed out an 8 mark question though :P

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 3252

master_blaster66

- june 2005 s1 pastpaper, jan 2006 s1 pastpaper

go over all conditions for chemistry f332 paper

Reply 3253

eemooz

BIOL2-
2x Past papers.

F322-
2x Past papers.
Learn definitions for enthalpy change etc.

Reply 3254

Lakhvir.Singh

- Logic gates
- Boolean Algebra
- Html + Css
- Legislation ( just read and made notes from the AQA handouts)

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 3255

Robpattinsonxxx

Hi guys

So far this morning I have:

* Learn genetic drift notes.
* Learn speciation notes.
* Learn genetics notes.
* Learn DNA notes.
* Learn variation notes.

To do for rest of day:

* Mechanics paper and mark.
* Integrating ln.
* Write up and learn definitions.
* Learn xenotransplantation notes.
* Learn independent assortment notes.
* Learn dairy cow notes.
* Learn cloning animals notes.

(Really isn't as much as it looks!)

Reply 3256

AmyLH

Literally have no notes for an entire section of the syllabus :facepalm:

Reason #47586969784 why I hate Geology: No textbook and barely any resources.

Reply 3257

cz100

Working through 11 maths past papers, 5 to go.

Reply 3258

AmyLH

Geology:
- Finish off the little bit of Key Idea 2 I have left.

~~Civil Engineering planning:~~
- ~~Ground instability.~~
- ~~Hydraulic system.~~
- ~~Coastal system.~~

- Dams and Reservoirs.
- Cuttings and rock tunnels.
- Buildings.

Then for my ISA crap on Monday:
- Go over cell membranes
- Go over osmosis
- Go through the practice booklet

Reply 3259

Lakhvir.Singh

Computing:
- Logic gates
- Boolean Algebra
- Html + Css
- Legislation ( just read and made notes from the AQA handouts)
- Hardware devices Learning these hardware devices 100% is a joke - it's too much to know :frown: