13th Jan - OCR Gateway Biology B1 B2 B3

How did everyone find it?
I thought it was easier than a few of the past papers. Bit of a weird question on mammoths and elephants and their chromosomes :lolwut:

Edit: changed the title to specify that I'm talking about Gateway, not 21st Century Science :smile:

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 1

JLKeating

14

Found it alright, some of the questions were weirded so strangely which was frustating! Nothing I can do now if I haven't done well, but I finished after 20 minutes and just continued checking through. Slightly worried I've made some daft mistakes, I'm prone to them :redface:

Reply 2

ArtisticFlair

11

I found it rather easy actually, and checked about half the paper with the 10 minutes I had left over :smile:

Not as easy as some other past papers, but not as hard as the CGP Practice Papers. For the question that wanted you to select the two incorrect sentences, did you all select sentence 3 & 5? And for the protein question, did you all put enzymes and structural proteins, and that structural proteins make up skin, hair, blood, and that enzymes control all the chemical reactions in an organism? That's pretty much all I can remember, and now I ernestly await the C1 C2 C3 exam on Monday 17th, and the P1 P2 P3 exam on Wednesday 26th. Good luck everyone! :smile:

Reply 3

JLKeating

14

Original post by ArtisticFlair

I found it rather easy actually, and checked about half the paper with the 10 minutes I had left over :smile:

Not as easy as some other past papers, but not as hard as the CGP Practice Papers. For the question that wanted you to select the two incorrect sentences, did you all select sentence 3 & 5? And for the protein question, did you all put enzymes and structural proteins, and that structural proteins make up skin, hair, blood, and that enzymes control all the chemical reactions in an organism?

I did

was actually quite miffed at the number of 'ticky box' questions there was, I was all prepared for a lot of writing! I'm not looking forward to the Chemistry, find it the hardest by far but doing past papers I'm getting good marks (41/42, 38/42, 35/42 and 33/42). I guess it's just how I feel on the day - today I felt like I could take on the world (or at least a biology paper) :biggrin:

Reply 4

ArtisticFlair

11

Ahh me too. I'm freaked out over Chemistry and Physics. I'll probably just memorise the CGP revision book, and regurgitate facts on the day onto the paper :smile:

and I'll do as many practice papers as I can, and won't stop until I have 39 or 40/42!!! Good luck anyways :wink:

Reply 5

JLKeating

14

Original post by ArtisticFlair

Ahh me too. I'm freaked out over Chemistry and Physics. I'll probably just memorise the CGP revision book, and regurgitate facts on the day onto the paper :smile:

and I'll do as many practice papers as I can, and won't stop until I have 39 or 40/42!!! Good luck anyways :wink:

And to you too!

Reply 6

KiwiBerry

Tick boxes? Proteins? Are we definitely talking about OCR gateway, because I do not remember those questions, lol . . . My exam was on elephant chromosomes and stuff like the OP's =D
BTW, what did people write for whether or not oxygen diffused into the alveoli? I said yes because diffusion occurs both ways, but most people i know said no =(

Reply 7

JLKeating

14

Original post by KiwiBerry

Tick boxes? Proteins? Are we definitely talking about OCR gateway, because I do not remember those questions, lol . . . My exam was on elephant chromosomes and stuff like the OP's =D
BTW, what did people write for whether or not oxygen diffused into the alveoli? I said yes because diffusion occurs both ways, but most people i know said no =(

21st Century Science :s-smilie:

Reply 8

climberkid

Did anyone have to change 'loose' to 'lose' at the start, it was so funny! can ocr seriously not spell lose?

Reply 9

KiwiBerry

Original post by climberkid

Did anyone have to change 'loose' to 'lose' at the start, it was so funny! can ocr seriously not spell lose?

Yeah, we had to do that too . . . I was more interested at looking at the questions than correcting the error though, really :wink:

Reply 10

climberkid

Original post by KiwiBerry

Yeah, we had to do that too . . . I was more interested at looking at the questions than correcting the error though, really :wink:

It's like a one minute advantage though ahah :wink:

Reply 11

kingjulien

I didn't get the one about how you had to explain DNA replication. :/

Reply 12

Alexandra82

Does anyone know what the grade boundaries are going to be for the OCR 21st century test to get an A* cos i know that i've probably dropped at least 5 marks (from what i know), so i'm kinda getting worried about it because i've seen past papers on the OCR website that require you to get 41/42 for an A*!! :L It was mainly the sensory neurone question that really confused me :L :L

Reply 13

plainsong

5

^ The past papers in the old way they used to do them (multiple choice galore) is around 40/42 for an A* yeah, but the new way (extended answers) which was introduced a year ago, required 32/42 for an A*. I expect it to be a little higher this year though.

I got confused on that one too, lol. All the others weren't too bad, but there was loads of "choose each correct answer" tick-box questions, which meant I may have ticked some which were just slightly wrong and I didn't realise. Oh well.

Reply 14

berryripple

OP

Original post by KiwiBerry

Tick boxes? Proteins? Are we definitely talking about OCR gateway, because I do not remember those questions, lol . . . My exam was on elephant chromosomes and stuff like the OP's =D
BTW, what did people write for whether or not oxygen diffused into the alveoli? I said yes because diffusion occurs both ways, but most people i know said no =(

I put "no, because carbon dioxide diffuses into the alveoli" or something like that :confused:

Reply 15

Alexandra82

Original post by plainsong

^ The past papers in the old way they used to do them (multiple choice galore) is around 40/42 for an A* yeah, but the new way (extended answers) which was introduced a year ago, required 32/42 for an A*. I expect it to be a little higher this year though.

I got confused on that one too, lol. All the others weren't too bad, but there was loads of "choose each correct answer" tick-box questions, which meant I may have ticked some which were just slightly wrong and I didn't realise. Oh well.