[matt_ob]

(Original post by jeremybag)
Yeah, the CGP book has loads and loads of diagrams and flow diagrams. Just pick out the bits you want, WJEC is easy compared to other boards.. so much less content. (and loads of less than good schools take it! yay!)

I completely disagree, in my opinion WJEC have far more content than boards such as AQA and is seen as a harder exam board in general. So I'm not sure where you got that "loads of less than good schools take it" as surly this is true of all exam boards.

[Apenoviticus]

(Original post by colabottles)
Hmmm I'd probably hazard a guess at a few things:

1. Meoisis + how it brings up variation (I would die with joy, that's probably just wishful thinking :'D)
2. Human affects on the carbon + nitrogen cyle (maybe? Probably wishful thinking again but would be a good question)
3. Giving a full account of sexual reproduction in humans
4. Something about the human genome project
5. Something about variation + speciation?

Idk though, they're completely unpredictable aren't they :P

What do you reckon?

1. I definitely think meiosis will come up its a pretty standard thing and links right in there with gametogenesis/human reproduction/plant reproduction. So that's a sure thing I reckon.
2.They should have us labelling either human reproductive organs or plant structure, or I thought a really obscure one could be labelling the broad bean structure(though that's unlikely?)
3. Protein synthesis normally comes in the middle it seems. (annoying because i'd love an essay on that!
4. I am pretty sure with how bad over fishing is at the moment and conservation efforts that there will be an essay option on human effect on the environment. (So wordy )
5. Human genome project I think will come in the middle with protein synthesis, Although they could link a mini essay with cystic fibrosis and the inhalation of the liposomes?

But like you say completely unpredictable! Which sucks. Ha! Maybe I should start with some chemistry revision. burr.

[colabottles]

(Original post by Apenoviticus)
1. I definitely think meiosis will come up its a pretty standard thing and links right in there with gametogenesis/human reproduction/plant reproduction. So that's a sure thing I reckon.
2.They should have us labelling either human reproductive organs or plant structure, or I thought a really obscure one could be labelling the broad bean structure(though that's unlikely?)
3. Protein synthesis normally comes in the middle it seems. (annoying because i'd love an essay on that!
4. I am pretty sure with how bad over fishing is at the moment and conservation efforts that there will be an essay option on human effect on the environment. (So wordy )
5. Human genome project I think will come in the middle with protein synthesis, Although they could link a mini essay with cystic fibrosis and the inhalation of the liposomes?

But like you say completely unpredictable! Which sucks. Ha! Maybe I should start with some chemistry revision. burr.

Hehe me too -.- I spend far too much time on BY5

And omg what I'd do for an essay on protein synthesis Maybe if we want it enough it'll happen

[Apenoviticus]

(Original post by colabottles)
Hehe me too -.- I spend far too much time on BY5

And omg what I'd do for an essay on protein synthesis Maybe if we want it enough it'll happen

But By5 has so much content! I really need an A in biology to, and in chemistry.. But I prefer biology uh oh!

Haha! Maybe if we just revise protein synthesis... we will fail miserably and it will be a stupidly long essay on over fishing instead. Somehow it will definitely be the latter :') I don't mind the exams though it the anticipation that is worse!
What is your revision plan for biology? do you read the book/make notes and then re-read them? or do you have loads of different sources?

[colabottles]

(Original post by Apenoviticus)
But By5 has so much content! I really need an A in biology to, and in chemistry.. But I prefer biology uh oh!

Haha! Maybe if we just revise protein synthesis... we will fail miserably and it will be a stupidly long essay on over fishing instead. Somehow it will definitely be the latter :') I don't mind the exams though it the anticipation that is worse!
What is your revision plan for biology? do you read the book/make notes and then re-read them? or do you have loads of different sources?

I just learn the whole student guide word for word, I could probably write it all out in order :') Then make flash cards and underline the key words that they looks for and get my mum to test me until I can do them all correctly, past papers I don't use loads of different sources though because you run the risk of learning the phrasing that they're not looking for D:

[Apenoviticus]

Biology revision is a fail. I cannot concentrate. Boo.

[sarp]

Did BY4 last Monday - was a generally lovely paper but I can assure you I did not do much better than I did in January. I just hate the WJEC mark schemes, they hate me

BY5 on Wednesday, and I haven't even touched it D: Bye bye University.

[adaam1]

(Original post by sarp)
Did BY4 last Monday - was a generally lovely paper but I can assure you I did not do much better than I did in January. I just hate the WJEC mark schemes, they hate me

BY5 on Wednesday, and I haven't even touched it D: Bye bye University.

BY5 is just so unseeingly boring and impossible! The last half in the revision guide you just pretty much have to read and hope you remember stupid terms like copiccing and succession! it is so pointless ):

[sarp]

(Original post by adaam1)
BY5 is just so unseeingly boring and impossible! The last half in the revision guide you just pretty much have to read and hope you remember stupid terms like copiccing and succession! it is so pointless ):

I hate all the stuff about succession, overfishing, genetic engineering and stuff, it's all common sense but I have none of it! It's so tedious. At least you can learn the biological stuff properly :/ Ugh. screwed.

[adaam1]

(Original post by sarp)
I hate all the stuff about succession, overfishing, genetic engineering and stuff, it's all common sense but I have none of it! It's so tedious. At least you can learn the biological stuff properly :/ Ugh. screwed.

I know! and its all that crap that the examiners tend to ask about all the time and where all the marks are usually are! ]= BY4 was similar last week! one question was literally "spot the difference" between the spots on a chromatography piece of paper! i was like omg.

[sarp]

(Original post by adaam1)
I know! and its all that crap that the examiners tend to ask about all the time and where all the marks are usually are! ]= BY4 was similar last week! one question was literally "spot the difference" between the spots on a chromatography piece of paper! i was like omg.

Haha yeah I know! The question where they asked for which dye came up first, I'm not sure if i got it right or not. I did the obvious thing first, putting the lowest dye as coming first and the second dye dot as coming second - but then I swapped it around because the experiment showed the lowest dye dot appearing after the one higher than it? Was that right?

Blimey, does that even make sense D:

[adaam1]

(Original post by sarp)
Haha yeah I know! The question where they asked for which dye came up first, I'm not sure if i got it right or not. I did the obvious thing first, putting the lowest dye as coming first and the second dye dot as coming second - but then I swapped it around because the experiment showed the lowest dye dot appearing after the one higher than it? Was that right?

Blimey, does that even make sense D:

I cant remember now but I think i just matched the dots with the boxes on either side lmao was so pointless a question!
I am revising BY5 now! well trying! its just too much! who cares about the genome project and how to stop over fishing and what ever else they want us to learn! xD

[Birdy_92]

not loving how BY5 has over double the pages than BY4 in the revision guide!

[SandDancer]

(Original post by Birdy_92)
not loving how BY5 has over double the pages than BY4 in the revision guide!

Yeah BY5's as long as the whole of last years AS revision guide :'( ahaha.

Can someone help me with Meiosis, i'm confused, the revision guide says you get a haploid cell after the first division (Meisos I) but that can't be true as the DNA doesn't replicate before Meisos II. Therefore if that was true, the final gametes will have 1/4 the no. of chromosomes.
So am I right in saying you don't get haploid gametes until the second Meiotic division?

[adaam1]

(Original post by SandDancer)
Yeah BY5's as long as the whole of last years AS revision guide :'( ahaha.

Can someone help me with Meiosis, i'm confused, the revision guide says you get a haploid cell after the first division (Meisos I) but that can't be true as the DNA doesn't replicate before Meisos II. Therefore if that was true, the final gametes will have 1/4 the no. of chromosomes.
So am I right in saying you don't get haploid gametes until the second Meiotic division?

Beginning of Meiosis 1 the 46 chromosomes double to 92 chromosomes.
After meiosis 1 has finished two haploid cells in respect to replication each with 46 chromosomes.
Meiosis II the chromosomes split into chromoatids (46/2 = 23)
this results in 4 haploid (23x4=92) =]

[SandDancer]

(Original post by adaam1)
Beginning of Meiosis 1 the 46 chromosomes double to 92 chromosomes.
After meiosis 1 has finished two haploid cells in respect to replication each with 46 chromosomes.
Meiosis II the chromosomes split into chromoatids (46/2 = 23)
this results in 4 haploid (23x4=92) =]

Thanks

[colabottles]

Argh the past paper has really confused me.

Is haploid like one strand of a chromosome or two? D:

[Daave92]

Hey guys, does anyone know the grade boundaries for the June 2010 paper out of interest?

[kayla:)]

(Original post by Daave92)
Hey guys, does anyone know the grade boundaries for the June 2010 paper out of interest?

http://www.wjec.co.uk/uploads/publications/11532.pdf
Page 16 - and A was 63/80

[kayla:)]

Anyone else finding BY5 extremely tedious/boring? I've tried to revise tonight, but instead watched Richard Gere and Julia Roberts twice I've partially done 5.1-5.4 tonight though. It's just 5.6-5.8 that really kill. Ugh. I However, this time next week I'll be packing for Barcelona! D