AQA A2 Biol4 January 2012 pre- exam discussion

Energy and ecosystems make me want to kill myself - if I wanted to study geography, I'd have taken geography!

Some of the selection stuff isn't much better; the question on black-, chocolate- and cinammon-coloured cats from the June 2011 paper (that we did as a mock) made me die a little inside. :tongue:

I love photosynthesis and respiration though and the genetics in Unit 5 looks pretty interesting! :biggrin:

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NutterFrutter

Original post by PatrickD

Energy and ecosystems make me want to kill myself - if I wanted to study geography, I'd have taken geography!

Some of the selection stuff isn't much better; the question on black-, chocolate- and cinammon-coloured cats from the June 2011 paper (that we did as a mock) made me die a little inside. :tongue:

I love photosynthesis and respiration though and the genetics in Unit 5 looks pretty interesting! :biggrin:

Unit 5 does look interesting, I hate the ecology stuff in Unit 4. :sigh:

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Messi3

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hey does anyone have june 2011, question paper and mark scheme? thanks

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EffKayy

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Original post by PatrickD

Energy and ecosystems make me want to kill myself - if I wanted to study geography, I'd have taken geography!

Some of the selection stuff isn't much better; the question on black-, chocolate- and cinammon-coloured cats from the June 2011 paper (that we did as a mock) made me die a little inside. :tongue:

I love photosynthesis and respiration though and the genetics in Unit 5 looks pretty interesting! :biggrin:

How did you do overall then in the mock? :smile:

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on the last practice paper i did, there was actually a question about blue geese.

IN MY 18 YEARS ON THE PLANET I HAVE NOT ONCE SEEN A BLUE GOOSE.

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Original post by EffKayy

How did you do overall then in the mock? :smile:

I haven't got my result yet (I was supposed to get it today as we broke up for Christmas today) but hopefully someone who is going in tomorrow can get it for me. I'm only expecting a B/C because I missed out a couple of questions and we had to do it after school so I left after an hour as I really could not be bothered! I also did no revision (other things to be preparing for at the time). :colondollar:

So to answer your question, probably really badly! :redface:

With some revision I should hopefully be able to get an A in January though. :cool:

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Original post by poison.

on the last practice paper i did, there was actually a question about blue geese.

IN MY 18 YEARS ON THE PLANET I HAVE NOT ONCE SEEN A BLUE GOOSE.

They are actually grey but a lot of grey animals are referred to as blue. Blue geese are also known as snow geese:

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username582481

Original post by beckswilkinson

Can anyone find the 2011 June paper?!

It hasnt been released yet because colleges use it for mocks.

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Original post by PatrickD

They are actually grey but a lot of grey animals are referred to as blue. Blue geese are also known as snow geese:

the question was about how white snow geese are better than blue snow geese.. good knowledge :biggrin:

i thought it would be something like this, cause you call that kind of weird grey-y colour blue with cats aswell; but it was a ridiculously hard question anyway, and so little of the exam seems to actually be biology so i thought i'd whine a bit xD

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Original post by poison.

the question was about how white snow geese are better than blue snow geese.. good knowledge :biggrin:

i thought it would be something like this, cause you call that kind of weird grey-y colour blue with cats aswell; but it was a ridiculously hard question anyway, and so little of the exam seems to actually be biology so i thought i'd whine a bit xD

Haha, yeah I vaguely remember doing that question in class. It was bloody awful. The only bit I managed to fathom was something to do with migration but the over-riding thought I had throughout attempting it was, "Who cares?!"

Yeah, HSW questions and the vague application of knowledge can be so frustrating. It was great on the Unit 2 paper last year because I hadn't revised properly but still managed to get an A because I just used my common sense but for Unit 4 I'd love a load of 4/5/6 mark questions that merely require you to regurgitate any relevant knowledge about a topic! :rolleyes:

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Original post by PatrickD

Haha, yeah I vaguely remember doing that question in class. It was bloody awful. The only bit I managed to fathom was something to do with migration but the over-riding thought I had throughout attempting it was, "Who cares?!"

Yeah, HSW questions and the vague application of knowledge can be so frustrating. It was great on the Unit 2 paper last year because I hadn't revised properly but still managed to get an A because I just used my common sense but for Unit 4 I'd love a load of 4/5/6 mark questions that merely require you to regurgitate any relevant knowledge about a topic! :rolleyes:

tbh im sure it has been pointed out here somewhere, but if i wanted to do geography i'd have done geography :frown:

. Fully hating this populations ****, the contents too simplistic and the questions are too hard (that doesn't make any sense does it? ;D)

im just hoping i do well in the last 3/4 5 mark questions at the end tbh. I desperately need at least an A (biology is the only subject im good at) and these HSW questions are basically ruining my chances of uni :/.

oh and hi-5 on basically blagging the unit 2 because of the HSW questions :biggrin:

i miss AS biology nearly as much as i miss GCSEs ;D)

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Original post by poison.

tbh im sure it has been pointed out here somewhere, but if i wanted to do geography i'd have done geography :frown:

. Fully hating this populations ****, the contents too simplistic and the questions are too hard (that doesn't make any sense does it? ;D)

im just hoping i do well in the last 3/4 5 mark questions at the end tbh. I desperately need at least an A (biology is the only subject im good at) and these HSW questions are basically ruining my chances of uni :/.

oh and hi-5 on basically blagging the unit 2 because of the HSW questions :biggrin:

i miss AS biology nearly as much as i miss GCSEs ;D)

That would have been me that made the comment about geography! :wink:

Yeah, same. This time I'll have to make sure I actually learn the content to pick up those precious regurgitation marks though!

Haha, AS and GCSE were so easy to blag. Looking back, I still can't believe the first couple of modules for GCSE biology, chemistry and physics were multiple choice! :biggrin:

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