Edexcel A2 Biology Unit 4 (6BI04) - 15 June 2012 - Official Exam Discussion Thread!!!

plz someone tell me how they worked out their rate???? :/

I left the last two pages coz I didn't have time to do them....n I rushed through the other last questions so I'm pretty sure I lost about twenty marks for questions I didn't answer hopefully I did well on the ones that I answered.....our teacher is going to complain to the exam board though, coz most people didn't get to finish

I multiplied because the milk was in decimetres cubed, n the methane produced was per decimetres cubed. So to find out the total produced by the amount of milk u wud have to multiply

Time was the main issue for this paper for ALL of my class. Some didn't finish and left the last 2 pages as well... thankfully I finished but the last question (which was great) was very rushed and not properly worded as I didn't have time to properly organise my thoughts
I literally had 2 minutes to do it.

I know I skipped the 3 questions before it but I had still had to rush it because I didn't want to leave them out.
How did you find it?

Not sure, I don't trust edexcel at all with ANYTHING. Other exam boards I'd say probably...edexcel I really don't know.

(I paid for a remark and my paper back so I could decide whether to do this resit. They gave me my marks - no change - and then refused to send me my paper back or give me a refund on it...so I couldn't check the remark/see where I went wrong to revise from...and I just had to plump for a retake anyway. )

With this exam I mainly hated the fact the questions seemed to
A) Ask for a LOT for very few marks
or
B) Ask for very little for a ton of marks

So I had no idea what to write

I found the entire paper quite easier than the others.... but it was a little too long and that was a great issue . Any thought on the grade boundaries

It was a long paper but quite easier than other papers. Felt great to complete in time. Any guess on the grade boundaries. I think 62 - A and 65 - A* .

I finished the paper with 4minutes to spare..The forensics question was the lamest ever but overall other questions were quite easy,How did everyone do the question about the rabbits and deer and the one with the graph about GP and RuBP?

What did people write for "suggest how useful core body temperature is for TOD" and also what did people write for "apart from vaccines, how else can the pigs who have the virus be treated"

Still can't believe that I didn't finish the paper.

The paper was really tough. I was studying so hard to use the knowledge in practise, but it was no way I could you it. All the paper was LOGIC and suggest!!!! Couple of people left the class and said - Where was the Biology? I totally agree with the statement and I am so disappointed that description of the questions were too long, I had to read them twice to realize what is important and where I could use it, as well as construction of the questions were confusing and at some point I was thinking - What the hell do they want me to write in here? Found too much graphs and explanations of those, however, even if graphs are easy, in these paper I found them confusing, like GP and RuBP for 6 marks or Time and Temperature in experiment question for 4 marks. I found the most ridiculous question with use of long thermometer :/ emm. 3 marks. Seriously? Well time issue as well as everything else. Examinators do not have heart of fair what so ever :/

""apart from vaccines, how else can the pigs who have the virus be treated" which question was that?