CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012
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Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012
Thought it was a very open exam. Questions that if you had learnt your notes, you still wouldnt know. Kidney question wasnt really specific and could answer in several ways. The peer review question? Also, for the essay...when it asked for acquired natural and artificial immunity is this when you catch a disease or is this when you are given pathogens in an injection? the wording was very confusing!
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Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012Yeh open is one word for it. Can you remind me about the kidney question, I think I just wrote about ADH even though I don't think it was relevant?(Original post by b3n1)
Thought it was a very open exam. Questions that if you had learnt your notes, you still wouldnt know. Kidney question wasnt really specific and could answer in several ways. The peer review question? Also, for the essay...when it asked for acquired natural and artificial immunity is this when you catch a disease or is this when you are given pathogens in an injection? the wording was very confusing!
Synoptic linking like mad as well lol. Micro villi/villi I mean come on lol
For the 1st part of the essay I just regurgitated anti-body mediated immunity + artifical passive/natural passive/natural active/artifical active immunities and the advantages/disadvantage of each. -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012The kidney question was about the powerade. Was really annoying! Barely any of the muscle topic on it either!(Original post by thetobbit)
Yeh open is one word for it. Can you remind me about the kidney question, I think I just wrote about ADH even though I don't think it was relevant?
Synoptic linking like mad as well lol. Micro villi/villi I mean come on lol
For the 1st part of the essay I just regurgitated anti-body mediated immunity + artifical passive/natural passive/natural active/artifical active immunities and the advantages/disadvantage of each. -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012Oh yeh, subtle advertising there lol...(Original post by b3n1)
The kidney question was about the powerade. Was really annoying! Barely any of the muscle topic on it either!
Yeh I thought it was gonna be the essay, ah well at least there was a question on it.
What did you do for the Lincoln Index question? I 1/2 knew the equation so just tried for it for the hell of it and got like 1291 or something. -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012I got it wrong. I think the answer was 366 or something...(Original post by thetobbit)
Oh yeh, subtle advertising there lol...
Yeh I thought it was gonna be the essay, ah well at least there was a question on it.
What did you do for the Lincoln Index question? I 1/2 knew the equation so just tried for it for the hell of it and got like 1291 or something.
it was meant to be first captured x second sample captured divided by the amount marked in the second sample
i did first captured-second captured divided by the marked in the second sample x 100 lol -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012Oh yes the grasshopper question(Original post by kathrynaye)
It was so open!! Didn't really understand the kidney question... And what was with the Grass Hopper question?? :L
"Put a net under a plant and beat it with a stick so the grashoppers fall off" lol.. -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012Lol! I said about a Pooter, totally forgot about a net lol(Original post by thetobbit)
Oh yes the grasshopper question
"Put a net under a plant and beat it with a stick so the grashoppers fall off" lol.. -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012I was thinking pooter but then it said in the big description bit that the grasshopper were hard to spot, really quick and like to hop, so I thought you'd have a hard time with a pooter(Original post by kathrynaye)
Lol! I said about a Pooter, totally forgot about a net lol
No idea for the next bit on "why did we wait a day" and all that crap lol -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012
Hey you guys, yea it was a pretty weird paper, not really like the others, the villi question was just ridiculous, the essay was nice though, Any ideas on why it was a agricultural crop ecosystem though?? all the questions juist had a dirty twist, i mean they even made plant phototropisms hard with that stupid corkscrew plant. And as for how to catch grasshoppers, who knows.
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Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012I said something about there being only one Consumer...I had no clue what so ever! :L such a fail.(Original post by lopikase123)
Hey you guys, yea it was a pretty weird paper, not really like the others, the villi question was just ridiculous, the essay was nice though, Any ideas on why it was a agricultural crop ecosystem though?? all the questions juist had a dirty twist, i mean they even made plant phototropisms hard with that stupid corkscrew plant. And as for how to catch grasshoppers, who knows. -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012Yeh I said that as well, explained it by saying an agricultural environment is a controlled one or something, less consumers(Original post by kathrynaye)
I said something about there being only one Consumer...I had no clue what so ever! :L such a fail. -
Re: CCEA Biology A2:1 May 2012I said that Skeletal muscle contraction is voluntary, whereas, the eyes muscle isn't? :L I said the picture was in a muscle but loads of people in my class said the brain lol(Original post by b3n1)
What was the difference between skeletal muscle and control in the eye? I put the eye has smooth muscle?
Also where did you say the picture was taken? i said the hand...probably wrong!
