What did you think of your exam?
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What did you think of your exam?So basically I thought I would set this up so everyone can talk about what they thought of the exam and stuff, any exam board but make sure you specify because if you say i got 18005 in maths non cal q8 and someone got -8.8 then they will be worried
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If you're taking your GCSE's in year 9 all the way to year 11.Last edited by starienight; 15-05-2012 at 22:54. -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?WJEC French yesterday - Average, some easy, some hard
WJEC Biology 2 Today - Happy, lost some stupid marks but comfortable overall
WJEC Catering and Hospitality Tomorrow - Not looking forward to the long markers! Gah, i hate them! -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?I was so bad at french hehe(Original post by _Morsey_)
WJEC French yesterday - Average, some easy, some hard
WJEC Biology 2 Today - Happy, lost some stupid marks but comfortable overall
WJEC Catering and Hospitality Tomorrow - Not looking forward to the long markers! Gah, i hate them!
Biology I have mine on monday
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Re: What did you think of your exam?RS?(Original post by starienight)
Just wondering how everyone exams are going, my friends had french yesturday, but are appealing to AQA because the sound was muffled. Got rs on thursday. -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Religious Studies(Original post by College_Dropout)
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Remember the rules about discussion of Edexcel exams
I don't see a thread on any of the exams I took yesterday yet, but as far as I can tell it's past 12AM and 4AM and I can talk bout them.
Edexcel Biology B3 - Pretty good really, an entire set of questions was just data handling and some questions were phrased in a difficult way but I knew most of the knowledge.
Edexcel Religious Studies - Pretty horrible sets of questions especially the 8 markers, but I did what I could. Felt like I didn't write enough for the big markers though. There were no philosophical questions in there, something I was looking forward to expanding my answers on.Last edited by AboveTheLine; 16-05-2012 at 07:11. -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Ah, exactly what I meant when I said the phrasing was vague. I focused my answer on domestication, but then spun off into how they made civilisations because less farmers were needed. I didn't think that answered the actual question they asked, so at the last minute of the exam I added a cheap sentence about how their habitats have been destroyed. Just for the sake of it. But yeah, it should have been "how" not "why".(Original post by IsabelAmy)
Biology b3- what the hell was up with that hunter gatherer question. Eugh. -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?I said basically the same thing as you(Original post by AboveTheLine)
Ah, exactly what I meant when I said the phrasing was vague. I focused my answer on domestication, but then spun off into how they made civilisations because less farmers were needed. I didn't think that answered the actual question they asked, so at the last minute of the exam I added a cheap sentence about how their habitats have been destroyed. Just for the sake of it. But yeah, it should have been "how" not "why". i was so annoyed no microbal food products/drug sources came up, i learn how to spell them all and they were easy marks if you knew them 
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Argh yes! I was worried because I only knew the names of the microbial products, not where they came from or what happens with them, so I spent ages revising the list in my mind.(Original post by IsabelAmy)
I said basically the same thing as you i was so annoyed no microbal food products/drug sources came up, i learn how to spell them all and they were easy marks if you knew them
Enzymes such as Invertase which are used as a sweeter in sweets. They convert sucrose into glucose and fructose.... all my knowledge went to waste haha xD
One of the questions I only knew how to answer because my teacher quizzed me by chance on it in the booster session! -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Cant wait to see the mark scheme!(Original post by AboveTheLine)
Argh yes! I was worried because I only knew the names of the microbial products, not where they came from or what happens with them, so I spent ages revising the list in my mind.
Enzymes such as Invertase which are used as a sweeter in sweets. They convert sucrose into glucose and fructose.... all my knowledge went to waste haha xD
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Re: What did you think of your exam?I know! It was so annoying(Original post by IsabelAmy)
I said basically the same thing as you i was so annoyed no microbal food products/drug sources came up, i learn how to spell them all and they were easy marks if you knew them
But I'm glad that the Agrobacterium tumefaciens stuff came up 
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Which one was that?(Original post by AboveTheLine)
One of the questions I only knew how to answer because my teacher quizzed me by chance on it in the booster session! -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Yeah(Original post by paperclip345)
I know! It was so annoying But I'm glad that the Agrobacterium tumefaciens stuff came up
i found the last question the easiest :/
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Re: What did you think of your exam?The bird diet - why they spend longer feeding.(Original post by paperclip345)
Which one was that?
For the last question I didn't read the second question so I wrote the entire proccess out (and ran out of room!) and then realised it asked for it in 2 stages, one about getting the gene into the plasmid / bacteria and then one about getting the bacteria into the plant to produce the crown gall etc.
Didn't run out of time though so I just wrote out the last few steps again. -
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Re: What did you think of your exam?Haha yeah, I started writing really small then realised half way through that it was in two parts :')(Original post by AboveTheLine)
The bird diet - why they spend longer feeding.
For the last question I didn't read the second question so I wrote the entire proccess out (and ran out of room!) and then realised it asked for it in 2 stages, one about getting the gene into the plasmid / bacteria and then one about getting the bacteria into the plant to produce the crown gall etc.
Didn't run out of time though so I just wrote out the last few steps again.
For the bird one, I just said that one of the birds was a herbivore and compared it one that was a carnivore, and how meat has more nutrients than plants/berries/whatever it was.
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But I'm glad that the Agrobacterium tumefaciens stuff came up 
