[park1996]

Hi guys!

How did everyone feel about the GCSE OCR Biology 21st Century exam on the 15th of May 2012??????

Post you comments :P

[chelsea2105]

I felt quite good but i wasn't sure if i got all of the answers right for example the last question about fluctuations i put that it was the lowest and highest amount of CO2 recorded

[Joanna6336]

i was ok. it was near chemistry/ideasaboutscience at the end

[chelsea2105]

Did you do higher tier or foundation tier because i did higher tier

[Joanna6336]

i did higher

[chelsea2105]

do u remember any answers that u were definate u got right? what do u think you got out of 60??

[park1996]

Wat did u lot put for the Russian-spanish flu and the NICE question??

[Joanna6336]

for the nitrogen cycle i put bacteria and the ones on the immune system and the graph. and i don't know what mark because their mark schemes are WEIRD :O late 40's early 50's i hope!

[Joanna6336]

and you?

[Joanna6336]

russian-spanish flu i said it had a low severity index and we are move developed in medicine so a cure could be made what did you put?

[chelsea2105]

for Russian flu i put less population 100 years before 1918 and the Russian flu was less infectious

For nitrogen cycle i put decomposers

And for the NICE question i put
Benefits outweight costs
How effective is the drug
Is it worth a person's life
Would it treat more people than it would give the dangerous side effec to

Do you think they are the right answers??

[Joanna6336]

i thought it was more infectious ? i dont know cant remember the questions tooo well
but for NICE i put the same thing, what did family members did you put down on the first page :O

[chelsea2105]

for first question people with black dots and for the second one i got it completly wrong no it was less infectious because it said that the russian flu killed less people

[Jordan Barker]

the family members one was a horrible question wasn't sure what to put so i just scrawled down a few names. the NICE stuff was also a bit weird as i didn't know a lot about the licensing of drugs hardly anything on B3 and too much of that ethics rubbish. it went much better than my mock though. also the mark schemes are really low for this exam, for our mock 32/60 was an A and chemistry was 28/60 for an A!

[chelsea2105]

how do you know that the mark schemes in this will also be low though??

[Jordan Barker]

Well I would imagine the grade boundaries between the mocks and those doing double science would be similar (although don't take my word for it, I'm just echoing what I was told by my teacher). They're weird exams, not a lot of knowledge needed a lot of the time, much more about "risks" and "ethics" and why scientists do what they do. Would prefer they asked more of our actual knowledge and understanding of the processes of life (surely that is why we study Biology???)

[park1996]

(Original post by Jordan Barker)
Well I would imagine the grade boundaries between the mocks and those doing double science would be similar (although don't take my word for it, I'm just echoing what I was told by my teacher). They're weird exams, not a lot of knowledge needed a lot of the time, much more about "risks" and "ethics" and why scientists do what they do. Would prefer they asked more of our actual knowledge and understanding of the processes of life (surely that is why we study Biology???)

I'll dare say - waste of time (nothing of B3 remotely even came up!!!!)