GCSE OCR gateway add science B4 C4 P4 21st may

spookz

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Anyone ready for this exam or prepared?

Reply 1

laura-1234

how did you find the exam?

Reply 2

LogicalMc

ahh just came home, this exam was easy but had some really wordy questions

Reply 3

Jamie_DB

The only things I didn't know where the diamond, graphite and buck-something things, mainly because my chemistry teacher is more of the bullied member of my class :L
Rest seemed pretty easy for me but I'm bound to slip up somewhere. I'll be happy with a B but think I'm pretty close the the A :biggrin:

Reply 4

LogicalMc

does anyone kno how much, the 2 exams and the coursework add up to? i know its 100% but im talking about marks

Reply 5

laura-1234

do you know what the grade boundary is likely to be?

Reply 6

spookz

OP

10

exam was hard they asked questions that hardly came up on other past papers on the additional suite

Reply 7

Lohkar

There was one question I thought didn't make sense - question 3 in the biology section, something like:

"What nutrients does this bacteria show"?

Was it just me or did that one not make any sense at all?

Reply 8

Gorganite

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Original post by Lohkar

There was one question I thought didn't make sense - question 3 in the biology section, something like:

"What nutrients does this bacteria show"?

Was it just me or did that one not make any sense at all?

Yeah i found that one really weird didnt even know what to put in that one so what answer did you put?

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 9

sifsta

Original post by Lohkar

There was one question I thought didn't make sense - question 3 in the biology section, something like:

"What nutrients does this bacteria show"?

Was it just me or did that one not make any sense at all?

Wasn't it detritus?

What was the answer for the graph question concerning the beetles? Wasn't it like 1991?

Reply 10

Gorganite

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Original post by sifsta

Wasn't it detritus?

What was the answer for the graph question concerning the beetles? Wasn't it like 1991?

Hmm i thought so as well but it asked for the next outbreak, but the beetles would have been dead as it was below -6 degrees
And i dont think it was detritus as thats not a nutrient its what is decayed, but to be honest i dont really know for that one. Biology was the hardest for me

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 11

Lohkar

Original post by sifsta

Wasn't it detritus?

What was the answer for the graph question concerning the beetles? Wasn't it like 1991?

I put 2003 because its the year after the winter with temperatures above -6 degrees that had the outbreak. At least I think I put 2003.

Original post by Gorganite

Yeah i found that one really weird didnt even know what to put in that one so what answer did you put?

I left it blank, and I emailed my biology teacher, he seemed to think that the question was worded incorrectly and that they may just remove that mark from the exam

Reply 12

laura-1234

for the half life one did you put x or y for the tracer?

Reply 13

Gorganite

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Original post by Lohkar

I put 2003 because its the year after the winter with temperatures above -6 degrees that had the outbreak. At least I think I put 2003.

I left it blank, and I emailed my biology teacher, he seemed to think that the question was worded incorrectly and that they may just remove that mark from the exam

Hope it was a mistake. That question stumped me for ages. And i think i put the same year as you as well it was a 2000 early year anyway

Reply 14

Lohkar

Original post by laura-1234

for the half life one did you put x or y for the tracer?

I put Y as the tracer because it decayed faster than X, you?

Reply 15

laura-1234

Original post by Lohkar

I put Y as the tracer because it decayed faster than X, you?

yeah i put Y too :smile:

and for the one about the stomata closing when there's less water what did you put?

Reply 16

Lohkar

Original post by laura-1234

yeah i put Y too :smile:

and for the one about the stomata closing when there's less water what did you put?

I wrote about water entering the guard cells through osmosis, then after writing it with 2 mins left on the exam realised it said less water. Something tells me I lost those marks :/