OCR AS Biology (F211) - Jan 2013.

Original post by SamHouse

Here's a quick mnemonic if anyone needs any last minute help remembering the stages of mitosis:

I Pray Most At Temples

Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphse and Telophase

Good luck to everyone else taking the exam, we'll all do great!

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I just remembered P-MAT which helped me last year.
I will advise you guys that try to include as many keywords as you can in long answers. Whenever you get a long answer do not jump straight into it but think how you would answer it. Sometimes you look at a question and you say I know this stuff. and jump straight into it, but then you read the question carefully and it only asks for you to explain a tiny section of it and the rest on something else.
Any question you feel you need to come back to, mark a tiny astriks next to the question so that after your exam when you scroll through the paper, you can just see the astricks and the question. but do cross the astricks out at the end as it might indicate to the examiners something else.

Reply 1785

notsure

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woke up early yet still delays on the underground - bad morning

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Reply 1786

morvenrkr

ITS FINISHED and it wasnt too bad?! hiw about you guys :biggrin:

Reply 1787

otrivine

Original post by morvenrkr

ITS FINISHED and it wasnt too bad?! hiw about you guys :biggrin:

was it harder than jan 2012?

Reply 1788

Original post by otrivine

was it harder than jan 2012?

yeah and similar to june 2012
more long answer questions with qwc than normal
:s-smilie:

Reply 1789

Original post by morvenrkr

ITS FINISHED and it wasnt too bad?! hiw about you guys :biggrin:

hmm it was okay, we'll see :tongue:

Reply 1790

otrivine

Original post by MedMed12

yeah and similar to june 2012
more long answer questions with qwc than normal
:s-smilie:

did u do this exam? how was it?

what were the long questions on ?

Reply 1791

Pj secker

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I found the budding question really difficult 😔

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Reply 1792

Ellodie

The type of asexual reproduction was binary fission for yeast cells right? :frown:

Reply 1793

Original post by otrivine

did u do this exam? how was it?

what were the long questions on ?

yeah
erm idk it depends how lenient the mark scheme was
1. 5 markers on how cells are organised
2. 4 marker on role of cell membrane on cell signalling
2-3 refer to insert ones
a 6 marker on limitations
6 marks on explain lignin and cartilage adapted to function
3 marker on some info to 'comment on significance'

it wasnt that bad, but alot of heavy markers

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Original post by Ellodie

The type of asexual reproduction was binary fission for yeast cells right? :frown:

mitosis?

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Original post by Pj secker

I found the budding question really difficult

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hmm in theory, you could have just writtenout mitosis, but i think mark scheme will be picky for this q

Reply 1796

otrivine

Original post by MedMed12

yeah
erm idk it depends how lenient the mark scheme was
1. 5 markers on how cells are organised
2. 4 marker on role of cell membrane on cell signalling
2-3 refer to insert ones
a 6 marker on limitations
6 marks on explain lignin and cartilage adapted to function
3 marker on some info to 'comment on significance'

it wasnt that bad, but alot of heavy markers

this does not look bad, it seems to have been a better paper from Jan 2012.
were their lots of application question or route learning answers

Reply 1797

Original post by Ellodie

The type of asexual reproduction was binary fission for yeast cells right? :frown:

think the answer is budding.. :s-smilie:

not sure

Reply 1798

chiny94

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Original post by Ellodie

The type of asexual reproduction was binary fission for yeast cells right? :frown:

I thought it was budding?

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Reply 1799

Ellodie

Original post by MedMed12

mitosis?

I was torn between budding, binary fission and mitosis :/ I was going to put mitosis but I swear I did a paper and it said binary fission, oh well :tongue: