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Reply 580

Ali Jaffer

Business Paper 2 tomorrow :/
Not my favourite subject, and not the easiest paper.

Reply 581

Molly_xox

Original post by Cecilyrose

WAAAAAA!!!! I am so disappointed with my essays :frown:

I've tried hard over the two years - and got an A in my mock ! ( :smile:

) but I did AWFULLY today :frown:

you??

Don't worry, I'm sure you did fine! I had a gift of a question on Caliban (The Tempest) but I messed up poetry :/

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Reply 582

em123xxx

Original post by zomi

I hate science in general, so perhaps that is an influence to my opinion.
I found paper 6 the worst paper 6 ever. Honestly, I screwed up most of the questions because I just didn't realise most of the stuff in time, just because it was so weird that I kept getting confused all the time! :c The other paper sixes I tried were soooo much easier, I always did them under exam conditions and got straight As or A*s even if I'm not a genius at science.
On the other hand, I found paper 3 fairly straightforward and quite better than others (again, if I don't get a good grade, it's because I'm not particularly good at science, haha).
How did you find it? :smile:

exactly the same, but I made some silly errors on paper 3 :colondollar:

what did you get for the number of moles btw? and did you leave some out on paper 6?

Reply 583

Molly_xox

Original post by silver79

The questions were really strange and not what I was expecting at all (for Julius Caesar and Gatsby.) I'm really scared that I completely messed it up. How did you find it?

I had a lovely question for The Tempest but I messed up my poetry, I wish there wasn't that stupid rule on you must do at least one passage question!

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Reply 584

Ali Jaffer

For Biology Paper 1, what were the answers to the Short haired cat question and the pyramid of biomass question?

Reply 585

thelyphron

With regard to CIE IGCSE English lit and lang, 0486 and 0500 respectively, does anyone know how the UMS / percentage uniform mark shebang operates?

Cheers.

Reply 586

SarahS92

Original post by Ali Jaffer

Business Paper 2 tomorrow :/
Not my favourite subject, and not the easiest paper.

I have it too :frown:

Any advice? When do you do your exam?

Reply 587

Ali Jaffer

Original post by SarahS92

I have it too :frown:

Any advice? When do you do your exam?

Mines in the afternoon. What about you?

Reply 588

Cecilyrose

Original post by Molly_xox

Don't worry, I'm sure you did fine! I had a gift of a question on Caliban (The Tempest) but I messed up poetry :/

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Ah well done, im sure you didnt!! I did Death of a salesman -and all 3 questions were ridiculous!!

Does anyone know how the grade boundaries work for English literature??

Reply 589

Little Tail Chaser

Original post by Ali Jaffer

For Biology Paper 1, what were the answers to the Short haired cat question and the pyramid of biomass question?

For the cat question I put C, the mother is heterozygous. If H is the allele for short hair and h the allele for long, her genotype can only be Hh or HH as she is short haired and this is the dominant gene. If she was homozygous HH then all of the kittens would have at least one H allele, meaning that none would be born with long fur. As two were born with long and three were born with short, she must be heterozygous Hh.

For the biomass question, I put A. All of the information in the question was irrelevant, pyramids of biomass are always triangular.

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Reply 590

Leyla_zimeya

I did biology paper 1 too
does anyone remember the DNA question??
and number 14 about what factors to keep constant?
and the question about the xylem??

Reply 591

Ali Jaffer

Original post by Little Tail Chaser

For the cat question I put C, the mother is heterozygous.

For the biomass question, I put A. All of the information in the question was irrelevant, pyramids of biomass are always triangular.

I put B on the cat one. One of them has to be homozygous, for long hair atleast. Both of them made sense, im probably wrong though.
Yeah thats what i did for biomass too :biggrin:

Reply 592

Little Tail Chaser

Original post by Leyla_zimeya

I did biology paper 1 too
does anyone remember the DNA question??
and number 14 about what factors to keep constant?
and the question about the xylem??

For the DNA question I put C, lipase. DNA 'codes' for protein and enzymes are biological catalysts made of protein.

For question 14 I put C, the size of the plant and light intensity.

For the xylem, I put D, it is no longer alive.

Reply 593

hamzavalli01

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Originally Posted by Ali Jaffer
For Biology Paper 1, what were the answers to the Short haired cat question and the pyramid of biomass question?

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Reply 594

zomi

Original post by mrsilovechocolat

Finally someone who hates science!! well I totally screwed up paper 6 as well,I know that a lot of people who are actually really good in science screwed it up too. It was so different from all the past papers ! -.-

I think only about 2 people in my class finished (and still said it went pretty bad), the rest of us didn't even finish ._. It was so different from all the other past papers, it totally confused me. I just hope it means that the grade boundaries are generous. :smile:

Original post by em123xxx

exactly the same, but I made some silly errors on paper 3 :colondollar:

what did you get for the number of moles btw? and did you leave some out on paper 6?

I left about the last 2 or 3 physics questions because of lack of time (I'm a disaster, I know haha). I also left one chemistry diagram (couldn't remember it/think of something that could be good enough) and I think that another chemistry questions (I'm terrible at chemistry, as you can see). And there are some parts that I certainly know I have wrong (the circuit diagram, totally screwed it up, and noticed only at the end of the exam...).

The moles bit I got wrong, because I totally forgot that it was given in kilograms. So, I did well the 98% thing, but forgot to change kilograms to grams, so I'll probably only get one mark for getting the Mr or something... I can't remember the exact figures/question, though. I recall it being something about 1kg of something having a concentration of 98% or something like that. (I'm usually terrible at mole calculations, but I'm kind of disappointed because I did understand the question, but did it all wrong because of the kilogram mistake ;___; )

Btw, did you get the chemistry question which was all on reactions and stuff? Something about temperature and stuff, it was quite a weird page and couldn't even figure out the topic .-.

Reply 595

Ali Jaffer

Original post by Leyla_zimeya

I did biology paper 1 too
does anyone remember the DNA question??
and number 14 about what factors to keep constant?
and the question about the xylem??

The DNA answer was lipase. Factors were plant mass and light intensity.
Forgot the xylem question. what was it?

Reply 596

Leyla_zimeya

Original post by Ali Jaffer

I put B on the cat one. One of them has to be homozygous, for long hair atleast. Both of them made sense, im probably wrong though.
Yeah thats what i did for biomass too :biggrin:

I put homozygous too, and I think it's correct. The gender info was irrelevant so the button too were already wrong

Reply 597

Leyla_zimeya

Original post by Ali Jaffer

The DNA answer was lipase. Factors were plant mass and light intensity.
Forgot the xylem question. what was it?

"What statement about xylem is correct" I can't really remember what the options were

Reply 598

hamzavalli01

Original post by Little Tail Chaser

I doubt that.the correct answer was
B.the question had the answer and not all pyramid of biomass are triangular.the question said a single tree (which will be represented by the smallest rectangle since it's single)is eaten by many caterpillars(which would be represented by a large rectangle).the caterpillars are eaten by small birds(which would be represented by a smaller rectangle than that of caterpillars) which is eaten by a bird if prey(which would be represented in top by a smaller rectangle).this question also appeared in 2009.hope you understand

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