PYA5 - How did it go?

I think mine went really well, everything that I hoped came up.

The only bad thing is I had a massive nosebleed during the exam and my arms were covered in blood. I got some of it on the exam paper too and had to cross out what I had written and write it again. I kinda run out of time near the end because I was too busy mopping up blood.

You din't have to refer to the quotation did you, as it said issues SUCH AS and not refer to the quotation. I just wrote about biochemistry and becks and evaluated them as I would in any depression essay. I made no reference to the quotation. Is this alrite? Im pretty sure all the books say that if it says SUCH AS then you can choose to ignorre it.

I pretty much ignored it, dont think you HAD to refer to it.

THAANK YOUUUU SO SO SOO MUCHH! for your cultural bias essay..i had actually revised it, drilled itt in me word for word, and IT CAME UPP i was like and i saw the examiner looking at me probably thinking who gets that happy seeing an exam question..lol. Glad yours went well tooo. x

did you have f.u.n ?

lol. You're welcome I'm glad it came to some use!

PS. I had to sit my exam with a load of GCSE students. Ugh they were so annoying. About one hour in they had finished all of their exams and they all start kicking each others desks, squeaking their shoes on purpose, all that kind of crap.

Annoying.

Thought it was bit of alrite. Did Depression, focused on Genetics and Neurochemical/Permissive Amine, diathesis stress, bashed out a good six sides on that but my hand sort of bombed out on me at the end and my handwriting went real bad. Then did culture bias and think that went pretty well, approaches wasn't too hot, can never time exams but approaches was real bad, part a+b were ok, c wasn't full sentences but not shocking, d was like 2 lines, but two good lines . I finished off with "sorry about the handwriting". Think I need an A for an A overall, not too sure, had all A's in AS, full marks on coursework, but a C on the january exam, anyone what that would very roughly make me need for the exam just gone, tars very much.

i got an A at As also, and 72 in my coursework which is on the brink of an A (so you got higher) and then i got a B on Pya4 and i need a C to get an A overall... an E to get a B.. so i'm sure that your isn't far off that- at worst you would need to get a B i reckon.

I was confused about the first question on depression. It said refer to the issues raised in the question so I thought it was refering to the culture, age and gender. I was confused so I was like screw that just do your normal biological essay. I forgot to mention that biological explanations are reductionist and that psychological explanations play a role =.= I did mention the diathesis stress model but didn't say explicitly that biological explanations are reductionist. Also, I spent 50 minutes as opposed to 40 minutes writing that question. I wrote about the genetics (with which I added the diathesis model against) then evolution then one biochemical i.e. serotonin.

Because I went over the time limit on the first question I kinda messed all my other questions up sort of. I paid the price at the last question as I didnt do parts c and d on question 8, I'm regretting it as well cause that question was really easy. I only wrote 3 extremely short evaluation points for the approach. So for question eight I've lost atleast 16 marks which is one grade.

For the free will question at first I just wrote ALL the arguments for and against free will and determinism then I went on to talk about the research e.g. Freud's theory of dream and Columbine killings. I'm not sure if two researches is enough...I could have wrote more had I not spent an extra ten minutes on the first question.

Oh well what's done is done. I tried my hardest throughout the past two years in the course so I'm proud.