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Old 08-06-2009: 8th June 2009 21:18 #1 
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Who's got Biology unit 2 - Separate sciences [B4, B5, B6] OCR gateway Friday morning?

I've only revised B4 and some of B5 yet.
I've revised all of chemistry.

So, how much revision have you guys done for this?
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Old 08-06-2009: 8th June 2009 21:28 #2 
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I've got B4,C4,P4 on Wednesday and then the same exam as you on Friday

Ain't started B5 or B6 yet but kinda started on B4 lol

I ain't doing chem yet because there's time left I hope

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I'm doing B4-6 on friday too!
I reckon it's going to be helll, I hate these modules so much! [especially B6 with all those yoghurt/beer processes...]
I've only reallyy covered B4 properly, I've done B5/6 vaguely...=P hopefully I'll finish before friday!

good luckkk to you guys =D


are you guys doing P1-3 on wednesday too?
I'm relatively happy about that, shouldn't be too bad
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Originally Posted by tpepperoni
I'm doing B4-6 on friday too!
I reckon it's going to be helll, I hate these modules so much! [especially B6 with all those yoghurt/beer processes...]
I've only reallyy covered B4 properly, I've done B5/6 vaguely...=P hopefully I'll finish before friday!

good luckkk to you guys =D


are you guys doing P1-3 on wednesday too?
I'm relatively happy about that, shouldn't be too bad

Hey ,
yeahh B5 and B6 = long lool

Nope, I've already done P1,P2,P3 last year When is the exam - as in, morning 9am or afternoon 1.30pm on wednesday?
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I'm doing the B4-B6 on Friday, and then the Chemistry and Physics ones next week.

I'm so nervous lol
 
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^ Ahh, i'm doing the physics next week too. haven't touched it yet! hopefully it won't be that bad though!


Hey ,
yeahh B5 and B6 = long lool

Nope, I've already done P1,P2,P3 last year When is the exam - as in, morning 9am or afternoon 1.30pm on wednesday?

biology seems so much longer than physics... [no idea about chem, i'm doing chem IGCSE for some reason...]
or maybe that's just me
i'm dreading biology so much though, there's way too much to learn!
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and ohh, how was it?

it's in the afternoon, 1.30pm...which gives me a few hours to cram after french [since i have that in the morning] P1-3's fine though, nothing too hard?
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I like B5 the most out of the biology modules.
I hate B4, just goes on and on about plants
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^ Haha, I agree. I thought B2 was pretty boring too, there was too much stuff on ecology that seemed really irrelevant to life :p [although it's probably not...]
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Haven't you guys already done units 1 - 3
As in physics p1/p2/p3
Biology b1/b2/b3
Chemistry c1/c2/c3

I did all units 1 - 3 in all sciences in January and got the results in March as well..
So how comes you guys are doing b4/c4/p4 on wednesday? and do p1/p2/p3?
The wednesday exam is for additional science, so how can you also do the biology exam on Friday?
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Originally Posted by Gagannn_
I like B5 the most out of the biology modules.
I hate B4, just goes on and on about plants

Same!
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Originally Posted by tpepperoni
^ Haha, I agree. I thought B2 was pretty boring too, there was too much stuff on ecology that seemed really irrelevant to life :p [although it's probably not...]

Samee! B2 was the most boring module in my opinion.
Arghh, it got on my nerves.
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^ Human biology is so much more interesting...!
I quite liked B1 though. probably because it was easy...

As in physics p1/p2/p3
Biology b1/b2/b3
Chemistry c1/c2/c3

I did all units 1 - 3 in all sciences in January and got the results in March as well..
So how comes you guys are doing b4/c4/p4 on wednesday? and do p1/p2/p3?
The wednesday exam is for additional science, so how can you also do the biology exam on Friday?

^ I didn't take any of the units 1-3 in january [school doesn't offer it] so that means I'm doing P1-3 on wednesday, B4-6 on friday and then P4-6 on the 19th? [and I did B1-3 two weeks ago?]
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Originally Posted by Gagannn_
Haven't you guys already done units 1 - 3
As in physics p1/p2/p3
Biology b1/b2/b3
Chemistry c1/c2/c3

I did all units 1 - 3 in all sciences in January and got the results in March as well..
So how comes you guys are doing b4/c4/p4 on wednesday? and do p1/p2/p3?
The wednesday exam is for additional science, so how can you also do the biology exam on Friday?


I my school we did the whole Core Science GCSE last year doing B1P1C1 in Jan, then B2P2C2 in June.

Also last June we did B1B2B3, P1P2P3 and C1C2C3, and then this June we do modules 4,5&6 for each subject.
 
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^ Does that not mean you're taking some modules twice?

I wishh I could have done them separately! I have way too much science over these few weeks!
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Originally Posted by tpepperoni
^ Human biology is so much more interesting...!
I quite liked B1 though. probably because it was easy...



^ I didn't take any of the units 1-3 in january [school doesn't offer it] so that means I'm doing P1-3 on wednesday, B4-6 on friday and then P4-6 on the 19th? [and I did B1-3 two weeks ago?]

Ahh okay. That system is more difficult. For us, it was made really easy, we did our mocks in December for units 1 - 3, and then straight after the christmas holidays we had units 1-3 in all three sciences in January. So basically, we've done half of our science GCSEs and we could disregard all of those modules now. So now we only have to revise for units 4 - 6 in each science in the summer

Goodluck for wednesday and friday!
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Ahh okay. That system is more difficult. For us, it was made really easy, we did our mocks in December for units 1 - 3, and then straight after the christmas holidays we had units 1-3 in all three sciences in January. So basically, we've done half of our science GCSEs and we could disregard all of those modules now. So now we only have to revise for units 4 - 6 in each science in the summer

Goodluck for wednesday and friday!

Ahh, that sounds so much better! I've done so much science, it's crazyy :P
good luck to you too!
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Originally Posted by tpepperoni
^ Ahh, i'm doing the physics next week too. haven't touched it yet! hopefully it won't be that bad though!




biology seems so much longer than physics... [no idea about chem, i'm doing chem IGCSE for some reason...]
or maybe that's just me
i'm dreading biology so much though, there's way too much to learn!
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and ohh, how was it?

it's in the afternoon, 1.30pm...which gives me a few hours to cram after french [since i have that in the morning] P1-3's fine though, nothing too hard?

lol if p1-3 is wednesday afternoon, it means that it's at the same time as the exam I am taking that day (b4,c4,p4) lol..

yeah the exam was okay, last year.. .. I can't really remember a lot from when I studied p1,p2,p3 because I've been doing p4,p5,p6 studying this year at school ..
but yeah, p3: just all about speed, etc... you only just need to know the basic concepts about speed, forces, etc..

P2: found it much easier than many of the other modules.. just all about stars, space, etc.. shouldn't be too challenging..

P1: Didn't reli like it a lot but it wasn't a horrible module lol.. I just didn't like all the radio communications, etc... part of it lol

Yeahh, I think biology has more content
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i like OCR biology because it is just a case of sitting down and learning it, whereas with AQA (i do aqa chemistry) there is a lot of applying your knowledge rather than learning it, so im not complaining :P
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lol if p1-3 is wednesday afternoon, it means that it's at the same time as the exam I am taking that day (b4,c4,p4) lol..

yeah the exam was okay, last year.. .. I can't really remember a lot from when I studied p1,p2,p3 because I've been doing p4,p5,p6 studying this year at school ..
but yeah, p3: just all about speed, etc... you only just need to know the basic concepts about speed, forces, etc..

P2: found it much easier than many of the other modules.. just all about stars, space, etc.. shouldn't be too challenging..

P1: Didn't reli like it a lot but it wasn't a horrible module lol.. I just didn't like all the radio communications, etc... part of it lol

Yeahh, they schedule additional science & separate science exams on the same day...because...generally you don't do both.

I'm not too bothered about P3, as you said, it's all about speed and stuff plus you get all the equations and P1&2's alright if you learn it



good luck for tomorrow if you're taking an exam!
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Hi everyone,
Just wanted to ask: i did B1,C1,P1 and B2,C2,P2 last year in year 10. I got 90/100 and 97/100 in my papers (UMS) but in my coursework i got 72/100. Is there any way i would get an a*??
 
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