Medicine 2012...(hopeful entrants) !!

Original post by Unbiased Opinion

Same, and I think AQA gets a lot of undeserved hatred. :colondollar:

Yeah HSW sucks but it's probs a good skill for potential scientists to have.

Haha, I get what you mean, I explained how the heart works to my five year old sister for the unit 1 exam. Must be quite nice for your dad to be learning alongside you. :smile:

It is really hard to believe, DNA must be so small. And yet it more or less defines us... it is us. :eek:

I know what you mean, I think textbook learning is inevitable. But it's just how you have to word the answers and stuff that gets me. And sometimes not knowing what the hell the question is asking. :s-smilie:

Also, June 2009 paper, there was a question on how you'd test for starch... COME ON! My memory good is not enough for that! :p:

Ah, as long as you can cram your past papers. :smile:

I have the same attitude towards French (reading, listening, writing) as you do to Physics because it's on the 6th June... here's hoping it doesn't backfire.

Thanks. :smile:

Yeah, that's all you need to do for GCSE and AS Level really.... but I always get lazy and never learn answers so end up improvising. :s-smilie:

It's not good, but memorising French is sooooo boring.

Lol, congrats, group high five to all of us for reaching 100 pages. :colone:

Forgot to add this to previous post:
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I do a language at a level as well (German) and did French + German at GCSE - didn't revise one bit for either for any exam, and came out with A*s :biggrin:

- improvised everything in the speaking :colondollar:

Reply 1982

Original post by thegodofgod

That's the easiest question ever!

Starch - Iodine, starch present if it turns blue/black.

Protein - Biuret test, protein present if it turns lilac.

Fat - rub sample onto filter paper, add a few drops of ethanol, if it goes translucent, fat is present.

Easy maybe, but we cover that in unit 1, not unit 2 and my head's too filled up with root pressure/lymph to remember all that stuff! :p:

Reply 1983

Original post by Normandy114

Just checked my A2 text book, not in there either. Lucky me :wink:

I hate you. :hmmm:

Spoiler

Reply 1984

Original post by Unbiased Opinion

Lucky you! I guess you have a photographic memory? I have an auditory memory, most pointless memory ever. :p:

Ah, true, I think there are only about two or three for group 2, but I'd rather there were 0 because the equations are on top of the trends and all that stuff. :frown:

We didn't do extraction of metals at GCSE... we did double not triple, that might've been it. :dontknow:

There's all the stuff you listed to remember plus If it's Fe₂O₃ or the other way around... for every single metal, boo hoo. But I'll get there. :biggrin:

I hope

I did double as well - stupid school didn't allow me to do triple :rant:

Did you do AQA Science at GCSE? That might have been the reason :dontknow:

Iron (II) oxide - FeO
Iron (III) oxide - Fe₂O₃ - haematite ore
Titanium (IV) chloride - TiCl₄
Titanium (IV) oxide - TiO₂
Copper (I) oxide - Cu₂O
Copper (II) oxide - CuO
Chromate ion - CrO₄^2-
Dichromate ion - Cr₂O₇^2-
Tungsten (VI) oxide - WO₃

Reply 1985

Original post by Normandy114

I've not done extraction of metals at GCSE or A level, looks like a good thing :tongue:

Just lots of boring equations - not that interesting :redface:

Reply 1986

Original post by Unbiased Opinion

Easy maybe, but we cover that in unit 1, not unit 2 and my head's too filled up with root pressure/lymph to remember all that stuff! :p:

I remembered that from Year 7 Science! :lolwut:

Reply 1987

Normandy114

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Original post by Unbiased Opinion

I hate you. :hmmm:

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Gotta love edexcel some times.

Reply 1988

Original post by thegodofgod

I remembered that from Year 7 Science! :lolwut:

Then you have an abnormally impressive memory. :p:

Reply 1989

Original post by thegodofgod

Forgot to add this to previous post:
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I do a language at a level as well (German) and did French + German at GCSE - didn't revise one bit for either for any exam, and came out with A*s :biggrin:

- improvised everything in the speaking :colondollar:

So you're feeling confident about the speaking exam, I take it? :p:

I almost missed my French GCSE reading... I had lost my exam timetable and my friend told me the exam was the next day. :frown:

Reply 1990

Evanesyne

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Original post by navarre

Cramming isn't too bad an idea- the closer to the exam you revise, the more likely you are to remember.

Very true on the more likely to remember bit, but I find I only get good results if I understand most of the subject :rolleyes:

I relish the days of doing GCSEs when we could have crammed the day before and still come out with an A* :redface:

Reply 1991

Original post by Unbiased Opinion

So you're feeling confident about the speaking exam, I take it? :p:

I almost missed my French GCSE reading... I had lost my exam timetable and my friend told me the exam was the next day. :frown:

Plus, since I'm Indian, my mum gets more worried / stressed out because of these exams than me :redface:

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Reply 1992

Crushy

Having to learn the whole of S1 now because every moment I had during my statistics lessons was spent imagining I was anywhere else. It's not so bad now that I'm learning using the textbook but at the time I found the content so boring.

Sometimes I wonder how much worse off we'd really be if we just had textbooks instead of teachers. I think their main real role is just to be there to push us through it. Then again there are a few things which could do with proper explanations.

Reply 1993

SteveCrain

Original post by Crushy

Having to learn the whole of S1 now because every moment I had during my statistics lessons was spent imagining I was anywhere else. It's not so bad now that I'm learning using the textbook but at the time I found the content so boring.

Sometimes I wonder how much worse off we'd really be if we just had textbooks instead of teachers. I think their main real role is just to be there to push us through it. Then again there are a few things which could do with proper explanations.

I do that for all subjects. Sleep at 2 am then up at 7, you can't possibly do anything but daydream in lessons. Near exams I learn all content from the textbook, then do past papers; I'm yet to find fault with this method.

Reply 1994