OCR Biology F211 resit - 16th May

mmm true but if evry1 found it hard then they will go down

I just found this the most horrible paper, the topics I spent hours revising were in the test but with one word answers and made up little of the marking points. While the questions I had believed would be one or two marks were 5+ and they were insignificant topics compared to haemoglobin and mitosis etc.
I'm desperate to apply for Dentistry next year and I worked so hard to try and pass these exams the first time!

What does everyone reckon the grade boundaries will be?

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thats like 67%!!! it will be around 80% so 48 out of 60 for an A

yo that is the raw mark, but marks are calculated in ums and so will usually be 40 marks out of 60 for an A because these papers are very hard as answers have to be extremely specific. For other papers the g boundaries where 40-46 out of 60 for A.

I found it very hard too, had to bull **** a lot of it especially the active transport bit. And also really annoyed at the fact that i revised so much on bigger topics, like cell cycle, inspiration, etc and none of it came up! But hopefully if i can scrape an a in this paper i should be alright getting an A overall!

How did everyone find the coursework out of 40? Hopefully grade boundary goes down for that as well

For the active transport, I put H+ out of the companion cell and Hco3- ions out of the red blood cell

yo that is the raw mark, but marks are calculated in ums and so will usually be 40 marks out of 60 for an A because these papers are very hard as answers have to be extremely specific. For other papers the g boundaries where 40-46 out of 60 for A.

I found it very hard too, had to bull **** a lot of it especially the active transport bit. And also really annoyed at the fact that i revised so much on bigger topics, like cell cycle, inspiration, etc and none of it came up! But hopefully if i can scrape an a in this paper i should be alright getting an A overall!

How did everyone find the coursework out of 40? Hopefully grade boundary goes down for that as well

i got 39/40 which is an A

I used the sodium potassium pump. We'd talked about it in lessons loads. I don't know exactly where it is though :P

wat about the question on active transport where you had to write two substances that use active transport
i put:
sucrose-transported in the phloem
water and ions-transported in the xylem

i dont think its right???

wats the sodium pump, neva heard of it??

wow thats high.
I just got 28/40
dunno if thats a C or B.

Also on the last question, i described the translocation! I realise that this is probably totally wrong but did anyone else do the same?

What did people do for the Question on Adaptation of cells and tissues, for efficient Gaseous exchange. I didn't know weather to write about Alveoli or Goblet Cell/Ciliated Cell. I had No Clue what to write on that question!

yo that is the raw mark, but marks are calculated in ums and so will usually be 40 marks out of 60 for an A because these papers are very hard as answers have to be extremely specific. For other papers the g boundaries where 40-46 out of 60 for A.

I found it very hard too, had to bull **** a lot of it especially the active transport bit. And also really annoyed at the fact that i revised so much on bigger topics, like cell cycle, inspiration, etc and none of it came up! But hopefully if i can scrape an a in this paper i should be alright getting an A overall!

How did everyone find the coursework out of 40? Hopefully grade boundary goes down for that as well

I did most of it on the alveoli then a small sentence on the cartilage in the bronchi/trachea which holds the airways open so theres little air resistance and the alveoli will be well ventilated