BIOL4 Biology Unit 4 Exam - 13th June 2011

I also put no on the chocolate cats question. Really I'm not sure how any of us can speculate a right answer for that as the question was so vague, like a lot of the questions that cropped up. How they expect everyone sitting the exam to interpreta question the same way the idiots at AQA do is beyond me. Without providing us with more information all we can do is bloody guess at how they want us to answer it. Take that chocolate cats question for example, it didn't mention whether it was done by breeding cats the owner already had or whether it was just theoretically possible. It's just how you interpret it. The sooner they start to realise these stupid HSW questions don't work the better unless they give us more info, although it'll be too late for all of us

I can't remember all the questions.
1-ATP stuff
2-GPP/NPP
3-anaerobic waste thing
4 - populations
5- inheritance
6
7- brirds and oil
8- long answers

what was 6?

Well, that could have gone a lot worse - but I am in need of an A* in this subject and for that reason once again I find myself beholden to the grade boundaries... I'm probably right slap-bang on the damn boundary as usual, which is great because I was just thinking how little sleep I'd lost recently, and I could do with something terrifying to keep me up all night. Yeah.

I answered the essay qs first and thought "yay", then saw the mite stuff with five mins to go (no matter how I plan my time things always get hectic at the last minute) and thought "this is easy... BUT I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WRITE SENSIBLE ANSWERS!!! NOOOO! BRAIN WILL NOW SHUT DOWN, PLEASE SAVE YOUR WORK" and then upon flipping back to the cats question I thought "I am going to run a cat over when I finally get round to learning to drive" and then I thought "I should really have already done that, and also these questions shouldn't be taxing me this much, I'm a returning graduate, whaaaa" and then I thought "I really hate cats/what the hell is so difficult about this question, brain, read me the damn sentence, it seems easy" and then I ran out of time. The coffee I drank before the exam is still working, however. Maybe you can tell.

I hope the grade boundaries are similar to last year, because despite thinking "mmm yeah it seemed to go okaaaay", most people seem to have ultimately determined that things weren't quite as peachy as they first thought after checking their answers on here (case in point: my predicted marks losses have doubled due to my conclusions drawn from TSR. Yaaay...). So here's hoping the many students not on TSR completely fouled up BIOL4. I will literally drink to that.

human populations in UK and Sudan. Define birth rate.etc.

human populations in UK and Sudan. Define birth rate.etc.

This.

I found going through today's paper that there were a few questions I just saw and had to stop and think 'what are they trying to ask me to say?' because the question was so poorly worded, it wasn't clear what they were lookig for you to say for a few marks. It's not an issue with HSW, it's in all sections of biology exams, they ask very vague questions, but the mark scheme only accepts a very specific answer. Thankfully we only have to deal with this one more time

"I am going to run a cat over when I finally get round to learning to drive"

Regarding the cat question, I've always been taught to refer to the data within the question when it comes to AQA. They also specified 'population', and we all know populations are separated by geographical barriers - so I took 'the population' to be the cats for which all other questions had been asked.

The truth is neither people saying yes or no are wrong - both answers are correct it all depends on what they REALLY meant in the question.

If they meant the cats from data, the breeder was expecting to do this in one generation and we accept that the breeder has the same knowledge we do about the cats genotypes. Then no it was not possible.

If they meant the cats from data, the breeder had more than one generation to do this and we accept the breeder has the same knowledge we do about the cats genotypes. Then yes, it was possible.

HSW ruining lives once more.

I put 0.4% for Hardy-Weinberg, which DID seem low at the time. How did everyone else get 4%? Did I misunderstand the 0.2 we were given?

OMG mAYBE THE ANSWER IS NATURAL SELECTION.

COZ its survival of the fittest and both directional and stabilising are both wrong.