AQA A2 Biology BIOL5 - 17th June 2015

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Reply 2220

geowel18

Original post by F000sey

Was there any space to write the question you picked in question 10? I just circled it? Someone please help

there's not a space i just wrote 10a and put a box around it

Reply 2221

Ezme39

even if you didn't state which essay question you were answering, the examiner will still try to figure it out :smile:

my teacher said he got told by aqa ages ago, but obviously it helps if you were clear

Reply 2222

JM97

If they can't work out what essay you're writing about i dont think you'd get many marks anyway

Reply 2223

thatsimmortality

Original post by Malicious

LOOOOOL for the 2 mark on questionnaire's I wrote Social desirability bias and response bias ( psychology terms ) XDDD

Biology isn't my thing anyway xD

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Reply 2224

elliemoriartyell

I'm really not about these comments with people trotting off their essay and asking people to mark it. like, you know what you wrote, estimate it yourself 😂

Reply 2225

JulietR

I'm probably being really stupid but does talking about how endotherms regulate their body temperature not count as a change in the external environment??

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Reply 2226

Malicious

Original post by thatsimmortality

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LOOOOL

I think I may still get the marks because I've seen in past papers ''Demand characteristics" as an answer to these type of questions so lets just hope xD

Reply 2227

thatsimmortality

Original post by Malicious

LOOOOL

I think I may still get the marks because I've seen in past papers ''Demand characteristics" as an answer to these type of questions so lets just hope xD

LOOOL no way! next we'll be quoting Freud :h:

Reply 2228

ilcap

Original post by elliemoriartyell

I'm really not about these comments with people trotting off their essay and asking people to mark it. like, you know what you wrote, estimate it yourself 😂

Haha still beats the ocr maths threads where people list their UMS for each unit and ask people what they've got overall :banghead:

Reply 2229

2en1

Quick Question

Would pathogens be accepted to be a topic to write about in the 25 marker- I did the one about responding to changes in the environment. Please tell me it does as I wrote a whole page about that lol

Reply 2230

2en1

Original post by Ezme39

I did the essay on internal and external factors-
Importance of glucose control (described raising blood sugar, and linked to the importance of ATP in muscle contraction)
Importance of control of blood pH (described chemoreceptors and control of heart rate/ breathing rate, and importance on enzyme tertiary structure)
Ectotherms temperature control (again referring to enzymes)
Endotherms hibernation to conserve energy
Influence of child birth on the testosterone levels and the importance of this in protection of the mother and child
Pathogens and the immune response of antibodies, and how this prevents damage to cells

Hoping for at least 12 marks on content, and 3 on communication. How does it sound for breadth and relevance? :smile:

I wrote about the exact same stuff as you except for instead of childbirth I did plant biology and how plants respond to temperature and light!! :smile:

for some one who didn't practice the 25 marker it sounds okay. Not sure about the rest of the paper though :/

Reply 2231

tofaeal

Original post by F000sey

Was there any space to write the question you picked in question 10? I just circled it? Someone please help

If you use any extra paper then you would have had to write 10 on the side of that sheets(the pink extra paper one)

Reply 2232

Uberphuq

Original post by thatsimmortality

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I wrote social desirability bias ... -_- explained it a little too

Im on the AQA board for psycho so they allow that kinda stuff!

Reply 2233

Uberphuq

All these people talking about needing information that isn't on the spec to get good marks, you are misguided.

Breadth = more than just a single area/unit

Not extra spec stuff, although if you've written extraspec stuff you will probably get the mark, but don't worry if you havent.

Reply 2234

thatsimmortality

Original post by Uberphuq

I wrote social desirability bias ... -_- explained it a little too

Im on the AQA board for psycho so they allow that kinda stuff!

we're in this together :u:

Reply 2235

ilcap

Original post by Uberphuq

I heard that for the scientific content mark you get 12, 8, 4 for good average poor quality, then awarded two marks for one proof of extraspec knowledge and four marks for two.

Reply 2236

Ezme39

Original post by 2en1

I wrote about the exact same stuff as you except for instead of childbirth I did plant biology and how plants respond to temperature and light!! :smile:

for some one who didn't practice the 25 marker it sounds okay. Not sure about the rest of the paper though :/

Aha, awesome :smile:

I'm sure you did fine! I found the essay the hardest part, so I'm hoping for a pretty decent grade now

Reply 2237

Uberphuq

Original post by thatsimmortality

we're in this together :u:

Yeah buddy! Roll on children pretending not to smoke after parents!

Original post by ilcap

I heard that for the scientific content mark you get 12, 8, 4 for good average poor quality, then awarded two marks for one proof of extraspec knowledge and four marks for two.

You won't get marked down for not including any

Reply 2238

Ezme39

Original post by 2en1

It really should. I started that section with "pathogens provide a change to the internal environment of humans..."- so the examiner could see my thought process :smile:

Reply 2239

Algebraicly

for the essay would it affect my marks if I talked about keeping warm in cold conditions and describing the whole process and not describing reducing body temperature but just saying that an opposite process is involved? I didn't have enough time to describe both sides of the argument for all the subtopics