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AQA even made the telegraph for their disgraceful 'biology' exam paper but are yet to comment. Cant wait for the apology or lowered grades!! Im even prepared to do another exam like the last years if it means i will get better grades that i revised for??

Reply 61

whatjusthappend?

I revised soo much for this exam and only 10% of the stuff i revised actually turned up

Reply 62

Holmes16

What did people put for the question about what animal detects environmental changes? I put Lichens but there a plant :/

Reply 63

nadeeminta01

Original post by Holmes16

What did people put for the question about what animal detects environmental changes? I put Lichens but there a plant :/

i put mayfly larvae and the less the mayfly larvae the cleaner the water

Reply 64

clorenzoni5

Lmao, what about that six marker though, they had so much SO MUCH they could ask us on that one, but noooo, nooooo they had to pick something that wasnt really on the specification (it was easy, but seriously?!). There was no bloody menstrual cycle, no culture of bacteria, no cloning techniques, nothing. BLOODY NOTHING. Now the grade boundaries are going to be up in the sky because u could literally have revised only on the day and still get an A/A*. PATHETIC.

Reply 65

Holmes16

Original post by nadeeminta01

i put mayfly larvae and the less the mayfly larvae the cleaner the water

It didn't say anything like that in our schools revision books, how can they put it in our exam!!

Reply 66

Holmes16

Original post by nadeeminta01

i put mayfly larvae and the less the mayfly larvae the cleaner the water

so pissed

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 67

AGBF

https://www.change.org/p/aqa-lower-the-grade-boundaries-for-aqa-biology-2016-examination?recruiter=543162137&utm_source=share_for_starters&utm_medium=copyLink

PEtition

aLSO FOR 6 MARKER,can you talk about the componants of the food groups( for e.g,protein for growth)

Reply 68

Elleee1234

hopefully the grade boundaries are lowered and are like last years ones 11 marks for a D and 20 for a C
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BDY-JUNE-2015.PDF

Reply 69

ibte10

I am glad i did Bio last year judging by some of the comments.

Reply 70

Vav Sartrean Po

I think that AQA were a bit premature in releasing next year's test... this year!

Reply 71

username1732491

90% bullsh*t and 10% knowledge? Yeah that sounds like AQA alright. It's been a while since I did GCSE Biology with AQA, but I did A2 Economics with AQA last year, where one could have passed the final exam by only talking about oligopolies, which was just a tiny part of the entire course. They put so much focus on exam technique, which just screws over those of us who know the stuff but don't know the mark scheme.

Reply 72

The_JoKeR

Oh deary me, next years exams aren't looking great at this rate...

Reply 73

amy.dalton1234

Probably too busy concentrating on next years to paper to think about how many people this has upset and stressed out. What if all three sciences at 10% knowledge?

Reply 74

GCSEstudent2502

You guys know what the worst thing is they wont do anything about it, AQA are already denying everything saying we are complaining about nothing and when it comes down to it no one bloody cares about our say.
I'm a keen biology student As in all my mocks yet Ill be lucky to get a C in this bloody exam. we have been let down once again

Reply 75

BooHan

agreed, this was my first exam and Id honestly felt asthough I had nailed revision, go into the exam and about 20% is based on biology, the rest is ********. Came out furious, only to find that AQA have blamed us for not doing enough revision! It really isnt fair, knocked my confidence for the next exams now.

Reply 76

tammio

Original post by BooHan

Exams are hard, face it.

Reply 77

stressed turtle

Original post by tammio

Exams are hard, face it.

Yes, 'exams are hard', but if you have spent the last few months learning what AQA have written in their books then you should be able to get good grades. I learnt my AQA biology book inside out and I still didn't know how to answer some questions. So obviously the questions should be challenging, but they shouldn't be impossible to answer and AQA should've covered some idea of an answer in their revision guides if they were going to ask such questions. For example, in my revision guides I didn't come across independent companies or standard form but what I came across were topics like hormones that weren't even in the exam but should've been. It was confusing and unfair.

Reply 78

hello654321

They (AQA) can't dare say that the 'exam was hard, that's how exams are' because exams are to test your knowledge and understanding of the subject. My knowledge was not tested sufficiently because more than half the specification was missing. My understanding of Biology which was gained within 3 years was not tested thoroughly so i am definitely expecting lower grade boundaries. This is so unjust and is such an inaccurate representation of our capabilities. I could quote the textbook word for ****ing word.

Reply 79

TARDIS1963

Original post by dhruvap

Totally agree, i had all the factual information memorised... there were at least 3/4 suggest questions and own opinion questions! Even the four markers were stupid!

Sorry to say this, but it's because it is so easy to memorise stuff that they have stepped up this year. All of the application questions were based on concepts that are in the spec, so AQA have really not done anything wrong.

No paper EVER has had every single topic in the syllabus, they just have a random selection to force you to understand the whole unit.