AQA Biology Unit 1

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Reply 100

Cirsium

Original post by dausa99

I put Lichen down as well but now a something has spread and they wanted an animal not a plant/fungi?!? :s-smilie:

Yeah text of the question is "Name one type of animal that can be used as an indicator species". Sorry :frown:

Reply 101

SofiaSmith

Are you sure, I saw a tweet saying it was animal indicators

Reply 102

Cirsium

Original post by Resty

I said Lichen for the first named example and then used tubifex worms.. another biological indicator but surely they can't ignore that as they are used to test for pollution....

Unfortunately it's a question with a bold one, meaning if you write an incorrect answer you lose the credit for the right one. And it does say animal. :frown:

Reply 103

SofiaSmith

Original post by Cirsium

Yeah text of the question is "Name one type of animal that can be used as an indicator species". Sorry :frown:

Are you sure?

Reply 104

Cirsium

Original post by SofiaSmith

Are you sure?

Absolutely positive.

Reply 105

ellie10125059

This was the stupidest exam ever-15 year olds drinking, snail colours..... what were AQA thinking??? the grade boundaries had best be low. Is there any point revising the specification for chemistry and physics? :angry:

**** that test.

Original post by Melville140

I found it okay actually, I didn't put calcium into the 6 marker which I'm annoyed about now but I put in vitamins and everything else in :/. The very last question over a different way of using an indicator was hard :/ what's an indicator you can use for sulfur dioxide/air pollution? Does anyone know??

I didn't even include fibre for the six marker which I am really annoyed about because I expected the worst so I only skim read over balanced diet. The very last question I wrote Mayfly larvae (as it did say animal indicator) which indicates the level of water pollution and then rat-tailed maggots or sludgeworms as another way to spot air pollution. I'm not too sure though as lots of people wrote lichens.

Reply 108

imightplay12

Original post by Jamie Vardy

THAT WAS THE WORST PAPER EVER!

"What is meant by an independent company?" - obvious but not a question that I'd like to see on a Biology paper. AQA are a shitty business and this question just showed it with a disgusting 1 marker like this. BUSINESS STUDIES AND BIOLOGY DO NOT OVERLAP AT GCSE; STICK TO THE ****ING SPEC YOU MONGS LIKE YOU DID BACK IN 2011 OR WHATEVER.

TO EVERYONE WHO DID EXAMS PRE-2014, YOU HAD IT ****ING EASY!

WHAT THE ACTUAL ****?!

bruh i felt the same thing XD :biggrin:

Reply 109

Resty

Original post by Cirsium

Absolutely positive.

Fairly certain it actually said "Describe another method that can be used to measure the environmental change described in question whatever.

Reply 110

Cirsium

Original post by Resty

Fairly certain it actually said "Describe another method that can be used to measure the environmental change described in question whatever.

Yep I was responding to a q about 7ci (Name the animal indicator species and the environmental factor) as opposed to 7cii (Give one different method of measuring the environmental factor you gave in the previous part)

(Or at least I was trying to. I may have completely misread whatever I quoted).

Reply 111

Resty

Original post by Cirsium

Absolutely positive.

Sorry wasn't clear: meant in part a) it said describe an animal that can be used as an indicator species and what it measure.

a) i) then said: State another method that can be used to detect an indicator species - think you could say instrumental methods or another named indicator species such as in my case tubifex worms

Reply 112

Cirsium

Original post by ellie10125059

I know it's a rhetorical question, but yes. There's always more context for B1 exams than C1 etc and at the end of the day even when they're asking you about 15 year olds drinking that's data and the impact of legal drugs, and snail colours is adaptation etc etc. It's all in the spec somewhere.

Reply 113

Resty

Original post by Cirsium

Ah nvm you replied when i was typing that last message xD

Either ways, I feel like I did pretty well in that exam. Went in there with the mindset of "Show the examiner what you do know, not what you don't." Wrote alot for all the questions and covered everything relevant. praying the rest of the AQA sciences are like that one though.

Reply 114

Cirsium

Original post by Resty

Ah gotcha. I would definitely expect an answer about instrumental methods, as all the different indicator species have different ranges. So you can't really survey the same area with two different inverts. They might let you have two inverts though.

Reply 115

( . Y . )

Original post by Jamie Vardy

They tried to trip us up so much they decided to make it a different subject because they ran out of questions

Reply 116

dausa99

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AQA are clearly alchopop addicts 😂

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Reply 117

username1152869

Original post by gordon123

I said test rivers for acidity using a pH meter but I think I should have just said rain now

Lichens I thought till I read the comments.

Reply 118

dausa99

Original post by gonza nelson

Lichens I thought till I read the comments.

A lot of people wrote Lichens Nelly but it's said 'animal' so we should've put salmon as they can only live in high o2 concentration waters

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