CCEA GCSE exams 2016 *official only CCEA thread*

for the question asking what molecule does a bacterium use to produce protein did anyone write amino acid?? im not sure if i got it right.

Did it definitely ask protein?

yeah i think so...? it was the double award paper.

yeah i think so...? it was the double award paper.

I messed up 1 or 2 questions. I got a little messed up on. I can get 77% and get an A* still so i'm not too bothered. My controlled assessment was full marks and I got 127 for unit 1.

Anyway. The exam was okay. Most of it was straightforward.

Yes, it was off-the-job training. They highlighted "at a training centre" in the question. Induction training (which many people put) can fall under off/on the job therefore it would be incorrect as per CCEA's mark scheme with an identical question last year.

Cash flow, the question about if it's inaccurate? Basically said that if it's inaccurate you won't have the cash at the right time to pay suppliers and with a lack of raw materials you may not be able to produce and therefore result in closing down. You won't be able to get loans from banks if your cash flow is unreliable/inaccurate and you won't be able to pay staff. That's what I said.

Only other question I got messed up on was application letter. Didn't have a clue. I thought it'd be similar to an application form and put that they can tailor it to the exact needs of a business however the employee can falsify their information on the document.

For the last question:

The business is net profit percentage = 30% therefore a business is making 30% profits per £1. Therefore the business is making 30p profits per every £1 it sells so we can see that the business is making a profit. Successful businesses make a profit.

Then from part A of the question we knew that they were growing and experiencing economies of scale so I mentioned about how growing with economies of scale and increasing your market share is a sign of success in the business.

for the question asking what molecule does a bacterium use to produce protein did anyone write amino acid?? im not sure if i got it right.

Was mitosis an answer for one of those gentic engineeringg questions? Did u draw a cows chromosone and label the gene? Same chromosome as a human?

I was struggling a bit with the off-the-job training question since I didn't revise the specifics advantages and disadvantages of on and off the job in detail. I was able to conjure up an advantage and disadvantage, especially since we did a bunch on training for our controlled assessment. I think I put it would allow the employees to earn more skills and hence increase their efficiency/level of production and the disadvantage would they would have to be be removed from work, possibly reducing potential sales. For the last question I was thinking about analysing their Net Profit Percentage, but since it said 'using all the information you've gathered' or something I just wrote about their increased sales and good cash flow. I had the 'signs of business success' memorized and those were two of them, hopefully I can still get the marks.

Overall the paper wasn't too bad for me. I was pretty confident going into it and I'm still confident I've done alright. I liked the unit 1 paper as well, so hopefully it all goes alright.

The Biology paper was alright. Compared to Biology Unit 1 it was an absolute god send. I wasn't able to write much on the IVF question since I didn't know it in great detail but most things were fine. Still love how they give us a couple thousand lines for those six markers when they can be fully done in like half of that.



I put amino acids as well. It was the first question my friend and I discussed after the exam and he wrote amino acids as well. It only makes sense, because amino acids do join together to form proteins.



I wrote Mitosis there as well. And yeah, I just drew a short length of a chromosome and shaded in a wee bit for a gene.

Any further maths people here? I'm absolutely screwed for these two papers. Pure mathematics isn't that bad but I genuinely know ZERO mechanics and statistics. Welp.

Was mitosis an answer for one of those gentic engineeringg questions? Did u draw a cows chromosone and label the gene? Same chromosome as a human?

Woah. Don't know how people have eight exams left. I had 19 exams (including repeats) and have 4 left. Triple award science and physics unit 1 triple award. I haven't had more than 2 exams a week apart from this week with eng, german, re and business studies.

yeah mitosis was an answer
i draw like that chromosone thing and then shaded a wee bit of it but other people were telling me they drew an animal cell so idk

in unit 2 biology what did you guys draw for the stomata never closing graph and what times were they closed most for?

I'm in year 11 so I'm just doing pure maths. I'm really nervous but I know that mechanics and statistics is worse.glad to hear that biology unit 2 was okay. Can you remember what else came up on the paper?


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