OCR Biology F211 resit - 16th May

I'd have to disagree. There were 10 marks on the spirometer and it's a incredibly small topic, so I'm predicting around 43/60 for an A. We'll have to wait and see in August who's right!

I didn't think this paper was particularly difficult in the sense of the things you had to know, however, I thought the questions were ridiculously ambiguous! Also, out of all the questions they possibly could have asked us, they make us draw ten squiggly lines to show our intellect whilst omitting everything about oxygen dissociation curves and the Bohr effect...classic OCR.

Haha it sums them up so well, i guess they assume everyone will know the association curves having revised them to death myself but not everyone seems to know about spirometers. Looking back at a lot of the past papers there are lots of HSW questions such as potometer's etc. I guess it allows them to make sure you really know everything rather than if you just focus on the really hard stuff.

Looking at it i wish it was a bit harder, only 1 really hard question in there and i enjoyed the smug feeling that i knew 80% of the people in the same room as me were clueless . On a serious note, it's only worth 30% of the AS and replaced the foundation unit so they would have a few easier questions to reduce the amount of people that would fail completely if it was all really hard.

Hahaha, I remember telling my Dad in the car driving to school that spirometers were definitely going to come up, and they did Yeah I spent so long memorising the whole procedure for the potometer experiment because a question about it always seems to come up! WHAAAAAAT? Why do you wish it was harder? I just wish it was more clear so I didn't have to write like a full page on the gas exchange question out of fear that they were looking for specific key words and I hadn't used them

I'm glad it was an easy exam but i think there won't be much seperation between candidates as they probably all know why nuclear envelopes have pores and what 100-18 is.

Don't you mean what 100-82 is? - 18?

I'm glad it was an easy exam but i think there won't be much seperation between candidates as they probably all know why nuclear envelopes have pores and what 100-18 is.

Was the insert really needed?, i didnt see it until the last minute. :/ clever i know.

What was the insert? Liver cells right? I don't think it was that important, but it might have been useful to get an idea of what you were writing about.

Besides, the exam board likes to throw in pieces of information that aren't strictly necessary but will make you think more.

Oh, and do you reckon they would accept "Nuclear envelopes have pores to allow genetic material to leave the nucleus when it is needed for protein synthesis"? .... I was a bit unsure as to whether they would accept just "gentic material" or whether they specifically wanted mRNA?

for the last question i wrote H- ions are actively transported out etc.....
who thinks this matters (i didn't put H+)

Was the insert really needed?, i didnt see it until the last minute. :/ clever i know.

I had exactly the same thoughts. Usually the paper says on the insert, but I finished the paper and no reference to it.

I had that momentary panic though at the last minute when I thought I may have missed the question with the insert on it, but luckily I hadn't.

I had exactly the same thoughts. Usually the paper says on the insert, but I finished the paper and no reference to it.

I had that momentary panic though at the last minute when I thought I may have missed the question with the insert on it, but luckily I hadn't.

I didn't think this paper was particularly difficult in the sense of the things you had to know, however, I thought the questions were ridiculously ambiguous! Also, out of all the questions they possibly could have asked us, they make us draw ten squiggly lines to show our intellect whilst omitting everything about oxygen dissociation curves and the Bohr effect...classic OCR.