OCR 21st Century Biology Breadth Exam 15th May 2018

Hey, I found it good. Hoping for 75-81.

Some questions:
1) Was the auxin diagram question B or C?
2) What did you get for the fill in gaps for the protein synthesis?
3) Did you get diagram 2 for the last one; the one with common ancestor not having the non-tasting variant?
4) What did you put for the dimples one?

B
cant remember
YES
3/4

I mean the one suggesting why it's "irregular".
Also what did you put for the damp conditions woodlice and how to measure them?
For the brain:
The one about intelligence = cerebral cortex, the one about movement was cerebellum and last was brain stem

What did you get for the order of the letters on the brain question?
I put
c
b
a

The woodlice one was because they are decomposers. So they need water, annoyingly I didn't put that but I literally regretted straight after the exam. Yeah I'm aiming for like 76+ as well

I feel like i flopped it

Also what do you think the grade boundaries will be?

I didn't know they were decomposers but thought of it in the exam. I said because damp places are rich in water content and oxygen which is needed by them.
2

Also, what did you write for:
1) Last question
2) Penultimate fill in gap of protein synthesis
3) Suggest why it's "irregular dominant"
4) The 2 practicals.
5) The first question on the observations of Dickens

What do you think a 9 is - everyone seems to have flopped it mainly.

My gut feeling:
9 - 66/90
8 - 57/90
7 - 48/90
6 - 37/90

I think nearly everyone has so you'll be fine with the boundaries. I have a feeling high 60s may be enough for a solid 9. OCR usually has low boundaries - last year it was 60% for A* Physics and we are new spec, harder, teachers don't know anything, etc. so expect high 60s-75% max for a 9.

'Everyone seems to have flopped it mainly'?? Wow, I hope so, honestly man that makes me feel so much better, literally so many people in my school said it was easy so I was panicking that the grade boundaries are going to mental. Okay, so that's not too bad then.

1) Last question, I put explanation 2 because it shows they mutated differently which explains why the genes are different
2) I can't remember this 100%, I remember putting 'genetic variant' as the last answer
3) For one of the practicals (the woodlice one) I put use a quadrat etc, For the second one I described the practical where you get the plants and put foil on the tips or you can see how they grow by putting them in a box and then seeing which was they grow
4) That first question was worded really bad, I put Darwin looked at fossils and he looked at the last one which was like he looked at species or something and I put his theory was the theory of evolution but lots of my friends but theory of natural selection

I think a 9 will be like 85% max which will be like 77 marks however I think it will probably be like 72/74. Honestly though I'm not sure how everyone across the country did. Going by last years OCR 21st B paper an A* was only like 70% for some papers.