Also, they were really trying to catch us out with some of those multiple choice questions. Such as the one about inheritance controlled by more than one gene, a lot of people I spoke to put polygenic, because they didn’t realise that it was asking for the type of variation, and for the seal pup population one, most people saw that it was going up by 1.8 million each time, so just added on 1.8 million and didn’t realise that between 2016 and 2020, 1.8 million would be added on twice.
There aren't an extra 5 marks...The SQA just multiply whatever your mark for the assignment was by 1.25, so that they have a total out of 25. Say, for example, you get 10/20 (50%) in the assignment...The scaled mark is then 12.5/25 (still 50% in the assignment). Since the exam paper is out of 100, it means the assignment makes up 20% of the grade