AQA BIOLOGY Spec A 3rd June- full marks

Hi,

I wanted to know how revision for everyone else is going and is it possible to get full marks? I need full marks in this exam but all i have got so far in practice papers is 66/75 not good enough. but when the mrks are scaled up will it be good enough?

thnx

Do you mind me asking why you need full marks? (Indirectly asking the second part of the question there, lol)

Hard to say it depends on grade boundaries etc. for that paper. It's usually about 68 I gather.

We all got told that AS Biology modules were easier to get high marks on but harder to get full marks on. If you know you Biology at A2 then its easier to get full marks then at AS. I got close to full marks in BYA2 (103/105) and then in BYA5 got full marks (90/90)

because i need an A overall for med school, my coursework marks were bad in A2. the only way to make up lost marks is to get full marks on bya 1 and 80/90 for bya5 and 6... lol messed up pretty bad

wow congrats. thats fantastic. how did you manage to get full marks on bya 5? how did you revise? was it due to past papers

I wish you luck then, hoping to do medicine too. In case if you don't get into medicine in the UK you can always go abroad as there are loads of foreign english-teaqching unis nowadays.

Yeah hammer past papers and then just revision. .

yeh i heard about this but I don't understand how it works. Do you have to go to a eauropean country or any where in the world? Either way do not have to do a conversion course in UK before you can practise?

Sometimes when you look at a mark scheme for a BYA5 paper, the marks are so random! Like 1 mark for saying "aerobic" or if you're blatently talking about succession, you need to put the word "succession" down to get a mark! Pffft, they're really pedantic about some things! You'd never be able to get full marks if it wasn't for mark schemes! Oh how i love mark schemes....they make my day, shame they don't provide us with one in the exam! But oh well, we can dream....

Hmmm yeah. Some times you just have to memorise the mark scheme. I know what you mean about the whole "variation already is present in the population", "variation is due to mutations","mutations lead to different characteristics" thing! I need to memorise that answer word perfectly before the exam, i don't really need many marks on these exams tbh. Although i was looking on AQA's website and it seems that June 07 BYA6 module you only needed 65% to get an A!! Crazy times, that's like 72 UMS for only 49 marks! Good times

I'm not sure but a girl from my school did not get to a med in UK so she applied to a uni in Poland and Sweden and all she had to do was sit a test or something. The quality of teaching is as high as in an english uni and degrees are recognised anywhere in the world so its a normal course