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AQA GCSE Biology Paper 2 (Higher Combined) 8464/2H - 7th June 2024 [Exam Chat]

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AQA GCSE Biology Paper 2 (Combined Higher Tier Trilogy) 8464/2H - 7th June 2024 [Exam Chat]
Welcome to the exam discussion thread for this exam. Introduce yourself! Let others know what you're aiming for in your exams, what you are struggling with in your revision or anything else.

Wishing you all the best of luck. :yy:

General Information
Date/Time: 7th June 2024
Length: 1hr 15 mins

Resources
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/combined-science-trilogy-8464
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Reply 1
Original post by Talkative Toad

AQA GCSE Biology Paper 2 (Combined Higher Tier Trilogy) 8464/2H - 7th June 2024 [Exam Chat]
Welcome to the exam discussion thread for this exam. Introduce yourself! Let others know what you're aiming for in your exams, what you are struggling with in your revision or anything else.
Wishing you all the best of luck. :yy:
General Information
Date/Time: 7th June 2024
Length: 1hr 15 mins
Resources
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/gcse/combined-science-trilogy-8464

Honestly, I hope Paper 2 Biology is like Paper 1 bc that was easy
Original post by meimgabby
Honestly, I hope Paper 2 Biology is like Paper 1 bc that was easy


The problem is grade boundaries 😞
Reply 3
Original post by Kayla35689
The problem is grade boundaries 😞

True.
Idk whether I should prioritise English or Biology because English is just a gamble tbh, do you do AQA? Bc that extract “Singing the grass fields” or something was BAD 🥲
Original post by meimgabby
True.


Also how was physics for you? I thought it sucked :frown:
Reply 6
Original post by Kayla35689
Idk whether I should prioritise English or Biology because English is just a gamble tbh, do you do AQA? Bc that extract “Singing the grass fields” or something was BAD 🥲

Yh I do AQA, I hated Mary yet we have to support the student's opinion so I had to violate ****. Do you do combined science? If u do then I'd just say focus on that bc u have a chance of probs getting a decent grade tbh. I've literally given up with English Language atp. I'll lower down the grade boundary for u 🤣
Reply 7
Original post by Kayla35689
Also how was physics for you? I thought it sucked :frown:

Yh Physics was quite bad. At some point I put in random calculations and hoped for the best.
Original post by meimgabby
Yh I do AQA, I hated Mary yet we have to support the student's opinion so I had to violate ****. Do you do combined science? If u do then I'd just say focus on that bc u have a chance of probs getting a decent grade tbh. I've literally given up with English Language atp. I'll lower down the grade boundary for u 🤣


FR I hate how they tell us to always agree 🥲I also wanted to agree with the guy to some extent.
Yeah I’m gonna follow your advice and focus more on bio bc English is practically always a gamble tbh 😞
You seem smart bro I doubt you’d lower the grade boundaries at all 😂
Original post by meimgabby
Yh Physics was quite bad. At some point I put in random calculations and hoped for the best.


Fr and for the mega amps question I thought it was times by a thousand bc divide by a thousand sounded too small and I ended up with a stupid answer.

However, the SHC and Drone metres question I liked a lot, but Physics paper 2 is looking so long 😭 I don’t even know how to use ‘Fleming’s left hand rule’ bro
I think Bio paper 2 is pretty good, but stimuli, endocrine system and menstrual cycle may be my downfall 😞 should I try and make predictions?
Reply 11
I'd say revise everything, especially the things that you find hard bc the topics in Bio Paper 2 are quite short. Tbh imma revise a night or two before cause that's how I remember this crap. I would love the Paper 2's to be decent but AQA can be deceive mate. I thought the Spanish exam I did yesterday was gonna be simple like 2023, IT WASNT.

Also, I'm pretty bad at those subjects as well 🤣
Reply 12
Original post by Kayla35689
Fr and for the mega amps question I thought it was times by a thousand bc divide by a thousand sounded too small and I ended up with a stupid answer.
However, the SHC and Drone metres question I liked a lot, but Physics paper 2 is looking so long 😭 I don’t even know how to use ‘Fleming’s left hand rule’ bro

Dw, for this one question in the Physics paper ppl got like 0.119 and stuff. I got like 90.

I dont even remember the left hand rule anymore
Reply 13
Original post by Kayla35689
FR I hate how they tell us to always agree 🥲I also wanted to agree with the guy to some extent.
Yeah I’m gonna follow your advice and focus more on bio bc English is practically always a gamble tbh 😞
You seem smart bro I doubt you’d lower the grade boundaries at all 😂

Thx, I don't think so.

If you know that you'll get a decent grade in English Literature, then that's fine. I mean the ppl in our year apparently can't read questions properly, or answer them properly. I was predicted a 4 or 5 in English Lit but atp I'm probably getting a 6 or above bc of how that went 💀
Original post by meimgabby
I'd say revise everything, especially the things that you find hard bc the topics in Bio Paper 2 are quite short. Tbh imma revise a night or two before cause that's how I remember this crap. I would love the Paper 2's to be decent but AQA can be deceive mate. I thought the Spanish exam I did yesterday was gonna be simple like 2023, IT WASNT.
Also, I'm pretty bad at those subjects as well 🤣


FR AQA is so devious sometimes and that Spanish listening was so horrible 🥹
Original post by meimgabby
I'd say revise everything, especially the things that you find hard bc the topics in Bio Paper 2 are quite short. Tbh imma revise a night or two before cause that's how I remember this crap. I would love the Paper 2's to be decent but AQA can be deceive mate. I thought the Spanish exam I did yesterday was gonna be simple like 2023, IT WASNT.
Also, I'm pretty bad at those subjects as well 🤣


Yeah you’re right I’m going to revise all but mostly my worst subjects, good luck with your revision!! 😄
Reply 16
Original post by Kayla35689
FR AQA is so devious sometimes and that Spanish listening was so horrible 🥹

Ikr, I swear I didn't get taught anything that they said bar a few words. Fortunately, some of the paper is multiple choice. Also, sometimes the recording cut out randomly, did that happen to u?
Original post by meimgabby
Ikr, I swear I didn't get taught anything that they said bar a few words. Fortunately, some of the paper is multiple choice. Also, sometimes the recording cut out randomly, did that happen to u?


I don’t really remember if that happened or not but they were just talking so fast it’s a blur in my memory 😞

And you know that Pablo guy who won a video call with his wife on a TV show? I heard that but I thought to myself ‘no way thats dumb’ so I wrote something random 😭
Reply 18
Original post by Kayla35689
I don’t really remember if that happened or not but they were just talking so fast it’s a blur in my memory 😞
And you know that Pablo guy who won a video call with his wife on a TV show? I heard that but I thought to myself ‘no way thats dumb’ so I wrote something random 😭

I put down that he won a woman, I thought I was going mad but atp I kinda gave up. I looked on reddit and other ppl put down similar answers to that question. But we'll probably never know what the answer is.

Also i don't blame u for putting something random down, that's what I did.
Any predictions for tomorrow?

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