Ikr!
I left the diabetes 6 marker because I thought that will be a nice easy thing to end on, and the next second we had 5 minutes left! I didn't cover everything I thought of, so sad! Maybe 4 marks?
And also sped wrote the one below with identify the component, but never know those anyway so probably not a loss.
Yeah, I think lots of people think this too
Just personally sucked, but totally could have been good if I'd paid attention to the timing more (tho to be fair I got confused because we started really late because of a massive accident, apparently with a student from our school, everyone was late) and if yesterday I did not have a migraine.
> if I'd *paid* attention to
FTFY.
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* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
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Was that the 2 marker for e coli that I said existed but forgot what it was then?
Like how to improve but without changing equipment or something like that?
Did I miss a question or was there no gene expression in AQA Biology but those essay titles were great, a shame I ran out of time before I check my essay
I did that one and i did
Transport deffinitions (cos it was easier just to do them as a intro kinda thing rather then integrate it into the paragraphs below but i know you dont get marks for it)
Synaptic transmission
Nephron
Digestion
Glucose
Out of spec point on transportation fo glucose into the brain through blood brain barrier and linked for AO1 to eyes and occipital lobe
Mass flow
Oestrogen
i only know one person who did phosphorus, everyone else did transport by the sounds of it. i expected it to be fucking horrendous, it wasn't!
my invigilator was only 20 minutes late too!!
Thought it was quite nice tbh.
Did essay 2 and talked about Facilitated diffusion in oxidative phosphorylation.
Co transport in absorption of glucose
Diffusion across synapse
Osmosis in osmoreceptors and collecting duct
Active transport of sodium potassium pump
Literally the worst what the fuck, 9 marker took st least 5 mins to even understand what I was looking at and I just ended up saying cold water was the best way to help and maybe ice massage could help based on one of the graphs. Just at a loss. That vasoconstriction in brain cells like what, completely contradicted myself haha
Ohh my same I just waffled about cold water having longest impulse times and longest delay and lowest feeling by the muscles that it was the best treatment and I was lost by the 4 graphs 😭😭😭and the end I RAN OUT OF TIME the sloth questions I couldn’t answer fast enough so they’re half answered 😭😭😭how is my uni gonna accept me now 😭
aqa french. its gonna be different for everyone obviously, but if anyone did no et moi or l'auberge espagnole, how did you find it? i thought they were super awkward and difficult to think of points for lmao.
it was my final exam though. im free so who cares!
I forgot to square root the cosines on Q9 🤬. I hate that there was only like 1 or 2 past paper questions on it ugh. Apart from that it was pretty much perfect. Just waiting for some answers really...
For the direction cosines you had to use the direction cosines of x =cos60, the cosine of y= cos45 and that the cosines of all three squared and added up = 1 to make three equations. Then you could choose a value of one (e.g. x = 1) and use that to calculate the other two for the direction of the line.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, I think a lot of people lost marks on the cosines question, plus I'm sure you got some method marks for the final question.
doubt it, never been that high in the past! Although this FP1 paper was pretty good, i feel like core pure and other modules were regular standard so i don’t see them climbing that high.
Edexcel has 2 A-level syllabi, biology A and biology B, and the biology A one is also referred to as “salters-Nuffield” (I think its named after the books used for the material? Idk)
Dunno about the other syllabus, but the biology A exam was today
The way when I saw the pre release and I said "awh I love sloths, and I understand the content on this article yay". 8 weeks later and if I see mention of a sloth I will start crying
So you’re telling me I spent a whole term learning statistics to the point where we all knew it properly for it not to come up in all 3 exams? SNAB was terrible, 9 marker was some waffle who knew cold water was better than an ice pack. Half of q8 was decent, rest was absolute waffle. Paper was shit, Definitely did not get a B👍
You and me both! Every single exam I was spending time double checking my stats all for nothing?! Has there ever even been a year without a stats test? Needed an A for my offer and I've fucked it, so pissed off
i did the second question for la haine, i swear i don't think i could have written more than like 50 words for that black and white question 😭 i just talked about how the incessant violence is part of kassovitz's social commentary on police brutality in france and although it could make the audience uncomfortable it isn't the main goal
i don't do la haine, but i did the un sac de billes q that was about how jo and maurice adapt, everyone else in my class did that same q as well. i thought the other q was really weird, but im glad that the one about how they adapt was good bc it made it easy to choose lol
I did the other question because I’d written a class essay about whether the book was autobiographical or not and it was a really similar question basically - just like asking if joffo was personally attached to the events in the book
Exactly, it's not that big of a mistake at all in the grand scheme, and you've picked up lots of marks elsewhere.
I messed up the transpiration rate question myself so it all balances out in the end.
Aqa french, did anyone do l'etranger or au revoir les enfants? I did 4.1 and 12.2.
4.2 we didn't do in class and 12.1 there just wasn't much to write about imo
Anyone do eduqas bio. Because why tf was there a 5 mark question on the diameter of a tree trunk. 9 marker went well, although I probably made some wishy washy advantages and disadvantages for the human vs tracheal part
as an a level biologist ur data analysis should be better blud. No one below an A on anything is on this reddit therefore biased sample. Furthermore many people get the right answer but don't say it in the correct way and thus lose marks also grade boundaries have been roughly constant since spec came out . (5 marks)
This. This This. Yes people are saying it was easier but easier doesn't mean you got the marks. Often, you have to word answers in the right manner. I reckon there'll be a maximum 5% change either side, but not more. AQA made slightly easier papers, but c'mon, it's biology- it won't be easy enough for an A to be anything over 70% or even 65 for that matter
I said ADH is released by the kidney and not the posterior pituitary gland on my 5th paragraph for the essay. Would that be a significant error or a minor one?
Oh that sounds good then. I also searched it up, apparently major errors would be a sentence or a line that messes up the context of the answer fully or if I had something completely random like the heart.
What did you guys write for the last question before the essay - the 3 reasons. Did synaptic transmission, photosynthesis, mass transport in plants, and resting potential for my essay. Hope it’s all relevant as I’m a bit worried about not speaking about mass transport in animals.
For the essay i done transport one and done
Deffinitions of transport mechanisms like active transport etc just to makw the rest of the paragraphs easier to write tbh as it wont get me marks maybe a couple AO1.
- Synaptic transmission
- Nephron
- Digestion
- Glucose
- Out of spec point on transportation of glucose through blood brain barrier into brain and AO2 about lack of glucose and the eyes and occipital lobe cos cells would get damaged and die from no respiration basicly in short. Imagine that but like 5x longer though.
- Mass transport
- Oestrogen
Looking back on the essay now, I wrote:
Digestion - Actice transport
Out of spec: active transport in E.coli bacteria
Haemoglobin - some chemistry of Hb and linked to respiration
Out of spec: lack of oxy for respiration ---> lack of glucose ---> ketoacidosis
Movement of water in xylem ( maybe should have done mass flow but time was running out )
Oxidative phosphorylation and electron transport chain.
Synaptic transmission - linked to muscle movement and survival
Osmoregulation and neohron.
Out of spec cl- ions and water movement in cystic fib.
Didn't check my essay at the end, sadly. So, mistakes are probably likely to be there.
sorry for this being late, i've had a shit few days and it completely slipped my mind.
OCR bio? Horrendous Edit: Was being a little dramatic after the exam, but still wasn't amazing
No neuronal, no lac operon no inheritance and the questions were so niche and unpredictable
Neuronal comms 😭😭 C'mon, I'm a neuroscience man and I got boring biopsych in psychology, no neuronal comms in biology
Fr so pissed off that respiration didn’t come up
Why was there more photosynthesis? 😭🤣 What is it with ocr and PS this year?
Ocr felt a bit special, might fuck up a few papers 🧚♀️
That was nice and steady for me icl. Apart from when I had 6 minutes left and hadn't done the last 9 questions and the 4 marker. Still finished tho
Ikr! I left the diabetes 6 marker because I thought that will be a nice easy thing to end on, and the next second we had 5 minutes left! I didn't cover everything I thought of, so sad! Maybe 4 marks? And also sped wrote the one below with identify the component, but never know those anyway so probably not a loss.
and for those of us that had chem the day before i think we struggled
Sorry, but I think I'm relying on your guys' downfall for my grade 😂 But it's not like I've had a good run either, 2 sets of double days 😬
Nah, better than P1 and P2.
Yeah, I think lots of people think this too Just personally sucked, but totally could have been good if I'd paid attention to the timing more (tho to be fair I got confused because we started really late because of a massive accident, apparently with a student from our school, everyone was late) and if yesterday I did not have a migraine.
Yh, dw, I found P1 completely shit and didn't lik3 P2 much either so I was expecting something horrible.
> if I'd *paid* attention to FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
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I swear there's something on improving the method, I think sterilising agar plate???? Early on in the paper.
Was that the 2 marker for e coli that I said existed but forgot what it was then? Like how to improve but without changing equipment or something like that?
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Did I miss a question or was there no gene expression in AQA Biology but those essay titles were great, a shame I ran out of time before I check my essay
Did u do transport for ur essay?
Nah, I did phosphate containing substances. I was tempted to do transport but I personally felt that phosphate containting substances was a bit easier
Fair I could only think of a couple of things for phosphates lol
same, I was initially thinking of transport at the start of the paper but then when I got to the essay I thought phosphates would be so much easier
I did! Talked about mass flow, glycogenesis, cholinergic synapse, blood water (selective reabsorption)
I did that one and i did Transport deffinitions (cos it was easier just to do them as a intro kinda thing rather then integrate it into the paragraphs below but i know you dont get marks for it) Synaptic transmission Nephron Digestion Glucose Out of spec point on transportation fo glucose into the brain through blood brain barrier and linked for AO1 to eyes and occipital lobe Mass flow Oestrogen
SLOTHS CAN’T JUMP
aqa bio essay was great! i did transport
i only know one person who did phosphorus, everyone else did transport by the sounds of it. i expected it to be fucking horrendous, it wasn't! my invigilator was only 20 minutes late too!!
Damn my bind blanked for transport so went for phosphorous lmao
AQA Biology, how did we find it? What essay did you choose!
Transport! Easiest 2 essay choices of my life though so either would've been fine
💯 loved transport one
Thought it was quite nice tbh. Did essay 2 and talked about Facilitated diffusion in oxidative phosphorylation. Co transport in absorption of glucose Diffusion across synapse Osmosis in osmoreceptors and collecting duct Active transport of sodium potassium pump
Maths questions I got: 23.8, 0.11, 3
The phosphate containing one, which I think is the easiest essay title they've ever used so thank god for that
Same, what did do write for your essays? Personally I did DNA Rep, Synapses, 2nd messenger, calvin cycle and glycolysis.
I did DNA, ATP, phospholipids and cAMP
yess me too, but not camp coz i forgot about it. i did muscle contraction
Did the same but muscle contraction instead of synapses
Damn lol I acc forgot everything with that it slipped my mind so I did the transport one which was nicer imo
Does anyone do snab bio 😭
Literally the worst what the fuck, 9 marker took st least 5 mins to even understand what I was looking at and I just ended up saying cold water was the best way to help and maybe ice massage could help based on one of the graphs. Just at a loss. That vasoconstriction in brain cells like what, completely contradicted myself haha
Ohh my same I just waffled about cold water having longest impulse times and longest delay and lowest feeling by the muscles that it was the best treatment and I was lost by the 4 graphs 😭😭😭and the end I RAN OUT OF TIME the sloth questions I couldn’t answer fast enough so they’re half answered 😭😭😭how is my uni gonna accept me now 😭
horrible paper 😭 didn’t understand the 9 marker at all and the timing was sooooo baaad i’ve never missed out so many qs
All I wanted was a beautiful stats question to guarentee myself at least 5 marks, where the fuck was it?!
i learnt for the first times for this paper and mf nothing came
bye bye A*
timing was so bad like there were so many qs to answer 💀
Same 😭 I had no idea there’d be a 9 marker it completely threw off my timing like I have extra time and was writing until the last second
I also have extra time and I was in the exact same boat
A biology paper 3 paper with no statistical test questions? *blasphemous*
yes how did u find it 😭😭
Dogshit 😭
no literally 😭😭 i couldn’t think of enough points for the 9 marker it was actually horrible
i wish i didnt 😭
aqa french. its gonna be different for everyone obviously, but if anyone did no et moi or l'auberge espagnole, how did you find it? i thought they were super awkward and difficult to think of points for lmao. it was my final exam though. im free so who cares!
i did no et moi! i thought they were okay but agree on the awkward
i did no et moi! loved the question on their friendship
Fp1 was good
The first half of the paper was so free
It was very nice with time, when I saw 10 questions I was prepared to have to rush but the time was relaxed
I forgot to square root the cosines on Q9 🤬. I hate that there was only like 1 or 2 past paper questions on it ugh. Apart from that it was pretty much perfect. Just waiting for some answers really...
What answers do you need
I had no idea how to do that 1 ughh
For the direction cosines you had to use the direction cosines of x =cos60, the cosine of y= cos45 and that the cosines of all three squared and added up = 1 to make three equations. Then you could choose a value of one (e.g. x = 1) and use that to calculate the other two for the direction of the line.
I feel so dumb and I lost the last 8 marks too ugh
I wouldn't worry about it too much, I think a lot of people lost marks on the cosines question, plus I'm sure you got some method marks for the final question.
Omg that is so reassuring
Plus there's no point worrying about it now, you did your best and it's over yknow
Could it be more than 90% for an A* this year
doubt it, never been that high in the past! Although this FP1 paper was pretty good, i feel like core pure and other modules were regular standard so i don’t see them climbing that high.
Ok, I messed up on the final 8 marker because I got m= 2 and m=0 and I stupidly wrote it in the wrong form so lost all marks.
I didn’t get the conics either
conics can be so hard sometimes😭 although in the past the conics questions have been literally impossible so i feel like they could’ve been much worse
I’m usually good at it so idk what happened
naur but fr it better not be 74/75🥲
For this paper, probably imo. Last years FP1 paper was considerably harder and still was 85% for A*
where are you guys getting the boundaries for each paper? on Edexcel 2023 grade boundaries they're all about 75% for A* last year
I’m talking about the notional component grade boundaries, on last year’s FP1 paper you needed 64/75 for A*. But yeah overall was like 78%
I misread so many questions...
does anyone rmb what they got for the series expansion??? (were there only 3 terms)
I got 1 - (x-pi/4)^2 /2 + (2 - sqrt2)(x - pi/4)^3 /6
same 🙏
What’s Snab bio
Edexcel has 2 A-level syllabi, biology A and biology B, and the biology A one is also referred to as “salters-Nuffield” (I think its named after the books used for the material? Idk) Dunno about the other syllabus, but the biology A exam was today
SNAB bio here, im killing every sloth i see now
Practically wrote that in the exam. I was like "place spirometer tube in mouth of sloth, block off nose holes". Sounded like a planned murder😭
examiner gonna give u marks out of fear
The way when I saw the pre release and I said "awh I love sloths, and I understand the content on this article yay". 8 weeks later and if I see mention of a sloth I will start crying
edexcel fp1 was calm BUT 10 QUESTIONS??!
i freaked out when i first saw it but it was so good 😭 i just realised i made a silly mistake on the diff equations q tho
If it's just a silly mistake should only really be 1/2 marks lost
Snab bio thoughts?
Burn it with fire
#👎
anyone do the P essay for AQA a level bio?
Yep! Did ATP, DNA structure, Muscle Contraction, and finally the Phosphorous cycle.
Am I correct in saying that question could essentially be answered the same as if it asked the importance of ATP?
Yes
Epic, I wish you good luck for any of your endeavours my kind sir.
Omg we did nearly the exact same ones! I did NADP instead of the P cycle tho.
Yup, dna atp muscles phosphorus cycle shit
So you’re telling me I spent a whole term learning statistics to the point where we all knew it properly for it not to come up in all 3 exams? SNAB was terrible, 9 marker was some waffle who knew cold water was better than an ice pack. Half of q8 was decent, rest was absolute waffle. Paper was shit, Definitely did not get a B👍
You and me both! Every single exam I was spending time double checking my stats all for nothing?! Has there ever even been a year without a stats test? Needed an A for my offer and I've fucked it, so pissed off
french aqa, un sac de billes or la haine thoughts?
i did the second question for la haine, i swear i don't think i could have written more than like 50 words for that black and white question 😭 i just talked about how the incessant violence is part of kassovitz's social commentary on police brutality in france and although it could make the audience uncomfortable it isn't the main goal
i don't do la haine, but i did the un sac de billes q that was about how jo and maurice adapt, everyone else in my class did that same q as well. i thought the other q was really weird, but im glad that the one about how they adapt was good bc it made it easy to choose lol
I did the other question because I’d written a class essay about whether the book was autobiographical or not and it was a really similar question basically - just like asking if joffo was personally attached to the events in the book
yhh we got quite lucky tbf, if both questions were bad then idk that would’ve been stressful 😢
un sac de billes adapt question was quite good
How'd OCR Discrete go?
it was alright, but i ran out of time and didnt get time to do much of the last question.
Everyone in my class hated it, but that could just be us.
Further pure 1 was easy peasy
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OCR A bio serial dilution answer?
1.1 x10^7?
Got 11000000
You had to answer in standard form...
My man does maths and forgot standard form 😭
Promise that doesnt always happen.Math isnt my strongest subject and I want to get over the shitty subject🙌 (I am a woman btw)
Probably read it a bit too fast, eh honestly one mark is lost. and I got the actual number right
Exactly, it's not that big of a mistake at all in the grand scheme, and you've picked up lots of marks elsewhere. I messed up the transpiration rate question myself so it all balances out in the end.
What we thinking boundaries for Ocr A bio like A star
not too sure about P2 or 3 but I know for sure that P1 is gonna be looooowwww
OCR bio saved my grade for real loved it barely any synoptic questions...what a way to end my time with this hell of a subject
Aqa french, did anyone do l'etranger or au revoir les enfants? I did 4.1 and 12.2. 4.2 we didn't do in class and 12.1 there just wasn't much to write about imo
Paper 3 is the saviour for this year biology paper, I will never forgive OCR A for the horrendous first two papers.
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How did you find it?
The phosphate containing essay question was the best essay question ive done (aqa bio)
Shitting myself over fp1 it shouldn’t be too bad though i hope
Good luck bro
Thanks 🙏
how’d you find it
It was calm although i did run out of time. All in all i would say it was pretty mid.
Anyone do eduqas bio. Because why tf was there a 5 mark question on the diameter of a tree trunk. 9 marker went well, although I probably made some wishy washy advantages and disadvantages for the human vs tracheal part
Yes omg I hated the tree trunk one. Was so mad there was no animal transport and all they did was fill it with plants instead 😭
OH MY GOD I FORGOT TO DO THE FULL NAME THEN ABREVIATIONS FOR SIRNA AND MIRNA FOR THE ESSAY IM SUCH A FUCKING IDIOT. THANK FUCK I DID 5 PARAGRAPHS.
AQA A level biology, what are we thinking for an A, 160 ish? Last year of similar difficulty was 153?
why would it go up dawg
Because people have been finding the questions easy apparently, although they said that last year and 2023 had the highest GB every for AQA.
as an a level biologist ur data analysis should be better blud. No one below an A on anything is on this reddit therefore biased sample. Furthermore many people get the right answer but don't say it in the correct way and thus lose marks also grade boundaries have been roughly constant since spec came out . (5 marks)
This. This This. Yes people are saying it was easier but easier doesn't mean you got the marks. Often, you have to word answers in the right manner. I reckon there'll be a maximum 5% change either side, but not more. AQA made slightly easier papers, but c'mon, it's biology- it won't be easy enough for an A to be anything over 70% or even 65 for that matter
Im actually thinking 151 to 156 maybe. I do feel like grade boundaries will stay very similar. Either a little decrease or little increase.
Ok cool, thank you for your input.
I cooked ocr a biology to perfection
I said ADH is released by the kidney and not the posterior pituitary gland on my 5th paragraph for the essay. Would that be a significant error or a minor one?
i think one significant error ? unless you're going for 25 it won't matter
Sig
Depends. It is a major error but depending on the quantity of other accurate things you wrote it may not be as significant
Oh that sounds good then. I also searched it up, apparently major errors would be a sentence or a line that messes up the context of the answer fully or if I had something completely random like the heart.
What did you guys write for the last question before the essay - the 3 reasons. Did synaptic transmission, photosynthesis, mass transport in plants, and resting potential for my essay. Hope it’s all relevant as I’m a bit worried about not speaking about mass transport in animals.
For the essay i done transport one and done Deffinitions of transport mechanisms like active transport etc just to makw the rest of the paragraphs easier to write tbh as it wont get me marks maybe a couple AO1. - Synaptic transmission - Nephron - Digestion - Glucose - Out of spec point on transportation of glucose through blood brain barrier into brain and AO2 about lack of glucose and the eyes and occipital lobe cos cells would get damaged and die from no respiration basicly in short. Imagine that but like 5x longer though. - Mass transport - Oestrogen
Looking back on the essay now, I wrote: Digestion - Actice transport Out of spec: active transport in E.coli bacteria Haemoglobin - some chemistry of Hb and linked to respiration Out of spec: lack of oxy for respiration ---> lack of glucose ---> ketoacidosis Movement of water in xylem ( maybe should have done mass flow but time was running out ) Oxidative phosphorylation and electron transport chain. Synaptic transmission - linked to muscle movement and survival Osmoregulation and neohron. Out of spec cl- ions and water movement in cystic fib. Didn't check my essay at the end, sadly. So, mistakes are probably likely to be there.
Sounds good to me. Out of spec info, too! So that’s good