More like 90%bennisboy wrote:
lol GCSEs are so easy. You need about 70% on a piss easy test for an A*.kiteboarderni wrote:
GCSES atm m8! they are bad enough! i feel for ya!
Not to mention coursework.
Not to mention coursework.
Don't know what kind of exam you were taking, but questions like that are probably in SAT's not A-Level exams. I probably got a C in AS because I didnt go to any lessons but hey, its not that easy!Aries_37 wrote:
A level biology doesn't require much revision tbh, most of the time the answer is in the question... i.e
Question: ''here is a graph, explain what is happening''
Answer: ''As x increases Y increases blah blah''
Question: ''Here is a fat squirrel, explain why it might survive in winter''
Answer: ''Because it is fat''
If you don't know the answer, and the answer cannot be found in the question then write ''due to the action of enzymes''
If you think you wasted time in biology... well I missed 40% of bio lessons over the last 2 years (literally, no exaggeration) and I need 2 U's in my last 2 modules (less than 40%) to get an A overall.
lol no, We got to know all the mark boundaries when we got our results. Its about 75% no higher. GCSE CW is easy.jord wrote:
More like 90%bennisboy wrote:
lol GCSEs are so easy. You need about 70% on a piss easy test for an A*.kiteboarderni wrote:
GCSES atm m8! they are bad enough! i feel for ya!
Not to mention coursework.
Actually I cocked up my maths C/W n still got a high A*
You are kidding...right?kiteboarderni wrote:
GCSES atm m8! they are bad enough! i feel for ya!
lol @ GCSES and Standard Grades and Int 2s'.
Just you wait.
It's 70% and for guaranteed A it is 75%.bennisboy wrote:
lol no, We got to know all the mark boundaries when we got our results. Its about 75% no higher. GCSE CW is easy.jord wrote:
More like 90%bennisboy wrote:
lol GCSEs are so easy. You need about 70% on a piss easy test for an A*.
Not to mention coursework.
Actually I cocked up my maths C/W n still got a high A*
exactly and the questions are so easyZimmer wrote:
It's 70% and for guaranteed A it is 75%.bennisboy wrote:
lol no, We got to know all the mark boundaries when we got our results. Its about 75% no higher. GCSE CW is easy.jord wrote:
More like 90%
Not to mention coursework.
Actually I cocked up my maths C/W n still got a high A*
The questions insult a teenagers intellect they are so dumb...
Well, if you think about it, lots of people in this world are thick enough to fail them all. Which is quite shocking.
Well, if you think about it, lots of people in this world are thick enough to fail them all. Which is quite shocking.
Who gives a flying fuck what you get on the exams as long as you pass! Remember what the call the guy who finishes last in Med School.........Doctor!!!!!
WTF! I bust my ass to get 85% for a B and you get A's for getting 70%? I'm moving to UK now.Zimmer wrote:
It's 70% and for guaranteed A it is 75%.bennisboy wrote:
lol no, We got to know all the mark boundaries when we got our results. Its about 75% no higher. GCSE CW is easy.jord wrote:
More like 90%
Not to mention coursework.
Actually I cocked up my maths C/W n still got a high A*
Wait for what? It's not like it gets much harder.Zimmer wrote:
You are kidding...right?kiteboarderni wrote:
GCSES atm m8! they are bad enough! i feel for ya!
lol @ GCSES and Standard Grades and Int 2s'.
Just you wait.
Here's a couple of questions from one of my exams at uni (I don't know why I still have exam papers from uni still lying around my room - shows how often I tidy up ):
Explain the operation of an instruction pipeline and the main types of hazards encountered in pipelines.
Easy stuff.What are the three main types of cache misses. What factors determine the rates of each of these cache misses and how could they be reduced.
Although I remember all my signals analysis exams being really, really hard.
Just read some notes and leave a day to revise before each exam.
Berster. I wasn't commenting on my thoughts about it. I was commenting on what he said. If he finds GCSES hard, then he will get a shock in the next exams.
Which next exams?Zimmer wrote:
Berster. I wasn't commenting on my thoughts about it. I was commenting on what he said. If he finds GCSES hard, then he will get a shock in the next exams.
I'm doing AQA bio specification A...and yes it really is that easy once you peel away all the bullshit.buLLet_t00th wrote:
Don't know what kind of exam you were taking, but questions like that are probably in SAT's not A-Level exams. I probably got a C in AS because I didnt go to any lessons but hey, its not that easy!Aries_37 wrote:
A level biology doesn't require much revision tbh, most of the time the answer is in the question... i.e
Question: ''here is a graph, explain what is happening''
Answer: ''As x increases Y increases blah blah''
Question: ''Here is a fat squirrel, explain why it might survive in winter''
Answer: ''Because it is fat''
If you don't know the answer, and the answer cannot be found in the question then write ''due to the action of enzymes''
If you think you wasted time in biology... well I missed 40% of bio lessons over the last 2 years (literally, no exaggeration) and I need 2 U's in my last 2 modules (less than 40%) to get an A overall.
Let me make up a more realistsic example then...Question: ''Nuts contain a high proprtion of lipoproteins, polysaccharides in the form of amylose, and complex polypeptides. Grey squirrels from East Anglia have a diet rich in these nuts. Explain why during winter the population of squirrels in East Anglia are predominatly grey?''
Answer: ''Because they are fat''
But exams don't get that much harder really, especially not now it's AS/A2 level thingys. Even standards at universities seem to be slipping year by year.Zimmer wrote:
Berster. I wasn't commenting on my thoughts about it. I was commenting on what he said. If he finds GCSES hard, then he will get a shock in the next exams.
Because people get dumber year by year. Unis and schools know that and have to drop their standards every few years. Kinda sad.Bertster7 wrote:
But exams don't get that much harder really, especially not now it's AS/A2 level thingys. Even standards at universities seem to be slipping year by year.Zimmer wrote:
Berster. I wasn't commenting on my thoughts about it. I was commenting on what he said. If he finds GCSES hard, then he will get a shock in the next exams.
They're grey because they're fat? The answer has something to do with what they eat. Otherwise they wouldn't give you all those protein types and molecules. You didn't even answer the question.Aries_37 wrote:
I'm doing AQA bio specification A...and yes it really is that easy once you peel away all the bullshit.buLLet_t00th wrote:
Don't know what kind of exam you were taking, but questions like that are probably in SAT's not A-Level exams. I probably got a C in AS because I didnt go to any lessons but hey, its not that easy!Aries_37 wrote:
A level biology doesn't require much revision tbh, most of the time the answer is in the question... i.e
Question: ''here is a graph, explain what is happening''
Answer: ''As x increases Y increases blah blah''
Question: ''Here is a fat squirrel, explain why it might survive in winter''
Answer: ''Because it is fat''
If you don't know the answer, and the answer cannot be found in the question then write ''due to the action of enzymes''
If you think you wasted time in biology... well I missed 40% of bio lessons over the last 2 years (literally, no exaggeration) and I need 2 U's in my last 2 modules (less than 40%) to get an A overall.
Let me make up a more realistsic example then...Question: ''Nuts contain a high proprtion of lipoproteins, polysaccharides in the form of amylose, and complex polypeptides. Grey squirrels from East Anglia have a diet rich in these nuts. Explain why during winter the population of squirrels in East Anglia are predominatly grey?''
Answer: ''Because they are fat''
Yup.Zimmer wrote:
Because people get dumber year by year. Unis and schools know that and have to drop their standards every few years. Kinda sad.Bertster7 wrote:
But exams don't get that much harder really, especially not now it's AS/A2 level thingys. Even standards at universities seem to be slipping year by year.Zimmer wrote:
Berster. I wasn't commenting on my thoughts about it. I was commenting on what he said. If he finds GCSES hard, then he will get a shock in the next exams.
I did answer it correctly because I made up the question, bitch
Dude they don't go grey because they are fatMekstizzle wrote:
They're grey because they're fat? The answer has something to do with what they eat. Otherwise they wouldn't give you all those protein types and molecules. You didn't even answer the question.Aries_37 wrote:
I'm doing AQA bio specification A...and yes it really is that easy once you peel away all the bullshit.buLLet_t00th wrote:
Don't know what kind of exam you were taking, but questions like that are probably in SAT's not A-Level exams. I probably got a C in AS because I didnt go to any lessons but hey, its not that easy!
Let me make up a more realistsic example then...Question: ''Nuts contain a high proprtion of lipoproteins, polysaccharides in the form of amylose, and complex polypeptides. Grey squirrels from East Anglia have a diet rich in these nuts. Explain why during winter the population of squirrels in East Anglia are predominatly grey?''
Answer: ''Because they are fat''
Lol @ you, even though I dont do biology i can understande that! There are more than one type of squirrel, the grey ones eat more of the fatty nut. result they can stay out in winter when others hibernate or dieMekstizzle wrote:
They're grey because they're fat? The answer has something to do with what they eat. Otherwise they wouldn't give you all those protein types and molecules. You didn't even answer the question.Aries_37 wrote:
I'm doing AQA bio specification A...and yes it really is that easy once you peel away all the bullshit.buLLet_t00th wrote:
Don't know what kind of exam you were taking, but questions like that are probably in SAT's not A-Level exams. I probably got a C in AS because I didnt go to any lessons but hey, its not that easy!
Let me make up a more realistsic example then...Question: ''Nuts contain a high proprtion of lipoproteins, polysaccharides in the form of amylose, and complex polypeptides. Grey squirrels from East Anglia have a diet rich in these nuts. Explain why during winter the population of squirrels in East Anglia are predominatly grey?''
Answer: ''Because they are fat''
Uni exams are just taking the piss. Firstly, every exam I have had this year was multiple choice, and secondly the coursework answers are pretty much supplied to you in all the lecture material!
Maybe it'll change next year, as the first year may have got rid of the uber thick people and the people that really can't be bothered to go to Uni anymore.
From GCSE's onward you'll be fine.
Maybe it'll change next year, as the first year may have got rid of the uber thick people and the people that really can't be bothered to go to Uni anymore.
From GCSE's onward you'll be fine.
Aah...that was a stupid question. Giving you all those molecules then asking a dumb fuck question like that. That was barely biology, that was all reading the question and that's it. Silly me, thinking there'd be actual scientific stuff.bennisboy wrote:
Lol @ you, even though I dont do biology i can understande that! There are more than one type of squirrel, the grey ones eat more of the fatty nut. result they can stay out in winter when others hibernate or dieMekstizzle wrote:
They're grey because they're fat? The answer has something to do with what they eat. Otherwise they wouldn't give you all those protein types and molecules. You didn't even answer the question.Aries_37 wrote:
I'm doing AQA bio specification A...and yes it really is that easy once you peel away all the bullshit.
Let me make up a more realistsic example then...Question: ''Nuts contain a high proprtion of lipoproteins, polysaccharides in the form of amylose, and complex polypeptides. Grey squirrels from East Anglia have a diet rich in these nuts. Explain why during winter the population of squirrels in East Anglia are predominatly grey?''
Answer: ''Because they are fat''
I wish Biology was that simple, maybe at year when your 12 you get questions like taht, not when your 18Mekstizzle wrote:
Aah...that was a stupid question. Giving you all those molecules then asking a dumb fuck question like that. That was barely biology, that was all reading the question and that's it. Silly me, thinking there'd be actual scientific stuff.bennisboy wrote:
Lol @ you, even though I dont do biology i can understande that! There are more than one type of squirrel, the grey ones eat more of the fatty nut. result they can stay out in winter when others hibernate or dieMekstizzle wrote:
They're grey because they're fat? The answer has something to do with what they eat. Otherwise they wouldn't give you all those protein types and molecules. You didn't even answer the question.
Not that that was an ACTUAL question, just one he made up. Believe me they are a lot harder than that.Mekstizzle wrote:
Aah...that was a stupid question. Giving you all those molecules then asking a dumb fuck question like that. That was barely biology, that was all reading the question and that's it. Silly me, thinking there'd be actual scientific stuff.bennisboy wrote:
Lol @ you, even though I dont do biology i can understande that! There are more than one type of squirrel, the grey ones eat more of the fatty nut. result they can stay out in winter when others hibernate or dieMekstizzle wrote:
They're grey because they're fat? The answer has something to do with what they eat. Otherwise they wouldn't give you all those protein types and molecules. You didn't even answer the question.
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pretty much what i did for my first year exams.Bertster7 wrote:
How can you spend 3 weeks revising? I'm sure I've never spent more than 6-8 hours revising for a subject - and that was for finals at uni - and I didn't go to the lectures or do the coursework (well, I did some of it, usually the night before it was due in - same with my dissertation, 5 days I spent writing that and the programs to accompany it).
Just don't spend so long revising, go out and have a few pints, relax a bit - then just go to the exams and get good marks, simple.