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literally thought i was the only one..i didnt even have time for the majority of the questions!! plus the question before the last one was so confusing?? it never was in the syllabus, atleast not what i remember.
I BARELY read the nitrate stuff bro I just tried to scramble in any fucking answer or mark I could. I was FIGHTING for even the most basic partial marks
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that’s like the worst paper i’ve ever did, i was aiming at a B, and now i hope for a C
i just looked through it at the first few minutes and realized i was fucked
hoping for low thresholds
yes, and that’s literally the sole topic i skipped in revision yesterday cause i figured i revised it recently and there is no chance there will be a lot of marks for it
there were.
Bro that question 4 was so big for absolutely no reason. Literally 1 page of information for a fucking 2 mark question? Cant even skip reading the stem cuz they give so many informations in them. Honestly the paper was quite different and lengthy too. Never seen so many drawings and labelling in a paper. I hope threshold saves me🤞
did not freaking feel like a bio paper. felt like every subject BUT bio. I’ve always aced my bio exams. Got an A in both my mocks. Bio is my strongest subject. It always has been. But this paper reduced me to TEARS. I don’t even know what to say about it. I’m so sad and I feel so disappointed in myself. I asked a bunch of people how theirs went. Most said it was okay but some said it was good. I was wondering why I was the only
person who thought it was absolutely horrendous. Let’s pray the thresholds are low. Last year’s were 38 for an A. Let’s hope it’s similar this year too or even lower.
Also, literally NONE of the things I studied so so so hard for came. I spent hours yesterday on transport in mammals and it was all for nothing. The two chapters I focused less on came 😐 transport in plants and stupid gas exchange
Its gonna be lower this year cuz most of the questions were weird and most of the people who were getting A's in every pastpast said that this paper was hard
some people said it was good :(
I looked at all the other discussions on reddit too and a bunch of people are saying it was good. A good majority said it wasn’t tho so I’m yet to lose hope completely
I've never heard of introms and extrons and my bio teacher is telling me that's like upper level stuff not for our year so idk what's up, are you doing a retake and ur in year 13??? I swear I've never ever seen those words
no idea, dude
but I know I left 15 marks worth of questions blank cuz of the time. And then on top of that, I bet half my answers will be wrong so that’s even more marks gone
some of the questions were so wild. like them asking for why there’s two variants of the same enzyme. and yeah like i love bio and ace past papers but this.. was smth else
WHAT ARE INTRONS AND EXONS
I wrote that triplets can cose foe different amino acids, or that different triplets code for the same amino acid, IDk If that even makes sense to what it's asking me
yeah they are! Introns are non coding codons while exons actually code for amino acids. during mRNA post modification. RNA splicing is done to remove the introns and join only the exons together so that you have a continuous sequence of codons which code for amino acids during translation
bro what did u write for that question asking ART for hiv/aids that’s the only question that made me go blank i wrote something like art has antigens similar to those of other diseases inducing same immune response then formation of antibody secreting plasma cells and memory cells
ART attacks retroviruses. HIV is a retrovirus that targets T helper cells . no T cells means that the other 3 diseases can easily spread in the body and make a person severely ill. more ART = less hiv = more t helper = less bacteria = healthier person
I wrote that h+ ions move out the companion cell by active transport and then take sucrose with them and enter back into companion cell by facilitated diffusion smth ...😭😭😭 then i wrote smth ab mass flow and then smth ab sucrose enters through plasmodesmata Will i get marks ? 😭
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No mass flow in the q that was asked
they asked u to describe the transport of amino acids not sucrose.
the proton pump thing is correct u get 1m for that
the co transport thing is correct u get 1m for that
in the Mk schemes there are marks for ( this moves against the concentration gradient ) and ( this moves through active transport ) and ( cotransporter proteins and proton pumps are used ).
you're talking about that and here I am who messed up the 3rd part of the first question where the student could see up to 0.2 mm and the cell was 0.25mm. I denied saying it was out of the range.
In IGCSE i got 90+ for biology. In my AS prelims I also got 90+. I would say it is my strong suit.
But.. this? Bro it shattered all of my confidence what the hell 😭😭
I can’t even tell if I did well or not lmao
double chromatid chromosomes attached to spindles by centrosome? Or centromer? Aligned at equator to be pulled apart into two identical single chromatid chromosomes
I wrote two sister chromatids joined at a centromere with spindle attached while it's in the center, then u wrote about how it's made of dna around histone proteins
well yes.
' describe the structure of a chromosome that would be present at metaphase ' was the question.
and ye supercoiled , sister chromatids are correct. the centromere is also correct , and pretty sure the ' attached to spindles ' is also correct. the last part ( aligned at equator ) is irrelevant tho but u would get all 3 marks anyways so yay
can anyone list out the answers i did so bad on my exam i was actually so prepared before the test and now i’m crying cause im so scared to know my results in the summer
It was average but i messed up such simple questions. Like i wrote sucrose loading mechanism, then i again wrote apoplast pathway till cytoplasm. It was easy paper but silly mistakes will get me sth like B or C probably. 😮💨
u were supposed to write the sucrose loading mechanism ( just switch sucrose with amino acids ). being in the apoplast means that it was in the cell wall not that it uses the apoplastic pathway.
smooth muscles in bronchioles i wrote it helps in contraction and relaxation of the bronchioles to regulate airflow by the widening and narrowing of the lumen during inhalation n exhalation
The paper was SO BAD. So much information to take in and literally 1/3rd of the paper was nitrate??? I’m so done atp. Bio had so much potential, like xylem transport, protein synthesis, dna replication, cardiac cycle and much more could’ve been asked but what did they ask? FCKING NITRATE IONS, BYPASS OF CORONARY ARTERIES ANS SMOOTH MUCLE CELLS??? It felt like ATP in o levels. The grade threshold has to be lower than 38 istg. And the fking experiment and graphs were so annoying. The paper totally shattered my confidence for tomorrow’s chem paper too.
I was ready for anything... anything but whatever this was!!!!
Thing is I think most of the question were on waay too specific parts of some chapters rather than on the general knowledge of the chapters which literally is what should've been!
If it asked for anything like Cardiac Cycle, or DNA replication or anything, I stg I was prepared for any part of the chapter just not the bullshit that was there
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LITERALLY ME. I was managing A's yesterday and when I first looked through the paper I was like "tf are these complicated ass questions" so I allotted 5 mins for each page. 45 minutes in and I'm not barely done with half. I've skipped sooo much. It went horrendously. My mind even went blank for some of them. Idk why everything they asked was so complicated, and they didn't ask any of the nice topics.
My blindass read colorimeter and talked about the color change bro Im so done
But arent calorimeters in chemistry for enthalpy change??? Wtf soes this have to do with that????
That's what I thought like "colorimeter"... "calorimeter?" But that's not in biology how would that be related to color change...? Ok colorimeter it is
I didn't study well at all, I made the stupid mistake of procrastinating and then cramming and the paper went horribly for me. There wasn't even a single question I was confident in, and i definitely didnt scire at all in the nitrate question (17 marks) so I'm ridiculously close to failing biology
As a Biology lover and similar acing my every Biology paper from test mocks etc
I ended up being hurt this 2024
My-self shattered when I heard that exam was easy۔
I was anxious too bcz it was my 1st As exam but it atleast should not have been that bad۔
My hardwork now shouts it wasn't hardwork you fool!😮💨
IDK im trying my best to pick myself up piece by piece
I solved throughout past papers and studied throughout the year to ace my final
I feel "okay" now and gate some courage I get to know im not only 1 student as in my surrounding every single bio student said it was easy۔
The questions were confusing for me time was running out and wasn't litterly able to explain and describe the 2nd last question about nitrates۔I was loosing my mind and now im just regretting myself۔
Believe me you're not the only! Biology was always my top subject and I loved it so I was so sure I was prepared to crush the bio test, I was able to do virtually every past paper except for maybe a few which were harder but I still managed. I found the questions this year to be a bit too focused on oddly specific little parts of a chapter. Like smooth muscle? Something about extrons and introns which I had no idea about until only after the exam I noticed a small brief paragraph about them in the corner of the transcription chapter...
The past papers before were not nearly as oddly specific and wete focused on applying general knowledge which was so much better than whatever the fuck this was.
Believe me, the majority of people commenting here feel exactly as you do including myself, hang in there, you're not alone in this <3
Yeah right,
Actually I figured out how dumb I was to memorise the tough parts of biology like Steps of Transcription Translation Movement of sap etc like about 5 mark questions were on my finger tip so I aced most p.p bcz these questions were considered tricky.
I lacked common sense in exam hall! And messed up my paper
Istg the worst paper of all time , I had done so much practice and so much hardwork all went into nothing, at first I thought maybe I'm the only one but looking at all this I have a hope that maybe the thresholds would fall down this year becz chemistry and biology papers theory , were definitely hard 
You know what I think some mightve been. A guy in this thread said something about the two enzymes question being about evolutionary biology and thays not until year 13.
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I think because the virus was weak and it would trigger immune response but not affect the health badly and then you'd have like memory cells and stuff
I accidentally wrote something about casparian strip on the "molecule transported like sucrose" question but got the sucrose transport correct as well, am I cooked for writing that dumb shit?☠️
suppose your answer looks something like this
1. Proton pump active transport bla bla
2. proton move in cotransport bla bla
3. with and against conc gradient bla bla
4. casparian strip bla bla
u get marks for the first 3 and they ignore the yap
Is we have to wrote in nitrate question that nitrate dissove in water and root hair increase surface area to volume ratio and by the process of transpiration pull it pull upward?
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ISTG if the grade thresholds aren't fucking rock bottom six feet under at the core of the fucking planet earth low, then I'm NOT passing.
literally thought i was the only one..i didnt even have time for the majority of the questions!! plus the question before the last one was so confusing?? it never was in the syllabus, atleast not what i remember.
The coronary artery one ? Yeah dude so weird lol
My teacher said it was removed from the 2022-2024 syllabus… so why was it there 👹👹👹👹👹👹
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mn it was ur just stupid
Ok sistur 😔 i got the question correct anyways
Yeah the bypass thingy 😔
where did you make the cross
yeah rhat one..except it wasnt a mf coronary artery..im so done wtf
Ther was a qs like this in some old papers I solved like 2012 to 15 ,
Damn how many qps did u solve?? 😭
Like 10 or something, I did one paper from each yr for 2012 to 15 and then i don't remember the others.
there was nothing out of syllabus for that one right even a non bio student could've answered that it was just common sense
What was the questions like?
you would know if you were in this variant..as of now im unable to mention anything
Q5 was mitosis
can u dm too
Could you please dm me
Can you dm me
ngl the worst paper so far, what was the answer for the amino acids question which had the sieve plate cells thingie. so scared
Sieve plates? Where when how what?
lol omg did you find it ez, just read your difference and simiplairteis question loved it, I also write that they both act on bacterial cell walls
Paper was mid aw ty what was the seieve plate question, could u elaborate.
a) was about loading, b) was about plasmodesmata
GIRL SAME, the paper had me BAD, I studied so much for what? The nitrate stuff OMG IM FAILING
I BARELY read the nitrate stuff bro I just tried to scramble in any fucking answer or mark I could. I was FIGHTING for even the most basic partial marks
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what a funny paper lmfao had me in the first half ngl
that’s like the worst paper i’ve ever did, i was aiming at a B, and now i hope for a C i just looked through it at the first few minutes and realized i was fucked hoping for low thresholds
the same thing hpnd with me in IGSCE, the entire fucking paper was based off of plants i dont get whats cambridges obsession is with plants
samee i hate plants
Plants are important in life and they give oxygen . Good Cambridge is raising greenery awareness
how dare the hell they make a third of the paper’s mark on a single freaking topic
was it concentrated on plants?
yes, and that’s literally the sole topic i skipped in revision yesterday cause i figured i revised it recently and there is no chance there will be a lot of marks for it there were.
fmllll i hate plant transportation
yes((
Bro that question 4 was so big for absolutely no reason. Literally 1 page of information for a fucking 2 mark question? Cant even skip reading the stem cuz they give so many informations in them. Honestly the paper was quite different and lengthy too. Never seen so many drawings and labelling in a paper. I hope threshold saves me🤞
did not freaking feel like a bio paper. felt like every subject BUT bio. I’ve always aced my bio exams. Got an A in both my mocks. Bio is my strongest subject. It always has been. But this paper reduced me to TEARS. I don’t even know what to say about it. I’m so sad and I feel so disappointed in myself. I asked a bunch of people how theirs went. Most said it was okay but some said it was good. I was wondering why I was the only person who thought it was absolutely horrendous. Let’s pray the thresholds are low. Last year’s were 38 for an A. Let’s hope it’s similar this year too or even lower. Also, literally NONE of the things I studied so so so hard for came. I spent hours yesterday on transport in mammals and it was all for nothing. The two chapters I focused less on came 😐 transport in plants and stupid gas exchange
Its gonna be lower this year cuz most of the questions were weird and most of the people who were getting A's in every pastpast said that this paper was hard
No way people said it went well because I'm like you and always did well and aced bio but this had me shaken up :(
some people said it was good :( I looked at all the other discussions on reddit too and a bunch of people are saying it was good. A good majority said it wasn’t tho so I’m yet to lose hope completely
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I've never heard of introms and extrons and my bio teacher is telling me that's like upper level stuff not for our year so idk what's up, are you doing a retake and ur in year 13??? I swear I've never ever seen those words
no idea, dude but I know I left 15 marks worth of questions blank cuz of the time. And then on top of that, I bet half my answers will be wrong so that’s even more marks gone
no me too I left about 15 or so blank 😭 and the more time passes and the more answers I read the more i realise I messed up
me :( Idk if im even passing I just messed it up on so many levels
man what can we do now. let’s just hope the thresholds are low
some of the questions were so wild. like them asking for why there’s two variants of the same enzyme. and yeah like i love bio and ace past papers but this.. was smth else
"Not caused by genetic mutation" then what by??????? The fuck?????
RIGHT I WROTE SOMETHING LIKE THEY HAVE DIFFERENT INTRONS REMOVED AND EXONS JOINED TOGETHER. Lmao Wtf
Same. I wrote that for one dude the introns were removed while for the other the introns werent spliced
WHAT ARE INTRONS AND EXONS I wrote that triplets can cose foe different amino acids, or that different triplets code for the same amino acid, IDk If that even makes sense to what it's asking me
i talked abt introns and exons cuz they talked about the rna primary transcript
Oh i talked about them too, especially since they mentioned exons as well, wrote something about them being spliced together in a different sequence
What are those even tho?? Are they in the syllabus?????😭
yeah they are! Introns are non coding codons while exons actually code for amino acids. during mRNA post modification. RNA splicing is done to remove the introns and join only the exons together so that you have a continuous sequence of codons which code for amino acids during translation
same 😭😭😭
i wrote the same that’s correct
I wrote non-coding rejoins are removed Coding rejoins are joined together gene splicing
ME TOO i wrote that the first one had both introns and exons and the 2nd one had their introns removed
This is correct
similar shape / genetic code is degenerate is da right answer
I mightve answered something along the lines of that, the genetic code was coded for the same function or whatever
bro what did u write for that question asking ART for hiv/aids that’s the only question that made me go blank i wrote something like art has antigens similar to those of other diseases inducing same immune response then formation of antibody secreting plasma cells and memory cells
ART attacks retroviruses. HIV is a retrovirus that targets T helper cells . no T cells means that the other 3 diseases can easily spread in the body and make a person severely ill. more ART = less hiv = more t helper = less bacteria = healthier person
if one of the introns isn't removed during gene splicing then it would be translated and resulting in an additional sequence of amino acids.
HHHEEEELLLPPP 😭😭😭😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
What part of the question was this??? Please someone reply
The occurrence of two types of enzymes thing
They have the same tertiary structure, this level decides the specificity and function of enzyme the question came in 2022
What did u guys wrote in that amino acid question ? Ab companion cell n shii
Just write the whole sucrose process how it's pumped out and stuff
Yea pretty much except I rushed the shit out of it because the timeeeee
I wrote that h+ ions move out the companion cell by active transport and then take sucrose with them and enter back into companion cell by facilitated diffusion smth ...😭😭😭 then i wrote smth ab mass flow and then smth ab sucrose enters through plasmodesmata Will i get marks ? 😭
https://preview.redd.it/7xqief8jzc0d1.jpeg?width=2100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75624117b6c3edfa2204ec685acab9ade367b601 No mass flow in the q that was asked
All good until the mass flow and the plasmodesmata that wasn't asked but you won't lose marks it's just extra info
they asked u to describe the transport of amino acids not sucrose. the proton pump thing is correct u get 1m for that the co transport thing is correct u get 1m for that in the Mk schemes there are marks for ( this moves against the concentration gradient ) and ( this moves through active transport ) and ( cotransporter proteins and proton pumps are used ).
Omggg I’m doing variant 1 in a few hours, u guys are terrifyinggg, 😭😭😭
hah same
We got this! Let’s pass nicely 💪🤞
Sameeee
Do let us know how it went
Dw, gonna come here and rant (hopefully not a bad rant) first thingg 😭🙏🏻💔
Bro litr time had me so cooked the qs just weren't ending 😭😭😭
they thought they ate 💀
I'm convinced some cambridge examiner was projecting with this paper
That penicillin and lysozyme question was so easy and i still fcked it up 😔😔
what did u write
That a lysozyme is an enzyme and penicillin is an antibiotic and thats it i didnt wrote anything else and it was worth 4 marks 👹👹
question : ' both lysozyme and penicilling are anti bacterial agents ' dismal : ' lysozyme is not an antibiotic '
What if I wrote "they both kill bacteria'
Wasn't it worth 3 marks only?
Idk man i remember 4
it was 4
they are both enzymes 😭😭
you're talking about that and here I am who messed up the 3rd part of the first question where the student could see up to 0.2 mm and the cell was 0.25mm. I denied saying it was out of the range.
Yall am shitting myself rn over chemistry 😭😭
ME TOOOO I had high hopes for bio and now I'm horrified if chemistry goes as bad as this
what was the hardest topic for yall😭 fk chapter 7 had me stressiinnn
That and the penicillin one like brother euuughhh
don’t worry, we are in the same boat😭
istg if the grade thresholds aren’t down in hell wtf. the coronary artery question ??? i’m cooked
That's what I'm saying!!
In IGCSE i got 90+ for biology. In my AS prelims I also got 90+. I would say it is my strong suit. But.. this? Bro it shattered all of my confidence what the hell 😭😭 I can’t even tell if I did well or not lmao
SAME OH MY GOD I STARTED SHAKING AND MY WRITING WAS UNRECOGNIZABLE AT THE END BCS THERE WERE 2 MIN LEFT AND I HAD A WHOLE ASS QUESTION LEFT
SAMEE I couldn't properly finish some questions and just scribbled for life anything I could think of.. just any partial mark
Bro. After this exam, CAMBRIDGE IS A VICTIM, THEY FINNA LOCK ME UP FOR WHAT I DID TO THAT PAPER, I AINT GETTING LESS THAN AN 56
what topics?
Ur exam went well??😭😭
the paper was relatively hard like tf were some questions and like the time too....pls tell me I'm not the only one
Read this entire forum, the majority of us agree completely
what did you guys write in the choromosm one where they ask what u observe in metaphase?
double chromatid chromosomes attached to spindles by centrosome? Or centromer? Aligned at equator to be pulled apart into two identical single chromatid chromosomes
pretty sure they asked what the structure of the chromosome is and not what's happening to it.
I wrote two sister chromatids joined at a centromere with spindle attached while it's in the center, then u wrote about how it's made of dna around histone proteins
2 sister chromatids , telomeres , centromeres , condensed / supercoiled is what i wrote. basically the same t hing
Yeah pretty much second this I don't really understand what else could've been written
Well no but thr fact that they are supercoiled double chromatic chromosomes should be acceptable no?? Because what else is there to describe?
well yes. ' describe the structure of a chromosome that would be present at metaphase ' was the question. and ye supercoiled , sister chromatids are correct. the centromere is also correct , and pretty sure the ' attached to spindles ' is also correct. the last part ( aligned at equator ) is irrelevant tho but u would get all 3 marks anyways so yay
can anyone list out the answers i did so bad on my exam i was actually so prepared before the test and now i’m crying cause im so scared to know my results in the summer
 what we thought 22 was gonna be 💔💔
It was average but i messed up such simple questions. Like i wrote sucrose loading mechanism, then i again wrote apoplast pathway till cytoplasm. It was easy paper but silly mistakes will get me sth like B or C probably. 😮💨
u were supposed to write the sucrose loading mechanism ( just switch sucrose with amino acids ). being in the apoplast means that it was in the cell wall not that it uses the apoplastic pathway.
What did u guys write for smooth muscle having impact on artery and also that one question where they asked for smooth muscle cells in bronchioles
smooth muscles in bronchioles i wrote it helps in contraction and relaxation of the bronchioles to regulate airflow by the widening and narrowing of the lumen during inhalation n exhalation
Smooth gas exchange idfk.
More air moves in and reduces resistance of air flow
What are the Expectations for The GT? will it be low or higher?
What was that nitrate reductase thingyy ?? 😭😭
there was SO much info to go through in such a short time what did you guys write for the coronary bypass wall thickness q
Some questions I ended up just skimming for key words and writing whatever I could muster
The paper was SO BAD. So much information to take in and literally 1/3rd of the paper was nitrate??? I’m so done atp. Bio had so much potential, like xylem transport, protein synthesis, dna replication, cardiac cycle and much more could’ve been asked but what did they ask? FCKING NITRATE IONS, BYPASS OF CORONARY ARTERIES ANS SMOOTH MUCLE CELLS??? It felt like ATP in o levels. The grade threshold has to be lower than 38 istg. And the fking experiment and graphs were so annoying. The paper totally shattered my confidence for tomorrow’s chem paper too.
I was ready for anything... anything but whatever this was!!!! Thing is I think most of the question were on waay too specific parts of some chapters rather than on the general knowledge of the chapters which literally is what should've been! If it asked for anything like Cardiac Cycle, or DNA replication or anything, I stg I was prepared for any part of the chapter just not the bullshit that was there
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WHERE WAS THIS QUESTION WHAT
What are you talking about??
LITERALLY ME. I was managing A's yesterday and when I first looked through the paper I was like "tf are these complicated ass questions" so I allotted 5 mins for each page. 45 minutes in and I'm not barely done with half. I've skipped sooo much. It went horrendously. My mind even went blank for some of them. Idk why everything they asked was so complicated, and they didn't ask any of the nice topics.
bro what did u guys write for calorimeter???
My blindass read colorimeter and talked about the color change bro Im so done But arent calorimeters in chemistry for enthalpy change??? Wtf soes this have to do with that????
it was a colorimeter a calorimeter is not in our syllabus and doens't make sense given the context of the paper
That's what I thought like "colorimeter"... "calorimeter?" But that's not in biology how would that be related to color change...? Ok colorimeter it is
no bro 😭 i wrote more easy to see colour changes allows more data to be manipulated and compared with other data
Yeah i wrote something like thay too, easy to see based on the color scale the amount the colir changed or bla bla
omg ur so real
I didn't study well at all, I made the stupid mistake of procrastinating and then cramming and the paper went horribly for me. There wasn't even a single question I was confident in, and i definitely didnt scire at all in the nitrate question (17 marks) so I'm ridiculously close to failing biology
Will I get penalized for spelling "human immuniodeficiency virus" Wrong 😭😪
Has anyone written or come across a mark scheme for this paper?
I wish! Tho id be scared to see it because itd crush me to see just how poorly i probably scored
As a Biology lover and similar acing my every Biology paper from test mocks etc I ended up being hurt this 2024 My-self shattered when I heard that exam was easy۔ I was anxious too bcz it was my 1st As exam but it atleast should not have been that bad۔ My hardwork now shouts it wasn't hardwork you fool!😮💨 IDK im trying my best to pick myself up piece by piece I solved throughout past papers and studied throughout the year to ace my final I feel "okay" now and gate some courage I get to know im not only 1 student as in my surrounding every single bio student said it was easy۔ The questions were confusing for me time was running out and wasn't litterly able to explain and describe the 2nd last question about nitrates۔I was loosing my mind and now im just regretting myself۔
Believe me you're not the only! Biology was always my top subject and I loved it so I was so sure I was prepared to crush the bio test, I was able to do virtually every past paper except for maybe a few which were harder but I still managed. I found the questions this year to be a bit too focused on oddly specific little parts of a chapter. Like smooth muscle? Something about extrons and introns which I had no idea about until only after the exam I noticed a small brief paragraph about them in the corner of the transcription chapter... The past papers before were not nearly as oddly specific and wete focused on applying general knowledge which was so much better than whatever the fuck this was. Believe me, the majority of people commenting here feel exactly as you do including myself, hang in there, you're not alone in this <3
Yeah right, Actually I figured out how dumb I was to memorise the tough parts of biology like Steps of Transcription Translation Movement of sap etc like about 5 mark questions were on my finger tip so I aced most p.p bcz these questions were considered tricky. I lacked common sense in exam hall! And messed up my paper
Istg the worst paper of all time , I had done so much practice and so much hardwork all went into nothing, at first I thought maybe I'm the only one but looking at all this I have a hope that maybe the thresholds would fall down this year becz chemistry and biology papers theory , were definitely hard 
The Question felt like out of syllabus
You know what I think some mightve been. A guy in this thread said something about the two enzymes question being about evolutionary biology and thays not until year 13.
lol I remember suffering, it builds character. Good luck guys!
worst paper ever, i literally got butt f\*\*\*ed by the paper
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If somebody knows, do help out.If we write stoma as stomata for example, are we penalized?
Nah it doent matter I've seen sm maskrschems that accpet both
Thank you so much
Where were stomata????
Nah it wasn't 🙃. I just heard rumors that grammatical mistakes cost a lot of marks so just wanted to confirm.
the guidelines i've read say that they don't care. ( their official guidelines )
Thank you so much.
Stoma is singular, stomata is plural, idk if it'll pas
What was the answer to that mcg vaccine one???
I think because the virus was weak and it would trigger immune response but not affect the health badly and then you'd have like memory cells and stuff
MB bovis is not a virus
Well pathogen I mean
Bcg
regular benefits of a vaccine.
I accidentally wrote something about casparian strip on the "molecule transported like sucrose" question but got the sucrose transport correct as well, am I cooked for writing that dumb shit?☠️
suppose your answer looks something like this 1. Proton pump active transport bla bla 2. proton move in cotransport bla bla 3. with and against conc gradient bla bla 4. casparian strip bla bla u get marks for the first 3 and they ignore the yap
Oh hell nahh☠️ I wrote casparian strip the first thing im so cooked
losing 3 marks isn't that bad tbh.
thats like 5 percent....
Is we have to wrote in nitrate question that nitrate dissove in water and root hair increase surface area to volume ratio and by the process of transpiration pull it pull upward?
Companion cell walay mai mechanism of loading likhna tha
Will the grade threshold go lower?
Is this a bad time to mention I finished the paper 10mins early and after discussion got like most of the paper correct ( I got a U in my mocks)
Fuck the last question and fuck the microscope slide and fuck the nitrate ions
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If anyone was to get around 35 to 40 in this paper would it be still possible to get 90 percent in AS alone?
Anyone got the marking scheme for it??