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Yeah they do scale the marks. This my understanding (its what ive been told by teachers, but who knows, it might not be right): For example if the average mark in the genetics option was 60% raw, but the average mark for the rest of the paper for all the people who did genetics was 70% raw...

Yeah. It shouldnt really affect short answers much, but in essays you should refer to whats going on somewhere

Hoping for low 90's raw

Yeah. I found it really easy too. Like half of question 8 was subbing in numbers. But that makes me worried that this year's will be really hard

I think so...

Yeah. I read that question like 3 times just to make sure I didnt do the wrong one. I did it on down syndrome, because I had to do it in genetics so I knew heaps on it. Those were probably like the 5 easiest marks in the paper.

There was no question on it

Really? I thought this years paper was harder than last years. But yeah. I really just depends on what they were looking for, but like if you lose marks, Im sure half the state would lose marks too =]

I showed like a some DNA with stickyends (unpaired bases) and a plasmid with sticky ends, and then drew arrows and showed them together with the unpaired bases joining. With a few descriptions of what was happening

No thats right Yes I dunno. At least 1 maybe 2 if youre lucky. But the scale was a big thing I think they expected you to mention Even so, you'd probably only lose one mark. And I dont know what the BOS is like with marking. My teacher was crazy in terms of marking, and pretty much...

Seriously, if Ms Leibman said it was okay, im sure the BOS will too

Pretty happy overall. As far as I know I did okay for short answers, I may have lost 1 or 2 for the 8 marker, but it just depends on their marking criteria and what they accept. My option (genetics) was a bit strange. I couldve gotton like 12/25 without even studying for it at all because there...

Re: how did you go? It depends on the marking criteria. If it was Ms Leibman marking, she wouldnt accept that because nitrogenous wastes are made in the liver where amino acids are deaminated. I wrote that nitrogenous waste concentration increased in one of the past papers I did for her and...

congrats =] howd you find the rest of the paper

dw claire. you are still pretty much guaranteed a band 6 coz you did well in the rest of the paper =]

Overall it was a good test The genetics option was strange though - 5 marks on butterflies, and 7 on health and disease. Although I pretty sure I did a good job of them YAY. no more bio ever!!! =] =]

YAYAY Im pretty sure I got 15/15. And i think 6 is D, but if its not then 14/15. Which is still pretty awesome

Just found out that 87056 people sat the school cert in 06 http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/bos_stats/hsc06_mediaguide.html#statsbyregion So that means 8700 will get UAIS above 90

Its 10% of the number of people who did the SC in 2006. So it will be more than 6500, coz a bunch of people dropped out

I thought the 2007 paper was easy I really didnt like the genetics option in the 2006 paper