2009 cssa biology (1 Viewer)

[bemer]

A pretty good test the one question that annoyed me was the 7 mark one at the end of the core i was like WTF, but bio still kicks arse in my oppinion

there was no 7 mark question

 

[doggieslover]

Yeah there was a 7 marker on Mendel, and Boveri and what not. Stupid question. stupid paper.

But yes short. I also had fifty mintues to spare, and that's with my teacher adding in questions to make up for the ones she had to take out.

The prac sucked. I made up some rubbish about agar plates.

Bio papers are very boring in general though. I was quite bored

 

[-Onlooker-]

^^^^^

I'm just having a stab in the dark; but maybe different options?

 

[samthebear]

Had about 50 minutes left

Yep. had like an hour left.

The paper was surprisingly non-HSC like in terms of questions-wise.

I know =[ i was so upset cuz i studied from past questions and i was totally gearing to answer straight out answers and it was all this crap which reminded me so badly of english T_T make shit up as you go questions suck.

Worst. Paper. Ever.

People complaining about how the biology papers are 'regurgitation' must have got to them. I think they were trying to put some 'skills' questions in there, but overdone it a little...

It wasn't that hard of a paper, but I was looking forward to writing definite answers instead of english-like evaluations and discussions -_-

Agreed. i felt so sad in that exam. cuz i knew a shit load of bio but nothing to help me with these piss lame 'make up shit as you go' questions. i was thinking "God damn it! where're questions where i can show my bio intellectual prowess?? i dont want these stupid evaluate/analyse questions which have little or nothing to do with the syllabus."
Even those evaluate questions werent taken from the evaluate/analyse dotpoints in the 2nd hand data resources column >.> and i studied everything damnit!

effort = wasted.

the only question i liked was the thing with punnet squares where i thought "OMG. bio skillz being used."

 

[isaiahmercado]

Re: CSSA Bio trial papers

Haha totally understand
I did the prac where we touched the agar plate before and after washing our hands with anti-bacterial soap..

Does that sound right?

yeh i thought of a prac like that but my teacher told us that we're not allowed to use human test subjects...so i was thinking using rats....and then cleaning them but yeh i dont kno...stupid question in the end

 

[star of the sea]

i had time to burn...... i procrastinated so much during that exam

 

[possessionless]

yep. Had like an hour left.



I know =[ i was so upset cuz i studied from past questions and i was totally gearing to answer straight out answers and it was all this crap which reminded me so badly of english t_t make shit up as you go questions suck.



Agreed. I felt so sad in that exam. Cuz i knew a shit load of bio but nothing to help me with these piss lame 'make up shit as you go' questions. I was thinking "god damn it! Where're questions where i can show my bio intellectual prowess?? I dont want these stupid evaluate/analyse questions which have little or nothing to do with the syllabus."
even those evaluate questions werent taken from the evaluate/analyse dotpoints in the 2nd hand data resources column >.> and i studied everything damnit!

Effort = wasted.

The only question i liked was the thing with punnet squares where i thought "omg. Bio skillz being used."

+ 1

 

[Sarah182]

The paper was ok, not good, not bad but ok.
Multiple choice was nice except 1 or 2 but the free response was a bit meh.

Only thing is PDHPE and Bio on the same day was a killer, I could have done much better in both if they were on different days. 6 hours of exams was NOT fun.

 

[le.parkour]

:rofl2: How do you know you have this exam, since the exam date for it over?

Because my teacher already told us when we asked ...

 

[sickk]

us too, did our own teacher set of what wed done in the option so far, but it was a shit paper, i finished earlya nd went back and changed soo many of my multiple choice, which i KNOW is a bad idea...

 

[Liyo]

quote=sickk;4524620]did anyone else finish the paper damnnn quick?[/quote]

Had about 50 minutes left

Yeah. I had around 50 minutes left too

 

[Randomboy]

88% for me.. I lost most of my marks in option Stupid communication! lol

Also lost like 3 in Multi choice? <-- how? *shrug*

 

[possessionless]

we've only got our multiple choice marks back.
got 14/15

so prepared to fail the rest of the paper though haha!

 

[killua_3]

85 so far...still scamming marks

just wondering, are all the cssa papers for different schools exactly the same? or do they vary slightly

 

[yheywood87]

some of the options r different cause different schools havent finished the options yet, so they were made internally for what has been covered in class...

 

[sickk]

us too, did our own teacher set of what wed done in the option so far, but it was a shit paper, i finished earlya nd went back and changed soo many of my multiple choice, which i KNOW is a bad idea...

yup, fucked me up... 4 that i changed, came out wrong... 3 of them i had the right on in the first place....

got 89 in the end, so still happy
EDIT: thats with our teachers version of communication

 

[Timothy.Siu]

85 so far...still scamming marks

just wondering, are all the cssa papers for different schools exactly the same? or do they vary slightly

scamming? thats not very nice.