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Eric's collar said:
Finished English paper 2:D I did ok, probably a B but my coursework is A* so it should pull me up.

I mentioned that the writer used parenthesis and I felt like a genius.
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Also finished paper 2, did well on the Poetry(The part I am usually rubbish at) but really badly on the 2nd part(the part I usually get most of my marks from)..

With my coursework at a C grade I think overall I should have a C in the bag, but I was looking for more really...Ohh well, I'm not studying English at A Level so only need to get my C I guess, now to concentrate on Physics and Chemistry next week.
 
Paper 2 in the bag! Hopefully a B, didn't think I did too bad although I didn't quite get to finish writing the article at the end, inadvertently spent too much time on the two 5 mark questions at the beginning :\ coursework was A/A* so I'm hoping for the best
 
I have biology as well but I got 100% in the module and full marks in my coursework so all I need is 85% for an A*
 
Got IGCSE Biology Edexcel paper 1 tomorrow, paper 2 in a while. Got my CIE paper 22 History IGCSE tomorrow as well. Been in the library revising all day :S
 
Ksanti said:
Got IGCSE Biology Edexcel paper 1 tomorrow, paper 2 in a while. Got my CIE paper 22 History IGCSE tomorrow as well. Been in the library revising all day :S
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yep thats the one, hopefully there won't be too much of the ecology stuff in it, apparently last years paper was full of it fish farming and crap :/
 
hellarda said:
yep thats the one, hopefully there won't be too much of the ecology stuff in it, apparently last years paper was full of it fish farming and crap :/
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It's in the specification so there's just as good a chance it's in this year. It's not that hard to work out if you have a clue what fish farming is, it's generally just "How is the environment in a fish farm suited to higher yields?" etc. which is pretty basic (or at least, it is now for me, given I wrote a page of notes on it just now :D)

  • Temps are controlled with heaters
  • Oxygen content is controlled with air pumps and encouraging growth of photosynthesising plants
  • Juvenile stock are kept away from adult stock to reduce intraspecific predation
  • Nets in open water prevent interspecific predation by birds etc.
  • Pesticides are used on food to prevent contamination (parisites)
  • Antibiotics are used in the food to prevent pathogens harming the stock
  • Water source is tested for chlorine, contamination or anything harmful to the stock
  • Waste removal is easier and tanks can be drained, cleaned and restored more easily
  • Selective breeding can be used to yield higher meat-content fish
  • Food can be given at regular intervals, with high quality, high protein content food to maximise growth

All pretty basic stuff if you just think about what the advantages would be, and in any case they only ever ask for 2 or 3 reasons anyway :)
 
D D Danneh said:
I originally wanted to do medicine, but I think I'm set on something mathematical now, I'm just finding I really enjoy it.
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You may want to consider Engineering if you want to do something mathematical whilst keeping the sciences. I studied Chemical Engineering for the reasons that I enjoyed maths, physics and chemistry - very rewarding subject and excellent career prospects post-graduation.
 
Ksanti said:
It's in the specification so there's just as good a chance it's in this year. It's not that hard to work out if you have a clue what fish farming is, it's generally just "How is the environment in a fish farm suited to higher yields?" etc. which is pretty basic (or at least, it is now for me, given I wrote a page of notes on it just now :D)

  • Temps are controlled with heaters
  • Oxygen content is controlled with air pumps and encouraging growth of photosynthesising plants
  • Juvenile stock are kept away from adult stock to reduce intraspecific predation
  • Nets in open water prevent interspecific predation by birds etc.
  • Pesticides are used on food to prevent contamination (parisites)
  • Antibiotics are used in the food to prevent pathogens harming the stock
  • Water source is tested for chlorine, contamination or anything harmful to the stock
  • Waste removal is easier and tanks can be drained, cleaned and restored more easily
  • Selective breeding can be used to yield higher meat-content fish
  • Food can be given at regular intervals, with high quality, high protein content food to maximise growth

All pretty basic stuff if you just think about what the advantages would be, and in any case they only ever ask for 2 or 3 reasons anyway :)
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true, but apparently last year the whole paper was mainly based around ecology, i know of 4 schools who complained and im sure they werent alone so... just saying :L
 
hellarda said:
true, but apparently last year the whole paper was mainly based around ecology, i know of 4 schools who complained and im sure they werent alone so... just saying :L
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It's a new specification and every school that's doing it knows it's on the specification, if they opt into that syllabus and qualification and fail to teach it, that's their fault, as far as I see it.

To be honest, I'd prefer a more in depth paper on fewer subjects as it means you really need to know all the subjects. That said, that's more of what the other paper is for so I guess they've got it covered all ready.
 
Ksanti said:
It's in the specification so there's just as good a chance it's in this year. It's not that hard to work out if you have a clue what fish farming is, it's generally just "How is the environment in a fish farm suited to higher yields?" etc. which is pretty basic (or at least, it is now for me, given I wrote a page of notes on it just now :D)

  • Temps are controlled with heaters
  • Oxygen content is controlled with air pumps and encouraging growth of photosynthesising plants
  • Juvenile stock are kept away from adult stock to reduce intraspecific predation
  • Nets in open water prevent interspecific predation by birds etc.
  • Pesticides are used on food to prevent contamination (parisites)
  • Antibiotics are used in the food to prevent pathogens harming the stock
  • Water source is tested for chlorine, contamination or anything harmful to the stock
  • Waste removal is easier and tanks can be drained, cleaned and restored more easily
  • Selective breeding can be used to yield higher meat-content fish
  • Food can be given at regular intervals, with high quality, high protein content food to maximise growth

All pretty basic stuff if you just think about what the advantages would be, and in any case they only ever ask for 2 or 3 reasons anyway :)
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What boards thatfor.
 
Edexcel IGCSE? I assume not if you were asking what the fish farming stuff was for.

Just finished my biology a while ago. Did okay I guess, expecting mid 90s, little peeved with all the plant transport and wordy questions but what can you do?

Had my History source paper in the morning, which was fine as well, comfortable with that as well I think.
 
We need to state what board/exam we were doing if we're gonna talk about the exams :S

Edexcel IGCSE, though based on plants, was easy enough. Only one I didn't have a prepared answer for already going into it was the last one on growth of yeast in pH conditions, and that was just a CORMS question anyway so there wasn't even much of a need to get it right anyway :)
 
Ksanti said:
We need to state what board/exam we were doing if we're gonna talk about the exams :S

Edexcel IGCSE, though based on plants, was easy enough. Only one I didn't have a prepared answer for already going into it was the last one on growth of yeast in pH conditions, and that was just a CORMS question anyway so there wasn't even much of a need to get it right anyway :)
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Yep Edexcel IGCSE is the one, i sort of waffled my way through the last yeast question :/

i had no clue how to do the one about what happens after pollination in the plants.... SO MANY 6 MARKERS ON THAT PAPER :mad:
 
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