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Biology Hints??

  • 21-05-2006 7:21pm
    #1
    disney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭


    hey, just wondering wot people are focusing on for the exam? is it likely for phtosynthesis to be up for 3 years running??
    any hints appreciated - my teacher is gone on maternity leave!!


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  • #2
    willowmegs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭willowmegs


    respiration came up instead of photosynthesis last yr?

    im trying to focus on photosynthesis, food, the heart, and maybe some ecology but it is so hard to really predict anything


  • #3
    willowmegs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭willowmegs


    actually, was just listening to the Biology edition on http://www.rte.ie/radio1/gettingitright/ and the guy said if you leave out unit 3 and really really concentrate on units 1, 2 and the mandatories uve like 80% covered? hmmm...


  • #4
    ThrownAway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭ThrownAway


    That's not really a good idea you're hardly going to get the whole 80 percent.

    I find Unit 2 difficult to learn so I left it out ... still learned definitions and experiments. You can get 100 percent still that way but your left with no choice of questions for Unit 3 which I don't mind because I know it very well.


  • #5
    smiling_time
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭smiling_time


    It is unwise to fall into the trap of trying to predict what is coming up in the exams. For every one person who is successful and guesses right there is always someone else that got it wrong.

    Ecology although a disliked topic is actually quite easy and features quite frequently. The mandatory experiments are an obvious one to know as they always come up. I advise to know both photosynthesis and respiration as they are frequent showers.

    But as i said leaving topics out is a recipe for disaster. My revision tips would be to read about the topics from your book. Make out YOUR OWN set of notes in a way that you will remember - IE use bullet points. Draw each diagram several times as these are the key to a good mark. Find questions from the past papers about the topic and do them (first with your notes and then without) Then compare your answers to those found in the marking schemes (downloadable at www.examinations.ie)

    Only a few weeks left so the keep the head down and good luck!


  • #6
    helles belles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 160 ✭✭helles belles


    hey
    i heard that one of the enzyme experiments are coming up and iaa exp is very likely

    and circulatory system is likely to come up somewhere


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  • #7
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    ThrownAway wrote:
    That's not really a good idea you're hardly going to get the whole 80 percent.


    Exactly. It's like leaving out the oral or aural in a language.


    Yeah, I'm hearing, experiment-wise, Effect of ph on Enzymes, Plant Growth Regulators, and Osmosis, amongst others.


  • #8
    ThrownAway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭ThrownAway


    Tom65 wrote:
    Exactly. It's like leaving out the oral or aural in a language.


    Yeah, I'm hearing, experiment-wise, Effect of ph on Enzymes, Plant Growth Regulators, and Osmosis, amongst others.


    So excluding osmosis the hardest ones :(


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