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1st year Science exams

  • 15-02-2010 02:18PM
    #1
    superstar111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭


    A lot of people who have done Undenominated Science have said to me that its very obvious from looking at past exam papers what will come up each year! Well I have spent the weekend looking through past papers and I cant see any obvious patterns anyway! Anyone have any ideas as to what they reckon might come up this year in either Biology, Chemistry or Physics??


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  • #2
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    searching for patterns in papers is dodgy as hell. The syllabus changes every now and again and books change (sometimes questions in the exam were those covered as suggested work straight from the book). By all means do several years worth of papers. you've plenty of time.


  • #3
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    searching for patterns in papers is dodgy as hell. The syllabus changes every now and again and books change (sometimes questions in the exam were those covered as suggested work straight from the book). By all means do several years worth of papers. you've plenty of time.

    Totally agree with you. I got caught out last year when I attempted to only cover the exam papers. Almost failed my bio 2nd paper when one of the lecturers set completely different questions to the ones he had put up for years:eek:.
    Was so annoyed cos I got 70% in the 1st bio paper but got a crap result when the 2 were combined.

    Lets just say I've learnt from my error and haven't done that again:)


  • #4
    RolandIRL
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    the lecturers don't look back on the past exams when they're making up the exams. my physics lecturer said that they make up the exam based on what's been covered in the lectures. so if you've been attending the lectures, you'll know what could appear on the exam.


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