** LC BIOLOGY 2014 - Before and after discussion **

b3rnade11e

What will the cat drag in this year ladies and gents?

Vito Corleone

I wish I was sitting this paper and had a week to revise, seriously. :P

Good luck everyone!!

marno21

Photosynthesis, Respiration, Enzymes, Ecology, Genetics, Human Immunity, Bacteria and the IAA experiment would be a good start

Badwulf

marno21 wrote: »

Photosynthesis, Respiration, Enzymes, Ecology, Genetics, Human Immunity, Bacteria and the IAA experiment would be a good start

That would be beautiful :O maybe some breating and excretion and some plant reproduction and ive got myself an A!

K6Y

Is it possible to not study plants and still get a high B or an A? Completely hate them, but I find the rest of the course to be more or less do-able.

aleatorio

What stuff on the course has never been asked/hasnt been asked in a very long time? Theres usually something that pops up that hasnt been in the past papers :P

little sis...

aleatorio wrote: »

What stuff on the course has never been asked/hasnt been asked in a very long time? Theres usually something that pops up that hasnt been in the past papers :P

hmm lymphatic system... I'd say it will make an appearance this year.

Kevink7501

I've 17 chapters left any shortcuts ?

aleatorio

little sis... wrote: »

hmm lymphatic system... I'd say it will make an appearance this year.

In the marking scheme it says we only need to know:
The lymphatic system:
• structure: lymph nodes, lymph vessels
• any three functions

So they cant throw anything toooo nasty at us :pac:

little sis...

aleatorio wrote: »

In the marking scheme it says we only need to know:
The lymphatic system:
• structure: lymph nodes, lymph vessels
• any three functions

So they cant throw anything toooo nasty at us :pac:

Yep that's all it is really Pretty handy if it came up to be honest.
I just need to go over alooooot of bio this weekend and the day before because it tends to slip from my memory so fast!

aleatorio

little sis... wrote: »

Yep that's all it is really Pretty handy if it came up to be honest.
I just need to go over alooooot of bio this weekend and the day before because it tends to slip from my memory so fast!

Im aiming for an A1, for sure, so Ive been doing an exam paper every 2 days and Im planning on reading the whole book the night before to refresh all the little details

RingoIRL

K6Y wrote: »

Is it possible to not study plants and still get a high B or an A?

I want to know this too, it seems that way from the past papers and the mock but we all know how sadistic the SEC are. If I at least cover the plant experiments, will I be safe?

XtotheZ

I heard you can get 80% by knowing unit 1,2 and the experiements?

Badwulf

XtotheZ wrote: »

I heard you can get 80% by knowing unit 1,2 and the experiements?

Knowing them off by heart inside out to a perfect chalk line, yes it can get you 80 percent, I've only studied

all unit 1
all unit 2
all experiments
then from unit 3 all ive studied is
plant reproduction
human reproduction
disease, defences and immunity
breating
excretion

Shane15

This is the only exam I'm excited for. I love biology (though it's definitely not my strongest subject, I still love it).

Jones82

How are ye studying the experiments?

leavingcert problems

Jones82 wrote: »

How are ye studying the experiments?

I intend to watch the DVD that came with the book Monday night! Hope that refreshes them!

RingoIRL

leavingcert problems wrote: »

I intend to watch the DVD that came with the book Monday night! Hope that refreshes them!

Haha, with the state of my book, that DVD is looong gone...

Fudge dice

I've learned all unit 1,2 and all experiments.. Plants, diversity of Organisms and blood, immunity and lymph
So hopefully I'll be ok looking back over previous exam papers it looks alright and since there was a full q on endocrine and Sexual reproduction last year plants seem likely this year
I hate the human biology!!

Johnjoeboy

I'm leaving out the genetic chapters and Evolution.its only 4 chapters but I am doing every other chapter.is this a good idea cause I know genetics comes up but only as one Q

oncex

Johnjoeboy wrote: »

I'm leaving out the genetic chapters and Evolution.its only 4 chapters but I am doing every other chapter.is this a good idea cause I know genetics comes up but only as one Q

No... 1 question in long questions and 1 short pretty much every year../ that's 80 marks

Johnjoeboy

oncex wrote: »

No... 1 question in long questions and 1 short pretty much every year../ that's 80 marks

I just find them too hard to understand.i have every other chapter we'll learned so I have 5 options in long Qs to answer so I would say il be alright?

oncex

Johnjoeboy wrote: »

I just find them too hard to understand.i have every other chapter we'll learned so I have 5 options in long Qs to answer so I would say il be alright?

Why don't you do the chapters that aren't that hard ie variation and evolution? Leave out protein synthesis if you need to... Depends on ur grade if it's an a1, then no

Johnjoeboy

I was hoping an A2 or a high B.i know reproduction ecology and respiration and photosynthesis come up most years so that might be 3 Qs sorted and just one left.I didn't do evolution because I saw it come up as part of genetic Qs before.i left out gentics DNA/RNA and evolution

Poliana.xo

I hate the genetics chapters too but going for an A1 I am not leaving them out.. Sometimes the genetics question can be really nice and actually quite easy to answer.

Johnjoeboy

Yeah some aren't to bad but I always seem to make a mess of them.but I will say I have done enough.

2014lchelp

K6Y wrote: »

Is it possible to not study plants and still get a high B or an A? Completely hate them, but I find the rest of the course to be more or less do-able.

You probably could, but you're not going to have much of a choice in your exam then. Last year they mixed the endocrine system and plant responses (they love doing that) . I have an awful feeling they're going to be mixing human and plant reproduction together this year. I had originally said I wasn't going to do them, but i'm aiming for the A1 so I need myself covered. Maybe its a bit late to be doing full chapters, but I would learn growth regulators, adhesion, cohesion, the different plant responses, formation of plant zygote and the differences between a monocot and dicot.

Johnjoeboy

Yeah thanks

Ka_yl_ei_gh

I haven't even started studying biology..

Poliana.xo

I'm planning on doing like 3 or 4 full papers today :pac:

Saskatchewan

Poliana.xo wrote: »

I'm planning on doing like 3 or 4 full papers today :pac:

Same! I just talk myself through the section C questions so im not taking too long if its stuff I already know. Anything a bit different I just write down and check the marking scheme!