Science...

Strokesa

I no its not til thursday, but i was thinking that il start studying for it today, so does anybody no what would be the most important experiments to learn? I have the less stress more success book and ive been told to learn all the experiments in it but surely we arent expected to know ALL THEM!!!
So does anyone know?

Irishstabber

Id def learn the food tests...my teacher never shuts up about them :mad:

Fobia

I'm afraid you are, and most will agree that it's near impossible to know everything on the course. So as with some other exams it can come down to pot luck on the day. As for revision, the less stress more success book doesn't actually cover the entire course afaik, but it should be ok for Thursday's exam.

As for what you should revise one thing I'd do is pick out two out of the four choices for Section D (I think it's section D...the one with horticulture etc etc), I'm picking electronics and energy conversions.

PurpleFistMixer

We only did two of them... Material Science and Food. And I hate Food (there's a REASON I didn't do Home Ec damnit) so I did electronics as well. It's such a short section in comparison to the rest of them. o.o Barely nothing to learn.

As for experiments... I've heard the preparations for Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen are important. A lot of experiments are obvious once you know the theory behind them. (I mean, demonstrating the transpiration flow in a plant, yeah, stick it in food colouring, cut it in half, it's common sense.) I'd say the chemistry experiments might be the harder ones, all the chemical formulae and stuff you gotta know, you can't exactly make that up.

That said, you might as well know your Applied Science sections really well since you KNOW you're going to have to answer on them.

*MmmPie*

I think some of the most important experiments are the preparation of CO2/O2 and the titration/neutralisation reaction experiment with HCl and NaOH. Learn all the experiments for the Applied Sci section cos they're guaranteed to come up.

Strokesa

Thank you!

princess fluff

dese are the things we were told that will come up. .
physics. . .
ohms law def comin up
sound
law of the lever
pressure
density
chemistry. . .
simple/dry cell
prep for carbon dioxide
distallation
water treatment and ph scale
exothermic and endothermic reactions
biology. . .
ecology
eye
soil
respiration
heart
reproductive system
just learn dese and ul be sound!!!

modular

Nothing will "definitely" come up.

Alqua

Do you think we'll most likely get a chemical equasion to write/balance? I do not understand them at all.

PurpleFistMixer

Probably if it comes up it'll be in the short questions...

Although for chemical equations, it'd be an idea to know Photosynthesis/Respiration.

modular

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Photosynthesis/Respiration.

... which are each other's mirror images, don't forget.

If you plan on answering the preparation of O2 and CO2, don't forget those formulae.

Alqua

It's things like that that make me want to do pass Science! For pass, isn't it just the word equasions that you need to know?

Victor

modular wrote:

Nothing will "definitely" come up.

I hear Physics, Chemistry and Biology will, maybe other bits

philologos

lol science is a pure fail for me

Fobia

Latent heat is tipped to come up this year apparently, as it was a hot topic up until a few years ago...

Flashling

My friends teacher got them all to sing a song to remember how to prepare O2, not as catchy when it's written, but here goes....

To the tune of BnBn.

"MnO2 and h2O2 make oxygen and H2O."

Wow, it loses alot in the translation....

Strokesa

Rock on!

modular

What is the tune that it's sung to exactly?

Fobia

Flashling wrote:

My friends teacher got them all to sing a song to remember how to prepare O2, not as catchy when it's written, but here goes....

To the tune of BnBn.

"MnO2 and h2O2 make oxygen and H2O."

Wow, it loses alot in the translation....

I presume it's an all-girls school?

Do you do the "dododododos" in between the Mn02 and the "and" yeah?

You don't remember the BnBn ads modular? I presume it's the tune of that.

PurpleFistMixer

I'm presuming there are no "dododo" bits and you just say the "and h202" instead. If I had a mic I'd record myself saying it but damn I should be doing maths. And also have no mic.

modular

Oh, gotcha. Right, missed it in the post.

...and it was on The Muppet Show first, I believe.

Fobia

modular wrote:

...and it was on The Muppet Show first, I believe.

Indeed, it was originally sung by Mahna Mahna and then brought back in later as the "phenomena" song, a big muppet fan I am

/me goes off to watch the clip again..

Strokesa

Ok, that actually works!
Seriously thanks i think il remember it now!

Flashling

Don't thank me, thank O2! Oh pfm, you're right, and I have a mic, but I don't know how to post music...al...ish...y clips. And I go to a mixed school actually!

Strokesa

Fobia wrote:

I presume it's an all-girls school?

I go to an all girls school and we never sing songs...or stuff...Id say its more likely to be a mixed school, personally. But maybe thats just cos my school is filled with a lot of the "OMG a song?Thats so ****ing gay.Why the **** are u so ****ing weird?" types...

Fobia

Strokesa wrote:

But maybe thats just cos my school is filled with a lot of the "OMG a song?Thats so ****ing gay.Why the **** are u so ****ing weird?" types...

I said it cus that's the kind of response that 90% of guys would give...cool school flashing.

My class is a little different, we'd happily try to sing it but just fail miserably

PurpleFistMixer

My class's response to a song would probably be something like "State ah dat!"

... ah yes, fun times.

Although we once sucessfully sang 'Frere Jacques', in canon. That was a unique occurance.

X-Man

To be honest i couldnt giv a toss bout science........ im not gonna study 4 it cos im droppin it next year...........

Mysteryfish

there's just so much to study for science. I'd say go over some exam papers and if there's anything that you REALLY don't know or understand (i.e. you can't even bluff your way through), go over it.

JBoyle4eva

Well, if your doing ord level then don't get stressed: It's Mostly mix n match, fill the gaps etc. altough they will have ask for the most memorable experiments compelteted over the last 3 years, so don't get too stressed.

Higher level is all about what you kn'ow. You should now be revising all the chemical names etc.

Did anone else beside me have to learn Applied science by themselves? Our teacher never helped the applied science students but instead helped the local studies whenever he could!

philologos

X-Man wrote:

To be honest i couldnt giv a toss bout science........ im not gonna study 4 it cos im droppin it next year...........

lol ye theres just far too much to learn its impossible

Fobia

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Higher level is all about what you kn'ow. You should now be revising all the chemical names etc.

You get log tables in there, so as long as you know what that K = potassium etc then that bit shouldn't be a problem...

Indeed there's piles to go over, and I need an A or a B (doing physics chemistry and applied maths next year), so I think I'll study science tonight rather than business.

*MmmPie*

Fobia wrote:

You get log tables in there, so as long as you know what that K = potassium etc then that bit shouldn't be a problem...

Indeed there's piles to go over, and I need an A or a B (doing physics chemistry and applied maths next year), so I think I'll study science tonight rather than business.

My brother did Physics, Chemistry and Applied Maths for his Leaving and he found it pretty tough...

Flashling

I also have a catchy tune for remembering the first 20 elements, but it fails after that, you can hear me humming to myself during science. Unfortunatly, it's not a well known theme, so unless I learn how to work the mic.... Or change it to different music...I'll let you know.

*MmmPie*

Flashling wrote:

I also have a catchy tune for remembering the first 20 elements, but it fails after that, you can hear me humming to myself during science. Unfortunatly, it's not a well known theme, so unless I learn how to work the mic.... Or change it to different music...I'll let you know.

Oooh our teacher made us learn that too! Its so catchy! Hydrogen, Heeelium, Lithium, Beryllllium, Borrron....

PurpleFistMixer

But we don't need to know the first 20 elements! The periodic table is in the maths tables.

Flashling

yeah, but then you have to flick back and forward...It's just a great song, ok?

*MmmPie*

Yeah don't insult The Song. It rocks! *hums first 20 elements to herself*

PurpleFistMixer

*MmmPie* wrote:

My brother did Physics, Chemistry and Applied Maths for his Leaving and he found it pretty tough...

Woo, I'm doing them.
Once I find somewhere to do Applied Maths outside school.

Fobia

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Once I find somewhere to do Applied Maths outside school.

Unlucky

PurpleFistMixer

Yeah. :mad:
And if I decide to keep on art for LC, I won't even get a free class every time other people are doing the subject I'm not doing in favour of applied maths...

*MmmPie*

Aww. I'm sure it'll be worth it though, I mean if you're good at Maths.

delta214

What do you do in Applied Maths

PurpleFistMixer

Applied maths is like... maths in real world applications. As far as I gather there's lots to do with moving particles, velocity and stuff.
So basically, maths + physics.

Fobia

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Applied maths is like... maths in real world applications. As far as I gather there's lots to do with moving particles, velocity and stuff.
So basically, maths + physics.

^^ what she said, there's also stuff like vectors...should be interesting.

Strokesa

princess fluff wrote:

dese are the things we were told that will come up. .
physics. . .
ohms law def comin up
sound
law of the lever
pressure
density
chemistry. . .
simple/dry cell
prep for carbon dioxide
distallation
water treatment and ph scale
exothermic and endothermic reactions
biology. . .
ecology
eye
soil
respiration
heart
reproductive system
just learn dese and ul be sound!!!

Will i be ok if i just learn these topics and my applied science or could it all go horribly wrong?

PurpleFistMixer

Strokesa wrote:

Will i be ok if i just learn these topics and my applied science or could it all go horribly wrong?

It's gambling. No one could say.

Casserine

Well, I'm here taking a break from science revision. That and religion are my last two exams, I keep thinking "This time tomorrow...this time tomorrow..". Anyway. I'm nervous about science, the course is fairly large. I did a good amount of work today, but I still need to run over my applied sciences, the last half of physics and chemical reactions. I should be okay however.

Hugh Hefner

I got a 99% in the mock so I'm not worried. The question that lost me the marks asked waht was the colour of some mixture. The most insignificant thing!

Anyway, I'll do some study and then I should be fine.

Why the hell do they ask about cheesemaking and yogurtmaking?! It's mental!

Strokesa

Seeing as i know pretty much no science i guess ill just have to take that gamble....oh please let those topics come up, please, please, please, please............

X-Man

Am i the only one here who will Fail!!!!!!