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

Caoimhz wrote: »

hahaha :L it was actual project biology like....

Everyone is saying this it's so true now that I think of it .

Huell wrote: »

Done every question on the paper bar 10, very strange paper but manageable. I feel sorry for the lads who were relying on just units 1 and 2

I did every question on the paper .they give you too much time tbh.

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I thought it was an ankle too I think I posted here earlier not even realising it was an elbow.

I still wrote hinge. So it makes no odds.

Just to let yous know its not called ankle or elbow joint, the question was what type of joint was it, it was a hinge joint lool

Am I the only one who confused Alzheimer's with parkinson as in I wrote down the wrong symptom and treatement. :0

What was the inorganic nutrient in water used by phytoplankton for growth?
I said oxygen rofl

I confused Parkinson's with Alzheimer's as well. Bloody hell I was hoping for an A . Sick at myself. Studied sooooooo hard for this exam. Was my best subject

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

As a Biology teacher, I spent the last two hours doing the LC Hons Bio paper.

It was certainly challenging and highly unpredictable. A lot of applied biology questions.

A lot of banker questions didn't come up and a lot of candidates will have been disappointed - however, I think that'll be a country wide thing and they will more than likely adjust the marking scheme.

Try not to worry about it too much.

If you dont mind me asking, what's your opinion about the joint diagram question? Hinge or gliding joint? Also, what particle would be correct in the nervous system question?

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

The joint looked like an elbow to me.
Therefore the answer is hinge joint.

As for the particles. I would have said ions.
Ions like sodium help to push the neurotransmitters into the synapse.

Me and a few others could of sworn it was a foot

LmnadZ wrote: »

Am I the only one who confused Alzheimer's with parkinson as in I wrote down the wrong symptom and treatement. :0

What was the inorganic nutrient in water used by phytoplankton for growth?
I said oxygen rofl

I guessed calcium :P plankton do actually use calcium to grow their shells and there are actually quite a lot calcium ions in lake water .

I think now they were looking for nitrogen . Not sure really now .

EoghanIRL wrote: »

I guessed calcium :P plankton do actually use calcium to grow their shells and there are actually quite a lot calcium ions in lake water .

I think now they were looking for nitrogen . Not sure really now .

They would have been looking for:
Nitrates
Or
Phosphates

BlueCat01 wrote: »

Did anyone get the answer to this?

Name a group of organisms in which the XY chromosome pair gives rise to a different sex than in cattle.

I said seahorse but not sure

That question was a bloody joke. Need to get a B on biology and was banking on Q10 after not doing too well on Q14. My other two Qs were fine, but the last part of Q10 really threw me off. Thought it was a trick question after a while and changed my answers to the shown diagram to be female. Thankfully i changed it back, but that's a joke. There's no way that should have been a question. It is nowhere on the course and unlike the alzheimers question, this is far from common knowledge.

The alzheimers question was unfair, most people will know it, but it's not on the course. The XY question was far worse than that. How the hell is anybody supposed to answer that?

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

They would have been looking for:
Nitrates
Or
Phosphates

I said nitrates! :cool::D

peekachoo wrote: »

I said nitrates! :cool::D

What did you have to say for the animal role in nitrogen/carbon cycle to get full marks? I said something like animals contain carbon as they consume plants , and plants absorb it fromt he atmosphere for photosynthesis, when animals consume them they take in carbon and when plants and animals die they decompose and release carbon into the soil. This forms fossil fuels which when burnt release carbon back into the atmosphere. Is that ok

And for the nitrogen cycle I mentioned the different bacterias im too lazy to type it out:p

More of a challenging paper than the last few years for sure, omissions from big chapters as mentioned already, so could have been a tough paper for a lot of people

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

When animals urinate they release nitrogen containing urea into the ground contributing to the N Cycle.

I wouldn't call that paper a joke.

I like where they are going with the exam.
It's no longer predictable

Predictability is one of the only things that takes the edge off the whole "learn 2 school years' worth of material for a single exam to determine your grade" thing.

I'm all for getting us to think, but it's such a high stakes exam that it hardly seems like the place for it. Just let us demonstrate what we've spent the last 2 years in class learning rather than trying to catch us out in order to, what, teach teachers a lesson about teaching to the test, and send a warning to future LC students?

Guess I'm the only one who thought that paper was fine

Inspector Coptoor wrote: »

They would have been looking for:
Nitrates
Or
Phosphates

Calcium is inorganic.
Calcium is found in lake water .
Phytoplankton use calcium to grow their shells . Not technically wrong . Maybe it's not what they are looking for .

I was googling phytoplankton :P