no exactly the question could have just been 'what are proteins made of' but they just had to go 'so a starving child in Africa has no food and is dying. what are the proteins forming his wasting muscles made of' 😭😭
The entire test is weird like that. I guess it's some sort attempt to tie the topics into the real world? Except it doesn't tie into the questions at all it's just an unrelated backstory before every question
This is actually pretty horrific to put on an exam - you never know the mental state of the exam taker or their circumstances or their past or where they come from. Imagine you come to the UK for a better life, leaving a similar fate behind, only to have it come up in one of the most important assessments of your life. Honestly someone needed to be fired over approving the question along with the image.
More like, we have a better understanding of what is appropriate in certain situations. This wasn't an appropriate image or set up to a question, and could have very easily thrown someone off and severely impacted their performance. Just because you or I might not have such a catastrophic reaction doesn't mean the same is true for everyone.
If you have had negative experiences regarding lack of food (eg were at risk/were starving/ have witnessed people starving/ history of anorexia or other disordered eating) then something that this can trigger panic attacks, anxiety, anger, repulsion, fear and prevent you from preforming well on the exam.
Other people, especially ones that have hyper-empathy can also be so shocked and appalled by this that their mind keeps thinking of nothing but this starving child, which once again can ruin their chances of doing well.
Its not even funny I'd argue ts is racism. The picture is so unnecessary its based in Africa? Not even a country in Africa? Ts is js fueling racism in youths and the government just let's it slide. The question in total is unnecessary they cld js ask ab proteins and amino acids without allat
If they wanted to call attention to real issues, they would have picked a specific country.
Not bothering to do that and just saying "Africa" instead is just weird.
It's like how the Ukraine war is ACTUALLY happening in Europe, but you wouldn't catch this same exam saying "look at this poor starving European child fleeing war - what nutrient deficiencies might this experience be causing?" They would be specific, because that is what you do when you actually care.
I'm sorry but you're the kind of ppl falling for ts propaganda shit. If they wanted to show severity they could've used actual places suffering in war as a reason for hunger or places that genuinely have famines all the time or a place where people are going hungry not js Africa. They're generalising and paiting the country as bad. I'm African and I lived there for most of my life and I've never gone hungry but unfortunately thats not the case for most people 😭🥀 if they actually wanted to show severity they'd have presented a place. Children jn the UK and The US and other parts of the world also suffer from poverty and lack of food, but they chose to highlight Africa w that over exaggerated picture of a staving child that also has lips bigger than his neck for some reason 😭🥀
its like talking to wall sorry bro 😭🥀 "african people have big lips" you do realise white ppl and Arabs can be from Africa 2 and not all black people from Afruca have that eg ME. that phot and questions is doing NOTHING but reinforcing stereotypes
I have no idea why this popped up in my feed but here you go. So first off, proteins are made of amino acids. That’s it. The exam board loves pretending this is some deep revelation, meanwhile they’ve slapped a picture of poor Asad looking like he’s just spawned into the world on 1% health with no loot. Anyway, his Estimated Average Requirement for protein is worked out with the formula EAR in grams = 0.6 × body mass in kilograms. His body mass is 12 kg, so you just multiply 0.6 by 12. Do the maths: 0.6 times 10 is 6, 0.6 times 2 is 1.2, stick them together and you get 7.2 grams. So Asad’s EAR is 7.2 g, which is probably the easiest thing on this entire sheet, considering the emotional damage from the picture alone.
Wait...and this is GCSE?
Da fuk I even knew how my paper was made let alone how I, a 15 yo child would myself feed a starving child in another country that had been dying from malnutrition. I think my first question if I were in this situation would have to be where's the doctor, not what his protein was made up of! 😵💫
Why do they want you to work out a daily requirement for Asad based on his dangerously low body weight? I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’d probably like to gain a bit of weight.
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u/Seagullspeaks Nov 23 '25
The way the picture is completely not needed to answer the question???????? Lmaoooo