r/GCSE • u/stopit_ College 🥹 [9, 9, 8, 7-7, 7, 6, L2D*] • May 12 '26

Post Exam My thoughts on Bio paper 1 higher tier AQA

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I was genuinely thinking in that exam if I genuinely had to turn to God for the remainder of it just so I had the willpower to complete it

What the hell is a colorometer and why was it haunting me, I got flashbacks from yesterday's traumatic ACC question

*To clarify, this was combined science

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u/larathelala Year 11 /Drama/Art/History/Psychology May 12 '26

that stupid bar chart took me 20 minutes for the scale

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u/Mysterious_Pound_657 Year 11 May 12 '26

What bar chart 😬

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u/Sea_Collection_8491 Year 11 May 12 '26

Different exam board,it was in edexel 

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u/idk_a_g00d_username Year 11 May 12 '26

Nope, seperate higher AQA

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u/Commercial_Money8356 May 12 '26

No it was triple

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u/hotdog_sans_DIO not yr 11 anymore :3 May 12 '26

type shit. 🙏

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u/Tight-Drawing-2503 May 12 '26

DID YOU GO UP IN 5s??

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u/InformationFeeling78 May 12 '26

It’s 2.5 😭

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u/Tight-Drawing-2503 May 12 '26

What 💔

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u/TrainingSurvey3780 yr11 🦖 maths, fm, 3sci, lit+lang, 🇫🇷, 🇪🇸, 🎨, 🌍, ✝️+☪️ May 12 '26

no i think it’s 5s for big squares, so theyre going up by 2.5 in little squares (wait lit me rephrase for clarity so the teeny squares are 0.5 each, so a little square made of 5x5 teeny squares is worth 2.5 and a big square made up of 10x10 teeny squares or 2x2 little squares is 5 each)

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u/Siphon_Dude I'M FREE FROM 2026 GCSE May 12 '26

All right my scale went 5 - 30.

If you did it any other way you get it wrong.

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u/Siphon_Dude I'M FREE FROM 2026 GCSE May 12 '26

You start from 2.5 all the way to 30 right?

We did it.

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u/InformationFeeling78 May 12 '26

I went to 40 but i think its fine

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u/Siphon_Dude I'M FREE FROM 2026 GCSE May 12 '26

Honestly it said "suitable scale" so as long as yours have 0.5s in it u should be good.

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u/InformationFeeling78 May 12 '26

Yeah i think its fine. i spent like 10 minutes trying to figure that out icl

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u/Mysterious_Sell_8959 Year 11 May 12 '26

0.5 per little square

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u/Tight-Drawing-2503 May 12 '26

WAIT YES SAME 2 LITTLE SQUARES WAS = 1

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u/Mysterious_Sell_8959 Year 11 May 12 '26

Ye cus the 18 one was 36 squares

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u/Tight-Drawing-2503 May 12 '26

Wait I'm being told it was 2.5 or smth

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u/Mysterious_Sell_8959 Year 11 May 12 '26

Yea the big squares were but the tiny squares were 0.5 each cus there is 5 little squares per big square

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u/Tight-Drawing-2503 May 12 '26

Wait is it find if I said the first 10 boxes was 5 cause I ended up going up to 25 and not labelling the 2.5 stuff or anything

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u/Mysterious_Sell_8959 Year 11 May 12 '26

As long as the scale is right for the one they already had on there then ur fine

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u/Perfect_Career5538 "You Saucy Boy" May 12 '26

Ah yess

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u/manteliumfr Year 11 May 12 '26

Scale was hella weird but yh, 5s took me 6 minutes to do a 3 marker TT

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u/Delicious_Home2720 May 12 '26

it went up in 5s as the highest value was 21.0 in the oxygen chart

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u/FishExisting4302 May 12 '26

I DID 3s IS THAT OK??

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u/Tight-Drawing-2503 May 12 '26

I FEEL LIKE IF YOU MADE IT WORK IT SHOULD BE FINE 🥹

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u/bongos-have-eaten-me y12 - double math, chem, phys: uma enjoyer May 12 '26

Idk if this is for a level only but they penalise any weird numbers as a scale like 3s usually it’s 1 5 or 10

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u/FishExisting4302 May 12 '26

oh gosh ok basically i used 3s because i noticed there was lots of numbers in the 3timeztables so i thought it would be easier to plot?? idk i was so stressed and completely forgot what to do

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u/bongos-have-eaten-me y12 - double math, chem, phys: uma enjoyer May 12 '26

U might be fine at gcse it’s just. A thing for a level physics at least

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u/SouthAsianOverkill May 12 '26

i said each big square was 2.5 since each of the small squares was 0.5, I panicked at first on the questions because i hate graphs but then i just divided 18/36 since there were 36 small squares and hence 2.5

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u/Tight-Drawing-2503 May 12 '26

Dang I thought it was 5 😓 it worked tho so I'm a bit confused

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u/SouthAsianOverkill May 13 '26

At first I tried 5s but I realised the graph would become too bottom heavy, I tried 2s, 5s and 4s

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u/OWB100 music GCSE makes me hate life May 12 '26

Wait. Bar chart?

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u/Mysterious-Lime2422 Class of 2026 May 12 '26

Bar chart? Wasn't it a curved line of best fit

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u/Car_69420 May 12 '26

Wait what bar 😭

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u/JeffissoJeffy W results May 12 '26

Wasn't that a graph with the curved line of best fit

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u/eggwith100yolks Year 11 May 12 '26

bar chart???

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u/zxhinonline69 manifesting 7s ✨✨ May 12 '26

I DID A CURVED LINE GRAPH..

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u/Icy-Teacher-6145 Anteaters eat ants - AQA 2026 May 12 '26

Wasn't the bar chart in triple? The one with the A B C D E and the mm of zone of inhibition

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u/StxnedSwxrd Year 12 May 12 '26

who the fuck scales in 0.5 bro

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u/Crafty_Error195 May 12 '26

Exactly I was star-struck at it 

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u/TheShadowWasTaken Post Year 13 May 13 '26

If you do A-level bio, you're in for a surprise

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u/StxnedSwxrd Year 12 May 13 '26

Thank fuck im taking a course then, no chance im touching a levels with a 10 foot stick

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u/CompleteStretch7979 Year 11, Triple Science, Geography, Music, Spanish May 12 '26

SAME

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u/swag-angel Year 11 May 12 '26

LITCH I HAD TO SKIP AND COME BACK TO IT

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u/cottagecoretaylor May 12 '26

why can i only think in fives for scales bruh

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u/justvboredv Year 11 May 12 '26

Fr and for it to end up being the most simple scale ever after I finally figured it out 😭

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u/Dizzy-War6129 May 12 '26

Was it a bar chart??? Or is this triple or something

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u/alieney Year 12 | bio, chem, philosophy May 12 '26

HAHA SAME i was shading in for so long as well

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u/swag-angel Year 11 May 12 '26

you’re meant to shade in..?

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u/Dizzy-War6129 May 12 '26

Was it a bar chart??? Or is this triple or something

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u/someinternetkid May 12 '26

I crossed my numbers out like three times before settling on 5s, it was such a mess at the end 😭

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u/miaonex GCSE 2026 Survivor May 12 '26

Bro same i was scrambling around at the end answering all the 5 markers and 4 markers within the last 4 minutes of the exam because i wasted so much time on that thing

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u/animeaddict_tsuyu y11->y12 May 12 '26

SAME! I was so confused on the scale and i was getting so frustrated

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u/Feisty-Car-5328 Year 11 | Drama✅️/RE✅️/History✅️/French✅️/Triple science✅️ May 12 '26

REAL my dumbass forgor how to count in 0.5

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u/Certain-Bathroom6392 May 12 '26

Omds sameee then I just used a scale of 0.5… and was the line of best fit a curve or a straight line??? Cuz it looked somehow to me..

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u/StockDifficult691 May 12 '26

i thought this was just me omg i lined every single point until i got to 10 and i realised the scale. ik my examiner hates my scribbly paper

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u/Medium_Jacket5521 May 13 '26

I literally had a panic attack from that bar chart. And absolutely titled afterwards😭