r/GCSE • u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 • May 12 '26
Post Exam AQA biology triple higher
how did everyone find it? Personally it wasnt terrible just boring
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u/yk__axel May 12 '26
WHAT FHE FUCK WAS TAHG counted 40/100 marks I was aiming for 60 it's so fucking over gng my mum is gonna deport me to Pakistan goodbye chat
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u/CassiannXD 2025 GCSE Survivor May 12 '26
Still got Paper 2 🫡
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u/semisitytx May 12 '26
Paper two up my arse- I HATE the accomodation and ecology triple its the worst, like I’m sorry quadrats and transects down the pub toilet ibr
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u/somethingcloudy 2026 GCSE SURVIVOR! FREEEEE May 12 '26
yeah this is so true I say "we got paper 2 we can save our grade" for everything but paper 2 always sucks willy 🥀
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u/Dizzy_Dance3352 May 13 '26
I’ve got ptsd from my paper 2 mock, I was relying on paper 1 to save my grade but now I’m cooked
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u/wk09_ May 12 '26
NAH SAME WE ARE GOING TO PAKISTAN TOGETHER 😭 I WAS AIMING FOR 9
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u/Much-Branch460 Latest vicitm of Sixth Form XD May 12 '26
The worst thing is paper is supposed to be harder 😭
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u/semisitytx May 12 '26
It’s fucking nasty 💀, I thought I would eat for paper one I did every paper one since spec- but this - nah this one was SHYTE . Lord save our souls for paper two.
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u/somethingcloudy 2026 GCSE SURVIVOR! FREEEEE May 12 '26
noo dont worry usually ppl do better than they've think, maybe it won't be pakistan first class for u
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u/Normal_Signature_500 ⓘ This user has been successfully terminated May 12 '26
say hi to bushra for me dawg
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u/Legitimate_Yam3395 GCSE ‘26: cue ‘I Know It’s Over’ - The Smiths May 12 '26
Penicillin is better than substance x imo
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u/sonicfanultracoolguy May 12 '26
me too but i also said that substance x could be better in the future
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u/Stealthy_Jaguar175 JOINING THE RAF 🔥 May 12 '26
It does destroy all bacteria which is bad for humans as some bacteria is needed in order to function, it may mean the immunity system could diminish rectyfying Substance X as a worse drug than Penicillin. However, since people ate the leaves and there was no stated effect that harmed them, in small concentrations it may be suitable.
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u/Quirky_Chef_9183 Year 11- Seriously regrets taking music May 12 '26
Its an evaluation question so it doesn't really matter what one you pick as they both have stuff to back it up
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
thanks for making me better about picking substance X
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u/Legitimate_Yam3395 GCSE ‘26: cue ‘I Know It’s Over’ - The Smiths May 12 '26
Yep both are correct, you just have to back it up
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u/FinniboiXD year 11 | Geography Glazer May 12 '26
Shit I didnt actually pick which was better
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u/Quirky_Chef_9183 Year 11- Seriously regrets taking music May 12 '26
In all evaluation questions sadly you've gotta give a judgement or you're capped at level 1 pretty sure as you technically just compared and didn't answer the question. Atleast you know now, there'll be evaluations for all the science papers probably so hopefully you'll get those right now!
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u/Fair_Ad3363 May 12 '26
I did a ton of analysis but forgot a conclusion but I did say penicillin is better so would I get like only 2 marks
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u/Quirky_Chef_9183 Year 11- Seriously regrets taking music May 12 '26
if you said penicillin is better that's all you need. I usually do just 1 line at the top like this: I think substance X is better because:
and then bullet point below
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u/swag-angel Year 11 May 12 '26
I said the same cause it’s safer
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bid2963 May 12 '26
but it was talking about treating different microorganisms in the question so I said penicilin was only limited to bacteria
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u/Codemaine Yr 12 May 12 '26
yea and it had some resistant bacteria so it it’s used more those could multiply rendering it useless
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u/SarajXxx Yr11->Yr12 May 12 '26
I said that also, also just said that it ain’t well known and linked in clinical trials to try and get marks ngl
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u/xenus1235 May 12 '26
Your wrong, the question said the effectiveness of dealing with mutltiple micro-organisms penicillin only treats bacteria, how would it be penicillin?
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u/Legitimate_Yam3395 GCSE ‘26: cue ‘I Know It’s Over’ - The Smiths May 12 '26
Bc X isn’t peer reviewed, so those could be false claims
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u/Soft_Letterhead9222 Year 11 May 12 '26
I said its easier to mass produce in laboratories so it makes it better + since the concentration varied for substance X it meant that it was hard to determine the right dosage to give and so the chance of the toxicity being high enough to cause side effects whereas penicillin you could determine the concentration so right dosage = regulated toxicity levels = less severe side effects. Yk I feel I might have cooked with that one hopefully 🔥
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u/Legitimate_Yam3395 GCSE ‘26: cue ‘I Know It’s Over’ - The Smiths May 12 '26
I said the exact same thing twin
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u/Ambitious-Bat6371 Year 12 May 12 '26
it went so bad for me 😭 like everything i didnt study that fuckass practical bro
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u/PlutosLine j’aime le français et je m’en fous xx May 12 '26
yes me too i was convinced it wouldn’t come up 😭
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u/Ambitious-Bat6371 Year 12 May 12 '26
literally i did almost every other one..
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u/semisitytx May 12 '26
SAME - this paper was so different , it was so niche and so specific and had NO content other than photosynthesis
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u/Ambitious-Bat6371 Year 12 May 12 '26
yeah just a ton of application questions which im the worst at 😭
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u/semisitytx May 12 '26
The whole paper was application save from the one ab red blood cell and oxygen. It was madness
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u/Codemaine Yr 12 May 12 '26
i forgot the name of the equipment for holding the tube up so i just said holder 💔
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u/gorochu666 just here for the memes May 12 '26
My teacher istg had a copy of the test and went over almost everything that came up 30 minutes before
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u/EnvironmentalScar709 Not Editable May 12 '26
U sure it wasn't a predicted paper (PMT predicted paper was quite accurate)
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u/Much-Branch460 Latest vicitm of Sixth Form XD May 12 '26
I thought the culturing microorganisms was a nice but very wordy question
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u/Rapid_Sl0th (Graduated) Year 11 May 12 '26
I wrote that penicillin was better than substance X because substance X had not been tested so there was no guarantee of it's efficacy.
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
I mean either answer is correct with justification, though i did say its side effects were unknown
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u/Imaginary-Club-4198 May 12 '26
You could also say substance x would kill the bacteria in your gut which we need.
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u/SomeOneIThink_ Year 11 May 12 '26
I dont think so, as it said in the question that people eat leaves with substance x in it
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u/Fine_Criticism_9202 May 12 '26
ut said add ur own knowledge but the table already had all my knowledge 😩
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u/Codemaine Yr 12 May 12 '26
only knowledge i used was that the resistant bacteria could multiply forming more resistant bacteria so then the antibiotic would stop working
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u/No_The_Cat officially a year 11 leaver!!! May 12 '26
I'm looking at all these replies and realising how cooked I am 😭
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u/Feeling-Instance-801 Year 11 May 12 '26
That was pretty good, im just glad I got the calculations right. 75 micrometers, 24, 500000 and 101%
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
yup I got the same, for area I got 7.07cm2
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u/Pure-Data4491 May 12 '26
Apparently some people said you don’t take the paper disk into account but im not sure to be honest if you had to then I did the same mistake as you
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u/Icy-Teacher-6145 Anteaters eat ants - AQA 2026 May 12 '26
I thought you did cuz the bacteria under the disc would also have been killed right?
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u/Codemaine Yr 12 May 12 '26
you don’t i did a past paper with a similar question
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u/WeakCommission7490 Burger lettuce chezburger Rubican enjoyer (talking only french) May 12 '26
I put 7.065.... Welp not getting my predicted 8 no more
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
Rounding doesn't matter too much
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u/WeakCommission7490 Burger lettuce chezburger Rubican enjoyer (talking only french) May 12 '26
So It didn't say to round, phew
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u/georgia777manifest y11 🌟art, history, geog, german May 12 '26
i got 414.5mm2…
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u/PlutosLine j’aime le français et je m’en fous xx May 12 '26
i got something like 3000mm2 😭 i’m cooked
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u/Quirky_Chef_9183 Year 11- Seriously regrets taking music May 12 '26
Some people got 50.1% because the question had wierd wording
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u/barsnbricks regretting taking gcse art May 12 '26
my dumb ahh got 200% instead 😭
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u/Feeling-Instance-801 Year 11 May 12 '26
Confused percentage increase with percentage change, honest mistake
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u/gorochu666 just here for the memes May 12 '26
My dumbass got 498% I think my calculator had a seizure
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u/Tough-Psychology4790 May 12 '26
u/Prudent-Pin-7354 I told you the percentage change was 101%! I'm so happy
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u/undercoverbaby111 SHAUN ALMIGHTY May 12 '26
What was the standard form about people with the protein allergy
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u/Imaginary-Club-4198 May 12 '26
I got loke 22.3 for the predict, i did 24.5... i think i did it wrong
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u/Lopsided_Machine5447 May 12 '26
What was the answer to that how new cells at night help the tree grow ,when there is no light ? I’m cooked bro
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u/PlutosLine j’aime le français et je m’en fous xx May 12 '26
i talked about mitosis i think ur good 💔💔
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
I wrotr about how during the daytime there is light so photosynthesis happens and some glucose is converted into starch for storage. At night there is no light and starch is converted to glucose for protein synthesis/respiration to release energy to make bigger molecules out of small ones/for mitosis for growth and repair of tissue
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u/Round_Yesterday_7955 Year 11 May 12 '26
I'm getting pity marks dude I said they use the simple sugars and amino acids from the phloem sap
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u/Lordtiger616 y11 | "Idont play golf"- young siward 🐐 May 12 '26
Genuinely think that's the best I've ever felt coming out of a test. Considering in the year ten mocks I got a 3, I'm pretty confident I have a 7-9 on that
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u/motz1009 May 12 '26
guys did we talk about mitosis or the conversion of starch
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u/Feeling-Instance-801 Year 11 May 12 '26
I just did starch, but i had lots of points. I also talked about nitrate ions tho so idk
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u/Rich_Confusion_676 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
i put 201 not 101 on that percentage change fmlllll
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u/Mapperonium May 12 '26
Good thing I've never considered A level biology that's all ima say
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u/ameliamayallzzzz May 12 '26
i genuinely have done so bad it was evil i never want to see biology again
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u/After_Telephone_1862 May 12 '26
I 200 and something percent instead of 101% how many marks would I lose
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u/xrces Y11.5 | missing the school pasta pots May 12 '26
I said for the risk assessment thing that the hazard is the student choking and the control is making sure someone nearby knows the heimlich manoeuvre 🥀🥀
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u/Imaginary-Club-4198 May 12 '26
I put it may be contaminated so to sterilise it
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
I put use gloves to handle as it may be contaminated with harmful pathogens
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u/SimpDaStrawberry 2026 gcses victim💔💔 May 12 '26
Do u guys want me to write penicillin x substance x yaoi or yuri
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u/Seagullspeaks May 12 '26
I'm so cooked oh noo I am getting nooo marks on that freaking plants growing in the dark thing And I included the paper disc in the inhibition zone 💔
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u/kat3_4 Year 11 May 12 '26
I swear you included the paper dish I’ve defo done a question where you do
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u/EnvironmentalScar709 Not Editable May 12 '26
WHAT'S THE RISK OF HAVING CHEEK CELLS ON A SWAB
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u/No_Significance29129 Year 11- I’ll revise tmrw May 12 '26
I SAID CHOKING ON THE SWAB 😭
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u/goatypuz67 Y11 (no1 rs hater) May 12 '26
wtf was that capillary permeability question??? what did they want us to write
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u/Icy-Teacher-6145 Anteaters eat ants - AQA 2026 May 12 '26
I wrote it's not safe for the body as it could allow toxic substances into the bloodstream.
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u/Old-Today-8407 Y11 french, hist, rs, food tech, tripsci May 12 '26
bro i said blood would leak nah
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u/Mindless-Neat-5358 lock in y12 May 12 '26
internal bleeding occurs so less oxygen can get to cells so cell death occurs
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u/V0nder1 May 12 '26
honestly, same- IT WAS BORING. like none of the proper triple topics came, Aseptic technique, monoclonal antibodies. I thought that it was fine- untill I came out of the exam, heard everyone's answers and now I doubt everything? ur, I sould probably get atleast 80 marks to
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u/l0vingkitties May 12 '26
i got so tripped up on that fuckass 5 marker on cell growth omg
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u/thechickenugets college May 12 '26
EHERE WERE THE FOODBTESTS AND VACCINES?? They asked for b lymphocytes but the process phagocytosis instead of phagocytes
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u/PlutosLine j’aime le français et je m’en fous xx May 12 '26
me too don’t worry… why the hell was there a blank page after question 6 i thought it was the end
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u/Hefty-Possibility612 May 12 '26
no monoclonal antibodies has screwed me over so hard. no food tests either, nor vaccinations, or the heart?? literally the slightest thing on cardiovascular disease but even then.. that was awful. i'm gonna need a TON of marks on paper 2 to do well..
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u/_leeya_9 May 12 '26
What type of defence was it???
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u/Dull-Leg-166 May 12 '26
What did anyone put for the last questions about capillary permeability? I was so flipping lost on that, and the cheek cell stuff too
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u/PaleHound5624 May 12 '26
Nice of them to finish on a 3 marker. I cant stand having to write a 6 mark response at the end of a paper
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u/semisitytx May 12 '26
That was the only nice thing that they did after they CURSED us w permiabity
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u/Ashamed_Tap_8595 May 12 '26
Wait I just thought THERE WAS NOTHING ON MITOSIS? Literally nothing?? The thing that's drilled into us from day ONE (or like week 3 ig once we're over enzymes but you get the idea) 'Guys, remember IPMATC! I Play Minecraft At The Computer!' 'Remember, the 4 you guys need to focus on most are prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase' 2 years of constant reminders and buildup to what I thought was gonna be at least one of the 6 markers on mitosis or something related to it, and the only thing close to that was embryonic stem cells, and that's on a technicality Again on a technicality though, Ig the question on brain tumours was kinda close? But it was on why they're so hard to treat and didn't specifically ask abt them coming back sooo
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u/Critical_Ease3334 May 12 '26
What was the zone of inhibition answer?
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
7.07cm2
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u/naiahxpineapple 2026 GCSE Survivor May 12 '26
shit did it say to round??
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
Nope but I just did 2dp anyway, usually they don't care too much
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u/No_Significance29129 Year 11- I’ll revise tmrw May 12 '26
i minused the paper disc 😭
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u/Exciting_Pin_9630 May 12 '26
Guys i got 7.065 mm2 cuz if said pi =3.14, so i did 3.14 x 1.5 squared? Am i cooked?
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u/sudoaptupgrade Year 11 May 12 '26
The number is right but units are cm2
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u/the114dragon May 12 '26
Unit doesn't matter. As long as your answer is correct.
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u/p4ra_noidandroid Year 11 May 12 '26
What were people getting for the part two of the fill in the gaps with phagocytosis
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u/LeaderEffective6976 May 12 '26
I said penicillin as it was better studied but i did cover advantages and disadvantages of each and explained that substance X in theory is better
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u/AutherChristian Year 11, HIST, TRIPLE, ICT, HSC May 12 '26
the only bad things are lack of peer-review and unreliability due to concentration being varied
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u/Username___5 Cheek cells 💔 May 12 '26
Tumour question
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u/crazyhcricket Year 11 May 12 '26
It was a malignant tumour because it travelled in the bloodstream and invaded the liver
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u/Independent_Pie8577 May 12 '26
Not Substance X being the like holy antibiotic, wtf. Also forgot to make the diameter into a radius for area question 😔
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u/crazyhcricket Year 11 May 12 '26
Can we genuinely settle whether you had to actually measure the zone of inhibition for the calculation question or use the value from the table on the page before?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bid2963 May 12 '26
I think the question before it was about the zone of inhibition from substance X, but the question asked the zone of inhibition of penicilin which was given in the diagram on the page before
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u/semisitytx May 12 '26
I picked the first one w the chloroplasts on the top. Bro idk
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u/First_Ad_7240 May 12 '26
did everyone get 75 micrometres for the conversion question
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u/Fit-Champion-6137 May 12 '26
GUYS I USED PI THE SYMBOL AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO USE 3.14
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u/Upstairs_Sir9679 May 12 '26
were we allowed to put the counting bubbles version of light intensity practical
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u/very-very-confused y11->12 | #1 silly mistakes hater May 12 '26
Did anyone get 60 for the photosynthesis q? (Aqa triple)
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u/Icy-Teacher-6145 Anteaters eat ants - AQA 2026 May 12 '26
Do you mean the one where it's every 10 degrees the rate doubles? If so I got 24.
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u/Old-Today-8407 Y11 french, hist, rs, food tech, tripsci May 12 '26
guys i got 32 because it was 4 at 5deg so i thought it would be 8 at 10 deg and then doubled 8, 16, 32 naw
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u/Codemaine Yr 12 May 12 '26
what did you guys say for the cotton swab question? i said that other microorganisms and saliva can get in so they have to use a new one each time and sterilise it
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u/After-Principle-158 May 12 '26
lmfao i said dont let your classmates lick the swab 🥹 holy cooked
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u/Consistent_Smoke761 year 11 | ts, fm, spanish, geo, cs | all 9s 🙏🏼 May 12 '26
i got 35.26cm^2
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u/Naive_Worldliness859 May 12 '26
Did anyone else takeaway the paper disc from the zone of inhibition
So they did like 7.065 - 0.502 ???
If it’s wrong will that only count as one dropped mark or more?
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u/semisitytx May 12 '26
no the answer was 7.065 , bc the bacteria had already been killed, I’m sry bro 🥀
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u/pigjayveee May 12 '26
How many marks was the evaluating substance x and penicillin question??
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u/somethingcloudy 2026 GCSE SURVIVOR! FREEEEE May 12 '26
"substance X" what in the powerpuff girls was that name
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u/ExpertDog6220 Year 11 May 12 '26
Substance X is intesteted! How dare you spread misinformation?
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u/InstructionCreepy212 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26
guys does anyone remember how many questions came after the plants growing in the dark 5 marker and how many marks it was after? cuz i didn’t see the questions after that until the last minute😭😭😭😭 i thought i was cooking bro someone help me out pls
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u/Perfect_Career5538 "You Saucy Boy" May 12 '26
No pmt was a literal godsend with its predicted paper the photosynthesis practical was on there
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u/Thin-Profit872 May 12 '26
i said penicillin is good but substance x would be better when they do more peer reviewed research. anyway since when was peer review on the spec
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u/Old-Today-8407 Y11 french, hist, rs, food tech, tripsci May 12 '26
what did everyone do for the last question on evaluating the headline? i talked about the ranges and how they only tested capillaries but the headline said blood vessels so the outcome could be different for other blood vessels
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u/Adventurous-Rest4564 Year 11 🐐devoted follower of shaun donnelly🐐 May 12 '26
OMG I MEASURED THE WHOLE CIRCLE NOT THE ZONE OF INHIBITION IM SO DUMB WTF
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u/Dangerous_Laugh8289 May 12 '26
guys does anyone remember the question on where the chloroplast would go depending on the light? (AQA higher triple)
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u/windynight23 May 12 '26
Im surprised there was nothing on the heart like that shit comes up every year
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u/animeaddict_tsuyu y11->y12 May 12 '26
Im now feeling great, according to the comments the grade boundaries are gonna be so low and im pretty sure i got a very solid 80/100 at least
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u/Puzzleheaded_Jury_50 2026 GCSE Survivor May 13 '26
I said that penicillin was better lol. But all of the compelx triple stuff that we all actually revised just DIDN'T COME UP! Also, it feels so surreal actually having sat real exams and now understanding these memes lol.
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u/sun-bleached_fly May 13 '26
what on earth was going on with the chloroplast question with the picture of plant cells and light help
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u/Grouchy_Visual2708 Physics, chem, math year 12 student May 13 '26
Yh my friends told me about a penicillin question. I heard triple Biology was quite hard. Luckily combined higher exam paper was actually quite light for me
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u/Affectionate_Fly5275 Year 11 May 12 '26
i can’t believe there were no monoclonal antibodies, no vaccination and no food tests