N Thursday, July 1, 2010
after cramming human physio and plant science last night/early this morning/later this morning, bio papers 1 and 2 are finally over! what a huge relief.
hahaha i found one of the mcq question options pretty hilarious. the question was 'what happens if the seminal vesicles were removed' or something along those lines. and one of the options was: the testes will go back into the body. hahaha omg i couldnt help laughing over that during the exam.
i took ages to complete the essay questions. it was just writing and writing and writing and writing and writing. did the question with translation even though i didnt study that this round. just wrote based on what i remember from last year and o levels :P
they tested quite a fair bit of stuff not in our syllabus. o levels helped though. like the mcq question on double fertilisation - i dont even recall seeing it in our syllabus/powerpoint slides anywhere. but we studied it for o levels (: haha and the mother's mitochondrial dna thing. it was some random piece of info just stuck in my head from who knows when - not in our syllabus though.
i thought the root zone xylem vessel question was pretty weird though. dont know if it's just me but why were they talking about xylem in the root - its definitely not in our syllabus. not in the ppt slides either... we know that the xylem loses its protoplast when it matures but in the root?!? that question was so 'huh'.
oh darn i got it wrong!! why did i change my answer!!! this sort of enlightenment is seriously not worth having - you find some new explanation why the answer should be X instead of Y, when Y is in fact the answer -.- feel so cheated by my own stupidity.
rawr!!! nothing on stats this time except for one tiny mcq question on the p value which was so -.- i thought i'd be more prepared to attempt stats questions after doing stats for ee. like how they killed us with that t-test question last year - everybody forgot that stats was even part of our syllabus, haha.
still, i think i was quite lucky this time. didnt study ecology and evolution again ._. but all that came out were a few mcq questions that didnt really require ib bio knowledge.
yes so anyway, i'm glad that bio's over - 2/3 of it anyway. last night was really one of my most intense bio sessions. it helped (: even though not as much human physio was tested as i expected (what happened to all the oogenesis/spermatogenesis, muscle contraction, nerve impulse, immunity essay questions!). omg immunity hardly came out except for that HIV question, and the mcq question. i feel so cheated! at least menstrual cycle didnt come out, haha. i thought the acetylcholine questions were interesting though (: refreshing change from the standard questions.
hahaha calida was telling me about what she wrote for the cobra toxin question. about slitting the skin near the muscle to allow the venomised blood to be removed or something. and how 'that's what you always see in dramas!' i wrote some stupid thing about some enzyme, i.e. enzyme is to toxin as acetylcholinesterase is to acetylcholine, so you break down the toxin, freeing the receptor binding site. yes, i forgot that the toxin is an antigen. darn. that would have been a more sensible answer. a lot more sensible.
tomorrow's english paper 2, sadface. i really enjoy doing hl papers, but sl papers are a bit more... except maybe english paper 1 which could be quite fun - only it didnt go too well ._.
hmm in view of what happened for chem, i think i need to ban myself from making careless mistakes :P haha like how i've stuck to my ban from youtube for over 3 weeks plus? rawr not easy though. the careless mistake ban, i mean, not the youtube ban.
jess's party tomorrow (:
i see a squirrel on the wall.
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