Biology

Matthew

Higher Level

Piper’s Hill College, Kildare

Tammy

Higher Level

St. Augustine’s College

I was quite tired heading into Biology today after sitting Irish in the morning! 

In general, I think I’m quite happy with the paper, I managed to do nearly the entire paper within the 3 hours we were given!

I managed to do all 7 short questions, but I’m not entirely sure I got them all right so I’m definitely glad we had the choice, I always found the nitrogen cycle hard when doing biology so I was a bit disappointed to see an entire short question on it! 

The experiment questions were lovely, I’m sure we were all quite happy when we saw the scientific method and food tests appearing!

I gave the other two experiment questions a shot, which covered enzymes and plants. I decided to leave plants out of my study but I filled it in to the best of my ability, I thought the enzyme question was fair too, nothing overly complicated was asked I don’t think!

I have to say I found the long questions I bit tricky! There was a little bit in the ecology question that threw me off for a minute, I didn’t know what cowslips were but I think I answered it correctly nonetheless. I decided to not do the genetics question and moved onto the photosynthesis/respiration question which was fair standard I felt. Other than that I was torn between Q16 and Q17 so I decided to do both and give myself the opportunity to get the better mark between the two! 

For the most part I’m happy with the paper, and now I’m focusing on History and French for my final double day of exams!