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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    I hate ecology....never understand wat was the point of studying it. yeah in every paper there is atleast 1 difficult question regarding ecology......
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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    for olevels, they dont release the thereshold sheet...However for IGCSE,AS and A level, they do tell us the thereshold sheet.
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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    dude edexcel olevel is compeletely different from Cambridge Olevel....Plus they're pappers are 200 times more easier than Cambridge Olevel Papers.
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    General paper discussion

    unfortunately yes....
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    yeah even i searched on google...and unfortunately, there are no such major cases of a person surviving a gunshot wound, to the lungs etc...only pneumothorax is commom you're right, hopefully all of us will get good marks.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    Oh good news....I just read about bullets if hit at close range and penetrate the lung, can damage many alveoli, due to their microscopic size,..this is an example of penetrating traumatic injury...
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    the hole wouldnt damage the alveoli, the bullet passing throught the lung would....;)
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    dude, alveoli are microscopic and a bullet can be seen by the naked eye....also there are millions of alveoli...since the bullet is fast and larger than the alveoli, at least a few 1000 alveoli can be damaged alveoli How can you say 5-10, teh bullet is not smaller than the alveoli.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    if the wound is above the diaphragm, how could the diaphragm be damaged. And also u dont know the exact position of where the bullet hit, so u cant make the assumption that the intercoastal muscles may be damaged. Since the quesiton didnt talk about any healing procedures, there is no...
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    of course there's hope....out of 5 makrs 3 marks are confirmed...and if the examiner is nice 4 may be given
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    You are not required to mention high -profile disease names overhere,....On a verry basic level, stating that the lungs are punctured, alveoli will be damaged, along with blood vessels is enough....stating about pressure is also perfectly fine.........actually even writing abt infections may be...
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    of course oxygen can dissolve in it, but it dosent look suitable..who knows the examiners may accept it, because they gave a question like this before and in that marking scheme , no such difference b/w oxygen composition was mentioned. well you jsut got 1 wrong, that is if you got it...
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    correct.
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    Biology Paper 22 Discussion thread.

    the areteries asked were the pulmonary and renal artery, but the differences were between the ureter and the renal artery.
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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    The Alexis Bidagan question was pretty cool. They made it look like a story
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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    Yeah, I didnt do the hormone one bcoz sufficient space wasnt available, plus the capillary,WBC and platelets one was pretty easy: Elementary Biology
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    Grade Thresholds For May June 2013

    yeah ecology is really my weakes point....Saved by the bell
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