Hang me a benjamin How did y'all find that?

[mussed]

Lawrence Hall was cold even to me (I get boiling during exams from adrenaline, but I was wearing a thick jumper) and I was shattered due to no sleep. Section I was fine, because the council were all bowing in the King and Council cartoon I thought that they were just putting on a show - really letting the king do what he wanted! I finished with 40 minutes to spare, which let me have a quick nap and avoid the HELLISH TOILET QUEUES, which were an absolute joke.
Section II... que sera, I thought my essays weren't the best I've written but will see.
Section III was a mindspinner. Was the physical chemistry question where you had to know that the differential is zero at a maximum an experiment? Not so bad for me as a mathmo but hellish for everyone else... unfortunately looks like that bloody cell question (guessed for most of it) counted! And urgh, the pressups one had me a bit worried too (and again, physics is definitely my best science). The biology was harder than any questions I'd seen (Gradmed, O'Neill's, Ozimed...) but the chemistry wasn't too bad. Frankly, though, I hated it and was absolutely mentally dead by the end! Had to get the last train back to Glasgow too...
However, I'm glad I did it cos it means I sort of understand some science now; and I think I acquitted myself well. Whether a good aquittal of me is any good compared to anyone else is, however, a pending decision.
Good luck to everyone in results!

[DANJUVENILE]

The Foucault stuff WAS terrible...ever noticed how ACER always manage to put in a long complicated passage at the end of section 1 just to finish off anybody who's done a bad job of their timekeeping! I suppose what d'ya expect from the Aussies. THEY ALWAYS GET THE TAILENDERS CHEAPLY.

Section III started of real good, first 40 questions or so but then descended into some surprisingly confusing and time consuming data-interpretation questions. but then hey, at least they give most people a fair chance and if youre like me with an arts or humanities background, you'll appreciate not having to do quadruple hybrid cross punnett squares and negative feedback flowcharts all afternoon. having said that, that cell question was downright awful!

[Deagle]

Agree on the king quote, but had nowhere near 40mins to spare!

The press ups were just trying to get us to confuse us with info for moments when it was all about w.d. = force x distance, wasn't it?

Differential zero at maximum? – another one I don't recognise. From what I remember I had:

Muscle activity and heat control mechanisms
Configuration of double bonds in omega-3 essential acids
Radioactive decay in the body
Terminal velocity of particles in fluid
Efficiency of different energy sources from a diagram
Ventricular volume & pressure with valve sequences,
Headless insects, hormones and blood transfers
Recognising morphine-related structures
E-Z isomerism
Meso compounds
Work done in press ups for 2 women, and compared to men
Pendulum in the car for vel/accel
Oxygen and CO2 of a hatching chick
Enthalpy change from energy of formation
Cell electrochemistry
Simple circuit with 2 resistors
Identifying numbers of chiral carbons
Organic cell with sites of respiration, diffusion, radioactive golgi, cell stage
2 hereditary disorders and enzyme processes
Genetics based around a recessive gene, probabilities and a family tree
Hearing aids and sound intensity

Think there were a few more, but after it's consumed my life for the past few weeks perhaps better if I move on…

[DANJUVENILE]

Oh yeah and while i'm still on -does anybody agree with me that the format of the exam utterly sucks; we should do the reasoning in bio science first, while still morning fresh followed by verbal reasoning after lunch and written comm last. Concentration really begins to falter when you get to question ninety-something of sec III and you're still poking away at your calcultor trying to find the natural log of some arbitrary value for some silly equation in the sixth hour of the days exams! Plain backward that is!

[mussed]

But then your essays would suck, and as most people who fail fail on essays... I do think though that Section III should be organised into bio, physics and chem. Then you at least could get sort of into a subject!

I just knew that differential question was too hard. I wasted time on that

EDIT: And you're right about the pressups. But my physics brain wondered if actually I could work it out in a prettier way...

[DANJUVENILE]

Originally Posted by Deagle

Agree on the king quote, but had nowhere near 40mins to spare!

The press ups were just trying to get us to confuse us with info for moments when it was all about w.d. = force x distance, wasn't it?

Differential zero at maximum? – another one I don't recognise. From what I remember I had:

Muscle activity and heat control mechanisms
Configuration of double bonds in omega-3 essential acids
Radioactive decay in the body
Terminal velocity of particles in fluid
Efficiency of different energy sources from a diagram
Ventricular volume & pressure with valve sequences,
Headless insects, hormones and blood transfers
Recognising morphine-related structures
E-Z isomerism
Meso compounds
Work done in press ups for 2 women, and compared to men
Pendulum in the car for vel/accel
Oxygen and CO2 of a hatching chick
Enthalpy change from energy of formation
Cell electrochemistry
Simple circuit with 2 resistors
Identifying numbers of chiral carbons
Organic cell with sites of respiration, diffusion, radioactive golgi, cell stage
2 hereditary disorders and enzyme processes
Genetics based around a recessive gene, probabilities and a family tree
Hearing aids and sound intensity

Think there were a few more, but after it's consumed my life for the past few weeks perhaps better if I move on…

add to that
pineal glands and response to exposure to light/darkness
effect of melatonin on rat ovary size (or something of the sort)

[Ancient Geezer]

What's this 'differential zero at maximum' stuff? I don't recall that - London. Maybe it is the cortisol, but I was trying to recall the essays, and it is a complete blank to me. The bogs in London were a nightmare, and then the girls gate-crashed them because their queues were even worse. Brave ladies. I was trying to use the urinal next to the door, and for some reason they all started laughing.

[cando_willdo]

jeez thats an impressive recall of section 111! my brain is mashed, only remembering the odd bit!!

The question on the refractive index. What exactly is it that makes it harder for a scuba diver to see underwater without googles????

What exactly is the final consenus on the king cartoon???

[Ancient Geezer]

Difference in refractive index at interface between eye and water. Eye evolved for large difference with air. Water too similar to eye.

[maxine25]

I didn't think it was too difficult but it took a long time for me to work out some of the questions like cockroach one and at the end i ran out of time i left all the physic questions to the end (i dont like physics) and i only managed to answer two circuit questions:-( and in section 2, i only wrote about a page and a paragraph but people around me were on the third page or something so that was scary!
does anyone know how much we meant to write for essay?? so basically i am not going anywhere this year
I am so glad its over i still have to revise for my A level resits though can someone tell me why God makes stupid people so bloody ambitious
By the way i was in Thistle hotel in Bristol and it was very nice and warm
Good luck everyone
x M