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EXAM TERM 1

Your exam for term 1 is during exam block - on __**Wednesday the 30th of April**__

- It will consist of a 1hr UB paper, 30 minute break, then 1hr EBI paper - the exam time allocated for this is 8.30-11.00

__**UB PAPER**__

If you are unsure of the topics to be covered please refer back to the wiki page 'term 1 Biology overview' ,on this you will find textbook pages and topics covered. Any questions place them on the discussion board and I will try my best to answer them for you.

Below are some links to the brain dissection and kidney dissection if you were absent or want to refresh what you saw.

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 * __ STUDY TIPS __**

- Use your term1 biology overview wiki page to locate the correct textbook pages - read over material as well as your own notes - Be sure that you can successfully label diagrams from your note books eg. brain etc - Use textbook chapter summary questions as a study quiz to see what you do and do not know - Complete yellow book activity pages on labelling, action potentials etc as a study tool - If you are unsure of a concept do some further research - remember that their are complex UB 3 question worth a lot of your marks, to be able to successfully answer these you need to know your topics in detail and apply the to scenarios - collaborate with each other, attached in this wiki is a discussion board use it to collaborate and ask questions not only with your teachers, but also with each other, you learn best from each other.




 * __ EBI Exam study tips __**

- Read over previous EBI papers you have completed, take in feedback - refer to the example papers that you have been given from Ms Callum's class - Remember to link it back to biology and what you know, think of topics you have covered, use that knowledge, cells, nervous system, homeostasis, kidneys, liver, any body systems you know about that could be relevant - you are addressing a biological issue - have strong opening and closing paragraphs - Refer back to the EBI scaffholding that we gave you last year (I will place a copy under this) - look at a future perspective, make strong recommendations - when given the articles use them to do further research, familiarise yourself with them

Happy studying!!!!!

** EBI scaffold: ** The genre is an essay and no paragraph headings should be used. The following is just a scaffold, based on the sample question given in class (and shown below).

Most forms of the disease are lethal, and it affects both humans and other animals. There are effective vaccines against anthrax, and some forms of the disease respond well to antibiotic treatment. Use your knowledge of cell structure and functioning to explain and determine if //Bacillus anthracis// can be both helpful and harmful and justify your response. Is there potential to use this form of bacteria for medical purposes?
 * Anthrax ** is an [|acute] [|disease] caused by the bacteria [|Bacillus anthracis].

The components that have been highlighted in green are key to deciphering the question and identifying what you need to address in the essay.

Remember when you are breaking down a question you identify what you are being asked to do and how you go about justifying (supporting) that with the information you have. It is important to remember that the essay is written from a factual basis and consequently try and avoid emotive language. It is also important to realise that moral and ethical issues in this essay have no relevance. To write from that perspective would be wasting time.

This should contain: Ø T -schematic statement Ø D - definition (correct scientific name, brief background information, type of bacteria, method of reproduction) Ø O - overview of topics to be covered in essay (in the Anthrax example the key requirements were function, structure, helpful, harmful – All of these points come from the exam question )
 * ESSAY: **
 * Introduction**

This should contain: Ø Links with the previous paragraph to make sure it makes sense and is written in context. Ø Be focused on the first topic of the overview (in the Anthrax example this should be the **function** of Anthrax at a cellular level – remember it is critical that you constantly link back to Biology and cells ) Ø You will also write this paragraph so that it will link to the next one through examples
 * Paragraph 1**
 * Paragraph 2**

This should contain: Ø Examples of the **function** of Anthrax through examples from either the articles given or through your own research ( the research you have conducted since being given the articles ) Ø You may cite research that is presented in the articles given, this helps support what you are trying to day as having legitimate justification.


 * Paragraph 3**

This should contain: Ø Links with you previous paragraph but also develop your second topic (in the case of the Anthrax example the **structure** of Anthrax) Ø You may also start to develop links here to why it is both helpful and harmful ( but it would just be a mention, not a focus as the will be later paragraphs ) Ø Remember this is an essay genre and it would be unusual to contain a diagram so you would need to use description if you were discussing motile methods etc..


 * Paragraph 4**

This should contain: Ø Examples of the **structure** of Anthrax from either articles given or through your own research. Ø How the structure aids in the development of Anthrax or its method of reproduction Ø Suggest how this is possibly both harmful and helpful ( keep it brief as this is your link to your next paragraph )


 * Paragraph 5**

This should contain: Ø Your opening links and further information to the **helpful** nature of this type of bacteria. Ø Reference can be made to earlier statements made in your essay, this is also a key time to use quotes from the articles supplied to help justify what you are saying.


 * Paragraph 6**

This should contain: Ø Any further examples that support previous paragraph, it may be additional information that sequentially will show that you are evaluating this Biological issue and supporting the **helpful** nature of the bacteria.


 * Paragraph 7**

This should contain: Ø Your opening links and further information to the **harmful** nature of tis type of bacteria. Ø Reference can be made to earlier statements made in your essay, this is also a key time to use quotes from the articles supplied to help justify what you are saying.


 * Paragraph 8**

This should contain: Ø Any further examples that support previous paragraph, it may be additional information that sequentially will show that you are evaluating this Biological issue and supporting the **harmful** nature of the bacteria


 * Paragraph 9**

This should contain: Ø Reflect on your thematic statement and the key components that the question required – tie these loose ends by stating what you have found (only mentioning terms and evidence that you have already revealed in your previous paragraphs).

REALLY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT YOUR PERSONAL MORAL OR PERSONAL ETHICS HAVE NO PLACE IN THIS TYPE OF ESSAY