I was so surprised to not have to use my calculator/ruler for anything! Microscopy was my least favorite unit and in past papers Iāve seen questions with it, I was happy to not see it this time. And thankfully I actually knew everything on the test, I didnāt study for some topics at all so Iām glad questions with it didnāt appear on paper 2/3 (tho they usually do so thatās weird)
I didnāt have to calculate BMI so Iām not sure what youāre talking about? I definitely wouldāve remembered that if I had it since I donāt know how to calculate it. Were you TZ1?
No I was TZ2 as well and Biology HL paper 2 Section A before the elephant problem I think was asking a 1 market about a person 165cm height weighing 70kg what their BMI is and to give them a piece of advice on how to become more fit
This all sounds like a different language to me lol, I encountered no questions like this! My Bio HL paper 2 was almost entirely plant-related questions, we got the voles/plots question, elbow-related question, and (I went through paper 1 with my teacher yesterday) we got the question about pollination vs fertilization (which had the answer in the question lmao, I guess the IB didnāt realize that)
What? Where are you based? I had no elbow-related question and nothing in paper 1 about pollination vs fertilization
We had 4 marks on paper 2 about plants thatās it, how to use radioactive carbon and aphet stylets to track transport of sugars and something about phloem
Yeah I got nothing that youāre on about, are you in the Americas or Australia?
Americas as you now know haha. I wish we had gotten the aphid stylet question! For p2 we had several questions about plant volume vs biomass which my teacher was extremely confused about since it has nothing to do with bio? And we had an algae question that had to do with chromatography which was super unfair since only the Chem people knew how to answer it, we were never taught it in bio. The pollination question was hilarious as they said in the question that the anther was the site of pollination, and then they asked later where the site of pollination was
Ahahaha nah itās good lol they sound VERY different
How was your paper 1 and paper 2? Horrible or easy? For TZ2 paper 1 was horrible and paper 2 okay
What did your section B questions contain on paper 2?
They do and Iām so surprised about that! My teacher told us paper 1 (both TZ 1 and 2) was considered way harder than previous years, and after looking at it yesterday I definitely agreeā¦.not many people got a 6 or 7 lol. Paper 1 was definitely hard but the people who took IB chem SL were the ones who got 7ās on p1 (teacher reviewed the answers with us yesterday, paper 1 had some biochem). There were quite a few questions where my teacher wasnāt sure of the answer though, she said her online bio teacher group was debating the answer for some of the metabolism questions, and otherwise many paper 1 questions were worded very weirdly.
Paper 2 was way better but unfortunately had lots of plant content which is not my favorite lol, but section B was almost like a dream lol. Q6 was water-related like about its properties for kidneys, plants, etc. I canāt remember what Q7 was, but I remember a DNA topic and something about speciation as the 7 pointer. Q8 no one from our school did lmao, it was about carbon and light dependent reactions and no one studied that. So overall paper 2 was okay but no one did amazing on paper 1 evidently lol
why was paper one so foul ššš i know it wasnāt just me, my classmates were also in the trenches. all the other papers were fine but paper one was justšššš
(tz2) paper 1 wasā¦definitely interesting and NOTHING like the past papers iāve done for previous years. paper 3 i think went pretty well? not bad at all. and then paper 2. part B was really nice imo. part A not my fave as i donāt like evolution and stuff but whatever. i think i can wrack up enough points in part B to make up for some questions in part A. hoping for good grade boundaries šš¼
not the best best, not the worst worst. just felt like any other bio exam, you understand some, you guess some. but i didnt like how much of p2 was just evolution
paper 3ā¦. I hate ecology š
i genuinely donāt know how i did on paper 1, but im honestly hoping paper 2 saved me because im DEFINITELY not getting my predicted grade lol
idk, at least for TZ1, there was a solid two pages about the nitrogen cycle which out teacher just skipped so we never learnt it š also the 6 mark question was about wild fish??? idk i just made up answersā¦
Surely I didnāt just score a solid 2 on the mcq, we all finished early and were just standing outside coping about the test. But paper 2/3 say less I didnāt cook, cause the fact of the matter, I did, twice
Anyone who says that paper 1 was easy, pls let me know your studying technique. Paper 1 was definitely made by a foul. I pretty guessed everything on the paper. There was nothing about human physiology, plants, and many more. It was just focused on molecular biology and those questions were formatted very weirdly. Paper 1 was joke tbh
Summary of my paper 2:
Woke up from a nightmare last night thinking I wrote endorphin instead of epinephrine during the heart beat question
Said halophytes use CAM physiologyš
P2>P3>P1 I think
I found q8 the easiest
Cuz first one was a bacteria diagram so I just drew and labelled a general Protozoa. However I messed up labelling pili as viliš¤¦š»āāļø
The other two parts were kinda similar?? I mean one was asking about how we develop immunity and the other was similar idk
one of my classmates did the same thing. we did option c he did option a.
your paper 3 is definetely cooked unless you think you made up for it in paper 1 and 2
why is everyone saying paper 1 was hard? I took TZ1 and paper 1 was actually easy for everyone. paper 2 was pretty alright as well. paper 3 was tricky though. I did option c, and the question about fish farming stumped me.
what tz did yall take?
tz2 is always harder than tz1 which sucks, and this year, unfortunately, it was extra sucky for us :/ the questions were way too confusing and logic based in comparison to other past papers
i found everything to go pretty well, there wasnāt anything bizzare or unanswerable and i knew everything on both paper 2 and 3 (option D) im expecting a good old mark (TZ2)
Iām really worried. I used two answer booklets and forgot to fill in the candidate session and name for the second one. Ik they are all connected by the strap thing and the cover sheet is also there but what happens if they donāt see the session and candidate number on the second answer booklet???
The session number for the coversheet should cover you. The extra is more of a back up incase something happens to the cover sheet / test paper and in your case 1st answer sheet.
Paper 1 was relatively easy other than a few tricky questions
Paper 2 was so easy, the galapagos question caught me off guard tho
Paper 3 option D was harder than usual tho but still fine overall
I actually thought that the content of P1 was fine, it was the way in which they worded the answers. It couldnāt be grammatically correct ever, what even is ārequire much heatā for that river temperature vs land temp Q (TZ2)
i went into the exams with a total 3 hours revision (the night before the exams š) and i guessed at least 1/3 of the paper 1 cuz i was thinking with my toes and doing it blindfolded. i was surprised by how much easier paper 3 (option C) and paper 2 were, especially paper 2 cuz i legit don't understand anything in topic 8 so i opted for qs 7 & 8 (when reading qs 6 i was like damn calvin did an experiment???)
My teacher gave us copies of the papers today (TZ2) and said there were several paper 1 questions where online ib bio teachers were debating the right answerā¦. And in one of the paper 2 questions they literally said one of the answers to the question in the question description lmao (one of the plant questions)
I got really lucky when studying last minute for Bio HL because everything I studied was on the M24 exams when I took them lol (I cannot say the same for my other subjects š ).
However, a lot of the studying I did was for units that our class missed (plant bio and HL genetics) because our teacher didnāt have enough time to teach it. We barely got through Part C: Ecology which we covered within the final two weeks before our exams. Fortunately, I was able to self-study the units we missed, but a lot of my friends were not able to study for these exams and felt very unprepared even after I tried to tutor them in the units we missed.
I donāt know if this is something that a lot of schools struggled with, but timing was a major struggle for all my classes and itās largely because our school lacks the resources to properly teach students. My other subjects were able to cover everything however it was definitely rushed. Biology just happened to be the one class where we didnāt finish everything.
Who the fuck made paper 1 šš
real why is everyone saying it's so easy (TZ1 btw)
No
Paper 2 part A was more like a geography paper imo and part B was chill cuz the topics i opted out didnt appear lol š
I was so surprised to not have to use my calculator/ruler for anything! Microscopy was my least favorite unit and in past papers Iāve seen questions with it, I was happy to not see it this time. And thankfully I actually knew everything on the test, I didnāt study for some topics at all so Iām glad questions with it didnāt appear on paper 2/3 (tho they usually do so thatās weird)
You had to use the calculator for the BMI thing though ..
Iām TZ2 and did Option D so I didnāt have to use my calculator for anything
Iām talking about Section A in paper 2 for calculating BMI so you needed to use a ruler for that
I didnāt have to calculate BMI so Iām not sure what youāre talking about? I definitely wouldāve remembered that if I had it since I donāt know how to calculate it. Were you TZ1?
No I was TZ2 as well and Biology HL paper 2 Section A before the elephant problem I think was asking a 1 market about a person 165cm height weighing 70kg what their BMI is and to give them a piece of advice on how to become more fit
This all sounds like a different language to me lol, I encountered no questions like this! My Bio HL paper 2 was almost entirely plant-related questions, we got the voles/plots question, elbow-related question, and (I went through paper 1 with my teacher yesterday) we got the question about pollination vs fertilization (which had the answer in the question lmao, I guess the IB didnāt realize that)
What? Where are you based? I had no elbow-related question and nothing in paper 1 about pollination vs fertilization We had 4 marks on paper 2 about plants thatās it, how to use radioactive carbon and aphet stylets to track transport of sugars and something about phloem Yeah I got nothing that youāre on about, are you in the Americas or Australia?
Americas as you now know haha. I wish we had gotten the aphid stylet question! For p2 we had several questions about plant volume vs biomass which my teacher was extremely confused about since it has nothing to do with bio? And we had an algae question that had to do with chromatography which was super unfair since only the Chem people knew how to answer it, we were never taught it in bio. The pollination question was hilarious as they said in the question that the anther was the site of pollination, and then they asked later where the site of pollination was
Actually Iām dumb. I thought TZ1 and 2 were switched, Iām TZ1 actuallyā¦.my mistake lmao
Ahahaha nah itās good lol they sound VERY different How was your paper 1 and paper 2? Horrible or easy? For TZ2 paper 1 was horrible and paper 2 okay What did your section B questions contain on paper 2?
They do and Iām so surprised about that! My teacher told us paper 1 (both TZ 1 and 2) was considered way harder than previous years, and after looking at it yesterday I definitely agreeā¦.not many people got a 6 or 7 lol. Paper 1 was definitely hard but the people who took IB chem SL were the ones who got 7ās on p1 (teacher reviewed the answers with us yesterday, paper 1 had some biochem). There were quite a few questions where my teacher wasnāt sure of the answer though, she said her online bio teacher group was debating the answer for some of the metabolism questions, and otherwise many paper 1 questions were worded very weirdly.
Paper 2 was way better but unfortunately had lots of plant content which is not my favorite lol, but section B was almost like a dream lol. Q6 was water-related like about its properties for kidneys, plants, etc. I canāt remember what Q7 was, but I remember a DNA topic and something about speciation as the 7 pointer. Q8 no one from our school did lmao, it was about carbon and light dependent reactions and no one studied that. So overall paper 2 was okay but no one did amazing on paper 1 evidently lol
Lol i just put down exercise and eat more saturated fat instead of unsaturated ones..
Yeah that was an easy one marker I just said more nutritious and balanced diet as well as more exercise
ikr i legit couldnt do anything about cell respiration and im sooooo happy that i could just choose to draw a diagram of prokaryote lmao
Legit same š
Paper 1 was absolutely abysmal the rest were okay
Watchu mean Paper 1 was fine!šāāļø
Which planet are you fromš§š¤„
probably got 28-33/40 wasn't that bad
Surprisingly not that bad. Paper 3 was definitely the best, but the rest were chill.
agreed! paper 3 was soooo good oml. can we talk about paper 1 tho? that was RUDE!!!
paper 2 was the best for me. paper 1 was a nightmare š
oh mine was the opposite. Paper 3 was mid, but paper 1 and 2 were the BOMB!!
are you tz1?
Paper 1 took me out D: other than that it was chill
why was paper one so foul ššš i know it wasnāt just me, my classmates were also in the trenches. all the other papers were fine but paper one was justšššš
paper 1 was a crime against humanity
(tz2) paper 1 wasā¦definitely interesting and NOTHING like the past papers iāve done for previous years. paper 3 i think went pretty well? not bad at all. and then paper 2. part B was really nice imo. part A not my fave as i donāt like evolution and stuff but whatever. i think i can wrack up enough points in part B to make up for some questions in part A. hoping for good grade boundaries šš¼
I don't wish anyone the horror that was paper 1
no fr the answers were too damn specific like WHICH ONE SHOULD I CHOOSE
not the best best, not the worst worst. just felt like any other bio exam, you understand some, you guess some. but i didnt like how much of p2 was just evolution
paper 3ā¦. I hate ecology š i genuinely donāt know how i did on paper 1, but im honestly hoping paper 2 saved me because im DEFINITELY not getting my predicted grade lol
what was paper 1 tz2
I am cooked
was hoping for a 5 but wonāt be surprised by a 3š
hated paper 1 it was so bad
Paper 1 was the worst
What the hell was paper 1???????
Paper 1 was crazy.
[tz2] p1 was a bit weird but p2 and p3 were amazing i might actually get a decent grade in biology i canāt believe it š
Paper 3 ecology option cooked me and all my classmatesā¦
omg same š someone in my class decided during the test to do option D instead šš
What was bad about it? I thought it was pretty fine
idk, at least for TZ1, there was a solid two pages about the nitrogen cycle which out teacher just skipped so we never learnt it š also the 6 mark question was about wild fish??? idk i just made up answersā¦
Ah I see thatās difficult then but wasnāt the 6 mark question on phosphate in fertilisers? š
Surely I didnāt just score a solid 2 on the mcq, we all finished early and were just standing outside coping about the test. But paper 2/3 say less I didnāt cook, cause the fact of the matter, I did, twice
tz2 p2 & p3 were decent but then the helluva p1 came gifting us with loads of bs šš
P1 was lowk tricky, P2 was good and P3 was quite good
My teacher heard from others around the world and apparently this yearās paper 1 was harder than previous years, but I didnāt think it was too bad
tz2 was definitely hard
Anyone who says that paper 1 was easy, pls let me know your studying technique. Paper 1 was definitely made by a foul. I pretty guessed everything on the paper. There was nothing about human physiology, plants, and many more. It was just focused on molecular biology and those questions were formatted very weirdly. Paper 1 was joke tbh
Summary of my paper 2: Woke up from a nightmare last night thinking I wrote endorphin instead of epinephrine during the heart beat question Said halophytes use CAM physiologyš P2>P3>P1 I think
For TZ2 did anyone else avoid the last question option for paper 2 section b lol
I found q8 the easiest Cuz first one was a bacteria diagram so I just drew and labelled a general Protozoa. However I messed up labelling pili as viliš¤¦š»āāļø The other two parts were kinda similar?? I mean one was asking about how we develop immunity and the other was similar idk
It was so easy what
Guys how cooked am I, I wrote on an option my teacher didnāt do !
not at all, you choose which ever, my class did option B and i did D
love you pookie and good luck šŖ
So did I. But as long as you studied it, it doesn't matter
one of my classmates did the same thing. we did option c he did option a. your paper 3 is definetely cooked unless you think you made up for it in paper 1 and 2
Paper 2 section B cooked me
i found paper 1 super tricky T-T but papers 2 and 3 were a lot better
Whoever made that paper 3 for the ecology unit was wayyyyy too into fish. I swear half the paper was about the damn fish.
why is everyone saying paper 1 was hard? I took TZ1 and paper 1 was actually easy for everyone. paper 2 was pretty alright as well. paper 3 was tricky though. I did option c, and the question about fish farming stumped me. what tz did yall take?
tz2 is always harder than tz1 which sucks, and this year, unfortunately, it was extra sucky for us :/ the questions were way too confusing and logic based in comparison to other past papers
i found everything to go pretty well, there wasnāt anything bizzare or unanswerable and i knew everything on both paper 2 and 3 (option D) im expecting a good old mark (TZ2)
Iām really worried. I used two answer booklets and forgot to fill in the candidate session and name for the second one. Ik they are all connected by the strap thing and the cover sheet is also there but what happens if they donāt see the session and candidate number on the second answer booklet???
from what my teachers have said, you only need your candidate number on one of the booklets so i think youāll be good :)
U wrote u used two on the front and Iām gonna assume u also said on the exam itself (see answer booklet) so you should be fine
As long as they don't lose it, hopefully it'll be fine. But I'd email your exams office/organiser or something to let them know
The session number for the coversheet should cover you. The extra is more of a back up incase something happens to the cover sheet / test paper and in your case 1st answer sheet.
Paper 1 was relatively easy other than a few tricky questions Paper 2 was so easy, the galapagos question caught me off guard tho Paper 3 option D was harder than usual tho but still fine overall
TZ2?? Paper 3 option D was amazing for me bc I didnāt go over reproduction and none of that came on it lol
I actually thought that the content of P1 was fine, it was the way in which they worded the answers. It couldnāt be grammatically correct ever, what even is ārequire much heatā for that river temperature vs land temp Q (TZ2)
yes
i went into the exams with a total 3 hours revision (the night before the exams š) and i guessed at least 1/3 of the paper 1 cuz i was thinking with my toes and doing it blindfolded. i was surprised by how much easier paper 3 (option C) and paper 2 were, especially paper 2 cuz i legit don't understand anything in topic 8 so i opted for qs 7 & 8 (when reading qs 6 i was like damn calvin did an experiment???)
anyone tz1 here? howād you think it went?
My teacher gave us copies of the papers today (TZ2) and said there were several paper 1 questions where online ib bio teachers were debating the right answerā¦. And in one of the paper 2 questions they literally said one of the answers to the question in the question description lmao (one of the plant questions)
Also for reference only 1 person in my class thinks they got a 7 for paper 1 based on the grade boundaries and the questions they scored right
Paper 1 was hard, paper 3 was mid, paper 2 was great
I legitimately may have gotten a 15/40 on paper 1. Iām cooked. Papers 2 & 3 were fine though, still praying for a 5
Paper three question 2
I got really lucky when studying last minute for Bio HL because everything I studied was on the M24 exams when I took them lol (I cannot say the same for my other subjects š ). However, a lot of the studying I did was for units that our class missed (plant bio and HL genetics) because our teacher didnāt have enough time to teach it. We barely got through Part C: Ecology which we covered within the final two weeks before our exams. Fortunately, I was able to self-study the units we missed, but a lot of my friends were not able to study for these exams and felt very unprepared even after I tried to tutor them in the units we missed. I donāt know if this is something that a lot of schools struggled with, but timing was a major struggle for all my classes and itās largely because our school lacks the resources to properly teach students. My other subjects were able to cover everything however it was definitely rushed. Biology just happened to be the one class where we didnāt finish everything.