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By vexed289, 6 weeks ago, In English

so i'm in yr11 and doing BIO at the end of this year, and i'm really really struggling on written questions. like, i can obviously get the ones which are very basic observation or just substitution into my program, but it's really annoying because even though the programming tasks are easy, i still lose 20 or so marks which will hurt my position for going into round 2.

i was wondering if anyone who's done it before has any advice or resources to help?? thanks

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1: Solve, solve, solve. 2: If you still don't know the full 100 pts answer, solve it to max subtask you know such that it doesn't waste too much time. You're not supposed to always get 100%.

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    idk if you're misunderstanding something, but there's no subtasks in BIO?

    there are 3 programming question each worth ~25 marks making up 75% of the paper, and there are 2-3 written questions underneath every programming problem making up 25% of the paper.

    I can get 95%-100% on the programming parts fairly comfortably, but I normally get like 40% on the written which is why i made this blog asking for help

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      Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you meant by "20 or so marks" as in subtasks. That's on me.