Grade 10 students in Bio30S will write an exam on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014.
You will have a choice of writing either a Short Exam or a Long Exam. You will need to choose which exam you will be writing by Tuesday, June 10th (Day 1).
The Short Exam will be worth 15% of your total mark in the course and will be based on the following:
1) Circulatory System (pages 177-184)
2) Blood (pages 195-200)
3) Estimating the Size of a Cell
4) Respiratory System (pages 224-231)
5) Musculoskeletal System (pages 258-265)
6) Reproductive System (pages 457-460, 463-467)
7) Nervous System (notes and pages 271-281)
The Long Exam will be worth 15% of your total mark in the course, or 100% of your mark if it is higher than your mark in the course up to this point. (The Long Exam may increase your mark by a maximum of 10%.) The Long Exam is based on everything that is on the Short Exam, plus the following:
8) Structural Levels of the Body (notes)
9) Biochemistry (pages 60-67)
10) Digestive System (pages 160-167 and the article "The World Is Fat")
11) Excretory System (notes taken on April 10th)
12) The Eye and the Ear (pages 299-304)
You will get a bonus mark on the exam for returning your biology textbook at the exam.
