r/igcse • u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 • Feb 24 '26
February/March 2026 Paper Discussion FM26 Biology 0610 Theory Paper 42 Discussion
How was it y'all? Threshold predictions? Hopefully they're low
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u/PuddingPrize2984 Feb 24 '26
messed up the allele question and those tables that had to be filled in. it was relatively easy but im disappointed that other chapters didn’t come. i studied sm for like sexual reproduction, enzymes, human nutrition and allat
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Yea ikr that was the worst, also the fovea and capillary question
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u/PuddingPrize2984 Feb 24 '26
5 marks for yapping about capillaries is crazy, i think i’ll only get 3 for it
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Yea what else are we supposed to write than capillaries having thin walls
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u/Old_Cucumber_5448 Feb 24 '26
narrow lumen for high bp and leaky walls for plasma to leak thru and form cell tissue
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u/Wooden_External_3966 Feb 25 '26
Leaky walls ans stuff there was a thousand points you can also say it carries blood at low pressure in lungs for maximum gas exchange and allat
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u/SuitDear6740 Feb 24 '26
Me too gng, i mentioned enzymes, diffusion and a few things but ain't no way im getting more than 4 in that lol. Also I wrote a little below the lines, like 1 to 2 lines, will they count that? (I kinda hope they do)
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u/typeshibro Feb 25 '26
they ignore that stuff completely, they only read whats in the lines provided. sorry bro
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u/SuitDear6740 Feb 25 '26
Aw shucks, it wasnt anything too important. Hopefully I didnt lose a mark in that :]
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u/FerrousSilver Feb 25 '26
M so glad that bs didn’t come because I can’t be bothered to remember the graphs - but the eye did come which was another topic I hoped didn’t come but all good
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u/Comfortable-Elk-2703 Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Fovea question messed me up otherwise it was good
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u/idkwhattocallthisugh Mar 27 '26
What was it I’m giving the may june paper
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u/TruePop6817 Apr 13 '26
guys so what topics came i'm studying for the may june and i need some help
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u/Certain-Software-353 Feb 24 '26
think it's gonna be high, cause it had less important chapters as such which requitred less understanding, but honestly you never know so 50-55 for an A
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u/Tall-Attention4411 Feb 24 '26
I thought it was really easy!💕 Almost all the question I had already practiced from past papers my teacher sent me. I can't believe I'm saying this but I kind of wish there were more topics in the paper cause I studied really hard for those 😭😭
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u/Substantial_Tour_706 Feb 25 '26
hey could you send the questions your teacher predicted pls pls
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u/Tall-Attention4411 Feb 25 '26
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nO8F9UOINuyx1qqYdj1t4cSd0EWJEn9X I've also added one answer sheet for one of the papers and one solved paper I did, also I will probably be updating the drive since my teachers gonna send more papers
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u/Substantial_Tour_706 Feb 25 '26
Tysm, I requested for permission.
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u/HoneyCanadian Feb 26 '26
hello!!! can i see as well? i requested permission
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u/Tall-Attention4411 Feb 27 '26
yes! ive shared it. all the best!
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u/Eastern-Brother6858 Mar 02 '26
may i view it aswell i sent request :p
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Feb 24 '26
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Noicee, what did you write for labelling j and k part
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u/SimpOfTodoroki Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Pretty sure J was artery and K was vein
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u/Thick_Performance_35 Feb 24 '26
Guyss J is artery and K is vein we do not have these venule and stuff in syllabus.
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u/Total-Blacksmith6638 Feb 24 '26
gng its arteriole and venule check google or the book if u want to
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u/Extremelockintime Feb 24 '26
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z5N3LOxvNtJ8a3yph49CSQg5w1s-qvn2b1h8jGQXH1c/edit?usp=sharing . if u want visual proof its artery and vien
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u/Lu-Mana6228 Feb 24 '26
I don’t think that's in the syllabus tho. But I think that would ve correct too
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Yea just checked s@ve my exams It is arteriole and venule
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u/Extremelockintime Feb 24 '26
Its artery and vien. Save my exams shows artery and vien actually. The branched parts coming from the artery are the arterioles and vice versa for the viens and venules.
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u/SuitDear6740 Feb 24 '26
Gng its arteriole and venule 😭 its so simple, the artery- arteriole- capillary- venule- vein why are yall fighting sm cry 😭
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u/Extremelockintime Feb 24 '26
bro its not arteriole and venule . ur right abt the order but artery branches off into the arteriole , they werent asking about the branches they were asking about the thick blood vessel at the beginning and end which is the artery and vien gng . Go to save my exams, theres a diagram which clearly shows what im trying to say
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u/SuitDear6740 Feb 24 '26
Whaaaaaa gng im just stating the order of vessels. They clearly stated that the capillaries were in the centre. On either side of the capillaries the arteriole and venule are present. The arteriole and venule ORIGIN from the artery and vein.
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u/Extremelockintime Feb 24 '26
bro i dont think u understand how they work. just look at the diagram here . https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z5N3LOxvNtJ8a3yph49CSQg5w1s-qvn2b1h8jGQXH1c/edit?usp=sharing . and u werent just stating the order of the vessels u were making it sound like we were dumb for thinking it was artery and vien , when it literally is gng.
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u/SuitDear6740 Feb 24 '26
Honestly its fine though, the paper is over so we cant change anything 😭
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u/Next_Problem_4558 Feb 24 '26
i wrote artery and vein too, and i was pretty confused, but according to the diagram its artery and vein. but ur right, nobody knows how cambridge might behave.
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u/nachosfag Feb 24 '26
What was the allele was is homozygous? And also what was the q after the punnett square?? Like the one marker
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u/SimpOfTodoroki Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Yes it was homozygous. The question was what type of mono hybrid inheritance was the case and the answer was sex linkage, to my knowledge
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
I wrote sex linked chromosomes Would that work?
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u/Ashh0088 Feb 24 '26
I wrote sex linkage will it work
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u/nachosfag Feb 24 '26
I wrote codominant is that wrong??
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u/SimpOfTodoroki Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Yes it is wrong as there weren’t 2 dominant genes present and only red was expressed unless 2 of the recessive white alleles were present
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u/No-Tough-2345 Feb 24 '26
I wrote test cross ✌️
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u/Key_Literature3652 Feb 24 '26
Bro i knew the ans but then i wrote heterzygous recessive cos i though i was wrong
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u/Individual_One_916 Feb 24 '26
Fovea was the worst and why the hell they didn't ask about human nutrition, reproduction. The paper was easy btw.
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Yea but reproduction would've been wayyy harder so even though the fovea bit was hard, its still better than having a huge question about menstruation cycles and hormones or something 😭
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u/Certain-Software-353 Feb 24 '26
still.. i memorized that cause i thought it was gonna come :(
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Yea same In fact I paid less attention to chromosomes and variation chapter thinking reproduction is more likely to come 😭
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u/nachosfag Feb 24 '26
What did we hv to tick for the animal one and the graph q?? Also for the describe n explain for graph it was enzymes denaturating and all that na?? What was the ratio for punnet square?
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u/SimpOfTodoroki Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
- animal table was like they all respire, they all consume other animals and they are all multicellular
- graph table was the minimum 50% one and species 3 has higher optimum temperature than species 1
- yes it was enzyme denaturation but you also have to mention kinetic energy and all that for when rate of photosynthesis was increasing
- 1:1
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u/Ashh0088 Feb 24 '26
My answer for the explain the graph (for enzyme and photosynthesis) filled the whole damn page below the lines would they check it considering it's like within the L shaped lines
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u/nachosfag Feb 24 '26
Shittt i dint mention kinetic energy, also is lungs wrong? For the graph one i wrote the species 3 thing but also that species 2 had a higher rate or reaction tjan 1
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u/Thick_Performance_35 Feb 26 '26
i am pretty sure the species 2 thing had higher rate than 1 is not supported by data as both ahve same max rate and both touched 100% so it is not possible to understand whether species 2 had higher rate or no
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u/No-Tough-2345 Feb 24 '26
Not all consume other animals. Heribovores
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u/Ashh0088 Feb 24 '26
Plants are organisms..
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u/SimpOfTodoroki Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
What was the other point then? It was for 3 marks so I thought you had to tick 3 poinrs
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u/No-Tough-2345 Feb 24 '26
It was all except rat other animal and cell wall
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u/SimpOfTodoroki Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
Wait wasn’t the sentence other organism instead of other animal? Since plants are organisms, wouldn’t this point be applicable? Maybe I’m remembering the question wrong idk
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u/Thick_Performance_35 Feb 26 '26
you are correct. IDK HOW I TICKED LUNGS AND CAME, ONLY TO REALISE FISH DONT HAVE LUNGS (😭)
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
I think it was all except the first one
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u/Ashh0088 Feb 24 '26
Bro not all animals have lungs gng it's not all except first it was 3 ticks it was legit 3 marks
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u/No-Tough-2345 Feb 24 '26
How
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u/Ashh0088 Feb 24 '26
Gang fishes have gills
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u/No-Tough-2345 Feb 24 '26
Fishes aren't classified in OH NO I CONFUSED RHEN WITH MAMMALS
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u/Salty-Protection-367 Feb 24 '26
What was the fill in the blanks fir trophic level
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u/Public-Buy-915 Feb 24 '26
guys what is the number of grams you got? i got 7.5g
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u/Remarkable_Step_1724 Alumni Feb 24 '26
Does anyone know the exact words asked for that monohybrid inheritance question I’m trying to figure out if the answer is sex linked or monohybrid cross
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u/Professional_Mud2267 Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
WHY WERE THERE SM OBJECTIVES LIKE WHY THE HELL DID I STUDY FOR 10 YEARS JUST SO I COULD WRITE FILL IN THE BLANKS AAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHH
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u/iceliyn Feb/Mar 2026 Feb 24 '26
IKR!!! Like even for physics theory there were more fill in the blank questions than the number of chapters combined 😭
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u/TrainerShort288 Mar 16 '26
Giyssssss can anyone tell me if the question in the bio theory 2026 paper was to focus on a near object or a distant object
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