Biology Foundation Results: One Of The Stuff Is The Answers

 Biology Foundation Results: One of The Stuff Is The Answers

Lex Education is a comedy science podcast hosted by Ron and Laura Lex

Laura: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Lex Education, the comedy science podcast, where comedian me, Laura Lex has been trying to learn science from her younger brother, Ron. Hello, Ron.

Ron: That's me. Hello, I'm Ron.

Laura: Over the last two weeks, we hit critical moments mass, and we took the biology Foundation AQA GCSE exam. And today is results day for this little student.

Ron: And I think we should keep stumm until the outro to discuss how that went. Can we?

Laura: I want to just be super professional. Hardball podcast. I've been listening to a lot of podcasts lately, Ron.

Ron: Professional? Um, ones, yes.

Laura: Mainly because, uh, that book that we're reading for book club is killing me slowly from the inside because of how bored I am. Um, so, uh, I've just been bingeing podcasts, and, hey, they just unashamedly say, subscribe like and support the podcast. It's good work that we do, and you like it, and we are unashamedly asking you to help us make it a business.

Ron: Oh, hang on. Let me put this in the spreadsheet.

Laura: Of our, uh, begging, professionally demanding.

Ron: Okay, so. God, we haven't. We haven't done any of this since episode 106, Laura, and we were beggie.

Laura: No, but look, we've turned over a new leaf. We don't eat anymore. And now we say you can like and support the podcast by giving us five stars on Apple podcasts or Spotify.

Ron: Um, if you've got a dollar, Ron and Laura would love to have it.

Laura: Yeah, more than one of your dollars. And, hey, why not share the podcast with a friend? A friend that you don't mind if they never speak to you again? Uh, because it's a weird podcast and they might judge you. Um, I'm listening to the.

Ron: Tell them to just listen forward now because we're hashtag professionalpodcasters soon. We haven't launched that fully, but I.

Laura: Don'T think they'll appreciate how great hash professionalpodcasters is unless they've been here. Because I think we started, all right, and then there was, like, a descent into absolute horrendousness, and now we're just, like, cauterising that wound and going fully professor.

Ron: Yeah. We're in a unique position where our salad days is named as such, not because they were good, but because we were eating salad on Mike.

Laura: Yeah, yeah, all the time. Um, yeah, I'm listening to this one podcast, and I really enjoy the content because it's sort of true crime, but it's not so much murders and stuff. It's more like more interesting crime. But the way I've never, ever listened to a podcast that had so little regard for where they just bunged adverts. There's this advert that is like a 32nd insert, and sometimes it comes mid word, like, they'll just be, this podcast is supported by ADT. And you're just like, uh. And then sometimes there's little music stings, and you think, surely that's where they intended to put the advert, but they just been peppered in Willy nilly. Sometimes there's two back to back, and it's a testament to how good the journalism is and how much I'm enjoying the podcast that I'm willing to put up with it. But, man, it's annoying. Hey, we don't have adverts on this podcast, so give us your money instead. And then we don't have to take diet pill money or faux therapy money or any of that stuff.

Ron: I thought you were saying there that people were advertising vietnamese broth on some of these podcasts that you listened to.

Laura: I would advertise vietnamese broth, yeah.

Ron: Yeah, Laura, we'd advertise diet pills.

Laura: No, we wouldn't, Ron.

Ron: If we're not beating them away with their shitty sticks.

Laura: No, they're not asking to advertise on the podcast. But we wouldn't. We wouldn't advertise those. I feel quite strong.

Ron: We'd advertise the Reform party on this podcast if they fucking paid us.

Laura: Anyway, I hope you've enjoyed this professional segment from Laura and Ron. Also, buy tickets to my tour. Listen up. It's selling really well, uh, in some areas, and there's only four tickets left to the bloody Brighton one. Ron, that's a lot of tickets. I've sold there. A lot. A lot of tickets. And if you live in Leeds and listen to this, fucking buy a fucking ticket, all right? Because Leeds is worrying me and you. Falmouth. Leeds and Falmouth. You need to pull your fingers out. Okay?

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Ron: I know some people in Falmouth. I'll get in touch. I wonder if we offended the people of Leeds when we talked about, um, taking the badges out of Leeds.

Laura: Maybe I'll bring some badges with me if we sell out the lead show.

Ron, it's results day. Should we get into the results

Uh, okay, Ron, it's results day. Should we get into the results? Let's go for it.

Ron: Let's do it.

Laura: How's this gonna work?

Ron: I don't really know exactly the format of this. I've got the question paper, I've got the mark scheme, and I've got your answers, which I've marked. Ugh. Uh, okay, so I think maybe if I just kind of whiz through everything and you banter in.

Laura: So I just banter with myself while you do a long, tedious job.

Ron: Well, I'll banter back.

Laura: Will you?

Ron: Yeah.

Question one was all about plants. Washington, which part of a plant is largest

Okay, so question one.

Laura: Bo won. Oh, I won.

Ron: I want to suck your blood. See?

Laura: Yeah. Where are we cooking?

Ron: This was the one that was all about plants. Question one. Point.

Laura: This is. Please, I'm a light. It's a light.

Ron: It's a light.

Laura: It's a light.

Ron: My light.

Laura: Ron, is mummy.

Ron: Um, question one. Washington, which part of a plant is largest? You chose a leaf.

Laura: Leaf.

Ron: It was exactly. A leaf. So that is answer, uh, number one. One mark for you there, Laura. Next up. It was, uh. We talked about it. Pieces of potato.

Laura: Pieces of potato. I think I did all right on this bit. I think I already want to snack. I think it's the nerves. I think it's the nerves. Ron, we don't eat during the podcast.

Ron: Snacks are friends. Not.

Laura: What about rubes? The like a liquid?

Ron: It's your edit. So you could.

Laura: Is it my edit?

Ron: Yeah, because I'm doing all of the chemistry exam and all of the physics exam.

Laura: All right, I'll do this one. Jesus. Halloween in two weeks.

Ron: Yeah, it was the. The mean, uh. It was the change in mass in potato and grammes with salt solution. 1.2 was the answer. You got 1.2. Laura, the maths, largely, you were very okay about you.

Laura: Um, can't say I was very okay.

Ron: Okay with as in like. It didn't faze you.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: You did this maths for 15 year olds. Sh.

Laura: See, there's that tone.

Ron: Do you want me to say you excelled at it?

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Most of it you excelled at.

Laura: Thank you.

Ron: Some of it, you were a little dumb. Dumb.

Laura: Um, once upon a time, there was a little dum dum.

Ron: Now, the next section was all about, uh. Is this good? The next session was all about, um. Uh, the experiment. And you had to work out what was going wrong with the experiment with the pieces of potato. There was an anomalous result.

Laura: Um, they excluded it from the results.

Ron: Yeah. You correctly identified a control variable.

Laura: Yeah, I know all about that.

Ron: Yeah. Um, you even worked out how to improve the process.

Laura: Did I get it right? What did I say? You said, do more salt solutions.

Ron: Use more concentration.

Laura, for question one, how many marks out of ten do you think you got

So, Laura, for question one, how many marks out of ten do you think you got?

Laura: Ten.

Ron: You did.

Laura: I did.

Ron: You did. You got ten out of ten. Yes.

Laura: I'm an a star student so far. You must have been just racking your brains then, thinking, she's a better entertainer than I thought, entertaining us all with this idiocy all two years. And actually, she's a genius.

Ron: What's osmosis?

Laura: This is a, um. Water travelling across a membrane. Yeah. Nice. You.

Ron: Do you still get it? Yeah, very nice.

Laura: Yeah.

You correctly identified that skin is a physical barrier that stops viruses entering

Ron: Then we moved on to a question where we talked about hpv.

Laura: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ron: You correctly identified that micro isms, microorganisms that cause disease, are, uh, bad pathogen. And then you correctly identified that skin is a physical barrier.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Stops viruses entering. And the nose has mucuse that traps virus.

Laura: Okay, well, now you're making this sound like it wasn't difficult. You're saying this like Sesame street.

Ron: I don't know.

Laura: I don't think you should be talking to a student with 100% success rate like they're an idiot.

Ron: I didn't know. I'm saying you correctly identified this.

Laura: You're saying, like, oh, you knew that the skin was a skin.

Ron: That's what the question was.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Do you want to do what I mean to say?

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Ron: So I can't say that you were okay at the maths. I have to be like, oh, well done. You did find out it was 1.2. But then when you get this question right, me being nice about it is insulting.

Laura: But, you know, you're not being nice. You know, you're being a little genuinely being nice. No, it's not. You're condescending me.

Ron: I'm, um, not.

We had to complete a sentence about tumours. Tumours cause uncontrolled cell division

Okay, then we had to complete a sentence about tumours. Tumours cause uncontrolled cell division.

Laura: Yes. Did I get that right?

Ron: We did get that one right.

Laura: And then you got salty about the wombats.

Ron: The wombats?

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: The band.

Laura: Yeah, because. No scouting for girls.

Ron: Ah, fuck scouting for girls. I stand by them. Then malignant tumours. Then there was more facts about tumours. You got them right. We know this. That's fine.

Laura: Okay, well, that me.

Ron: Now, this is where.

Laura: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, no, it is recording. Don't worry. Yeah, thought I'd stop recording for a second.

Ron: You correctly identified that malignant tumours have cells that can spread to other parts of the body.

Laura: Yep.

Ron: And, um, doctor, that malignant tumours may form secondary tumours.

Laura: Maleficent tumours.

Ron: Now, the next bit, we were interpreting data about percentage of females, uh, with hpv.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Ah, you're leading into this like, this went badly.

Ron: No, this is just a bit of coaching for when? Because this is all about prepping for higher tier. Okay.

Laura: It didn't feel like it. It felt like this was summiting Everest now, which, as John Oliver has told me, is not so much about the achievement, but more about patiently slogging it out in a queue with other morons.

Ron: You know, John Oliver's wife is a Republican.

Laura: Yeah, but, like, just a casual voting one or like an actively.

Ron: She was, like, in the military and now, uh, campaigns for veterans, but in the republican party.

Laura: But the thing is, you can be a Republican without being a Trump Republican. Like, does she still vote Republican?

Ron: I couldn't find any info on that.

Laura: Like, it's like, you know, when you were a conservative pre, like Boris and Brexit. It's a very different thing to being one for the last eight years, you know?

Ron: Yeah, but I think someone that was still one for the last eight years and then was like, I'm an old school Tory. I don't like these new guys either. Yes, you do. You're still on their team.

Laura: Well.

Ron: I don't buy that.

Laura: It depends who you're voting for because that's impossible to do.

Ron: That's between politics, like football teams and, like, oh, I just always support the same one. Oh, it's just a bad squad.

Laura: Because I think there's a thing, though, that even, like, in the US, especially, where it's way more even of a two party race, I wonder if it's possible to be like, I'm a replican. I haven't voted Republican for ten years or whatever, but, uh, that's where my. But I've been voting independent or spoiling my ballot or whatever because there isn't a president I want. But, like, you vote for different governors and senators and stuff without voting for captain crazy.

Ron: But then there's Republican, uh. Then those governors and senators are still part of that same thing now.

Laura: Yeah, maybe I don't. But you like what they're doing in a civil service level or whatever.

Ron: Maybe I don't know enough about it.

Laura: No, I don't.

Percentage of females with hpv has decreased significantly from 2010 to 2016

Ron: Anyway, what I wanted, and I know you asked me not to do this, but I'm going to read your own words back to you. Not because it was wrong. You got the answer right. But I just want to highlight something here. So you said the percentage of 16 to 18 year old females with hpv.

Laura: Is it because I said females? And that gives everyone the ick.

Ron: No. Has decreased significantly from 2010 to 2016.

Laura: I stand by significantly.

Ron: The table. That the table shows a, uh, decrease every year that was measured.

Laura: Yep.

Ron: Now, that's very correct. That's all good.

Laura: Very correct.

Ron: I just want to show you what the mark scheme says.

Laura: It says percentage decreases.

Ron: Yes. If you just written percentage decreases, you'd have got the mark right.

Laura: But I didn't know that that was what the mark was for. So best to say loads just in case the mark was for something else. No, no, that's all well and good, ron, if you know what the answer is, if you don't know what the answer is, you just need to clearly say quite a lot of stuff in the hope that one of the stuff is the answer no.

Ron: Because then if you say contradicting stuff.

Laura: I didn't know.

Ron: No, you didn't. And, um, you did get it right. Well done. I'm just saying that, uh, you don't need to be so verbose.

Laura: Okay. But I bet you were gonna come out later and you're gonna go, you've said something really thick and short here when what you should have said is something else. Like when I

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Laura: tried to say they ignored it and that was not right about the, about the, um, anomaly in the pieces of potato. Do you reckon if I was going to a podcast awards, I could wear my pop shoulders? A fascinator I think they'd love.

Ron: I think they'd carry you around on.

Laura: Their shoulders, Queen Laura.

You said from 2012 onwards, females would have been vaccinated

Ron: Uh, similarly for the next question, you said from 2012 onwards, 16 to 18 year olds, females would have been vaccinated. And as the years progressed, more and more of those 16 to 18 year old have been vaccinated. So the unvaccinated.

Laura: Right. See, now here's the problem that we're having one. You are laughing as you're reading my words. Laughing. That doesn't fill me with confidence, does it? Because you're laughing while being exam me.

Ron: Have been vaccinated. So the unvaccinated people ageing out of the test, what the mark scheme says is more females were vaccinated over time.

Laura: I think you're being a bit unfair because I didn't know the answers.

Ron: But you did. You got it right.

Laura: I didn't know which bit of that was definitely right.

Ron: Don't take feedback as a criticism.

Laura: You are laughing while you give it. That's a criticism.

Ron: Um, it's not. You're a comedian.

Laura: I wasn't passing this test as a comedian.

Ron: Who said you passed?

Laura: I'm 100%. Anywho, I'm, um, 100% bad bit. Uh, lizard. Okay, fly SWAT.

Next question was suggest one reason why some parents refuse to allow HPV vaccines

Ron: Then we had a few questions about the parts of the body that fight off response. White blood cells are the part of the blood that respond to an inactive virus. You got that right. Antibodies are what are produced, um, which then gives you the, um, protection from it. The next question was suggest one reason why some parents refused to allow their children to have the hpv vaccine.

Laura: Yes. And we did not put in the thing about 5g.

Ron: No. Because what you said was, some parents believe vaccines contain chips about 5g.

Laura: We deleted that.

Ron: I think the HP, though, I think there. I think with HPV, though, I think there are, uh, some parents.

Laura: Why have you written down all the I think bits I told you to cut?

Ron: Marriage related. It's sex related.

Laura: Why have you saved all this? I told you to cut all of.

Ron: This for right now, for having a.

Laura: Lot, for mocking me.

Ron: However, what you submitted as an answer was.

Laura: Burnt out. No, uh, he doesn't want boundaries.

Ron: They don't. What are you playing?

Laura: I wanted to play Twinkle, twinkle, little star, but I couldn't find a note.

Ron: I'll teach you an easy song if you want.

Laura: Twinkle, twinkle, little star. It's horrible, isn't it? Okay, I won't play the banjo anymore.

Ron: You said they don't want them to have it because they don't believe you can get HPV unless you are sexually active, which I gave you the mark for. So, again, Laura, for question number two.

Laura: What do you mean you gave me the mark for? Surely I earned it.

Ron: Um, mark schemes are more up to interpretation than you'd think. Great, because what they allowed for the mark was. Well, one of the answers was, some people think HPV vaccine encourages sexual activity, which isn't what you said, but I've interpreted what you said as that. Okay, so that's why I say I've given you the mark. Eleven out of eleven for question number two.

Laura: Uh, yeah, I'm 21 for 21. I know it all goes off the rails towards the end, though, so I need to bank some early doors. I don't know how to describe the face around his foot. It was like he was trying to pull his own nose up into his forehead and nodding.

Ron: Um.

Laura: And nodding.

Ron: So, question.

Laura: I know it's better for the listener when we don't have snacks, but it's sad for us.

Ron: Yeah, but I'm really caning through this, so we can snack at the end.

Laura: Yeah, we've got two bars of dime chocolate in the fridge and still some pistachio crack mound.

Ron: Get a

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Ron: pistachio for every correct answer.

Laura: Oh, I'd have had 21 pistachios in my tummy. Uh, we could sprinkle pistachios on the top of the lasagna. Oh.

Ron: Wish I'd done that when I baked it. Yeah, that was good lasagna.

Laura: That was really good lasagna.

Ron: Just half a brick of cheese.

Laura: Nice. That big brick that you bought today.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: That was massive.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Did you use up the rest of the cheese that was in the fridge or do we now have two open packets?

Ron: Two open packets, man.

Laura: God, men are the worst.

Ron: I didn't know there was another packet.

Laura: Why didn't you look?

Ron: Because I just bought cheese.

Laura: Look at a new. Not use new cheese. I'm excited about cheese.

Ron: Doesn't go off. That's kind of the point.

Laura: True.

The question was, explain how oxygen is used in cells

Ron: Anyway, carbon dioxide plus water equals glucose plus oxygen.

Laura: Did I get that right?

Ron: I got three fucking marks for that one.

Laura: Because I did not know that today.

Ron: Really?

Laura: I was like carbohydroxide. What?

Ron: Now, this is where you lose your first marks of the. Of the exam for the, uh, next question. The question was, explain how oxygen is used in cells.

Laura: Yeah, I don't think it is. Should I have just said it's not?

Ron: No, obviously it is, otherwise they wouldn't there. No. I know you've been hurt before and this is your trauma, but there are no trickos in exams.

Laura: Is it used for making glucose?

Ron: Well, you've just seen that carbon dioxide plus water equals glucose plus oxygen. Yeah.

Laura: So what the fuck is oxygen for? I thought they just breathed it out.

Ron: What do we use oxygen for?

Laura: Respiration.

Ron: Yuck.

Laura: But we're. But, but we're not using carbon dioxide. We're just eping it out. It's a byproduct.

Ron: Yeah, yeah, but plants still respire.

Laura: Yeah, but they breathe in carbon dioxide.

Ron: No, that's what. That's what they do when they photosynthesize.

Laura: I didn't know that they respired as well as photosynthesis.

Ron: But I just said plants do aspire and you said when? Yeah, like 15 seconds.

Laura: I thought that was part of composition. Photosynthesis?

Ron: No, photosynthesis is the process of using carbon dioxide to make glucose and oxygen, but they still use oxygen. What for? For respiration, for energy. For making energy. ATP, mitochondria.

Laura: Oh, um, I thought that was amino acids.

Ron: No, that's what you said. You said used with nutrients from the soil to make amino acids.

Laura: Oh. At least I was consistently wrong.

Ron: Yeah. What do amino acids do?

Laura: Make proteins.

Ron: Yeah. Yeah. What? Do you remember that, what an amino acid looks like?

Laura: Nope.

Ron: It's nh two. Chr. Um, three. No oxygen involved in some m. Um.

Laura: So they're just breathing in and out to make. What are they making?

Ron: They make glucose and oxygen. When they photosynthesize.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: And then when they respire, they use oxygen and they make ATP. Energy currency of the cell.

Laura: So what's all the glucose for if they've got ATP to be their energy currency?

Ron: Well, they break down the glucose to give them the ATP.

Laura: So then what's the oxygen for.

Ron: Respiring. How are you not getting this? The whole process converts sun energy, solar energy into ATP. Glucose is a kind of middle step.

Laura: They make that into ATP as well. Yeah, but there's oxygen in the water.

Ron: What? Water?

Laura: No, I thought it was water. And carbon dioxide makes glucose.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: So why do they need more oxygen from respiring?

Ron: Because they, because they don't use water in respiring. They use oxygen which they produce in this chemical reaction that makes the oxygen.

Laura: I just don't understand. We're trying to make atpdeze. For that we need glucose.

Ron: Yep.

Laura: For that we add carbon dioxide and hydrogen together to make glucose.

Ron: No, we add carbon dioxide and water together.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: And we make glucose and oxygen.

Laura: Yeah. So why have they got to breathe in more oxygen?

Ron: They don't. They use the same oxygen.

Laura: So why are they breathing in oxygen?

Respiration is using oxygen to make energy in mitochondria

Ron: Nobody said breathing in it.

Laura: Just, you said respiring.

Ron: Yeah. That doesn't mean breathing in. That's just respiration.

Laura: What the fuck is respiration? I thought respiration was breathing.

Ron: Respiration is using oxygen to make energy in mitochondria.

Laura: Well, I didn't know that. I thought it was breathing.

Ron: That doesn't mean that it is. It's, uh, it's a bit of a fallacy that plants just like, uh, uh, like, you know that, like some people say that, like the Amazon is like the lungs of the world and produces

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Ron: all this oxygen. That's not true. Um, um, like in the day, yes, they will produce loads of oxygen. All of those trees, when the sun is out and photosynthesis is happening in the night time, they're not photosynthesizing because the sun's not out. So then they're bringing oxygen back in from the air to respire.

Laura: I don't feel like you're getting, not getting at all.

Ron: Plant cells have to do all of the things that animal cells do, including respiring. They just do an extra chain where they photosynthesize as well.

Laura: So they, you have now told me that they aren't breathing and they are breathing.

Ron: Cells don't breathe.

Laura: So how are they getting oxygen in then? How are they sucking in oxygen diffusion? Why are they sucking in more oxygen. When they've got water, uh, and carbon dioxide. That's got oxygen in them. Why do they need a third income stream of oxygen?

Ron: Like I said, at nighttime, when they're not making. When they're not photosynthesizing, what are they doing then?

Laura: Respiring. To still make sense.

Ron: It's always respiring. Everything is always respiring. It's literally part of misses, Grey.

Laura: Always to make glucose.

Ron: No, you're respiring to make energy. ATP.

Laura: What do they need to make ATP?

Ron: An energy source. And oxygen.

Laura: So what's the energy source at night?

Ron: Glucose or fats.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: Sugars and fats.

Laura: Okay, stop being horrible. Potato is like a little pantry for a plant, isn't it?

Ron: Yes, it's an energy store. Yeah, that's the point.

Laura: Fridge. I thought this episode was going to be a bit meh. But it turns out the ones that I got wrong are really good.

Ron: So that was resonating when we spoke.

Laura: Uh, I just shared around my whole tongue. Yeah, I've got quite a small tongue.

First question was about how a student might hurt themselves during an experiment

Ron: The next bit was all about students investigating the rate of photosynthesis.

Laura: I think I did all right on this.

Ron: Yeah. First one was about how a student might hurt themselves.

Laura: That was a fucking stupid question.

Ron: You said the light bulb will get hot during the experiment. The student might get burned. That was absolutely.

Laura: Oh, but the mark scheme just said light bulb hot. So why did you use nine words, Laura, when three were done?

Ron: No, don't put words in my mouth.

Laura: Don't mock words on my paper.

Ron: Do.

Laura: Oh, my tummy just backed me up with my sass. Then. I hope that I made the podcast. So, yeah, professional podcasts, like, the producer sits in the little thing and edits all that out. Tummy.

Ron: It just doesn't happen.

Laura: What? They must have gurgly tummies.

Ron: They eat more fibre than us.

Laura: Meg told me that your stomach gurgling is your intestines trying to wring more water out.

Ron: That's absolute horseshit.

Laura: She said that when your stomach gurgles, it's because you're thirsty. It's your, like, inside's trying to, like, rinse more water out. Is that wrong? What's. What's gurgling?

Ron: I don't know.

Laura: Oh, uh, it might be that, then.

Ron: Are you eating wet sponges?

Laura: No, no, it's your intestines going, ah, there's not enough water and I gotta get some from somewhere. It's like creaking. Wants more water. I made loads of sense when Meg said it. Me and mum went and drank a glass of water. Christmas f three.

Ron: It's me and older sister of the podcast and dad against the world. Anyway, so you got bulb lamp is hot, so may burn you skin. Other answers that were allowed for this one. Glassware is breakable, so make up skin.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Electricity in close proximity to water, so make it electric shock.

Laura: Might just fall down, hit your head.

Ron: On a counter or scissors, scalpel to cut pondweed, our sharp make up skin.

Laura: Okay, I'm happy with my answer.

Ron: Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

Next question was, how can you improve on this exam

Um, the next one was, you, uh, said, how could you improve? I think it was, how can you improve? There.

Laura: You're being a bit quiet, Ronnie.

Ron: Um, how could you improve? Um, you said, insulate the beaker. That was completely correct. Well done.

Laura: Yes. Uh.

Ron: Next one. Next three questions. We're just a bit boring. We'll skip those.

Laura: Was I right, though?

Ron: Yeah, all correct

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Ron: on those until we get to 3.8.

Laura: Oh, what happened here?

Ron: The student wanted to measure the volume of oxygen.

Laura: Oh, this is the balloon incident. I did try to say syringe, and then you wouldn't let me.

Ron: Oh. Uh, because you, you said final answer.

Laura: Yeah, but I think in an exam, you can always change your answers anytime, any place.

Ron: Yeah, but not when we're talking things through.

Laura: We weren't talking things through, and you weren't being helped.

Ron: You could have said measuring cylinder. You could have said gas syringe. Gas syringe.

Laura: I didn't know these things existed.

Ron: Or you could have said burette.

Laura: Oh, what's a burette?

Ron: No idea.

Laura: Um, I did say syringe. I just said it after you were ready for it. And I still think my idea of a balloon with a clown drawn on the side could work. It would just take lot more pre processes to make that scientifically accurate. But it would be possible because it's basically a gas syringe, just a rubber one with clown markings, not number, um, markings.

Ron: That being there in the mark scheme would be insane.

Last question was about interpreting light intensity and photosynthesis in a graph

Yeah, last question was about, you should.

Laura: Have let me change my answer when I wanted to.

Ron: Last question was about interpreting light intensity and photosynthesis in a graph. Ding, ding. You got it very right. It's a flat rate.

Laura: If you swing this light, it doesn't really do that.

Ron: Like eleven out of 15 for question three. Laura.

Laura: Okay, it's. It's slipping. We're getting to the halfway point and slipping. This is where the first episode ended, I think, isn't it? And then we started again at number, uh, four.

Ron: Um, yeah, next. M one. You knew that the mosquito was a vector.

Laura: Yes. Now, BBC, bite size. I'm gonna renew my licence bee for another year to say, thank you, BBC.

Ron: Stop.

Laura: Thank you. Thank you, BBC.

Ron: How long have we been recording?

Laura: 27 minutes.

Ron: Yeah, we need to crack on.

Laura: Why?

Ron: Because we've got, like, loads left to go.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: Um.

Laura: Thank you. Ron's in a real crank because we had to say goodbye to the girlfriend of the podcast who he recently got back together with after a year.

Ron: No, I'm just. I'm over socialised.

Laura: Yeah, but it's not even me.

Ron: That's not true. Was that a festival? And I was here.

Laura: Played a good board game last night.

Ron: Oh, fucking hell.

Give two features of the malarial protest that show the cell is eukaryotic

Give two features of the malarial protest that show the cell is eukaryotic and not pro.

Laura: I absolutely fucked the gum on this.

Ron: You have to. You said it is large and it has fewer organelles.

Laura: Yeah, neither of those is right. I don't think. Think?

Ron: No.

Laura: What is eukaryote and prokaryote again?

Ron: Eukaryotes are, uh, big. They are big, yes. But you can't tell that from the diagram that you were supposed to interpret.

Laura: To work this out. No, uh, we were making tea. You explain about this while I microwave the tea. Tea is okay. That's not a snack.

Ron: Tea is okay.

Laura: Keep talking, Ron. Keep talking.

Ron: No, I'm waiting for you to get back. We're a good podcast now.

Laura: We'Re back. Professional like.

Ron: Yes.

Laura: Putting my phone down. Professional like. Hello, Ronnie. This podcast is sponsored by better not help. Just when you think you feel good, we could pop round and tell you everything you've done wrong in your life.

Ron: Bottle help for bottling it up. Anyway. Yeah, prokaryotes is basically some little guys. Yeah. Bacteria in there.

Laura: Uh, yep.

Ron: Eukaryotes. Plants, fungus, animals.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Okay.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Because eukaryotes are bigger, they can have complex organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts and whatnot. In fact, it's a, uh, theory that mitochondria used to be prokaryote organi organisms that then started living within eukaryotes. That shows you, like, the size difference between them. You can clearly see in the question paper that these are mitochondria because they've got the double membrane

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Ron: and the wrinkles.

Laura: Oh, yeah.

Ron: What's this?

Laura: Nucleus?

Ron: Yeah. Another thing, only eukaryotes. So you've got two marks if you looked.

Laura: I did look. I said it had a bayou.

Ron: No, uh, you said it was large and had fewer organelles.

Laura: It's a long time since we did this and it's unlike other bits. It hasn't come back up again.

Ron: Silently drinking tea like professionals.

Laura: And, um, I got confused because the other day I got into a thread on Twitter x.com where people were talking about eukaryotes in terms of xx and XY and, like, baby making and stuff. And then I talked myself out of whether or not I even remembered what eukaryotic and stuff meant.

Ron: Well, all of that's in the past. You didn't get the marks.

Okay, next question. How many chromosomes will it have after it splits

Okay, next question. Salmonella. I can't remember what the question was, but there's. Salmonella was the answer then. Similarly, only one parent is involved in whatever that.

Laura: Oh, asexual reproduction. I don't think it's gonna be a good episode if it's just you going, no, what the fuck? That was. But salmonella. Uh, bipartisan.

Ron: Next. 114. Who knows?

Laura: That could be anything that. I remember that, Ron, because I just edited this today. That was. That was, Ron. That was. That was, um. That was. How many chromosomes will it have after it splits?

Ron: Oh, well, you got that right.

Laura: Yeah. Cause they double and then split, so they maintain the same number of chromosomes.

Ron: Oh, I do remember that, actually.

Next question was how many people die of malaria each year

The next bit was where you were working out how many people die of malaria each year, which I think is quite a callous question.

Laura: Yeah. Anyway, but they don't die in this country, so don't worry, guys.

Ron: Um, you got that right numbers wise. But you did not know what standard form.

Laura: Oh, yeah.

Ron: So you lost the mark for not doing it in standard form.

Laura: What is standard form?

Ron: It's where you do, like, one times ten to the power of eight to represent one and eight, ah, zeros.

Laura: Why is that any help?

Ron: Because then. Because, um. Then you can instantly see that it's one and eight zeros. And you have to count eight, ah, zeros.

Laura: If somebody said to me, how many people die of malaria? Ten and a little. Eight. I would think ten adults, eight children.

Ron: Yeah. But you're not smart.

Laura: I am.

Ron: No, because you'd think that if you saw a small lady, you'd think it referred to children. That's like caveman logic. But you did get it right.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Next. There was about two ways to reduce the chance being by mosquitoes.

Laura: Big clothes.

Ron: You, uh, did. You did well, you said covering up skin.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Yeah. And that, uh. Is that got you a mark. One of the. What they had written down was wear longer sleeves. Clothes.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Big clothes. Yeah. What do you say? Yeah. I mean, like that.

Laura: Cause I'm just proud of myself. I'm like, yeah, boy, the other one.

Ron: That you said was mosquito repellent spray. Absolutely right as well. And actually, an answer that you discarded because you thought it was funny and wrong was, um, not going to mosquito areas that have got you the mark as well. Avoid going to countries, places with malaria. Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes is on the list.

Laura: But I thought that was stupid because mainly people already live there. Oh, this is. This exam paper is even more egocentric than I am.

Ron: Yeah. Um, you'd have got a mark for saying, don't go out at night or in the evening.

Laura: What, do men carry malaria now? Am I right, ladies?

Ron: You'd also have gotten marks for saying, destroy breeding grounds and release sterile male mosquitoes.

Laura: Oh, those are horrible. Yeah, no, I think mosquitoes are necessary. Hey, I love that bit in Lilo and stitch where they're like mosquitoes. That's why earth is being preserved by the galactic alliance, because.

Ron: That's a good joke.

Laura: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ron: Uh, then you interpreted a graph. I'm not gonna go through that too much because the user can't see the graph.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Um. The user, the listener can't see the graph.

Laura: You got twelve out of 15, haven't you?

Ron: I have.

Laura: Okay. So, so far I've got 100%. 100%. And then two thirds. Two thirds.

Ron: Over two thirds. Over two thirds.

Laura: Yeah.

Proteins are needed to make new body cells by mitosis

Ron: All right, question number five was all about, don't write on that page. Food and digestion.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: Proteins are needed to make a new body cells by mitosis. You gave me one reason for them needing to do that. Sue said cells deteriorate over time with ageing. Our, uh, survey said, yes, Laura? Uh, anyone from growth development. However, in the extra information box, it said, allow replacement of old

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Ron: cells, allow for repair. So I gave you the mark.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: You were asked what proteins are made of.

Laura: That's really interesting, that question, isn't it? Because at 15 you probably are thinking, I'm growing and changing, whereas at my age, I'm like. I'm rusting and creaking.

Ron: Yeah, I'm dying.

Laura: Yeah, yeah. It's a patching it up game right now. We're not doing new stuff. Why didn't you blink when you drank that? Why did you hold eye contact?

Ron: Because we're professionals.

Laura: I edited out so much typing today.

Ron: Um, amino acids. You're completely right.

Next question was which chemical is used to test for protein in food

The next question was, which chemical is used to test for protein in food?

Laura: You said this was a real. Sometimes we're just grasping in the dark.

Ron: You said Benedict's reagent. Our survey said Bayurette reagent.

Laura: Even you didn't know what that was.

Ron: No. You then asked what colour would be seen in a positive test for protein.

Laura: I said purple.

Ron: Our survey says purple. Yeah. And you get the mark even for guessing. Yes. You then nailed, uh, a bit about how catalysts work. By linking that their special shape means they only fit one molecule and fabulous. And then being a catalyst speeds up reaction.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: All very rarely good. You interpreted a graph to know when, um, an acid would work best, ph wise. And why that is. You said it's because there was acid in the stomach, Laura.

Laura: There is, isn't there?

Ron: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got it right.

Laura: Did you know we've cured acid rain?

Ron: Mm mhm. Hmm.

Laura: Yeah, that's clever, isn't it?

Ron: That's well good. Yeah.

Laura: I was always so worried about church gargoyles as a child.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: And now they're fine.

Ron: You learn about that. Um, you then completed the sentences. The part of the enzyme that changes shape is the active site. The change in the shape means the enzyme, um, cannot bind to the substrate. Two marks.

Laura: Yeah, I was worried about that bit. I didn't feel confident there.

Ron: I was impressed with that one. That's very good.

Laura: How? Because if I'm honest, I don't really understand what a substrate is.

Ron: Substrate is what it binds to in a cell, anything.

Laura: Oh, okay. Yeah, like kitty letter. Substrate is gravel.

Ron: No, substrate is wherever it binds to. If you have a enzyme that is there to break down starch. Starch is the substrate, huh? If, uh, you have an enzyme that.

Laura: What am I thinking of?

Ron: You have an enzyme that builds up, uh, starch. Glucose is the substrate.

Laura: Yeah. Okay, so substrate can mean an underlying substance, door, layer. And I think in building, substrate can be like gravel.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Am I thinking of a different word?

Ron: I don't know. Should we be delaying for this?

Laura: Substrate for aquarium plants. Yeah, I guess the aquarium plants blind bind to it. They put their roots into it.

Ron: It's. It's kind of different.

Laura: Yeah, I thought. I thought it was gravel.

Ron: Don't worry about that.

Laura: I wasn't sure why there was homophones.

Ron: That's fine.

Laura: No, it's the same word.

Ron: That's what a homophone is. It means different things. Don't. Because what meets the thing that goes in an enzyme that means dirt in a wet box. So homophones gay. Um, 40 minutes.

Student investigated effect of PhD on rate of starch breakdown by amylase

Okay, now this is one we're gonna have to have a little chat about this one, Laura, because you. Amylase is an enzyme which breaks down starch.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: A, ah, student investigated the effect of PhD on the rate of starch breakdown by amylase. You were given the equipment of pipettes, test tubes, spotting tiles, a timer, solutions for controlling ph, amylase solution, iodine solution, starch solution and a ten centimetres cubed measuring cylinder for six marks. You were asked to describe a method to investigate the effect of ph on the rate of starch breakdown by amylase.

Laura: I didn't have a clue.

Ron: No.

Laura: And we've never done any practical exams. We've never done practical exams, so I don't think I can be expected to have come up with this.

Ron: No, no, no. But you're also, like, 42, so.

Laura: I am not. I am 29.

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Ron: No, I'm 29.

Laura: No, I'm Spartacus.

Ron: Now, you said you have a number of test tubes and in each one you have a different variant of ph solution.

Laura: That's okay so far, isn't it, then? No. Let's break it down and talk it through. That's fine, isn't it? No.

Ron: Okay, well, then, to test tube. To each test tube, you add the same amount of starch solution and the same amount of amylase solution. Leave them all for ten minutes. At the end of the ten minutes, pour the contents into a measuring cylinder and measure how much there is. Discard it and, um, measure. Explain it.

Laura: That's not right then. Is it something to do with the purple?

Ron: Yeah, you use an indicator. Does he. There's any starch in it?

Laura: I thought we could just. I didn't know, Ron. I don't know.

Ron: Just mixing them all up who seem about. That's the bit that really makes me laugh, is the throwing in the way.

Laura: I didn't want the examiner to think. I thought we were mixing them all together. I was trying to be clear, concise bullet points, you know?

Ron: Oh, it was funny. It was very, very funny.

Laura: I thought maybe the level would go down because of something being what were we trying to work out? I didn't even know what we were trying to work out. When the potato got eaten, we'd have.

Ron: Like, the effect of ph and the rate of starch breakdown by amylase.

Laura: Yeah. So, like, as the starch got broken down, maybe the water level would go down.

Ron: No, because the starch is in solution.

Laura: Yeah, but it might. I don't know.

Ron: Do you want to know the answer to that one?

Laura: Uh, yeah.

Ron: So add iodine solution to spotting tile. Uh, add amylase, ph solution and starch together and then start the timer.

Laura: I got that bit. Ten minutes.

Ron: Use the pipette and then at, uh, regular intervals, drop into the iodine. If starch is present, then it turns blue. Can keep doing that until it doesn't turn blue. And then you record the time it takes and then repeat that at different phs.

Laura: Oh, that'll take ages.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: My one's much quicker. Ten minutes, man. Done.

Ron: Um, yeah. So you got nine out of 17 for quesi. Five.

Laura: Still over half.

Ron: Yeah. Yeah.

Laura: Okay.

Ron: Uh, you were asked what a tissue was. You correctly identified that a tissue is a collection of cells. We then talked about one of your favourite parts of a plant, which is the meristem.

Laura: Yes.

Ron: I got you another mark. Then, was our Tim Minchin moment willow trees? Absolutely correct. Then.

Maybe we need to do a little lesson on practicals. Like creating our own experiment stuff

Then we moved on to talking about a drug, a, uh, made up drug. Um, we were asked why they would use berries rather than roots or leaves, even though the berries were not so good. Uh, getting the drug, you said doesn't kill the plant. Berries are easy to harvest. Absolutely.

Laura: Great.

Ron: Sometimes logic does.

Laura: Maybe we need to do a little lesson on practicals.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: Like creating our own experiment stuff before we do higher tier.

Ron: You know, before we do higher tier.

Laura: Well, just to go over that, because I think it's a big gap in my knowledge. It's a big part of science when you're learning, it's like, how to construct. Remember, you had to do, like, method, equipment, results, evaluation, conclusion.

Ron: I don't have the resources for that.

Laura: No. We don't have to actually do them. But we could talk about, like, we.

Ron: Could watch some kids do them online.

Laura: Why do they have to be kids?

Ron: Because of school.

Laura: I don't think we should watch children do anything. No.

Ron: We could watch some oaps.

Laura: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or horses or something.

Ron: Yeah.

Laura: But I think that that's a big gap in my knowledge, is how to be confident setting up my own experiment.

Ron: Okay, how about this? The Patreon app that we record tomorrow will watch some vids of kids doing science experiments.

Laura: We have to do science in break time.

Ron: Do you want it or not?

Laura: Yeah. We'll just do it on May. See what has to eat into our fun time. Okay.

Ron: We'll record it tomorrow. I think it'll be better in person.

Laura: Okay. You got really mad, though, when I wanted to watch Bean.

Ron: You got really mad when I wanted to watch cool science vids.

Laura: You sprung that on me.

Your last calculation step was wrong and then the answer was wrong

Ron: Anyway, calculate the mass of chemical a

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Ron: in 200 grammes of the leaves with chlorosis. That bit you were fine at, uh.

Laura: Oh, yes.

Ron: Unfortunately. You don't know what a milligramme is.

Laura: I don't, no. I did my best logic there.

Ron: No. Yeah.

Laura: A, uh, 100. No, no.

Ron: How many centimetres are in a metre.

Laura: Hundred.

Ron: Yeah. So how many. How m many milligrammes do you think is in a gramme? Well, actually, let me ask you this question. How many centigrammes do you think there would be in a gramme?

Laura: 100.

Ron: How many millimetres are in a metre?

Laura: Oh, I was doing them to the wrong things.

Ron: Yeah. So there's a thousand milligrammes to a gramme. Milli kind of means a thousand millilitres, 1000 millilitres to a litre.

Laura: Oh, uh, yeah, that's why I got confused with millimetres.

Ron: Yeah. So unfortunately though, because, uh. No, so you actually only lost, I think you lost two out of four marks there. Because the last calculation step was wrong and then the answer was wrong in the end. Okay, but you did still get two out of four.

Laura: Okay, but apart from that was my calculation. Right?

Ron: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The answer was 1440 milligrammes. You said 144 milligrammes by a factor of ten. Yeah, yeah, it's fine, it's fine. Um. Oh, where we go. Where we go. Okay, now more problems.

You were asked to suggest one reason why nightshade plant might have Clorox

Next. You, uh, uh, were asked to suggest one reason why the leaves of the deadly nightshade plant might have Clorox.

Laura: They haven't got enough sunlight.

Ron: You said no nutrients in the soil.

Laura: They haven't got enough sunlight.

Ron: Ronnie, it's too late.

Laura: Why?

Ron: Because we're marking the exam.

Laura: I did ask you this before we marked the exam.

Ron: Yeah, but still, when you finish, you walk out the example. Walk out the exam. You still don't get to change your answers.

Laura: I even said it to you earlier before you didn't mark the exam.

Ron: Yeah, but you still get a change once you've done the exam. Look, you could have had lack of chlorophyll or lack of magnesium ions. You said lack of nutrients in the soil. If you had a said lack of mineral ions, you would have been allowed. If you had said.

Laura: I did.

Ron: Yeah, I'm afraid. Nah. Uh. Um.

You asked about conflict of interest. Then you asked about testing the drug

The next thing that you were asked was about testing the drug. Why do you test drugs? You said to test for side effects and understand the efficacy. Bang bang, two marks. Great. Then you asked about conflict of interest. Laura. So just one reason why making a report, uh, making claims about the effects of chemical a may be biassed if, um. Oh, yeah.

Laura: Um.

Ron: You said, now you won't contest this. You said the person that commissioned the report markets a similar drug.

Laura: Capitalism ruins everything, Ronnie.

Ron: Um, the answers that we allowed are, uh, writers. Company may get financial gain or competitor may suffer financial loss.

Laura: Yeah, that's basically what I'm saying. I'm just a step removed.

Ron: I don't think you've made the logic leap to them marketing a similar drug effect.

Laura: This is what I mean when you were mocking me earlier for having said all the stuff, and you said, problem percentage decrease. That's it. Seed. This is why, when I am precise, I've missed it. Because I've said the simple thing. And actually, I needed to elaborate.

Ron: But you haven't said the simple thing. You've talked about the marketing a similar drug, not a, uh, competitor, might lose money.

Laura: Yes, that's what I mean. They want to talk it down.

Ron: Nine out of 13 for that question.

Question seven is about how to fix a blocked coronary artery

Laura: Yeah, well, over half onto the last one.

Ron: Question seven starts off rough. I'm gonna just. That band aid off now.

Laura: It finishes rough, too, if I remember correctly.

Ron: So figure five showed the human heart.

Laura: Oh, did I get it the wrong way around?

Ron: Oh, yeah.

Laura: And upside down.

Ron: Yeah. Um, you just got it backwards. So you lost two marks, uh, three marks there. Right? Offensive. Right off the hot tits. It's very trippy. Zeros. But then when it came to using words and m thinking and not interpreting a picture of a heart, you did say that the artery has thicker muscle

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Ron: tissue and thicker elastic tissue, which was. Right. You got too much. That was very good. Uh, um, we, uh, answered a question about why I, uh. Blocking an artery would lower the blood flow. You got that? Oh, no, that was interpreting a graph. Then you had to draw a graph. We just said we're gonna skip the graph. So I've just given you all of those marks. Yeah.

Laura: I thought we were just not gonna.

Ron: Do the marks that affects, like, the scales and stuff. So, giving you the benefit of the doubt on the graphs, because I think you're good at graphs.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Um. Then, uh. Yeah, then we got to this big question at the end.

Laura: Which I think it was another. Just a blank page in six points and talking to the abyss, explain the.

Ron: Effect of a partially, partly blocked, uh, coronary artery on the human body. You said the rate of blood flow is decreased. The heart has to work harder to pump blood around the body. The delivery of oxygen to cells is reduced because of the slowing of blood supply within the body. You may experience a slower immune system as the delivery of the white blood cells would be slowed by the blocked blood system. I've given you two out of six.

Laura: I should have said that. The heart having to work harder puts increased strain on the heart and wear and tear. Yeah, I didn't follow that thought through to the end.

Ron: You didn't say six things.

Laura: I didn't have six things in me by this point, Ron.

Ron: And then we come to the final, final question of the exam.

Laura: Is that not the final, final one?

Ron: No, there was one more squeaker at the end.

Laura: Uh.

Ron: You got it, right?

Laura: Oh.

Ron: It's just about, uh, how you can, um, fix a blocked artery. You said a stint stunt. You said it widens, uh, the artery to increase the blood flow.

Laura: That's absolutely right, yes.

Ron: So we end on a positive note. And you got eleven out of 19.

Laura: All right.

Ron: All right. Laura. It's out of a hundred marks.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Where do you reckon he came?

Laura: 70.

Ron: Out of 173? Oh, yeah.

Laura: Uh, pretty close. That's a first in university.

Ron: Yeah. I don't know what it is at GCSE. I can't figure it out. Can you figure it out?

Laura: Okay, let's have a look. Fucking banjo professional, so, duh. Wait, those are all letters. Where does your number go?

Ron: I don't know.

Legacy GCSE science has now risen to highest grade available

Laura: Legacy GCSE science. Highest grade available in plantation two, has now risen. Get the governor. B.

Ron: Okay, so I think 70 would have gotten you an a.

Laura: But how?

Ron: A star is 80.

Laura: How do you know that?

Ron: I think that's just memory. I remember that.

Laura: Why would you know that?

Ron: Because I got astounds high.

Laura: 60% of, uh, marks cover foundation. 40%. Hmm.

Ron: Yes. I don't know what's going on here.

Laura: Ah. Uh, hang on. I'm gonna pause the recording and do some research. Okay. So I found a thing here on out of 200, though, which ours was only out of 100.

Ron: Yeah. Um, so you'd have gotten. If we double that. Because when you did one out of the two papers, you'd have gotten 146.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: Out, uh, of 200. So that's top. Top marks. Grade five, that's not quite as satisfying as a letter grade. But I've got my chart here.

Laura: So grade five. Is that a b, then? Because it said you can get a b for foundation, uh, these days.

Ron: I think you'd have. I think you'd have got it. I think you'd get a b. Yeah.

Laura: It's exactly between a b and a c. So it's like a c plus b minus on.

Ron: On the boundary line.

Laura: Look, if you look at this on the government website, the five is sitting right between the b and the c.

Ron: Yeah, but five's top.

Laura: And they said I could get a b. So, uh, if I got the top thing, I'm gonna call it a b.

Ron: All right, we'll call it a b.

Laura: All right.

Ron: Which is the best thing that you could have got. You got the bit. Well, let's call it what it is. It's a five, which is the best thing you could have got.

Laura: Yeah.

Ron: So, great. Well done.

Ronnie: I'm impressed with how well Laura did at GCSE

Laura: Okay. All right, so areas to work on before we do the higher is definitely the practical exams.

Ron: Practical exams. Um, and then I think just a bit of exam theory, how to write it, and, like, when you see six marks, what to do?

Laura: Panic.

Ron: Yeah. What to do when there's one mark. But overall, I'm impressed.

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Laura: Okay, now let's go and have some snacks.

Ron: Laura, you've got to be happy with that.

Laura: Yes. And I think, do you respect me more now?

Ron: We'll see how you do in the higher tier.

Laura: Oh, Ron, I think we're all quite pleasantly surprised with how well I've done that and what we think the results are. If you're listening to this and you understand how modern GCSE's work, can you get in touch and let us know what I scored, please?

Ron: Yeah. Was it laugh a minute? Nah. Uh. Did you do well at the exam? Yeah. Really? Did.

Laura: I think that the people that are still invested in this podcast, I feel uncomfortable when it's not laugh a minute, but I don't think they care.

Ron: Yeah, they're along for divine.

Laura: Yeah. They don't mind. It's like that bit in Schitt's Creek where David's boyfriend sings to him and you're crying and you don't even mind that you're not laughing that much, but you know that they'll laugh at. They'll make you laugh soon.

Ron: That is a good bit. And they do make what I always kind of assume always kind of felt was a shit song. Quite emotional.

Laura: What song is it?

Ron: You're simply the bit.

Laura: Yeah. Great bit. It's a great bit. You're not worried. You're not worried that suddenly is the show not funny. You're just like. It's just not what they're doing right now. And, sorry, but when we're going through my personal triumph of quite how much biology, I know we can't be as. Laugh a minute, Ronnie. No, I did enjoy fucking banjo, though. I have listened to that. I cut that little clip out and I have listened to that about nine times a day. Uh, fucking banjo. I might put that out on the socials this week, if I remember.

Ron: Yeah. That made me laugh quite a lot.

Laura: Yeah. So next week's gonna be chemistry.

Ron: Um, two episodes of chemistry exam.

Laura: Yeah. Yeah. So we've got. You're editing those, though, right?

Ron: I have edited the first one. I just need to put it in the drive. But that's professional admin that we don't have to do because we're hashtag professional.

Laura: Yeah, we don't talk about that on the podcast. No, no, no. Um, Laura? Yeah.

Ron: Maybe edit this out because it's boring. But are we hashtag professional now because we've got the lead time again?

Laura: Maybe.

Ron: Do those things correlate when we were flying by the seat of our pants is when we started eating pistachios.

My phone's ringing. Shall I answer it? Yeah, go on. I need all my windows and doors

Laura: My phone's ringing. That's not professional.

Ron: That's not professional.

Laura: I don't know who it is. Shall I answer it?

Ron: Yeah, go on. But put on loudspeaker.

Laura: Hello. Hello. Launched their scrappy scheme. If there's any old doors and windows left to do. Um, we are going to be offering.

Ron: To upgrade those windows stores with an average saving of 1000 pounds. Do you have any windows and doors that you might think about in the future?

Laura: No, sorry. I need all my windows and doors. Is there anything else you might be thinking about? Um, not at the moment, no. Thank you, though. Thank you. Cheers. And you. Bye bye.

Ron: Uh, um, m m um, patreon register.

Laura: Her voice was like, if we had decided to do that as a bit and we were being a salesperson.

Ron: She was good, Craig. She was very professional.

Laura: Yeah, she was. She was.

Ron: Do you want to read the register out, though?

Laura: I don't. Should I have said to her calls may be recorded for podcasting news?

Ron: Yeah, that would have been funny. Um, that poor woman. She has no idea that she's just on this podcast.

Laura: Eight, uh, people are going to hear, trying to take my doors, sell me a new door. I don't know.

Ron: At the end, she was just like, is there anything else you need? I don't. Is this just a general services.

Laura: He laid the dish or shit? Um, Fred Gough is mouth slapper extraordinaire, responsible

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Laura: for slapping every morsel of food out of Laura and Ron's sloppy mouths, which, yes, in itself would create some noise of the hand slapping faces and possibly from food hitting the floor, but that could be easily edited out in his less digestive, less disgusting. So stop poking holes. Thank you, Fred Gough, for keeping this podcast food free. And if ever we eat on the podcast again, it's Fred's fault, not ours.

Ron: Yes, and you two freeloading listeners should sign up for the Patreon. It's how we cover a small portion of the costs that Laura pays for the things that we do.

Laura: Yeah, and it's how we keep ourselves in stachios.

Ron: And also, actually, it's not just about that. It's also, there's lots of fun content over there. So we're about to record Laura's birthday episode. I've watched, uh, three episodes of Real Housewives. I watched Real Housewives New York, Real Housewives New Jersey, and Real Housewives, um, was the other one Beverly Hills? And I've got, I've got thoughts, and I've got a. I've got notes. And I think this is going to be a lot of fun because what I find with Real Housewives is that I have object. I don't have object permanence with it. As soon as I'm not watching it, I cannot retain anything about it. So these notes are going to be as much a mystery for me as they are for you.

Laura: Maybe. Real Housewives is your science.

Ron: I think that is so insulting to science.

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Laura: All right, well, listen, we love you listeners. We hope you enjoyed the biology portion of the example exam season. Next week, chemistry. Share the podcast, spread the love. Let's find more people for our funky little community and see, uh, you next week, patrons. See you Friday.

Ron: What do I say for exam?

Laura: Pencils down. Oh, but it's results, I guess just throw your in the air. Not until certificates up.

Ron: Just click. Here are your marks. Bye.

Laura: Have you got any spare windows?

Ron: Uh.

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