Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Summer 2007
GCE
Mrs M Hamblin
42B Whiterow Park
Upper Studley
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 0EQ Tel.: 07818 001131
cmhamblin@hotmail.com
Team Leader:
Mr P Connell
2 Redwood Close
Ross-On-Wye
Herefordshire
HR9 5UD Tel.: 01989 563 280
paul@snippy-connell.wanadoo.co.uk
(1)
You must have provisionally marked 15 of every item ONLINE before the Standardisation
Meeting on 26/06/2007 in order to familiarise yourself with the Pre-standardisation mark
scheme.
(2)
At the meeting the mark scheme will be discussed and amplified. It will be amended in the
light of the discussion and of marking experience. Assistant Examiners will then be asked to
take part in an Agreement Trial. The marks will be compared and discussed. Scripts used in
Agreement Trials may be taken away from the meeting for reference purposes; these must
be destroyed at the conclusion of marking.
(3)
Within 48 hours of the Standardisation meeting, Assistant Examiners must mark fully,
ONLINE, a sample of 10 of every item in the light of the amended FINAL mark scheme which
you will be able to access ONLINE. Please note that you will not be able to mark any more
responses until after you have received clearance from your Team Leader, and any
differences are resolved.
Once clearance has been received from the Team Leader, you MUST start marking and all
your marking MUST be done by the contract completion date in your contract.
(4)
(5)
Further checks on your marking will be made by your Team Leader at any point throughout
the marking period to ensure that your marking is accurate.
Please contact the ePEN helpdesk for technical queries:
Online Associates Helpdesk
Telephone
UKservicedesk@pearson.com
Damian Riddle
Telephone
Email
Address
damian.riddle@edexcel.org.uk
Edexcel
5th Floor
190 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7BH
Exams Management
Coordinator
Assie Yamin
Tel
assie.yamin@edexcel.org.uk
Edexcel
5th Floor
190 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7BH
Address
General Principles
Symbols used in the mark scheme
Symbol
; semi colon
eq
/ oblique
{} curly brackets
() round brackets
[] square
brackets
Meaning of symbol
Indicates the end of a marking point.
Indicates that credit should be given for other correct
alternatives to a word or statement, as discussed in the
Standardisation meeting. It is used because it is not always
possible to list every alternative answer that a candidate may
write that is worthy of credit.
Words or phrases separated by an oblique are alternatives to each
other.
Indicate the beginning and end of a list of alternatives (separated
by obliques) where necessary to avoid confusion.
Words inside round brackets are to aid understanding of the
marking point but are not required to award the point.
Words inside square brackets are instructions or guidance for
examiners.
candidates must make their meaning clear to the examiner to gain the mark.
a correct statement that is contradicted by an incorrect statement in the same
part of an answer gains no mark irrelevant material should be ignored.
June 2007
Question 1
(a)
Maximum mark
medulla (oblongata)
1 mark
(b)
June 2007
Question 2
(a)
Maximum mark
1. food (alone) leads to salivation, bell and food leads to salivation
(bell alone leads to salivation) ;
2. food unconditioned stimulus ;
3. bell neutral stimulus ;
4. salivation is the conditioned response ;
3 marks
(b)
(c)
(d)
June 2007
Question 3
(a)
Maximum mark
1. {calcium ions / Ca2+} released from sarcoplasmic reticulum ;
2. calcium (ions) binds to troponin ;
3. (troponin) causes tropomyosin to move ;
4. exposing (myosin) binding sites (on actin);
5. myosin head attaches to binding site / cross bridge formation ;
6. myosin head {moves / nods forward / eq} ;
7. release of ADP and inorganic phosphate ;
8. actin slides over the myosin ;
9. (ATP causes) myosin head to detach ;
10. {ATP hydrolysis / ATPase} ;
5 marks
(b)
June 2007
Question 4
Maximum mark
Immune suppression:
1. fewer infections / immune system most effective with moderate
exercise
OR
{too little / too much} exercise {suppresses immune system / more
infections} ;
2. fewer natural killer cells ;
3. details of changes (to cells) of the immune system after vigorous exercise
;
4. inflammatory response in muscles reduces (non-specific) immune
response elsewhere ;
Joint damage:
5. (articular) cartilage / patella / bursae / ligaments / muscle (fibre) ;
6. further details of damage ;
7. detail of how damage occurs ;
Benefits to cardiovascular system:
NB max of 4 marks from this section
8. moderate exercise lowers (resting) blood pressure ;
9. due to increased arterial vasodilation ;
10. improves ratio of HDL to LDL / increases levels of HDL / reduces levels
of LDL ;
11. beneficial effects of exercise on obesity / BMI ;
12. ref. to prevention (type II) diabetes;
Total 6 marks
June 2007
Question 5
(a)
Maximum mark
(i)
(ii)
(b)
June 2007
(c)