I'm a current, high-achieving medical student and academic tutor providing KS3, KS4 (GCSE) and KS5 (A level) resources that I wish had been available to me when I was studying.
I'm a current, high-achieving medical student and academic tutor providing KS3, KS4 (GCSE) and KS5 (A level) resources that I wish had been available to me when I was studying.
Revision notes for the Biodiversity Topic 4.2.1 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 7 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Biodiversity
• Calculating biodiversity – including Simpson’s Index of Diversity, proportion of polymorphic loci, population size.
• Factors affecting biodiversity
• Reasons for maintaining biodiversity
• In-situ and ex-situ conservation
• Required Practical 3: Sampling techniques
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Revision notes for the Communicable Diseases, Disease Prevention and the Immune System Topic 4.1.1 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 8 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Pathogens and communicable diseases
• Plant defences against pathogens
• Primary defence
• Secondary defence
• The specific immune response
• Antibodies and vaccination
• Development and usage of drugs
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Revision notes for the Transport in Plants Topic 3.1.3 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word documents contain a total of 10 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• The need for transport systems in plants
• The vascular bundle
• Xylem
• Phloem
• Movement of water
• The transpiration stream and factors affecting transpiration
• Adaptations of xerophytic plants and hydrophytes
• Translocation and active loading
• Required Practical 5: Potometer
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Revision notes for the Transport in Animals Topic 3.1.2 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required and examples for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 10 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Circulatory systems
• Blood vessels
• Exchange of the capillaries
• The heart – including structure, the cardiac cycle and coordination of the cardiac cycle, electrocardiograms.
• Transport of oxygen
• Transport of carbon dioxide
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Revision notes for the Exchange Surfaces Topic 3.1.1 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and practical skills for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 5 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• The need for exchange surfaces
• Gaseous exchange system in mammals
• Ventilation in mammals – including using a spirometer
• Gaseous exchange and ventilation in fish
• Gaseous exchange and ventilation in insects
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Revision notes for the Cell Division, Cell Diversity and Cellular Organisation Topic 2.1.6 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge and examples required for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 8 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• The cell cycle
• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• Stem cells and differentiation – including: specialised cells
• Tissues, organs and systems
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Revision notes for the Biological Membranes Topic 2.1.5 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word documents contain a total of 8 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Roles of membranes
• Fluid mosaic model and membrane structure
• Factors affecting membranes – temperatures and solvents
• Transport across cell membranes – diffusion, facilitated diffusion, osmosis, active transport, exocytosis, endocytosis
• Required Practical 8: Transport in and out of cells
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Revision notes for the Enzymes Topic 2.1.4 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word documents contain a total of 6 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Action of enzymes
• Factors affecting enzymes
• Inhibition
• Required Practical 4: Rates of enzyme controlled reactions
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Revision notes for the Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids Topic 2.1.3 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and practical methods for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word document contains 4 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Nucleotides
• Polynucleotides
• DNA – replication, genetic code
• Protein synthesis – transcription, translation
• Purification of DNA
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Revision notes for the Biological Molecules Topic 2.1.2 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. This resource contains 4 word documents containing a total of 12 pages of revision notes and 2 pdf mindmaps.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Water
• Carbohydrates
• Lipids
• Proteins
• Inorganic ions
• Required practical 5: Colorimeter
• Required practical 6: Chromatography
• Required practical 9: Qualitative testing
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Revision notes for the Cell Structure Topic 2.1.1 for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level OCR A Biology. These notes contain all the specification knowledge required, examples and required practicals for this topic. They allow a strong understanding of content to achieve a high grade. The word documents contain a total of 6 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Microscopy
• Cell Structure – including: organelles, production and secretion of proteins, the cytoskeleton.
• Animal and Plant cells
• Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells
• Required Practical 1: Microscopy
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Revision notes for the Moments Topic for Year 2 A-Level Edexcel Mechanics Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 7 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Moments introduction
• Resultant forces
• Equilibrium
• Centre of mass
• Tilting
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Revision notes for the Variable Acceleration Topic for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level Edexcel Mechanics Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 7 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Functions of time
• Using differentiation
• Maxima and minima problems
• Using integration
• Constant acceleration formulae
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Revision notes for the Modelling in Mechanics Topic for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level Edexcel Mechanics Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 5 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Constructing a model
• Modelling assumptions
• Quantities and units
• Working with vectors
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Revision notes for the Forces and Motion Topic for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level Edexcel Mechanics Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 13 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Force diagrams
• Forces as vectors
• Forces and acceleration
• Motion in 2D
• Connected particles
• Pulleys
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Revision notes for the Constant Acceleration Topic for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level Edexcel Mechanics Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 8 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Displacement-time graphs
• Velocity-time graphs
• Constant acceleration formulae
• Horizontal motion
• Vertical motion under gravity
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Revision notes for the Integration Topic for Year 2 A-Level Edexcel Pure Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 13 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Integrating standard functions
• Integrating f(ax + b)
• Using trigonometric identities
• Reverse chain rule
• Integration by substitution
• Integration by parts
• Partial fractions
• Areas of graphs: between two curves and parametric integration.
• The trapezium rule
• Solving differential equations
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Revision notes for the Vectors Topic for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level Edexcel Pure Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 6 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Vectors
• Representing vectors
• Magnitude and direction
• Position vectors
• Solving geometric problems
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Quick summary revision notes for the Trigonometric Ratios Topic for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level Edexcel Pure Mathematics. This pdf contains 2 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• The cosine rule
• The sine rule
• Area of triangles
• Graphs of sine, cosine and tangent
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Revision notes for the Trigonometric Identities and Equations Topic for AS-Level and Year 1 A-Level Edexcel Pure Mathematics. These notes contain all the knowledge, key points, methods and worked examples needed to understand content and to achieve a high grade. This pdf contains 5 pages of revision notes.
These are the notes I created and used to obtain an A* at A Level.
These notes include:
• Angles in all four quadrants
• Exact values of trigonometric ratios
• Trigonometric identities
• Simple trigonometric equations
• Harder trigonometric equations, including: graph transformations and quadratic trigonometric equations.
• Equations and identities
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