This resource is invaluable considering the sparsity of new specification papers.
I often produce my own end of topic tests and decided to produce a whole exam paper. I have also produced a sample Paper 3 which can be found and bought.
This is a demanding and challenging paper designed to stretch candidates. A suggested mark scheme has been included.
Please do leave a review if downloaded!
Eight full lessons on exploration of the gene expression, cancer, epigentics, the human genome project, protein synthesis and mutations
This is designed for AQA but can easily be adapted for other exam boards.
There are over 24 files with specifically chosen exam questions to develop recall, practical skills and challenging application questions scattered throughout to refine knowledge.
The lessons are concise and detailed with plenty of room for consolidation and engaging activities/AfL to support teaching.
Ecology is one of the topics that students seem to struggle with the most.
In this resource there are over thousands of exam questions specific to areas of ecology, along with mark schemes, and also a:
Summary booklet for all the areas of Ecology.
Key definitions to know and learn.
Model answers to common exam questions.
Challenging application questions.
Designed for AQA exam board but can easily be used and modified for others. Revision bundle aimed for student use but can easily be adapted for teaching use.
This booklet was designed for biology students to complete during the Christmas holidays; a “12 days of Christmas” booklet with tasks and exam practise on the different areas within the “Exchange with the Environment” topic of AQA AS Biology.
The booklet is designed as a revision booklet for student to recap their learning but it can easily be changed into an in-lesson learning booklet to support teaching materials. There are tasks for each day staring with the 25th December. (!)
As mentioned before, there is lots of necessary exam practise with challenging application-style questions. The booklet was given to students on the last day of term, wrapped up as a present! Students were instructed to open this on Christmas. What a great present!
Please do download and review :)
Included is a fairly difficult and challenging end of topic tests for student to attempt. Questions included are a mixture from old spec papers and my own questions.
Test is designed to stretch the high achievers while also ensuring basic an application heavy paper in style of the challenging demands of the new specification exams.
I’ve attached the mark scheme and the grade boundaries i used.
Please do download and review! I would appreciate your feedback :)
Nine full lessons on the Recombinant DNA Technology topic for AQA A Level Biology. This topic is one of the most challenging due to the application and context-based nature. However, each lesson includes detailed and concise notes for some difficult to understand topics, along with relevant exam questions to help test skills, an essay prep, a practical, and fun and engaging activities to help consolidate learning.
8 concise, specific and accurate lessons on Proteins and Enzymes designed for the AQA A Level exam board, but easily adjustible for any board.
The lessons explore amino acid structure, the structure of proteins and their importance, enzymes and factors that affect enzyme action along with competitive and non-competitive inhibition, as well as a practical looking at the effect of temperature on the action of Trypsin.
The lessons focus on how to answer exam questions using specific and exact exam terminology. L8 is a lesson dedicated to exam practice via challenging questions on novel concepts, graphs and maths.
Throughout the lessons there is dedicated AfL, challenging and creative tasks, clearly presented information and relevant exam questions to test knowledge, application and practical skills.
A 360+ page booklet covering all the topics of A2 AQA A Level Biology with concise and high-yield notes for each topic, coupled with buckets of exam questions and mark schemes.
Booklet designed to supplement home learning / revision via notes providing some concise content and revision and the exam questions allowing for assessment of knowledge and application.
Introductory lesson back to A Level Biology / Chemistry / Physics. Workbooks cover essential maths skills needed for sciences, statistics introduction, data handling and interpretation and getting to grips with critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and challenging exam styles.
Maths skills covered:
Standard Form
Equations and re-arranging
Ratios and simplifying
Percentages
Percentage change
Unit conversion and orders of magnitude
Prefix and symbols of units
Handling and deriving units
Temperature change and conversion
Density, mass and volume
Logs
pH
Uncertainty and Percentage Error
7 detailed lessons on AQA A Level Biology Homeostasis, covering temperature regulation, glucose control, the hormones involved in glucose control, the second messenger model, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and finally the Kidneys and osmoregulation.
This is designed for AQA but can easily be adapted for other exam boards.
There are over 16 files with specifically chosen exam questions to develop recall, practical skills and challenging application questions scattered throughout to refine knowledge.
The lessons are concise and detailed with plenty of room for consolidation and engaging activities/AfL to support teaching.
Over 100 questions on biological molecules and nucleic acids. The nucleic acids questions are less so and constrained to DNA and RNA as majority of questions link this part of the spec to Variation (so they’re all in there).
Mark schemes included.
The first of a few more to come in regards to the new spec a level AQA Biology.
Each ‘set’ will include the powerpoint plus some fairly challenging exam questions in lieu of the difficulty of the new spec and the mark scheme. The questions have been designed by me mainly
For Christmas, i made students complete a “12 days of Christmas” revision booklet to consolidate our topic on recombinant DNA Technology.
Equally, this booklet can easily be transferred into homework tasks for students studying the topic or even used in lessons for students to record their notes in. The booklet is full of practise summary questions, learning tasks and exam questions to help refine students’ learning.
Please do leave a review if you do download this! Thank you :)
Included are fairly difficult aplication Qs used as an end of topic test on ecology including the mark scheme. Ecology is a topic students often fail at in exams and this paper is a combination of difficult questions and some really difficult questions i have composed myself, with a heavy focus on context, application and practical reasoning.
Attached is a document containing difficult ecology and environment questions with mark schemes included.
The activity works on the basis of students answering the questions then peer assessing rotating from one station to the other. Stations contain the questions. This can, of course, be used in a billion other ways where students could relay question sheets and then add to the answer already there in a different colour every minute and so on forth.
SEVEN FULL LESSONS on the Respiration (Aerobic and Anaerobic) and also exploring Respirometers and Potomers. This has been designed for AQA A Level Biology although could easily be adapted for other boards.
Lessons include detailed and concise notes on the complex respiration processes, along with many tasks to reflect on learning and also exam questions - from recall and tricky application - throughout the lessons. Required Practical 9 is also included with detailed resources, questions and tasks for students guiding them through the practical and their CPAC.
FURTHER, there is a full lesson dedicated to Uncertainity and Percentage Error calculations
Two similar practical techniques; resource contains a detailed lesson with AfL exploring how each works, their uses, and how calculations for the rate of respiration/transpiration are deduced. Further, there are model answers to common questions testing respirometers and potometer use that have come up in the past!
Also included are relevant exam questions and mark schemes for students to test their knowledge.