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.
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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.
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
A challenging organic synthesis paper with lots of flow charts and application questions. Some maths questions also incorporated linking to organic structure and synthesis.
Mark scheme / answers also attached.
With the demands of the new specification on practical skills and particularly methodology with Chemistry, i have compiled together a concise practical booklet on all the required practicals and the skills translated from there that will be assessed.
These condensed notes are perfect for students and include detailed but concise methods to score full marks.
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**PAPER 1 style full length mock exam, designed for AQA but easily adjustable to other exam boards e.g. OCR
Paper 1 from AQA A Level Biology covers AS topics, such as…
PAPER CONTENT LIST:
Transport across cell membranes
Antibodies and antigens
HIV
DNA, mitosis and cancer
Mass transport - cardiac cycle, transpiration, translocation
Digestion and absorption
Biological molecules
Insect gas exchange
Topics assessed via range of recall, application and practical-based questions.
Mark scheme included.
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.
Included is a 72 page concise but cohesive powerpoint exploring the topics listed below along with a 30 page exam booklet complete with questions and answers. There are also scanned notes included within the powerpoint and challenging exam questions aimed for the top end. There is a brief look into SUVAT also some very challenging momentum questions.
These resources are a cohesive COLLECTION of different pieces of work from across the years and are thus relevant for a variety of exam boards, aimed at GCSE. However, it could be sensible for a more able KS3 class or an applied science A Level class.
TOPICS:
Types of Forces
Resultant Force
Inertia
Newton’s Laws
Momentum
Crumple Zones and Seat Belts
Mass and Weight
Free Fall and Terminal Velocity
SUVAT
With the increased demand of practical questions in the new spec papers, i have put together a booklet on the required practicals which contain concise, detailed notes for each practical AND common questions that i have found from my vast research through endless papers!
Included is also an application question for each practical along with a challenging insect dissection question i have made.
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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.
This folder comes with 10 lessons for each of the parts of the stimulus and response topic, including relevant exam practise and also required practical 10 alongside practical skills to do with IAA - from responses and reflexes to receptors and finally control of the heart rate.
The following parts of the spec are covered:
• Organisms increase their chance of survival by responding to changes in their environment. In flowering plants, specific growth factors move from growing regions to other tissues, where they regulate growth in response to directional stimuli.
• The effect of different concentrations of indoleacetic acid (IAA) on cell elongation in the roots and shoots of flowering plants as an explanation of gravitropism and phototropism in flowering plants.
• Taxes and kineses as simple responses that can maintain a mobile organism in a favourable environment.
• The protective effect of a simple reflex, exemplified by a three neurone simple reflex.
• AT h Students could design and carry out investigations into the effects of indoleacetic acid on root growth in seedlings.
• Required practical 10: Investigation into the effect of an environmental variable on the movement of an animal using either a choice chamber or a maze.
• The Pacinian corpuscle should be used as an example of a receptor to illustrate that:
• receptors respond only to specific stimuli
• stimulation of a receptor leads to the establishment of a generator potential.
• The basic structure of a Pacinian corpuscle.
• Deformation of stretch-mediated sodium ion channels in a Pacinian corpuscle leads to the establishment of a generator potential.
• The human retina in sufficient detail to show how differences in sensitivity to light, sensitivity to colour and visual acuity are explained by differences in the optical pigments of rods and cones and the connections rods and cones make in the optic nerve.
• Myogenic stimulation of the heart and transmission of a subsequent wave of electrical activity.
• The roles of the sinoatrial node (SAN), atrioventricular node (AVN) and Purkyne tissue in the bundle of His.
• The roles and locations of chemoreceptors and pressure receptors and the roles of the autonomic nervous system and effectors in controlling heart rate.
• AT h Students could design and carry out an investigation into the effect of a named variable on human pulse rate.
• MS 2.2 Students could use values of heart rate ® and stroke volume (V) to calculate cardiac output (CO), using the formula CO = R × V
NINE FULL LESSONS ON PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Lessons begin with exploration of chloroplast and chloroplast structure before delving into detailed explanations of the light dependent and in-dependent reaction, along with assessing the two required practicals: Chromatography with pigments AND Dehydrogenase/DCPIP practical before exploring limiting graphs and finally applying photosynthesis to very tricky questions.
These lessons are invaluable - focusing on the basic content A01, coupled with tricky exam questions throughout, A02, and finally assessing the require practicals, developing graphing analysis and data tabulating skills and also answering tricky practical and context based exam questions, A03.
There is detailed guidance for each practical along with student summary sheets and a CPAC assessment grid.
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.
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
SIX FULL LESSONS on the AQA A Level Biology Nervous Coordination Topic.
Lessons explore hormonal and nervous coordination, neurone structure, salatory conduction, action potentials, synapses and finally muscles and muscle contraction.
Lessons include fun and engaging activities such as modelling muscle contraction and exploring the effect of drugs on synapses along with research on neuromuscular fatigue exercises and neurodegenerative diseases (excellent exam preparation material!) along with detailed, concise and fully explained notes on a challenging topic, and relevant exam questions along with some very challenging application questions.
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Included is a 200+ page booklet for each of the 10 required practicals for AQA GCSE Physics. THIS BOOKLET WILL COVER TRIOLOGY AND SEPERATE PHYSICS ONLY . FOR THE SEPARATE PHYSICS OPTION, PRACTICALS 2 AND 9 ARE ADDITIONAL. THESE ARE ALL INCLUDED
There are concise summary pages for each practical with detailed and accurate methods, and, dedicated exam practice related to practical work/A03 for that practical.
The questions provide perfect AfL to ensure all content has been covered. This excellent resource is essential for the mastering of the practical questions that many students find difficult to answer.
ALL mark schemes are included. Questions taken from AQA, have been made up, and from relevant other areas to stretch and challenge students.
Practicals Covered:
Specific Heat Capacity
Thermal Insulation (PHYSICS ONLY)
Resistance of a Wire
Current and Voltage
Density of Solid Regular, Irregular, Liquid
Forces and Extension
Acceleration
Waves
Light (PHYSICS ONLY)
IR (Radiation and Absorption)
48 pages on the AS Required Practicals for the OCR Chemistry A Specification
This invaluable booklet includes detailed methods, result table layouts, note pages and relevant exam questions to consolidate learning and evaluate methodology. There is a CPAC tracker to track students’ progress through each of the required practicals throughout the year.
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.
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.
This 70 page booklet contains exam questions and explanations of calculations required as part of the AQA A Level Biology specification. This is easily adaptable for any exam board.
The following areas are covered:
Units, stats tests and and standard deviations, standard form, percentages, uncertainity, use of calculators to find and use power, exponential and logarithmic functions, order of magnitude calculations, y=mx+c, determination of the intercept of a graph, tangents and rate and finally geometry (area, volume etc).
Also included are the answers and the booklets are in pdf and word form for easy editing. The booklet can be used in many ways; it could be given to students to complete as a whole (with answers published on the VLE system/printed for students), or a page could be given a day as the starter of each lesson, or a page for homework, or teachers can simply select pages needed from the massive, massive list to use for explanations and so on forth.