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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Student often struggle with Kw in terms of the specific wordy questions and some of the maths questions. Included are a range of questions that asses these aspects with mark schemes.
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 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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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.
Uncertainity and percentage error calculations are new to the AQA specification in Biology and something which will be assessed a lot more moving forward. These questions can be used for any exam board on the whole and explore what uncertainity is and means, the concept of resolution and plenty of exam questions for students to try.
Lots of self made organic synthesis questions for A Level Chemistry. Designed for OCR but can be adapted for any exam board. The questions vary in degree of challenge, from simpler recall to more complex application of organic principles.
Mark schemes / answers included for all questions.
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!
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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
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.
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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.
Exam questions on transition metals designed for AQA and OCR exam boards complete with mark schemes. The questions have been chosen across both boards and include a range of questions, from simple to recall to deliberately chosen challenging questions.
Concise, detailed notes on the required practical including:
method needing to be recalled,
key scientific knowledge to support understanding and recall
diagrams and processing of results
tons of practical based relevant exam questions and mark schemes to assess knowledge
challenging application questions and mathematical questions throughout to consolidate learning.
Designed for AQA but can be easily adapted for other exam boards.
Concise, detailed notes on the required practical including:
method needing to be recalled,
key scientific knowledge to support understanding and recall
diagrams and processing of results
tons of practical based relevant exam questions and mark schemes to assess knowledge
challenging application questions and mathematical questions throughout to consolidate learning.
Designed for AQA but can be easily adapted for other exam boards.
Concise, detailed notes on the required practical including:
method needing to be recalled,
key scientific knowledge to support understanding and recall
diagrams and processing of results
tons of practical based relevant exam questions and mark schemes to assess knowledge
challenging application questions and mathematical questions throughout to consolidate learning.
Designed for AQA but can be easily adapted for other exam boards.
Concise, detailed notes on the required practical including:
method needing to be recalled,
key scientific knowledge to support understanding and recall
diagrams and processing of results
tons of practical based relevant exam questions and mark schemes to assess knowledge
challenging application questions and mathematical questions throughout to consolidate learning.
Designed for AQA but can be easily adapted for other exam boards.