Brief guide to understanding the hard bits of the immune system A-level Biology Specification. Lots of questions and markschemes on the immune system.
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Read moreSimpsons Biodiversity tips ! Questions for A-level Biology
Calculating Simpsons Biodiversity index and some questions and markschemes on Biodiversity and Conservation. A Simpsons biodiversity calculation is almost certain to be on the exam paper. It combines maths with ecology and gives an opportunity for the examiner to ask suggest questions....
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Read moreAnswering Questions with lots of Maths in Biology - Data Analysis Questions in the new OCR Biology A Specification - updated Feb 2018 with the latest handbook
Which maths skills you need to practise for the new specification A-level Biology - excellent resources from OCR - also applies to AQA and Eduqas, lots of great practice questions
The quantity of maths in the 2017 specification is a challenge to many students - so I put together a summary of all of the OCR A new spec questions with some element of data analysis.
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Read moreChallenging Multiple Choice questions for A-level Biology - Part 2
As promised last week - here is the second half of the terrific Pre U multiple choice questions
good luck ! and here is the markscheme
Challenging Multiple Choice questions for A-level Biology great for OCR - not easy !
Pre-U is a fine source of wonderfully written multiple choice questions - now making a reappearance in OCR assessment.
PDF of 18 multiple choice questions
Will post the other half of them next week - will give you time to recover .....
Radioactive Phages - Good Synoptic A-level Biology Question #ocrbiology
Kidney Questions with markschemes -A level Biology Questions by topic
A level Biology Questions by topic - Kidney Questions with markschemes, useful for OCR, AQA, Eduqas
Here are lots of good questions on the kidney. I expect the kidney to appear frequently in the new style papers as they are very synoptic, give opportunities to require calculation and get students to analyse and explain data.
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Read morePrompting some festive recapping ? - Looking back at first year A-level Biology topics
Prompting some festive recapping ? - Looking back at first year A-level Biology topics
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Read moreVaccines, Plasmids and Monkeys... More Synoptic Questions - A-level Biology #ocr #eduqas
From an Old OCR Unifying concepts paper. ....
Don't panic, the question is not about DNA vaccines or plasmids.
The question is about differences between protein and DNA structure, protein synthesis, post translational modification of protein, clonal selection, mutation of pathogens. All of which are on the specification.
Read moreNo, no, no ! Quickly addressing (very) common Enzyme mistakes - A-level Biology #eduqas #OCR
Enzymes have an active site - Substrates don't.
The substrate is a complementary shape to the active site NOT the "same shape"
Enzymes reduce the activation energy for a reaction to occur
Anabolism is making, Catabolism is breaking
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