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2024 Essay Preparation for A Level Biology AQA

Subject: Biology

Age range: 16+

Resource type: Lesson (complete)

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This is the latest and only version, recently updated with last year’s (2023) accessible essay

**This resource makes PRACTISING and REVISING for the AQA Paper 3 Biology Essay, SPECIFIC, and EASY.

TEACHERS , use as a lesson resource, throughout upper 6, and as a preparation session before Paper 3. STUDENTS use for focused revision and to practise writing essay paragraphs. You can even memorise paragraphs to rewrite.

All my students using this resource scored in double figures, with many scoring over 19/25 in 2023.

CONTEXT: Every year at least one essay is very accessible, usually both are. This resource is to prepare for the accessible essay(s).

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• key revision of the 14 common topic areas (AO1) to learn.
• written importance examples (AO2) to learn, from the 14 common topics.
• a figure on how often each topic has appeared on essay mark schemes from 2017-2023.
• a list of the accessible titles in the essays (from 2017-2023)
• an easy-to-understand essay mark scheme

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AQA A-Level Biology Paper 1 Predicted Paper 2023 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Section 1 : AQA A-Level Biology Paper 1 Predicted Paper 2023 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100 Min

1. AQA A-Level Biology Paper 1 Predicted Paper 2023 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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Predicted Paper 2023

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Date …………………

2 hours allowed.

You may use a scientific calculator and a ruler with millimetre measurements.

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These are VERY rough guesses! Getting a B on this paper does not guarantee you the same mark in the exam.

To look for the presence of starch in potatoes, a student decided to observe potato cells under a microscope. The image below shows starch grains present in potato cells viewed at a magnification of x400.

a) Describe how the student could have prepared the sample to view under the microscope.

b) Describe how the student identified that these grains contained starch.

c) Calculate the actual length in µm of the starch grain between points A and B.

Actual length = 

d) Plants store excess glucose as starch in their cells. Glucose can also be used to make cellulose to make cell walls.

Explain how the structure of cellulose make it adapted for its function.

a) Explain how water assists in metabolic reactions inside cells.

b) The image below shows a freshwater pond.

State and explain three properties of water that help organisms that live in the pond to survive.

Sugars made in the leaves of plants must be transported to other tissues. One theory states that a pressure gradient is created from the leaves to the roots and that sugars are transported in the phloem under high pressure down the pressure gradient.

a) Describe how high pressure in the phloem of leaves is created.

Experiments have been carried out to find evidence which supports this hypothesis. A scientist wanted to observe the effect of ringing on the movement of substances in the phloem of apple trees.

An experiment was devised and 10 specimen apple trees were picked by the scientist. She took 3 branches of equal diameter from below the leaves of each of the 10 trees and treated them under the following 

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AQA A-Level Biology Past Papers

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June 2022 AQA A-Level Biology (7402) and AS-Level Past Papers (7401)

June 2022 - A-Level Biology – Paper 1 (7402/1)  Download Paper      -     Download Marking Scheme

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• 3.1 Biological molecules
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AQA A Level Psychology | 2023 Exams | Model Answers

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