Kidney Questions with mark schemes -A level Biology Questions by topic

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OCR A 5.1.2 · AQA 3.6.4.3 · CIE 14.1 · past paper questions with mark schemes

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Going through past papers by topic often gives a useful insight into the thoughts of the examiners and how they see a topic and the emphasis they put on different parts of a specification. I have included all the markschemes and comments from the examiners reports. PDF below.

 

 

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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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.

if you use then please like and share

Read more →
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