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Key Concepts: Independent and Dependent Variables

January 10, 2025 Jenny Shipway

A variable is any value that does/might change during an experiment. Variables can include things like pH, temperature, colour, or the concentration of substances. The amount of time that has passed is a variable, as are rates of reaction.

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In Exam Tips, OCR, Practical, Tables & Graphs, AQA, Eduqas, Synoptic, Revision Tips, Misconceptions

Quick Cell Quiz: can you spot where these students went wrong?

March 23, 2024 Jenny Shipway

Can you spot the problems with these A level Biology exam question answers? These bloopers come up a lot - check you’re not going to make the same mistakes.

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In Cells, Exam Tips, Misconceptions, OCR, Nuffield, Pre-U, AQA, Eduqas

Improve your Exam Answers -Small changes that will get you more marks - UPDATED JAN 2023

November 7, 2021 Tom Whitburn

How to change the language you use in A level Biology Answers, and get better grades

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In Misconceptions, Exam questions, Exam Tips, Resource List, AQA, OCR, Eduqas, Pre-U, Nuffield Tags revision, popular

OCR A and OCR B June 2019 - Summer highlights - Great tips from the board

November 29, 2019 Tom Whitburn

OCR A June 2019 summer highlights

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In Misconceptions, OCR, Synoptic, Exam Tips Tags ocr biology, popular

AQA Paper 3 Extended Essay: Tips, Mark-schemes and Past Essay Titles

February 22, 2018 Tom Whitburn

Tips on how to answer the AQA A-level Biology Extended Essay.

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In Misconceptions, AQA, Exam Tips Tags aqa, essay

How to do Tables and Graphs - terrific guidance from Exam Boards for A-level Biology

December 29, 2016 Tom Whitburn

There is plenty of excellent guidance on how to plot graphs and draw tables in the OCR practical booklet  ..... pdf

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In Misconceptions, Tables & Graphs, Practical, Exam questions Tags Practical Skills, OCR Biology, tables and graphs, maths, popular

Find the mistakes ... Surprisingly popular Photosynthesis revision for A-level Biology

December 27, 2016 Tom Whitburn

Surprisingly popular Photosynthesis revision

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In Misconceptions, Photosynthesis Tags photosynthesis, revision

No, no, no ! Quickly addressing (very) common Enzyme mistakes - A-level Biology #eduqas #OCR

November 3, 2016 Tom Whitburn

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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In OCR, Eduqas, Misconceptions, Proteins Tags enzymes, misconceptions

A different approach to teaching (aerobic) respiration - A-level Biology

September 29, 2016 Tom Whitburn

Teaching aerobic respiration is a difficult topic, traditionally,  teachers begin with glycolysis, then link reaction and krebs cycle and then the electron transport chain, I would argue that there is a better way to teach this.

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In Misconceptions, Respiration Tags respiration

Common Mistakes and misconceptions with Cells and Membranes

September 26, 2016 Tom Whitburn

A few common mistakes with molecules and cells and membranes

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In Misconceptions, AQA, OCR Tags OCR A, AQA, eduqas

A-level Biological Molecules - 11 basic points to help you learn

September 20, 2016 Tom Whitburn

10 Basic points to remember for Biological Molecules

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In Misconceptions, Eduqas, Exam Tips, Biological Molecules, Carbohydrates, AQA Tags Biological Molecules, A-level Biology, eduqas, OCR, Peptide bond, OCR A, AQA

How to Understand the Cardiac Cycle - Now with a Quiz and Questions

August 25, 2016 Tom Whitburn

How to understand the Cardiac Cycle

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In Misconceptions, OCR, Heart, Resource List, AQA Tags Cardiac Cycle, AQA, OCR A
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