My teacher said we won't be ready by January (I beg to differ) and so he never entered, I begged and he said no. So I'm resitting BIOL2 in January and doing the other 2 in June. I don't like Nelson Thornes for A2 much, it's good for content but that's it. The hodder book is fantastic.
My teachers kept on ranting that the Nelson Thornes books for AS / A2 are aimed at those who want to get a C
My teachers kept on ranting that the Nelson Thornes books for AS / A2 are aimed at those who want to get a C
I don't know really, it depends to be honest. It gives the information but really does waffle on and knowing AQA, they're more focused on application which the Hodder book fulls insight to, even the content in the Hodder book is better. However, in June 2010 the BIOL2 paper had two questions from the application box in Nelson Thornes with the same exact question so it definitley isn't useless. For AS it's really good but for Unit 4, it just lacks a lot of the application so it's more useful to learn content.
My teachers kept on ranting that the Nelson Thornes books for AS / A2 are aimed at those who want to get a C
I agree but you need the NT books for content. The hodder books don't go through it in nearly enough detail. And I beg to disagree with your teacher - I ONLY used the NT book last year for AS and got well over 90%. So i wouldn't worry what your teacher says.
But this year I'm not taking the risk, so I'm using NT for notes, and hodder for exam questions.
My teacher said we won't be ready by January (I beg to differ) and so he never entered, I begged and he said no. So I'm resitting BIOL2 in January and doing the other 2 in June. I don't like Nelson Thornes for A2 much, it's good for content but that's it. The hodder book is fantastic.
I use the NT book to get the information, and once I've revised I'll use the hodder one for questions, because the hodder one doesn;t have enough detail. Saying that, the hodder one doesn't have any answers either!!
I use the NT book to get the information, and once I've revised I'll use the hodder one for questions, because the hodder one doesn;t have enough detail. Saying that, the hodder one doesn't have any answers either!!
The hodder one is also quite difficult to read as it's layout is pretty boring But the application stuff is a God-send to me! I needed most help with that.
Just finished off Inheritance topic on one side, and finished Photosynthesis on the other (we have two teachers, teaching two topics simultaneously), so we're officially done with Unit 4
For the next 4 or so weeks we'll make a very good start into Unit 5, and then we'll come back to unit 4 in January (exam is like on the 21st?), so we'll have 3ish weeks to revise unit 4
EDIT: Also, are units 4 and 5 equally weighted, at 140 UMS each?
Noo, Unit 4 +the isa/empa is 50% ans then unit 5 is 50%