Edexcel AS Biology Coursework/Issue Report - example

Thank you for this I was literally about to drop out of college because I thought I'd fail lol.
Do you have anymore tips? Like key things/points to include? My teacher didn't really offer much help so I don't even know what I'm supposed to write.
By the way what is meant by biological processes of the solution to the problem?

So I wrote about the biochemistry behind drugs, and how they work. For example things like how statins (my chosen solution) block certain metabolic pathways and prevent an enzyme from being synthesized etc

Hello there, sorry to be of nuisance but I have a few questions if you wouldn't mind answering please.

For the "Describe the biological methods and processes involved in producing data or solutions to problems or questions relevant to a visit made or issue researched" do we have to describe research into the solution? How long should this be and how should we be doing this?

What an absolute struggle, thanks for your thread by the way!

Hi. Seeing as I've seen quite a few threads about how to deal with the Edexcel Biology AS coursework I thought I'd make this to help out. I got 39/40 raw marks which equated to 58/60 UMS. I will post the main body of the report but not include images or references. This is because the main idea here is to give people ideas on how to structure it and what kind of things to include in each section.

One thing to note is your referencing. You should use Harvard Referencing (Google how to do this). You also need to include one or two non-web based sources which I believe gains you one mark. This can be done by taking a source from a scientific journal and referencing it in such a way that it looks like a non-web based source. For example, I found a paper from the British Medical Journal website and referenced it as a non-web based source as follows :

Name of author,Title of paper, (name of journal) 2003; 326:1423 (random numbers from the abstract), page 3, Published 23 June 2003

For the web based references:

Name of website, author, date accessed by youPlease don't copy and past any of this. You'll be flagged for plagiarism.

Good luck

Hi, sorry to revive an old thread. I'm doing the AS coursework on the same topic as yours but when in the specification it says "Discuss alternative views or solutions for implications ofthe biology encountered within the context of the visit orissue" Could you talk about other drugs that work similar to Statins such as antihypertensive, antiplatelet drugs etc?

Exactly that, yes. If you can find data to suggest that your chosen solution is better than the alternatives that would be great; my teacher emphasized that we do that as there's marks for it (it's been over 2 years however so I don't really remember much!)