Urgent! Aqa (b) Biology

Hey everyone!! Just want some advice regarding Biology. I am considering doing all 6 modules AS/A2 in June. I have got conditional offers for Optometry which require A grades in Biology! I will have a maximum of 12 exams if do all the Biology modules! Has anyone done this before, and will it be worth doing because I will have to relearn everything for synoptic anyway! Modules 5 and 7 are the new ones that I have to do! The rest will be resits!

These are the modules I am considering doing:

Module 1: Core Principles
Module 2: Genes and Genetics
Module 3: Physiology and Transport
Module 4: Energy, Continuity and Control
Module 5 : Environment
Module 7: (option unit) Microbes and Disease

I really need an A!! Lol!

Reply 1

Iscariot

I did it, but having said that... I only got a C. But none of them were re-sits, I did them all in a bunch together for the first time.

I'm sure it's possible to do it and get an A. It's all about application I suppose.

Reply 2

*pink_sapphires*

Don't optometry want you to have an A in one sitting?

If you work hard enough, it's achievable. You took 9 or 10 GCSEs, which you learnt over 2 years, so i'm sure you can manage 1 whole A Level in one go :smile:

Reply 3

Wangers

What were your marks like to warrent resitting? Theres a law of diminishing returns, be wary of spreading yourself too thin.

Reply 4

MJKAGray

It all depends on you really, if you think you can cope you should go for it. You can learn module 2 in a matter of days so that's no real worry. Just prepare properly because doing all 6 modules in one sitting will be a hell of a lot of content to learn and may be too much.

Reply 5

z_2j96

There all spread out with AS being on 3rd of June and byb4 and byb5 on 12th or 13th. Then byb7 on the 18th! I dont need to do all 6, however I jus want to make sure I get an A!! I've just done byb4 for the first time a few weeks ago, it was a good paper however I think the highest I can get for that is a B!

Reply 6

z_2j96

I am sitting in lessons for (byb2,byb3,byb5 and byb7) 4 modules! However byb1 and byb4 will be self taught resits!!!

Reply 7

Botticello

Ouch, rather you than me!

Reply 8

Speedbird2008

An A grade from now, learning all of the syllabi?

Sorry - just isn't gonna' happen.

Reply 9

z_2j96

A maximum of 12 exams though! I know people who have 16! I know modules 2,3 and 4 pretty well, module 1 will be the only one that I will teach myself! The rest just looking through notes and past papers!

Reply 10

Katiee

i wouldnt recommend resitting mod 4
unless you failed completely

the content is so much that in the new a levels coming out i nsept
it has been split into 2 completely different topics

saying that i taught myself the whole of mod 4 in less than a week

.... spose we'll soon see how well i did when i get my marks in a month or so

Reply 11

Nealo201

yeah katiee ive nearly done that in prep for an interview. i think, you do a topic a week (when in full steam revision i'd be doin one a day), you could make it i reckon. Just make sure you understand everything and you do every past paper. although i think biols a bag of wee cos i did well last year (281/300), unit 4 is a bugger for content and 5 is annoyin as its so vague.

i also thought when they say one sittin, they mean dont resit the whole year, your not cos your carryin on with A2.

all the best

Reply 12

z_2j96

I'll see what happens!!! But a maximum of 12 exams which is ok, as so many peopple I know have 13 or more!!! I'm going to start revising ASAP!!!

Reply 13

martin101

Ah nostalgia... Those are the same 6 modules I took for my Biology A2. Could I realistically have gotten an A in one sitting... possibly but unlikely. Is it doable? Probably, given that I was just plain lazy.

Mod 1-3 are a piece of cake as is 7 (except the synoptic which is quite fun but definately hard)
Mod 4 I found a bitch
Mod 5 was boring as hell but it wasnt particularly hard.