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AQA AS Biology 7401/1 and 7401/2 Exam - 26th May and 7th June 2016

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Reply 20

cindy_obasa

Original post by Jackmilne95

Oh ok. Well on the spec there doesnt seem to be any differences at all. Are you only taking AS?

I want to take it for A2

Reply 21

cindy_obasa

Original post by Workangel_24

I also had my mocks this week! And they used the specimen papers only available for teachers! Yeah most of it were practical based and there weren't many calculation questions either. Only 10% for calculations and it seems we're going to get 50% application questions and 40% for knowledge this year.

What kind of practical questions?

Reply 22

Med3

Does anyone have the students locked specimen papers?

Reply 23

BinyQuan

Original post by SargentZenj2

Does anyone have the students locked specimen papers?

I got paper 1

Reply 24

Jokonkwo

Original post by DrNippleson

We just did the Teacher-Only spec papers for a mock and Paper 2 is very practical knowledge based and Paper 1 is content knowledge based.

hi what do you mean by practical base?
in my sixth form so far, we've only just done 3 practical's, yesterday we dissected the heart. Is it that they will ask questions around it like safety? how to carry the experiment out ?

Reply 25

Jokonkwo

Original post by BinyQuan

I got paper 1

how do you have it? where is it?

Reply 26

BinyQuan

Original post by Jokonkwo

how do you have it? where is it?

Man's got bare links.

Idk but teachers have it

Reply 27

YsfAli

Does anyone know which topics come into paper 1 and paper 2?

Reply 28

OfficialChemist

Is it worth doing all the past papers from the old spec, or should I focus on the new spec specimen papers?

Reply 29

Lantttttttt

Do you know the topic that came up in the second paper

Reply 30

skittles17

Can someone pls explain immunological comparisons of proteins as I don't understand why the serum from species B is mixed with the serum from the blood of a third species and how a precipitate forms?

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Reply 31

Virolite

Original post by skittles17

Care to elaborate on what you mean by 'immunological comparisons of proteins', as this topic might not be on the spec?

Reply 32

Virolite

Original post by BinyQuan

Man's got bare links.

Idk but teachers have it

pm me a cheeky link :3

Reply 33

Virolite

Original post by OfficialChemist

Is it worth doing all the past papers from the old spec, or should I focus on the new spec specimen papers?

old spec past papers help, but bare in mind 50% of it isn't on our spec so don't freak out if you see a question you don't know :smile:

Reply 34

Virolite

Original post by YsfAli

Does anyone know which topics come into paper 1 and paper 2?

it's completely random although we can safely assume topics that come up in paper 1, won't appear on paper 2 :h:

Reply 35

DrNippleson

Original post by Jokonkwo

Hiya - Most of the questions are practicals, not any of the ones we're meant to do in class just that the questions are practical orientated so make sure to think through the question.

Some were read from a Graph and Interpret, one plot a graph. Not that bad tbh,

Reply 36

skittles17

Immunological comparisons of proteins is part of the new AQA biology spec and it's comes under the biodiversity topic so it's used to see how closely related species are.

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Reply 37

Jokonkwo

[QUOTE=Virolite;64392509]pm me a cheeky link :3

Same pm the cheeky link please

Reply 38

Virolite

Original post by skittles17

Immunological comparisons of proteins is part of the new AQA biology spec and it's comes under the biodiversity topic so it's used to see how closely related species are.

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oh I see, that's what you meant, well it's simply the comparisons of DNA base sequences, RNA base sequences and amino acid base sequences to measure the genetic diversity of a species.

similar to % DNA hybridisation if you're familiar with that :tongue: