basically I need AAA or A*AB for my uni offer. I'm trying to do the best in all of my subjects obviously, but I think that third A will be a struggle. On the other hand I think an A* in biology is achievable for me.
I understand 90% of the content, and I'm doing practice questions and papers and I am doing well. But I've noticed I'm consistently getting in the 70-80% range with my marks. Which is not bad at all. I think it's amounted to at least an A in every paper I've done,
But it's not comfortable, or a safe bet. And biology mark schemes are so so incredibly unpredictable and inconsistent.
Is there something I'm missing, how do people on here get A*s in biology? All the marks I'm losing are generally application, some are vocab. One paper i had a 5 marker on how enzymes work, I went through it all blah blah blah tertiary structure 3D shape, complementary active site etc etc. I said everything but lost 2 marks because I didn't say enzyme substrate complex. Then the identical question on another paper "ignore reference to enzyme-substrate complex"
Also question 1 on here,
https://pmt.physicsandmathstutor.com/download/Biology/A-level/Topic-Qs/AQA/1-Biological-Molecules/Set-B/Carbohydrates%20QP.pdflike biological molecules is the easiest topic in the whole a-level, I've revised it and been tested so many times over the past two years I legit think I know every fact in that textbook chapter. But I still only got 1/3 on the 1a question. Things I said were perfectly reasonable, but not the ones on the mark scheme. So many other examples in biology, where you can say things that are completely correct and any scientist in the world would agree they are reasonable suggestions, but they are not on the mark scheme so noooo.
Any tips anyone, pls?