Motivation Forum for AQA Biology AS Level

I thought everyone taking Biology a level can motivate each other on here
I am currently studying in sixthform AS biology.

Whats the best way of studying for you?
How do you usually motivate yourself to make your self study?

Biology just isn't going well for me i am just going threw work we've done but getting E and fails. how are you coping and what grades are you receiving in mocks?
only thing motivating me is the fact the teacher have put me as concern and need to get at least 68% in test

I did AQA AS biology, I hated it so I dropped it! I feel your pain My advice is to do lots of past papers!

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I am also failing all my mocks, all E's and F's
First his put me down like i cannot do biology anymore, wait no A levels anymore. I wanted to quit and do a B-tec or apprentiship.

But then i realised i was failing because i put zero effort in. How can i do well when all i do is my compulsory homework and no extra revision.
Something hit me and i was just determined to try hard. So currently im going to have mock exams in january after this holiday.
I have decided I am going to give it my all. I've typed up all my revision notes for unit 1 biology and i want to do the best as i can.

I think we can do it, yes it is had, the hardest thing i have ever done but we need to motivate ourselves to try our hardest! No point in sitting around waiting to fail, for me its time to put my head in and BECOME A GENIUS!

ME TOO! I wanted to drop it so bad but i want to go into medicine so i need to do biology. I am going to learn all the content then try to do every past paper, hopefully.

I did AQA Biology at AS and A2. AQA is by FAR THE WORST board for Biology out there. Especially the EMPA's.

I ended up with a very high A grade at AS and that helped me get an A overall at A2.

I understand the jump is incredibly difficult from GCSE.

My advice would be to drop it if you don't need it for your uni choices as it's too much work however if you wanna study Biology/Medicine/Dentistry/Biomed/Biochem etc... then you'll need it obviously.

Here are my tips:
* Do loads of past papers and practice tonnes of How Science Works questions especially from other boards as Aqa love those type.
*Do older and new past papers from aqa and keep doing them over and over again.
*BIG TIP!!!! Focus hard on doing Well in UNIT 2 !!!
Thats worth nearly half of your AS and be sure to focus more on that.

* Don't worry too much about your EMPA. I know it's horrible but it carries very few ums so focus more on your exams.

* BIG TIP!!!! If your doing AQA Biology at A2. Make sure you pick up as many marks as u can in your AS as it's very very difficult to get an A in your A2. I averaged out to about 90% in my AS and about 75% in my A2 with the same work ethic throughout the 2 years.

**Make sure to learn the mark schemes. Even if you give the best biological answer possible AQA will mark it wrong as all they care about is marking according to their stupid mark schemes

Lastly if anyone needs any help going through a particular past paper/ past paper question then please don't hesitate to PM me and I would love to help out

Good luck and sorry your stuck with AQA.

Hearing all of you guys' plans has really motivated me now, i'm doing A2 but resitting Unit 2, double pressure! Plus if we don't do well in our mocks after the Xmas holidays, for unit 2, we wont be allowed to re-sit!

Wow so you've got Unit 2/Unit 4/ EMPA & Unit 5 in the summer ??

Sure do! I've been good though this year, I started revising Unit 4 early, so I just have a few topics for that in the holidays, ready to do unit 5 as we go along, and unit 2 in these holidays. Most of my class is resitting a unit because this years grades were pretty bad across the school, I think it was mainly the scrapping of January exams because everyone got lazy

BIOl4 is the most boring module I've ever studied. Apart from a bit of Respiration/Photosynthesis/Genetics the rest of it is more ****.

Yeah we were the first year to be hit by the scrapping of the jan exams, tbh I think it's better in some way.

Heres a big tip for BIOL5= Start practicing the synoptic essays early !!!!!!!!!!!. You do know that for BIOL5 there is a 25 mark synoptic essay in the end and it's work 25% of your paper.

I got 94% in BIOL5 (132/140) and a big reason for that was because I practiced the synoptic essays a lot !!!!!!!!

There's a lot of technique involved in writing the essays, planning, Brainstorming, explaining each point, linking different parts of the syllabus together and timing.

I had done about 20 or so Synoptic essays before Christmas, so you should get cracking. Obviously you don't know what titles they'll give you however if you do an essay on any topic, it's answers/points will link in with other titles.

Please don't hesitate to scan and PM me your synoptic essay and I would love to mark them and give u feedback.

Good luck