2023 Biology A level AQA predicted essay

Original post by nikta

Was just wondering if anyone has tried predicting the Biology A level for AQA's essay for this year? My teacher said sometimes its easy to predict the essay since you can compare it to the topics that haven't come up yet

if the two choices are something to do with DNA technology and succession or biodiversity, i’m actaully finished im not even gonna try with that one bro

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Original post by imma_eatjin

if the two choices are something to do with DNA technology and succession or biodiversity, i’m actaully finished im not even gonna try with that one bro

ik same i’d acc kms. but my teacher thinks it’s on water, and she predicted the cycles one right last year

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Original post by rafifin605

ik same i’d acc kms. but my teacher thinks it’s on water, and she predicted the cycles one right last year

water would be such a nice one compared to some others icl that’s kind of a good prediction too bc they gave a water question for AS last year, so maybe they would make it into the essay question this year? i rlly hope so

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Original post by imma_eatjin

water would be such a nice one compared to some others icl that’s kind of a good prediction too bc they gave a water question for AS last year, so maybe they would make it into the essay question this year? i rlly hope so

water in general hasn’t come up much if you know what i mean, i was a bit scared at first icl but it’s not even that hard. we just need to pray it is.

what other questions are people thinking cos i don’t think primrose kitten is getting much right this year

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Original post by rafifin605

water in general hasn’t come up much if you know what i mean, i was a bit scared at first icl but it’s not even that hard. we just need to pray it is.

what other questions are people thinking cos i don’t think primrose kitten is getting much right this year

primrose kitten isn’t even all that icl i find her well unhelpful

also essay titles i think a good one could be the importance of microbes maybe? maybe one on succession/inheritance/something to do with genes getting passed on through reproduction if that makes sense

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the past ones that have been done could be modified for this year too who knows

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Chrisrobson13

Original post by imma_eatjin

water would be such a nice one compared to some others icl that’s kind of a good prediction too bc they gave a water question for AS last year, so maybe they would make it into the essay question this year? i rlly hope so

What would you write about for it? I’m struggling to think of 4/5 topics

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Original post by Chrisrobson13

What would you write about for it? I’m struggling to think of 4/5 topics

We did this in school because my teacher thinks there’s a good chance of it coming up, we made the plan as a class then wrote the essay separately. So i’m assuming these are good topics, otherwise she wouldn’t have wrote it on the board yino.

1. AO1 - plants/cohesion tension theory/xylem
AO2 - IAA or translocation (hydrostatic pressure)

2. AO1 - kidneys/osmoregulation/aquaporins/reabsorption in the collecting duct
AO2 - dehydration/lysis/tissue fluid

3. AO1 - photosynthesis/chemiosmosis/photolysis
AO2 - cellulose/respiration (icl idk what i mean by that one)

4. AO1 - metabolite/polymers to monomers/condensation and hydrolysis
AO2 - digestion/dipeptides/endo and exo peptidases/no ATP so no AT

5. AO1 - high specific heat capacity/thermoregulation
AO2 - enzymes

Correct me if i’m wrong on any of this, i feel like the 3rd ones AO2 is so someone please help.

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boomsicles48

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Original post by rafifin605

We did this in school because my teacher thinks there’s a good chance of it coming up, we made the plan as a class then wrote the essay separately. So i’m assuming these are good topics, otherwise she wouldn’t have wrote it on the board yino.

1. AO1 - plants/cohesion tension theory/xylem
AO2 - IAA or translocation (hydrostatic pressure)

2. AO1 - kidneys/osmoregulation/aquaporins/reabsorption in the collecting duct
AO2 - dehydration/lysis/tissue fluid

3. AO1 - photosynthesis/chemiosmosis/photolysis
AO2 - cellulose/respiration (icl idk what i mean by that one)

4. AO1 - metabolite/polymers to monomers/condensation and hydrolysis
AO2 - digestion/dipeptides/endo and exo peptidases/no ATP so no AT

5. AO1 - high specific heat capacity/thermoregulation
AO2 - enzymes

Correct me if i’m wrong on any of this, i feel like the 3rd ones AO2 is so someone please help.

That seems rly good. For the second importance I would put glucose needed to be reabsorbed for glycolysis.
for the third one I would have done chemiosmosis is needed for light independent reaction.
And for 4, I would put the importance as muscle contraction needs atp

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Chrisrobson13

Original post by rafifin605

We did this in school because my teacher thinks there’s a good chance of it coming up, we made the plan as a class then wrote the essay separately. So i’m assuming these are good topics, otherwise she wouldn’t have wrote it on the board yino.

1. AO1 - plants/cohesion tension theory/xylem
AO2 - IAA or translocation (hydrostatic pressure)

2. AO1 - kidneys/osmoregulation/aquaporins/reabsorption in the collecting duct
AO2 - dehydration/lysis/tissue fluid

3. AO1 - photosynthesis/chemiosmosis/photolysis
AO2 - cellulose/respiration (icl idk what i mean by that one)

4. AO1 - metabolite/polymers to monomers/condensation and hydrolysis
AO2 - digestion/dipeptides/endo and exo peptidases/no ATP so no AT

5. AO1 - high specific heat capacity/thermoregulation
AO2 - enzymes

Correct me if i’m wrong on any of this, i feel like the 3rd ones AO2 is so someone please help.

Ah great, thank you :smile:

just one question, how does IAA link to transpiration in the xylem?
Is it because water is used as a reactant in LDR so more IAA produced from LIR??

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