OCR A- Level Biology 2023

FEELING COMPLETELY STRESSED OUT for bio honestly dont know how to revise for bio just need a B in it and I'll be fine hopefully

FEELING COMPLETELY STRESSED OUT for bio honestly dont know how to revise for bio just need a B in it and I'll be fine hopefully

Hi Everybody! We have 65 days until our first exam! How is everyone preparing for biology? Share your tips and feel free to ask any questions in this thread😁

hi, I am going through all the topics I've finished this easter break plus pmt questions for module 2, 3, and 5 (hopefully)
Im also using mr Murray biology's mind map templates to make a cheat sheet for each topic to run through every other day and im feeling stressed about module 6 and 4 because I hate that kind of theoretical content!

hey guys! i finished my ocr a biology last year and there’s a website called studymind which has practice papers sorted by topic and it was really helpful for the topics i struggled with

Calling all biologists! We have 65 days until our first exam! How is everyone preparing for biology? Share your tips and feel free to ask each other any biology related questions in this thread😁🧬

Biology Exam Dates as a reminder:
07/06/23 Biological Processes
16/06/23 Biological Diversity
21/06/23 Unified Biology

OCR A Level Biology Spec: https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/171736-specification-accredited-a-level-gce-biology-a-h420.pdf

Ahhhh it’s too closeee 😭 I’m just glad we also have the may half term to cram lol 😂 Any predictions for the 6 markers guys?

Hiii everyone! how do people revise for paper 3? just think that it's so much trickier than papers 1 and 2 somehow and the 6 markers as well, any tips? thanks!!!

Hi, I just did a past paper 3.

What I suggest is read the question very carefully and look out for graphs.

Paper 2 and paper 3 have many graphs and in paper 3 they are very confusing graphs with 2 y axis (one on the left and right). Make sure you read the correct values on the correct y axis.

Also - I suggest remembering stuff on validity, repeatability, precision, accuracy etc, because they are loads of those type of questions on paper 3, and even on the mock we did. Remember about statistical tests, control values and make sure to just spam them to get easy marks .

I am just doing a load of past papers then revising on studymind on the specific topics I struggle on.

Also when doing past papers, make sure you mark it thoroughly and do not give yourself BOD marks (Benefit of the Doubt). It may not get given because every examiner is different, try and use specific terminology and you should get easy marks.

thank you that's really helpful!!
btw for topics about manipulating genomes do you guys just memorise all the processes of gel electrophoresis, DNA profiling etc? this is my worst and least favourite topic

Yes, pretty much.

I remember there was a question that asked for a comparison of electrophoresis compared to TLC in a past paper, so make sure you remember all of the different methods. They could ask us stuff on that.

Hi, I just did a past paper 3.

What I suggest is read the question very carefully and look out for graphs.

Paper 2 and paper 3 have many graphs and in paper 3 they are very confusing graphs with 2 y axis (one on the left and right). Make sure you read the correct values on the correct y axis.

Also - I suggest remembering stuff on validity, repeatability, precision, accuracy etc, because they are loads of those type of questions on paper 3, and even on the mock we did. Remember about statistical tests, control values and make sure to just spam them to get easy marks .

I am just doing a load of past papers then revising on studymind on the specific topics I struggle on.

Also when doing past papers, make sure you mark it thoroughly and do not give yourself BOD marks (Benefit of the Doubt). It may not get given because every examiner is different, try and use specific terminology and you should get easy marks.