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AQA A-Level Biology Paper 3 (7402/3) - 19th June 2024 [Exam Chat]

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Original post by Joemama156
yo chat any 25 mark essay predictions for 2024 aqa a level biology

no idea 😭
Original post by Smart282
biologically speaking its a no from me

nah you're biologically wrong icl
Reply 83
has anyone looked through all the paper 3 past papers and have a list of the topics that haven't come up
Original post by Jael_Q
has anyone looked through all the paper 3 past papers and have a list of the topics that haven't come up

I think what's more important is looked at what didn't come up in paper 1 or 2, since they're more likely to ask about that; so to test most things on the course, e.g: the kidney
Original post by Dylan_Ford
I think what's more important is looked at what didn't come up in paper 1 or 2, since they're more likely to ask about that; so to test most things on the course, e.g: the kidney

sometimes they might repeat stuff from paper 1 but topics like photosynthesis, respiration, homeostasis + mass transport should come up in these papers

looking at some of the handwriting on this and how they're still marked gives me hope (i have the worst handwriting known to man).
Original post by War_criminal
looking at some of the handwriting on this and how they're still marked gives me hope (i have the worst handwriting known to man).

handwriting isn't assesed just quality of essay....the examiners understand that students are under pressure so are leneint

you still get marked down for significant errors and irrelevant sections

I don't know but I feel like we haven't had any homeostasis apart from the Diabetes question so I'm kinda betting on it to come up in the essay, Miss estruch said that there was one topic "the importance of responses to your internal and external environmental in organisms" that only came up once in 2015 soo
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Original post by Dylan_Ford
nah you're biologically wrong icl

as an Italian biologically i would like to argue i am right we invented pizza so we know
Original post by melanyg0002
I don't know but I feel like we haven't had any homeostasis apart from the Diabetes question so I'm kinda betting on it to come up in the essay, Miss estruch said that there was one topic "the importance of responses to your internal and external environmental in organisms" that only came up once in 2015 soo

In the pre spec...a good q that ties in all the topics that haven't come up is the importance of water and water regulation in organisms
Original post by halfharry
In the pre spec...a good q that ties in all the topics that haven't come up is the importance of water and water regulation in organisms

yes, that's true....
Original post by Smart282
as an Italian biologically i would like to argue i am right we invented pizza so we know

As a very experiences pizza eater, i say that the flavour combinations of sweet and savoury ameliorate the culinary experience.
Reply 93
Hi everyone I have a quick question on why your opinion might be on my situation: I use a word processor in exams (i type my answers) and because i like to type quickly yk to save time i often make typos. In the biology essay for this paper, Im very likely to make quite a lot of typos but not lots such that it will be illegible and im also planning on going back to key words to make sure they are correctly spelled. Otherwise, do you think I will be marked down if i spell (lots of stuff) wrong purely because of typos? thankssss
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Original post by War_criminal
looking at some of the handwriting on this and how they're still marked gives me hope (i have the worst handwriting known to man).

skill issue my handwriting is beautiful
Reply 95
Original post by rub15c0
skill issue my handwriting is beautiful

my handwriting is so **** that i have to type 😍
Original post by Rosasors
Hi everyone I have a quick question on why your opinion might be on my situation: I use a word processor in exams (i type my answers) and because i like to type quickly yk to save time i often make typos. In the biology essay for this paper, Im very likely to make quite a lot of typos but not lots such that it will be illegible and im also planning on going back to key words to make sure they are correctly spelled. Otherwise, do you think I will be marked down if i spell (lots of stuff) wrong purely because of typos? thankssss

Depends what you’re spelling wrong. If you spell something like osmoregulation wrong then No probably not, as long as the biology is right. However if you spell meiosis or mitosis wrong you won’t get the mark probably because they’re very similar and you have to be clear on what you’re actually calling the process
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Original post by luccigucci
Depends what you’re spelling wrong. If you spell something like osmoregulation wrong then No probably not, as long as the biology is right. However if you spell meiosis or mitosis wrong you won’t get the mark probably because they’re very similar and you have to be clear on what you’re actually calling the process


Ohh igu, I will make extra effort to make that clear. My main issue is doing stuff like: thr mitochmdrial memeberane is the stie of the krebs cucle
Reply 98
Original post by luccigucci
Depends what you’re spelling wrong. If you spell something like osmoregulation wrong then No probably not, as long as the biology is right. However if you spell meiosis or mitosis wrong you won’t get the mark probably because they’re very similar and you have to be clear on what you’re actually calling the process


I’ll work it out haha, thanks for your response
Reply 99
Original post by Rosasors
my handwriting is so **** that i have to type 😍

nahh bro if i had to type my paper would look like some ancient language... i suck at typing quickly without typos 🤧
what do u have to do for diagram drawing questions tho?

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