Biology A Level
Hi, I’m taking Biology A level SNAB Edexcel.
What do you recommend I use to revise. I just started year 12 but i have an issue with always falling behind so i’m trying to get ahead. Do you suggest i get CGP books or Exam board textbooks?
Any other tips would be so appreciated
What do you recommend I use to revise. I just started year 12 but i have an issue with always falling behind so i’m trying to get ahead. Do you suggest i get CGP books or Exam board textbooks?
Any other tips would be so appreciated
Reply 1
Hello,
I did Biology A level SNAB edexcel (such a horrible exam board)
I recommend using YouTube videos for processes to help visualise such as in year 12 the clotting cascade and writing step by step out again and again.
what really helped me was blurting, blurting helps you with what you can and cannot remember as well as what you need to work on.
my school bought us CGP textbooks and range other textbooks - I did use them for notes and references. But it's really important that you dont use your CGP book as a guide to your learning as some parts of the book you dont need to know or is extra information. To help you with exactly what you need to know use your PLC (personalised learning checklist). Your school should supply this to you or you can just search up the specification.
Write your flashcards during lessons, it saves time so you will less likely fall behind and review your lessons in your frees, ask your teacher for the powerpoint and go through it so that your confident in the next lesson. ask your teacher if you still dont understand.
Uplearn is useful, they dont have edexcel snab but some content from aqa overlaps with our topics.
I did Biology A level SNAB edexcel (such a horrible exam board)
I recommend using YouTube videos for processes to help visualise such as in year 12 the clotting cascade and writing step by step out again and again.
what really helped me was blurting, blurting helps you with what you can and cannot remember as well as what you need to work on.
my school bought us CGP textbooks and range other textbooks - I did use them for notes and references. But it's really important that you dont use your CGP book as a guide to your learning as some parts of the book you dont need to know or is extra information. To help you with exactly what you need to know use your PLC (personalised learning checklist). Your school should supply this to you or you can just search up the specification.
Write your flashcards during lessons, it saves time so you will less likely fall behind and review your lessons in your frees, ask your teacher for the powerpoint and go through it so that your confident in the next lesson. ask your teacher if you still dont understand.
Uplearn is useful, they dont have edexcel snab but some content from aqa overlaps with our topics.
(edited 1 year ago)
Reply 2
Original post
by emediu07Hi, I’m taking Biology A level SNAB Edexcel.
What do you recommend I use to revise. I just started year 12 but i have an issue with always falling behind so i’m trying to get ahead. Do you suggest i get CGP books or Exam board textbooks?
Any other tips would be so appreciated
What do you recommend I use to revise. I just started year 12 but i have an issue with always falling behind so i’m trying to get ahead. Do you suggest i get CGP books or Exam board textbooks?
Any other tips would be so appreciated
I found a youtube channel that's pretty new, it's called Professor SNAB and it's for our board as well. So alongside that I would do lots of practice questions from online and all the past paper questions 🙂
Reply 3
I found A Level Biology to be a real mix of memorization and applied understanding. Past papers helped me the most, since the mark schemes show exactly how detail-oriented the examiners are. Making concise notes with diagrams for processes like respiration or protein synthesis really improved recall. Balancing heavy content with practice questions was the only way I kept up.
Reply 4
Original post
by username6885847Hello,
I did Biology A level SNAB edexcel (such a horrible exam board)
I recommend using YouTube videos for processes to help visualise such as in year 12 the clotting cascade and writing step by step out again and again.
what really helped me was blurting, blurting helps you with what you can and cannot remember as well as what you need to work on.
my school bought us CGP textbooks and range other textbooks - I did use them for notes and references. But it's really important that you dont use your CGP book as a guide to your learning as some parts of the book you dont need to know or is extra information. To help you with exactly what you need to know use your PLC (personalised learning checklist). Your school should supply this to you or you can just search up the specification.
Write your flashcards during lessons, it saves time so you will less likely fall behind and review your lessons in your frees, ask your teacher for the powerpoint and go through it so that your confident in the next lesson. ask your teacher if you still dont understand.
Uplearn is useful, they dont have edexcel snab but some content from aqa overlaps with our topics.
I did Biology A level SNAB edexcel (such a horrible exam board)
I recommend using YouTube videos for processes to help visualise such as in year 12 the clotting cascade and writing step by step out again and again.
what really helped me was blurting, blurting helps you with what you can and cannot remember as well as what you need to work on.
my school bought us CGP textbooks and range other textbooks - I did use them for notes and references. But it's really important that you dont use your CGP book as a guide to your learning as some parts of the book you dont need to know or is extra information. To help you with exactly what you need to know use your PLC (personalised learning checklist). Your school should supply this to you or you can just search up the specification.
Write your flashcards during lessons, it saves time so you will less likely fall behind and review your lessons in your frees, ask your teacher for the powerpoint and go through it so that your confident in the next lesson. ask your teacher if you still dont understand.
Uplearn is useful, they dont have edexcel snab but some content from aqa overlaps with our topics.
Thanks
Reply 5
Be sure to do the practice questions that Physics and Maths tutor has. If you have an issue with falling behind on content, then it is a good idea to use the specification to prioritise content by highlighting what you need to know in one colour (in your texbtook and/or revision guide) so you can focus on that.
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