- Hi guys here are my predictions
for the 2019 AQA Biology paper two.
Now my predictions for this paper last year
were very very good.
When I saw that paper, I was like, yes, well done.
And everyone that watched my video
and did the predictive paper that I wrote
got a massive massive boost in the exam
because they revised the stuff that came up in the exam.
But you have to remember that I am not an examiner
these are just predictions.
I do not know exactly what is gonna come up
in this year's exam.
Please revise absolutely everything.
So I hope you revise absolutely everything
and if I'm right it will be really really good revision.
Over on the website I've written you a load
of predictive papers which are available
for immediate download.
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we know that 10% of your biology grade
is going to come from maths in science things.
So in this paper we need to be thinking about surface areas,
we need to be thinking about reaction times.
We could be talking about percentage increase,
percentage decrease, percentage change.
This maths would fit really really in well
with lots of the practicals.
Last year the maths in biology wasn't done very well.
People forgetting obvious things,
like, there are 360 degrees in a circle.
Do not let the fact that this is a science exam,
or any science exam, freak you out and make you forget
the fact that you can do really really good maths.
Now the practical in last year's exam
wasn't down very well.
The examiners said that students seemed unfamiliar
with the practical, like some of them hadn't done it
or like you'd just done it in class
and then not revised it at all.
We know the lessons from last year
that just doing the practical once
isn't going to be enough to get you those grades.
That just learning the method enough
isn't going to get you those grades.
There is so much you need to be able to do.
So there are a couple of practicals
that I think might come up in this year's paper.
So reaction time and plant responses.
Now both of these were relatively simple practicals.
The reaction time one if you did that in class,
you might have just done it really, really quickly
but could you take the method for that
and rewrite it for something completely different.
Could you be given a new situation for plant responses
and then be able to cope with that easily in the exam?
These are the sort of things that I've really tried
to focus on that I've really tried to prepare you for
when I wrote this year's predictive papers.
Now there are some really nice, some really big topics
that lend themselves really really well
to the six markers in this paper.
Now learning things in six-mark question
is a great technique.
Not only can you really really practice
your six-mark question technique
but if it then does come up
as a two-mark question or a three-mark question
or a four-mark question or an eight-mark question,
then you still know all the knowledge,
you just need to apply it in a slightly different way.
And it's much easier to learn things as a six-mark question
and then break them down into smaller bits.
As opposed to just learning the key facts
in the one and two-mark question
and then having to practice building it up in the exam.
If you do your revision learning the techniques
of six-mark questions, it's much easier to go the other way.
Homeostasis and negative feedback.
Both of these are brilliant six-mark questions
which were touched upon, negative feedback
could be linked to what came up last year
in the menstrual cycle.
But these are really really lovely questions
that are really going to test
whether you understand biology.
Mitosis came up last year so while it's really worth
still learning that meiosis didn't.
So this could one that they focus on this year.
I absolutely love drawing genetic crosses,
there are lots and lots of examples they can use
there were lots and lots of skills that they can test
with genetic crosses.
Now with this, remember,
the examples that you've done in class,
probably are gonna be cystic fibrosis,
sickle cell anemia, Huntington's disease.
The skills that you have learned
while doing the genetic crosses for those,
expect those to occur in a new situation.
Expect to be given an unknown disease
where it's going to be recessive or dominant
and then expect that if that comes up,
you're going to have to take what you know
and apply it to a new situation.
We know the exam is going to be full
of some novel situations and examples
that you haven't been given before.
And doing a genetic cross is a brilliant way
to actually show off your skills in a new situation.
Parts of the ecology topic
that they didn't really touch upon much last year
are gonna be biotic and abiotic factors
and then food chains and food webs.
This could be a really really nice six-mark question
or it could link back to the maths
and be a graph interpretation question.
It could be an area or volume question,
a ratios question, percentage change question.
Lots and lots of different things they could do with this.
They always love graph questions,
drawing graphs and interpreting graphs.
Remember if you're asked which type of graphs,
give examples in what you do.
So the graph was flat and then it went up
and then it went flat again.
Use numbers, these are always going
to be really really helpful.
So those are a few things
that I think might come up in this year's exam,
to go with this, there are the predictive papers
over on my website.
There are this year's ones, there are last year's ones.
Do as many papers as you can.
Go to the examples website,
download the specimen papers,
download last year's actual papers.
The more practice you get answering some questions,
the more prepared you're going to be
as you go in to the exams.
Exam questions, workbooks,
everything that you can get your hands on.
Combined science people, good luck guys.
I am going to be producing loads and loads of stuff for you.
Separate science people,
we have a few more things to go over.
Now biology paper one, didn't have a lot of extra topics
just for separate science.
It is all in biology paper two.
So there were lots of extra topics here
that you need to cover
though you didn't necessarily need to cover
for biology paper one.
So we can expect those to be much rather
askew to these topics compared to the combined science.
So we're talking about decay,
the extra practical that was in there.
Lots and lots of things about water
and then a lovely lovely question about the eye.
Now the eye used to be in physics
and when it was in physics, it came out every other year,
label the eye, label the eye, label the eye,
every other year.
This is a brilliant question,
which is actually in last year's predictive paper
for separate science.
A big thing they could ask about is plant hormones
and then an absolutely massive section in this
is the structure of DNA,
the structure of proteins and how they work.
It could be related to mutations,
it could be related to homeostasis, miosis,
lots and lots of other things.
And then lastly, sustainability.
This is such an important and relevant topic
in today's society, in today's culture
that I think this is really really a hot topic to ask.
So please revise absolutely everything.
Please look after yourselves.
Good luck guys.
Ouch.
This is why in some videos I over explain scratches.
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