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International GCSE Biology
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Additional past paper resources

View and download past papers for AQA's UK GCSE Biology qualification to test your students’ understanding of key areas of Biology. As these papers are aligned to the AQA Biology specification, please note there may be content or contexts not included in the OxfordAQA specification. Teachers should ensure they have checked each past paper for suitability before use in teaching.
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AQA Past Papers: GCSE Biology
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International GCSE Biology
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Classroom activity sheets

Access worksheets developed by teachers for teachers, providing a useful set of practical resources to use in the classroom.
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Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Movement of Particles In and Out of Cells - follow-on cards
Natural Selection: Beak Shapes Investigation
Protecting Against Disease
The Heart
Therapeutic Cloning
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International GCSE Biology
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Command words

Make sure your students understand what skills they are expected to demonstrate in each exam question.
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International GCSE Biology
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Data Insights

Let Data Insights do your analysis and reporting for you. Access Data Insights as soon as you receive your exam results and throughout the year. Featuring updated graphs and visualisations for quicker and easier trend analysis, Data Insights enables you to dig deeper into your learners’ results. 
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International GCSE Biology
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Exampro™

Exampro is an online database of AQA past questions mapped to the new international qualifications, enabling teachers to create their own resources and assessments.Schools will be given an Exampro username and password when they are approved to teach our qualifications. If you have these you can log in now. If your school is approved to teach our qualifications and you do not know your username and password, contact us.
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International GCSE Biology Topic Tests

Use our Topic Tests to check your students’'understanding of key areas of the International GCSE Biology curriculum. These tests, created by senior examiners to ensure effective subject coverage, come with mark schemes and cover sheets.
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Topic Test: Variation and Evolution
Topic Test: Organisms Interaction with the Environment
Topic Test: Organisation
Topic Test: Inheritance
Topic Test: Ecology
Topic Test: Bioenergetics
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International GCSE Biology
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International GCSE Science Fundamental Skills Booklets

Prepare for your year ahead by accessing the essential information you need to deliver the International GCSE Science specifications. Learn more about each of the ‘fundamental skills’ of GCSE Science - the skills that students need to be able to demonstrate to be successful in that subject. They are related to, but separate from, knowledge of the subject content. For all GCSE Science qualifications the fundamental skills are:
  • practical skills
  • applying knowledge and understanding (AO2)
  • maths skills
  • analysis and evaluation (AO3)
  • extended response
 
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Fundamental Skills Booklet: Practical Skills
Fundamental Skills Booklet: Knowledge and Understanding
Fundamental Skills Booklet: Maths Skills
Fundamental Skills Booklet: Analysis and Evaluation
Fundamental Skills Booklet: Extended Response
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International GCSE Biology
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Key Stage 3 AQA science syllabus

The AQA approach to teaching the NCfE Key Stage 3 programme of study provides excellent preparation for the OxfordAQA International GCSEs in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Combined Sciences.
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International GCSE Biology
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Marked exemplars

Prepare your students in exam technique with the help of exemplar student answers and examiner commentaries that show how examiners interpret the mark scheme.
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Exemplar Responses with Commentary: Papers 1 and 2
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