Questions marked the way AQA marks them
Biology Paper 1
- Cells: structure, types and specialisationFree
- Microscopy and magnification
- Chromosomes, mitosis and stem cells
- Diffusion, osmosis and active transport
- Cells, tissues, organs and organ systems
- Digestion, enzymes, the heart and blood
- Health, lifestyle and cancer
- Plant tissues and transport
- Pathogens: viral, bacterial and fungal diseases
- Protists, defences, vaccination and antibiotics
- Discovering and testing drugs
- Photosynthesis and its rate
- Respiration, exercise and metabolism
- limiting factors and oxygen debtHigher only
Biology Paper 2
- Homeostasis
- The nervous system and reflexes
- Hormones, blood glucose and contraception
- infertility treatment and negative feedbackHigher only
- glucagon and the menstrual cycle hormonesHigher only
- Reproduction, meiosis, DNA and inheritance
- Inherited disorders and sex determination
- Variation, evolution, selective breeding and genetic engineering
- Fossils, extinction and resistant bacteria
- Classifying living organisms
- full genetic crosses and genetic engineeringHigher only
- Communities, abiotic and biotic factors, adaptations
- Food chains, sampling and material cycles
- Biodiversity, waste and land use
- Global warming and protecting biodiversity
Chemistry Paper 1
- Atoms, compounds, mixtures and the atomic model
- Atomic size, relative mass and electron structure
- The periodic table, metals and noble gases
- Group 1 and Group 7
- ionic equations and half equationsHigher only
- Ionic and covalent bonding
- Metallic bonding
- States of matter and properties of substances
- Polymers, giant structures, metals and alloys
- Diamond, graphite, graphene and fullerenes
- limits of the particle modelHigher only
- Conservation of mass and relative formula massFree
- Concentration of solutions
- moles and balancing with molesHigher only
- limiting reactantsHigher only
- explaining concentrationHigher only
- Reactivity, extraction and reduction
- Acids, salts and pH
- Electrolysis
- redox, strong and weak acids, electrode half equationsHigher only
- redox in acid reactions and electrolysisHigher only
- Exothermic and endothermic reactions, reaction profiles
- bond energy calculationsHigher only