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GCSE Biology
Required Practical
Question Book
MARK SCHEME
GCSE Biology required practical activity 1: Microscopy
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BL2HP-QP-JUN15 (Question 4)

BL3HP June 2014

AQA-BIOL1-QP-JUN16.PDF
GCSE Biology required practical activity 2: Microbiology
 http
://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BL1HP-QP-JAN13.PDF
http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY3H-W-QP-JUN11.PDF

http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY1AP-W-QP-MAR10.PDF
7A = 1 7B =3 7C = 1 7D = 4
6B = 4 6C = 4
GCSE Biology required practical activity 3: Osmosis
AQA-BL3HP-QP-JUN16 (Question 1)

http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY2H-W-QP-JAN11.PDF
GCSE Biology required practical activity 4:
Enzymes (Effect of pH on digestion of starch by amlyase)
http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY2H-W-QP-JAN10.PDF
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-BL2HP-QP-JUN14-CR.PDF
GCSE Biology required practical activity 5: Food tests
Markscheme
1. separate sample for each test;
2. equal volume of each sample;
3. simple sugars :- Benedict’s ;
4. heat / boil; ignore warm
5. stays blue is negative
6. blue to green / yellow / orange / brown / red / AW;
7. protein:- biuret or sodium/potassium hydroxide + copper sulphate;
8. blue to mauve / purple/violet;
9. repeat;
10. safety -not tasting;
11. general safety point;
Reject colour changes if reagents totally wrong e.g. iodine / sodium chloride
Accept inaccurate spelling for name of test or reagents if recognisable
If not recognisable, but cannot be confused, then accept the colour change but not for test or reagent.
[max 6]
GCSE Biology required practical activity 6: Photosynthesis
AQA-BL2HP-QP-JUN16 (Question 2)
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-BIOL-W-SQP-2H.PDF

http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BL2HP-QP-JAN13.PDF
http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY2H-W-QP-JAN11.PDF
http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY2H-W-QP-JUN10.PDF
GCSE Biology required practical activity 7: Reaction Time
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/sample-papers-and-mark-schemes/2016/june/AQA-BL1FP-QP-JUN16.PDF
GCSE Biology required practical activity 8:
Germination (effect of light or gravity on seedling growth)
http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BL1FP-QP-JAN12.PDF

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-BL1FP-QP-JUN14.PDF

http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-BIOL-W-SQP-1H.PDF
GCSE Biology required practical activity 9: Field investigations
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-BL2HP-QP-JUN14-CR.PDF

AQA-BL2HP-QP-JUN16 (Question 7)
BL2HP-QP-JUN15 (Question 2)
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-BL2HP-QP-JUN13.PDF
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-BIOL-W-SQP-2H.PDF
http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BL2HP-QP-JAN13.PDF

http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY1H-W-QP-JUN10.PDF
GCSE Biology required practical activity 10: Decay
BL2HP-QP-JUN15 (Question 1)
http://www.mppe.org.uk/AQA-BLY2H-W-QP-JUN11.PDF
Alevel (but langage modified)
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/sample-papers-and-mark-schemes/2016/june/AQA-BIOL1-QP-JUN16.PDF