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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this for my daughter and she said "it has everything in it i need, thanks dad".Hopefully she passes her exam with flying colours.Would definitely recommend.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First and foremost, I have recently completed A2 Biology and used this book throughout the course.
This book is officially endorsed by AQA for their new Biology specification. As the specification is new, there is limited literature available and this book seemed like a logical starting point because of its endorsement by the examination board. It contains a vast amount of information about each topic and contains bullet points at the start of each chapter addressing the learning objectives from the specification; in addition, the book contains a large number of summary questions and examination-style questions at the end of each topic.
However, the book has a couple of fundamental flaws:
1. Too much information. If you want brief, quick-fire points then look elsewhere. There is a lot of waffle that won't necessarily be tested in the exam (this was confirmed by an AQA examiner in a talk we received).
2. No answers to the examination-style questions. In my opinion, there's no point doing questions that you can't check whether you're right or not. If you want the answers to these, you're going to have to seek them out yourself by siphoning through past AQA exam papers.
Overall, the book is comprehensive and contains all of the information (perhaps too much) required for you to succeed but it could be vastly improved by incorporating the answers to the mock exam questions within the book.
This book is officially endorsed by AQA for their new Biology specification. As the specification is new, there is limited literature available and this book seemed like a logical starting point because of its endorsement by the examination board. It contains a vast amount of information about each topic and contains bullet points at the start of each chapter addressing the learning objectives from the specification; in addition, the book contains a large number of summary questions and examination-style questions at the end of each topic.
However, the book has a couple of fundamental flaws:
1. Too much information. If you want brief, quick-fire points then look elsewhere. There is a lot of waffle that won't necessarily be tested in the exam (this was confirmed by an AQA examiner in a talk we received).
2. No answers to the examination-style questions. In my opinion, there's no point doing questions that you can't check whether you're right or not. If you want the answers to these, you're going to have to seek them out yourself by siphoning through past AQA exam papers.
Overall, the book is comprehensive and contains all of the information (perhaps too much) required for you to succeed but it could be vastly improved by incorporating the answers to the mock exam questions within the book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A worry for all book buyers, this book is the correct book for the AQA A2 Biology exam and exactly the same one as was in my school.
There doesn't seem much point in reviewing this book, because, quite frankly, if your are doing the AQA exam, you simply have no choice in the matter. I would strongly discourage buying any other book without reading this one. The questions and syllabusss featured in this book are exactly what will appear in the exam. This is very important when it comes to specific figures such as in the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) temperatures as well as correct terminology of enzymes and processes (e.g. the exact sequence, and enzymes, involved in the transcription and translation of DNA).
The book doesn't come with the answers for the exam style questions but my teacher had this so it wasn't a problem. However there is a whole plethora of questions on virtually every page which do have answers in the back of the book. In my case i found these questions tedious but it was worth the effort doing some of the more tricky questions as revision.
All in all the book is essential if you are doing this exam. I used this book exclusively to both study and revise from and i managed to get an A* overall this June. Of course people are different and hard work is key, but without this book I struggle to see how anyone will be able to achieve a high grade.
There doesn't seem much point in reviewing this book, because, quite frankly, if your are doing the AQA exam, you simply have no choice in the matter. I would strongly discourage buying any other book without reading this one. The questions and syllabusss featured in this book are exactly what will appear in the exam. This is very important when it comes to specific figures such as in the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) temperatures as well as correct terminology of enzymes and processes (e.g. the exact sequence, and enzymes, involved in the transcription and translation of DNA).
The book doesn't come with the answers for the exam style questions but my teacher had this so it wasn't a problem. However there is a whole plethora of questions on virtually every page which do have answers in the back of the book. In my case i found these questions tedious but it was worth the effort doing some of the more tricky questions as revision.
All in all the book is essential if you are doing this exam. I used this book exclusively to both study and revise from and i managed to get an A* overall this June. Of course people are different and hard work is key, but without this book I struggle to see how anyone will be able to achieve a high grade.
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AQA Biology A2 Student's Book
This is the specific text book for the second year of the AQA A level Biology course which my grandson is taking and covers modules 4 and 5. Read more
Published 3 months ago by janeb
Content is worrying.
I was told to order this for my adult evening class, and my first exam is in a few days. I feel completely unprepared, because despite the overwhelming amount of text... Read more
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AQA Biologyn A2 Student book
This book was lost in transit but the group selling it dealt with it very quickly and refunded the money I paid for the lost book,
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Published 7 months ago by Castle58
Amazing
I've sat the Human biology exam not Biology, at least not yet. Because biology is my favorite subject I had to indulge myself also into this syllabus. Read more
Published 10 months ago by joseph
Biology A2 textbook
really good, has helped me so far get down some really helpful notes, would recommend to any 6thformer doing biology.
Published 11 months ago by jacob
Very useful
This book is the official textbook for th AQA biology course, and it covers all the areas neccessary. IT IS NOT A REVISION GUIDE. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Tomby
Really good quality revision book!
I would and alreay have recommended this to anyone who wants a good biology book.
On every page there are boxes with extra bits of information, and there are easy to... Read more
On every page there are boxes with extra bits of information, and there are easy to... Read more
Published 14 months ago by eeeeergh
Great For Teachers.....
....if you teach the subject!
Good for biology students and teachers alike, even better if studying under AQA since it is the official textbook.
Good for biology students and teachers alike, even better if studying under AQA since it is the official textbook.
Published 22 months ago by The Doc
Don't bother wasting your money on this rubbish
One customer gave a 5 star review even though he returned it immediately after he bought it, why did he give it 5 stars?????????. Read more
Published 23 months ago by HAROONJAMROCK
Brilliant!
No problems whatsoever, book is really clear, well laid out as its split into Unit 4 and 5 so nothing is muddled. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2010 by R. M. Archer
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