- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (22 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 034078167X
- ISBN-13: 978-0340781678
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.2 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 366,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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These books are clear and concise. The design of the book makes the text very accessible and clarity of language ensures it is easy to read. These books contain concise texts with interesting introductions and good extra features. A recommended buy for AQA specification A. (TES Teacher )
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This text is written by senior examiners to match the new AQA Specification A in Biology, starting in September 2000. The AS content is covered in full, with assignments for each area designed to build skills as well as knowledge. The authors' expertise will ensure an ideal text for students of the AQA course.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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As a biology student who finds it quite hard to grasp many key points from my notes, I found this book very good and quite easy to understand. Its specific to the AQA A syllabus and contains most key points in short summaries. It has a good use of pictures and some diagrams but the Index is muddled in some areas. I also found that a couple of topics didn't go into enough detail and you have to rely on your notes. It has some good past paper questions too, but unfortuntaely no answers!! I find this quite dissapointing as you can't see what you are/aren't getting right. I also have the follow up book which is good! But still no answers to the questions!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This should have been a good textbook. To be fair, it's ok - the syllabus is covered in just enough detail, and the brief introductions to the chapters do give a bit of extra background, but I get the feeling that this was rushed to the printers in just too much of a hurry. The index has become a running joke in our Biology class, but the fact that you don't really need an index is what I don't like about this text. Now, this might seem odd to all the syllabus-obsessed powers that be out there, but there are students (myself included) who are actually interested in the subject for its own sake, and would like a bit more depth on occasion. I found that there simply wasn't enough meat to this book, so I bought one of the old-style A-level texts after the first term. I'm glad I did.
By all means buy this book as a core text - it could be a whole lot worse - but don't expect any more from it than that.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Having eagerly awaited the publication of this text book, particularly as it is written by the Chief Examiner for the new AQA Biology specification, it is very disappointing to find that the content and layout of the book is not up to a comparable standard to some of the other books that have been published recently for the other specifications. The diagrams are small and in some cases misleading and there are no self assessment questions with answers at the back of the text for students to check their knowledge and understanding. The assignments at the end of each chapter give useful extension activites however, and the past examination questions are also helpful.
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My college encourages us to buy this book, its concise and sticks to the syllabus. I bought it last year and got 91/105 in my Unit 1 exam! Hurray. Read more
Published on 18 May 2006 by Dominic Wrein
excellent coverage of AS syllabus
this book has all the essential information you need to learn for the AS modules. When revising for them last year, I did not use my class notes at all but revised solely from... Read more
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