Biology

Course summary

This A Level course is exciting. It builds on your knowledge gained at GCSE and looks at real-world situations. You will study Biology using a context-based approach. The course is designed to give you relevant and exciting settings to explore complex biological ideas, from stem cells, genetic engineering and cloning, to developments in treating the diseases that affect the world. The course emphasises practical skills with many opportunities to develop hands-on experience and problem-solving in an experimental context. These skills, including planning, drawing, analysing and evaluating, will be assessed in a written paper at the end of the A Level course. In addition, you will develop biological literacy skills which are assessed at the end of the course using an Advance notice article. A minimum of 10% of the assessment papers will assess Level Two Mathematics (above GCSE), but it is not a requirement to study A Level Mathematics.