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Biology Paper 1 (Foundation) — November 2020

Board
AQA
Specification
Biology 8461
Series
November 2020
Paper
Paper 1 (foundation)
Marks
100
Time
105 minutes
Mark scheme
released

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use it as a mock

  1. 1. Get the paper. Open it on www.aqa.org.uk, print it or work it in your exercise book, and set a timer for 105 minutes.
  2. 2. Mark it honestly. Open the mark scheme afterwards, not during. Write the marks per part in the margin and add them up.
  3. 3. Sort the lost marks. Not by topic, by what you did on the page: a rearrangement done in your head, an “explain” answered with the conclusion only, a graph described without numbers. The habit that fixes a bucket fixes it in every topic.

Weak spots from the paper? The AQA Biology page has source-linked decks and practice questions by topic.