Practical skills paper · GCSE Biology
GCSE Biology practical skills paper 2
Food tests, Photosynthesis, Reaction time: questions and full mark scheme
A timed practical-skills paper on food tests, photosynthesis, reaction time, with a full mark scheme.
What is inside
- Front page with instructions and the time allowed
- Questions on three required practicals, each built on a simulated classmate’s results, with answer spaces
- One 6-mark level-of-response question
- Full mark scheme: answers, marking points, level descriptors and error carried forward
A 30 to 40 mark paper on three biology required practicals: Food tests, Photosynthesis, Reaction time. Every question uses a simulated classmate’s results from the Study Hack Lab model, so the data look like a real class’s, with their spread and their anomalies. Skills are balanced across reading and recording, processing, graphs, evaluation and method, with one 6-mark level-of-response question.
The mark scheme gives each answer, the marking points, what else to allow, the level descriptors for the 6-mark question, and where an answer can carry an error forward from an earlier part.