AQA Essay Booklet for Paper 3
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AQA Paper 3 has a 25 mark essay question, you get the choice from two titles. This question is over 30% of the marks for this paper.
Writing this essay is more than just dumping all the content you know down on paper, there is a technique to it! and 2 of the marks come from content not on the spec.
This is a free-response essay; generally, a sentence you can write a lot about, you will get the choice of two topics to write about. Writing this essay is more than just repeating the content you have learnt. I will help you understand what the examiners are looking for and how to structure your answer to aim for the top marks.
137 pages. 53,566 words
This book has sections on how to write the essay and what you need to do to get full marks; suggested content for a range of essay titles; sample student essay, with accompanying grades and feedback from real examiners!
This book can be used by students to revise the content or by teachers to help students understand what is needed from the essay. The grades from real examiners means it can also be used for internal standardization by schools and trainee teachers.
Each essay starts on a new page so it is easy for teachers to print off a single essay to hand out to students.
Table of Contents
- How to write the essay 5
- Assessment objectives 5
- The Mark Scheme 5
- Unfocused 1-5 marks 6
- Unistructural 6-10 marks 6
- Multistructural 11-15 marks 6
- Relational 16-20 marks 6
- Extended Abstract 21-25 marks 6
- The annotations on an answer 7
- How to structure your answer 7
- Essay Plans 8
- Handwriting 8
- Things that will lose you marks… 8
- Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar 9
- Terminology 9
- Extended Abstract level answers 9
- A Holistic Answer 9
- Reading beyond the specification for Extended Abstract 21-25 marks. 10
- What other people score 10
- Double marking and remarks 10
- Suggestions for content 11
- Sample student essays 11
- The Importance of Substances Containing Nitrogen 12
- Suggestions for Content 12
- Sample Student Essay 16
- Examiners marks and comments 19
- The Importance of Hydrogen Bonds to Living Organisms 20
- Suggestions for Content 20
- Sample Student Essay 23
- Examiners marks and comments 25
- Sample Student Essay 26
- Examiners marks and comments 28
- The Importance of Water to Living Organisms 30
- Suggestions for Content 30
- Sample Student Essay 32
- Examiners marks and comments 34
- The Importance of Movement Within Organisms 35
- Suggestions for Content 35
- Sample Student Essay 42
- Examiners marks and comments 44
- Sample Student Essay 45
- Examiners marks and comments 47
- The Importance of Enzymes to Living Organisms 48
- Suggestions for Content 48
- Sample Student Essay 54
- Examiners marks and comments 56
- Sample Student Essay 57
- Examiners marks and comments 59
- The Importance of Ions to Living Organisms 60
- Suggestions for Content 60
- Sample Student Essay 65
- Examiners marks and comments 68
- Sample Student Essay 69
- Examiners marks and comments 71
- Sample Student Essay 72
- Examiners marks and comments 74
- The Importance of Cycles to Living Organisms 75
- Suggestions for Content 75
- Sample Student Essays 82
- Examiners marks and comments 84
- The Importance of Shape Specificity to Living Organisms 85
- Suggestions for Content 85
- Sample Student Essays 89
- Examiners marks and comments 93
- Sample Student Essays 94
- Examiners marks and comments 96
- Sample Student Essays 97
- Examiners marks and comments 99
- The Importance of Relationships and Interactions Between Organisms 100
- Suggestions for Content 100
- Sample Student Essay 105
- Examiners marks and comments 107
- The Importance of Membranes Within Living Organisms 108
- Suggestions for Content 108
- Sample Student Essays 115
- Examiners marks and comments 119
- The Importance of Carbon Dioxide in Organisms and the Ecosystem 120
- Suggestions for content 120
- The Importance of Energy Transfers Within and Between Organisms 124
- Suggestions for Content 124
- The Importance of DNA Within Living Organisms 128
- Suggestions for Content 128
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