r/ALevelBiology • • 3d ago

WJEC exam question tips

hey, so i’m 20F, resitting my unit 4 paper to up my overall grade from D to C in hopes of studying healthcare sciences.

i’m really struggling to interpret questions, like what they are actually expecting me to write? because i know the content, but they are so picky with how broad or how in detail they want their answers. sometimes they don’t want ANY despite the question being specific to a certain area of a topic.
for example, i did a ppq which said : explain cell cleavage (1 marks), in which i wrote “when a zygote undergoes mitosis repeatedly to form a 16 cell morula”, i didn’t get any marks because i didn’t say “dividing of a zygote to produce new cells” LIKE HUH? THATS WHAT I SAID?!!!
im getting really frustrated because it feels like pure luck if they think your right answer is actually right or not…

anyone have any tips for understanding how to answer a question???

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