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Each exam has been designed to match the approximate percentage breakdown of Assessment Objectives (AO):  \nAssessment Objectives  \nAO1 Knowledge and understanding of biology 38-42%  \nAO2 Application of knowledge and understanding, analysis and evaluation of biology 38-42%  \nAO3 Experimental skills, analysis and evaluation of data and methods in biology 19-21%  \nTotal 100%  \nEach exam consists of around 10% of marks that require the use of mathematical skills to Level 2 or above.  \nExam Summary  \nFormat Description  \nExam type Online or paper-based  \nExam Location Sat at home/work-invigilated online  \nExam availability All year round  \nExam structure 1 paper  \nExam timing  \nNumber of marks  \nTiers  \nLevel  \nExam content coverage  \n2 hours  \n100 marks  \nNone  \n9-1  \nAny content covered in the subject content section  \nQuestion types  \nLong written-answer questions, short-answer questions, multiple choice questions, matching questions and calculations  \nAdditional equipment required An appropriate scientific calculator  \nBiology Content  \n1 The Nature and Variety of Living Organisms  \nThis section covers the following sub-topics:  \n(a) Characteristics of Living Organisms Students should:  \n1.1 Understand how living organisms share the following characteristics:  \n• They require nutrition  \n• They respire  \n• They excrete their waste  \n• They respond to their surroundings  \n• They move  \n• They control their internal conditions  \n• They reproduce  \n• They grow and develop  \n(b) Variety of Living Organisms Students should:  \n1.2 Describe the common features shown by eukaryotic organisms: plants, animals, fungi, and protoctists.  \n• Plants: Multicellular organisms; their cells contain chloroplasts  \ncellulose cell walls; they store carbohydrates as starch or sucrose. Examples: Flowering plants such as a cereal (e.g.  \nmaize) and a herbaceous legume (e.g. peas or beans) .  \n• Animals: Multicellular organisms; their cells do not contain chloroplasts and cannot carry out photosynthesis; they have no cell walls; they usually have nervous coordination and are able to move from one place to another; they often store carbohydrates as glycogen. Examples: Mammals (e.g. humans) and insects (e.g. housefly and mosquito) .  \n• Fungi: Organisms that cannot carry out photosynthesis; their body is usually organised into a mycelium made from thread-like structures called hyphae, which contain many nuclei. Some are single-celled; their cells have walls made of chitin; they feed by extracellular secretion of digestive enzymes onto food material and absorption of organic products (saprotrophic nutrition); they may store carbohydrate as glycogen. Examples: Mucor, which has the typical fungal hyphal structure, and yeast, which is single-celled.  \n• Protoctists: Microscopic, single-celled organisms. Some, like Amoeba, which lives in pond water, have features similar to animal cells, while others, like Chlorella, have chloroplasts and are more like plants.  \n• Pathogenic. Example: Plasmodium, responsible for causing  \nand are able to carry out photosynthesis; their cells have malaria.  \n1 The Nature and Variety of Living Organisms  \nStudents should:  \n• 1.3 Describe the common features shown by prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria.  \nBacteria  \nMicroscopic, single-celled organisms; they have a cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, and plasmids; they lack a nucleus but contain a circular chromosome of DNA. Some bacteria can carry out photosynthesis, but most feed off other living or dead organisms. Examples: Lactobacillus bulgaricus, a rod-shaped bacterium used in yoghurt production, and Pneumococcus, a spherical bacterium that causes pneumonia.  \n• 1.4 Understand the term pathogen and know that pathogens may include fungi, bacteria, protoctists, or viruses.  \nViruses  \nNot living organisms","cbCairv7fW3EBVf7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairv7fW3EBVf7","pdf",765628,18,"English","# Assessment Objectives\n## AO weightings\n# Exam Summary\n## Exam format and logistics\n## Question types and equipment\n# Biology Content\n## The Nature and Variety of Living Organisms\n## Structure and Functions in Living Organisms","[{\"question\":\"How are the assessment objectives weighted in the biology equivalency exam?\",\"answer\":\"AO1 knowledge and understanding accounts for 38–42%, AO2 application with analysis and evaluation accounts for 38–42%, and AO3 experimental skills with analysis and evaluation accounts for 19–21%. 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