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AQA Biology AS Level: Student's Book

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by: Glenn Toole, Susan Toole

April 21, 2008

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KS3 Science: Revision Guide - Levels 5-7 (Revision Guides)

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by: Richard Parsons, Paddy Gannon

October 21, 1999
This revision guide summarises clearly and concisely all the science you need up to and including Year 9, with sections on Life Processes, Materials and Physical Processes. And it's great for learning because it explains everything in an entertaining and accessible format (check out the cold polar bear and the elephant in stilettos!). Our children have worked steadily through it preparing for exams, and the pages are getting dog-eared.

Conclusion: a comprehensive and well-written guide to KS3 Science. Wish we'd had books like this when I was at school.

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Essential A2 Biology for OCR (Essential A2)

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by: Glenn Toole, Sue Toole

July 30, 2004
This is the single most useful resource available to people doing A2 OCR biology and I highly recommend it. The textbook assigned (Biology 2) is designed to cover all students aiming from A-E whereas this book is for students with higher capabilities, more in the A-b range. My teacher uses this book over Biology 2 and its always fun to enter a lesson and know every word that is going to come out his mouth.

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Science 5-11: A Guide for Teachers

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from: David Fulton Publishers

July 06, 2005
This is the single most useful resource available to people doing A2 OCR biology and I highly recommend it. The textbook assigned (Biology 2) is designed to cover all students aiming from A-E whereas this book is for students with higher capabilities, more in the A-b range. My teacher uses this book over Biology 2 and its always fun to enter a lesson and know every word that is going to come out his mouth.

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Why Is Snot Green?: The Science Museum Question and Answer Book (Science Museum Q & a Book)

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by: Glenn Murphy

April 06, 2007
I am a Grand Ma and improved my Grand Ma ratings with all my grand children when I gave this to a 7 year old for Christmas. Cool, awsome, and other such things that are not often associated with Grand Ma's. All that said, I enjoyed the book myself as I have a hard and fast rule, don't give anything you would not like to receive. It is also the sort of book you can go back to over and over again, and, I am assured, it has a high swap value!!!

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AQA Physics A AS Level: Student's Book

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by: Jim Breithaupt

March 24, 2008
this book is ok, i suppose it is the only choice if u r doing the aqa
syllabus, only a few bad points, first few chapters there are practically no worked examples, at the end of each chapter there are
some summary questions with the answers at the back of the book,
sometimes i dont know how on earth did they arrive at that answer because
they dont have worked examples to help u,i had to ask teacher to explain how they got the answers.

Its only the last few units, they have some worked examples.
Also they put examination style questions, but no answers for that too,
so u dont know if you are right or wrong unless u get the teacher
to explain to u

this book is a little thin, should have ... Read More:

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Advanced Physics for You

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by: Keith Johnson, Simmone Hewett, Sue Holt, John Miller

November 14, 2000
I'm surprised at how overwhelmingly positive all the feedback on this book is - it's pretty decent but I've got some reservations.

Firstly, the good bits: it's nicely structured and covers a comprehensive range of topics. It is mainly very read-able and doesn't skimp on the more basic detail. Plus it doesn't shy away from taking a few pages to explain a topic fully and clearly.

My main bugbear with it is the slightly patronising, primary-school tone it has most of the time. The book is littered with pictures of a cartoon character called "Fizz" (as in, fizz-ics... geddit?) doing "hilarious" things to illustrate some of the points. OK, so I'm a mature student and grumpy git, but I'm certain that it would have annoyed me just ... Read More:

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Essential A2 Chemistry for OCR (Essential A2 for Ocr)

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by: Ted Lister, Janet Renshaw

June 17, 2004
To be honest, I disagree this book is better than the text book published by Cambridge. Although this book does have nice diagrams and all, it overlooks some information on the organic section, i.e. it does not mention the catalyst required for the nitration of nitrobenzene (H2SO4).

I did not like the entire section on unifying cocepts at all because I found it very confusing, the book gave lots of equations on calculations, but did not make clear what they were.

The book is ok on trends and patterns, nothing bad, nothing special. But it does a brillant job on explaining lattice enthalpy.

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Nelson Advanced Science - Respiration and Co-ordination (Nelson Advanced Science: Biology)

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by: John Adds, Erica Larkcom, Ruth Miller

September 25, 2003
This book is the perfect accompaniment to the edexcel A-level syllabus as it has been written the leading examiners of the edexcel board. Although some of the information contained within this book is generic to all biology A-level students I would not recommend this book to anyone who is not going to study edexcel as some of the information is very 'board specific'. This book comes with past exam questions and answers to match which I have found other such books to be lacking in. However it would be always useful for the book to have more questions as it seems quite limited.

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GCSE Physics Revision Guide

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by: Richard Parsons

January 15, 2007
This book is the perfect accompaniment to the edexcel A-level syllabus as it has been written the leading examiners of the edexcel board. Although some of the information contained within this book is generic to all biology A-level students I would not recommend this book to anyone who is not going to study edexcel as some of the information is very 'board specific'. This book comes with past exam questions and answers to match which I have found other such books to be lacking in. However it would be always useful for the book to have more questions as it seems quite limited.