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Introduction
The main aim of this booklet is to exemplify standards for those teaching Cambridge International AS and A Level Biology (9700), and to show how different levels of candidates’ performance relate to the subject’s curriculum and assessment objectives.
In this booklet a range of candidate responses has been chosen as far as possible to exemplify grades A, C and E. Each response is accompanied by a brief commentary explaining the strengths and weaknesses of the answers.
Each question is followed by an extract of the mark scheme used by examiners. This, in turn, is followed by examples of marked candidate responses, each with an examiner comment on performance. Comments are given to indicate where and why marks were awarded, and how additional marks could have been obtained. In this way, it is possible to understand what candidates have done to gain their marks and what they still have to do to improve their grades.
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