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Exam practice questions
Over the summer we have completed a full set of exam practice question pages, one for each topic. These pages are great for homework or revision. The Exam practice concept; The pages all have “exam practice”...
A Biology Data book in 2028 !
Th IB have just released a Biology Data book and an updated DP Biology Guide. No need to panic! The IB reassure us that only minor changes have been made to the guide, and most of these changes are additions...
First examiner's report on IA
There are three important sources of information provided by the IB for Biology teachers supervising and marking Internal Assessment: The first examiners report has just been released in the Programme...
Grade boundaries for the new IA
Since the publication of this summer's IB results this week we now know the grade boundaries for the new style IAs. They are surprisingly exactly the same as the boundaries we have used for the last seven...
Final revision in the northern hemisphere
Students in the northern hemisphere will be busy revising this weekend. As part of revision is it useful to practice writing answers. We have put together a selection of ‘written tasks’ to help students...
YouTube Biology homework?
I used to ask students to read about Biology outside the classroom, and I've even subscribed to magazines and loaned them to students to encourage this reading. In today's world students are much more...
Navigation updates
Dear Colleagues, With spring around the corner and the last exams of the 2016 syllabus behind us, is time to reogranise the navigation InThinking Biology site making the new resources more easily accessible...
InThinking Biology Mock Exam papers
There is a shortage of examination resources at the moment for classes taking the exams in Biology 2025. The specimen papers are easily found by students on the web, so we need some original questions...
August Update 2024
We strive to help you and your students to succeed. We already have over 150 Lesson activity pages designed specifically for the DP Biology course and there are written tests and sets of model answers...
Acetabularia in the news links DP Biology topics
It's always good when Biology makes the news but it's rare that the news matches the DP Biology curriculum so closely as it did today in this article from The Guardian. I've recently been thinking of...