{"id":231,"date":"2011-05-05T08:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2018-11-27T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:24:38","slug":"standard-grade-biology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/biology\/standard-grade-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"National 5  Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This course contains 3 units:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cell Biology<\/li>\n<li>Multicellular Organisms<\/li>\n<li>Life On Earth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each unit will be assessed continually in class, through the use of past paper based homework and an A-D level class test and SQA assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The National 5 Biology Course covers major areas of biology including cellular, whole organism and ecosystems. The key areas of biodiversity, interdependence, body systems and cells and inheritance are developed through the Course.<\/p>\n<p>The elements of the Course are Knowledge and Understanding, Analytical Thinking Skills and\u00a0Scientific Literacy.<\/p>\n<p>The following links will direct you to useful information for the National 5 Biology course:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/files_ccc\/N5CourseSpecBiology.pdf\">National 5 Biology Course Specification <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files_ccc\/BiologyN5CAT.pdf\">National 5 Biology Coursework Assessment Task<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SQA publishes samples of coursework\u00a0and question paper responses with commentaries to fully understand examiner expectation for assignment and question papers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Understanding Standards resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingstandards.org.uk\/Subjects\/Biology\/national5\">Understanding Standards Materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To help with revision click on the links below to open the past papers. These can also be found, with marking schemes on the SQA website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files_ccc\/BiologySQPRN5.pdf\">National 5 Biology Specimen Paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/pastpapers\/papers\/papers\/2016\/N5_Biology_all_2016.pdf\">National 5 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/pastpapers\/papers\/papers\/2017\/N5_Biology_all_2017.pdf\">National 5 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/pastpapers\/papers\/papers\/2018\/N5_Biology_all_2018.pdf\">National 5 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course contains 3 units: Cell Biology Multicellular Organisms Life On Earth Each unit will be assessed continually in class, through the use of past paper based homework and an A-D level class test and SQA assessment. The National 5 Biology Course covers major areas of biology including cellular, whole organism and ecosystems. The key &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/biology\/standard-grade-biology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National 5  Biology<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/541"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AAScience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}