Access course in Biology (SCQF Level 7)

University of Aberdeen

You’ll study topics from the Advanced Higher biology curriculum, across five course units:

1. What is science? How science works and how to approach this course.
2. Practical skills for biologists – lab and field methods that biologists use to understand living systems.
3. Organisms and evolution – variation, adaptation, interactions of organisms with each other and their environment.
4. Cells and proteins – molecular and biochemical understanding of biology.
5. Investigative biology – designing and testing hypotheses, analysing data, and reporting results.

We’ll assess your learning online as you work through the course.

• You’ll have an online assessment at the end of each course unit.
• You’ll have five online assessments in total.
• Each assessment is worth between 10% and 30% of your final grade.
• Each individual assessment is marked online automatically.
• You’ll receive your grade for each individual assessment at the end of each assessment.

• • Access Course in Biology – SCQF 7
  • SQA Course Specification