Spring term Ecology and the environment. Energy and ecology, pyramids, chains, webs, nutrient cycles, predator pray relationships, population growth. The course having been completed, the reduced length of time before the exams is given over entirely to examination practice. Assessment Students' homework is assessed weekly. Homework, usually set once a week, includes writing reports on practical work and performing analytical or research problems.
Tests are frequent, very frequent in the last term.
The Autumn and Summer examinations will cover all the work done up till those points in cumulative fashion. All students sit common examinations up until the mock when core and extended papers are offered.