IGCSE Biology
How does the heart pump blood around the body? How do organisms develop, grow and reproduce? Investigate the answers to these and other fascinating questions in a course which focuses on life itself. This distance learning course explores the way biology affects your everyday life and how you can evaluate the scientific material that you come across on the web, in newspapers and magazines and on television.
Aims of the course
This home-study course aims to enable you to:
The Syllabus and Assessment
The course prepares you for the Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Biology syllabus 0610, for examination in either June or November of each year. Assessment is by two written papers, one of 45 minutes and the other of 1 hour and 15 minutes (80%), and by a practical test of 1 hour and 15 minutes (20%).
Prerequisites
The course starts from first principles and assumes no previous background in science whatever.
The Distance Learning Course
Your study text together with the web-based material in your online folder will contain everything you need to start studying right away. The course is designed specifically to cover the above syllabus. So you can be confident that you will learn everything you need to achieve a high grade in the examination. This stimulating online programme is packed full of drawings, diagrams and graphs to help you master each topic without difficulty. It also includes a wealth of home-based practical activities to ensure that you can tackle the practical test requirements.
Your Tutor and your Assignments
Your tutor is your personal-learning coach, who will provide you with detailed feedback on your learning assignments, and give you advice and encouragement throughout your distance learning course. You will complete assignments at regular intervals, which will help to embed your learning, and also enable you and your tutor to gauge your progress.
Completing all your assignments will hugely increase your chances of a good exam grade. When you have completed each assignment, you send it to your tutor through our online learning management system for assessment. Your tutor will provide you with rapid and detailed feedback, so you'll remain motivated throughout the course and see your skills and knowledge improving month by month.
Course Fee
Aims of the course
This home-study course aims to enable you to:
- become confident in the world of technology, and to recognise the usefulness and limitations of the scientific method;
- develop abilities and skills that are relevant to Biology, useful in everyday life, and that encourage efficient and safe practice;
- develop attitudes such as concern for accuracy and precision, objectivity, integrity, inquiry, initiative and inventiveness;
- understand the value of caring for the environment.
The Syllabus and Assessment
The course prepares you for the Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Biology syllabus 0610, for examination in either June or November of each year. Assessment is by two written papers, one of 45 minutes and the other of 1 hour and 15 minutes (80%), and by a practical test of 1 hour and 15 minutes (20%).
Prerequisites
The course starts from first principles and assumes no previous background in science whatever.
The Distance Learning Course
Your study text together with the web-based material in your online folder will contain everything you need to start studying right away. The course is designed specifically to cover the above syllabus. So you can be confident that you will learn everything you need to achieve a high grade in the examination. This stimulating online programme is packed full of drawings, diagrams and graphs to help you master each topic without difficulty. It also includes a wealth of home-based practical activities to ensure that you can tackle the practical test requirements.
Your Tutor and your Assignments
Your tutor is your personal-learning coach, who will provide you with detailed feedback on your learning assignments, and give you advice and encouragement throughout your distance learning course. You will complete assignments at regular intervals, which will help to embed your learning, and also enable you and your tutor to gauge your progress.
Completing all your assignments will hugely increase your chances of a good exam grade. When you have completed each assignment, you send it to your tutor through our online learning management system for assessment. Your tutor will provide you with rapid and detailed feedback, so you'll remain motivated throughout the course and see your skills and knowledge improving month by month.
Course Fee