ixplain GCSE Biology, Careers & Skills

This is for any student of GCSE Biology who wants to challenge their learning, whether its to prove they know it all or to help them know it all! In this app you’ll find all the key terms in the syllabus with their meanings along with video clips to help explain those tricky concepts. Then put yourself to the test – find out what you know and prove you’ve mastered every topic.

This ixplain GCSE Biology app supported by Bayer Plc makes learning fun and easy and will dramatically improve your understanding and exam results if you put in the time. As a big bonus, it also gives you some great careers ideas from the Royal Society of Biology and informs and tests you on what skills you will need to acquire for the world of work. It’s quick and simple to use and provides four ways to learn:

• Browse & Learn via the highest quality content
• Quiz & Learn via timed interactive quizzes with 3 options of 10,30 or 50 questions
• Flick & Learn via our high-quality illustrations and photos,
• Watch & Learn via the Youtube videos linked to the content.

Enjoy ixplain and please tell your friends about it. We also have ixplain apps for GCSE Maths, GCSE Physics, GCSE Chemistry, GCSE Additional Science, GCSE Science and GCSE Computing along with Apps supporting F1inSchools and the BLOODHOUND SSC project.

Written by education expert Ann Fullick and supported by award winning careers writer Liz Reece & skills expert Gareth Lewis.

We work hard to ensure ixplain content is totally accurate. However, if you find anything you think is incorrect, or you have ideas about how we can improve the app for you please tweet us via the Twitter link in the app.

• Provides multiple ways to learn
• Can improve their understanding and GCSE results by providing the building blocks of knowledge via the key terms.
• Can empower them as you become familiar with the GCSE technical language and key terms of the subjects
• Can give them a sense of belonging to a GCSE subject community through increased ownership of the key terminology
• Provides invaluable practice in reading and answering GSCE type questions under time pressure
• Provide a fun element which supports learning and revision
• Can hopefully inspire them via the careers ideas
• Connects them with employers

Please see below for the full content covered along with how the stats section works along with the technical requirements.

App Content
This app covers all the exam board Biology specifications and includes the following topics:

Cells and organisation

• Cell structure
• Cell transport
• Cell division
• Organisation, enzymes & digestion
• Transport & exchange in animals

Coordination and control

• The nervous system
• Hormonal control
• Homeostasis
• Plant hormones

Ecology

• Adaptations, competition and interdependence
• Organisation of an ecosystem
• Biodiversity and human impacts
• Trophic levels and food production
• Photosynthesis, respiration & disease
• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Communicable diseases
• Prevention and treatment
• Disease in plants
• Non-communicable diseases

Reproduction and genetics

• Reproduction
• DNA and the genome
• Genetics
• Variation and natural selection
• Classification and evolution

Working scientifically and mathematically

• Working scientifically
• Maths skills

Careers ideas and Skills

• Entry level and level 1 careers ideas
• Careers requiring GCSEs A-C/ apprenticeship/ level 2 +
• Careers requiring Degree/ level 4 +
• Careers in Horticulture
• Workplace skills you will need
• Workplace qualities you will need
• Getting a Job

Topic quizzes: questions are presented randomly.

The % score is shown at the end of the quiz - a button takes you to the summary of the questions you got right or wrong. You can go back to the original questions or facts to improve your understanding.

ixplain records your progress on three dials as you start learning:
1 shows the % of the content you have read
2 shows the score of your last test
3 shows the % of the content you have answered correctly.