Original practice
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Identify the temperature at which the rate is highest. Do not explain it.
(1)°C
Total for this question: 1 mark
COMMAND WORD · BIOLOGY
Identify
Select the key piece of information from the stimulus, rather than writing everything you know about the topic.
Method
Decide what to look for, find it, say it, then stop.
What the parts mean
- Look fora letter, a time, a tissue or a trend
- Wherethe place in the diagram, graph or passage
- Say itthat item only
How to build your answer
- 1Decide what kind of thing you are looking for.
- 2Point to it in the stimulus.
- 3State it, and do not explain unless you were asked.
Biology exemplar
Original question
A leaf diagram marks the tall cells under the upper epidermis as A. Identify the letter for the palisade mesophyll.
Annotated answer
Look forThe letter of the palisade mesophyll. WhereThe tall cells under the upper epidermis are marked A. Say itA.
The labels match the frame. Read them in order. This is one accurate route, not the only one.
Exam habit
If you cannot point to where you found it, you have not identified it.
Common pitfall
Explaining photosynthesis and never giving the letter.
Practice question
Answer discussion
37 °C. An explanation of an optimum temperature answers a different command.