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AS & A Level Biology (9700)

Selection & evolution Banker

14 questions · about 6% of the marks we indexed · examined in 9 of 9 sessions.

Questions by year

2026

  • 2026 May/June · Paper 42 · Q3 (a(ii), a(iii), b)10 marksSpeciation, drift & molecular evidence · Variation, SD & t-test

2025

  • 2025 Oct/Nov · Paper 42 · Q3 (b(i), b(ii))4 marksNatural & artificial selection
  • 2025 Oct/Nov · Paper 42 · Q4 (a, b, c)6 marksNatural & artificial selection
  • 2025 May/June · Paper 42 · Q26 marksSpeciation, drift & molecular evidence
  • 2025 May/June · Paper 42 · Q3 (b, c(i))5 marksNatural & artificial selection

2024

  • 2024 Oct/Nov · Paper 42 · Q2 (a, b)9 marksNatural & artificial selection · Speciation, drift & molecular evidence
  • 2024 Oct/Nov · Paper 42 · Q5 (a, b(i), b(ii), b(iii), b(iv))12 marksVariation, SD & t-test
  • 2024 Oct/Nov · Paper 52 · Q2 (a(i), a(ii), b(i), b(ii), c, d)15 marksSkill: conclusions & interpreting data · Skill: errors, reliability & improvements · Skill: planning a method · Skill: statistics (SD, SE, CI, t-test, Spearman, chi-squared)
  • 2024 May/June · Paper 42 · Q2 (a, b(i), b(ii))9 marksNatural & artificial selection · Speciation, drift & molecular evidence · Variation, SD & t-test

2023

  • 2023 Oct/Nov · Paper 42 · Q3 (a, b)7 marksNatural & artificial selection
  • 2023 May/June · Paper 42 · Q3 (a(i), a(ii), b)8 marksNatural & artificial selection · Variation, SD & t-test
  • 2023 May/June · Paper 42 · Q5 (a(i), a(ii), b)10 marksHardy-Weinberg · Natural & artificial selection

2022

  • 2022 Oct/Nov · Paper 42 · Q5 (b, c)7 marksSpeciation, drift & molecular evidence
  • 2022 May/June · Paper 42 · Q5 (a, b, c, d)14 marksNatural & artificial selection · Speciation, drift & molecular evidence

Find the full paper on the official Cambridge past-papers page or ask your school. “Paper 42” means Paper 4, variant 2.

Similar questions

Questions that test the same subtopic in different years. Practise them together to master one skill.

Speciation, drift & molecular evidence 6 questions · 6/9 sessions
Natural & artificial selection 9 questions · 7/9 sessions
Variation, SD & t-test 4 questions · 4/9 sessions

Subtopics

SubtopicMarks indexedSessions
Speciation, drift & molecular evidence 406/9
Natural & artificial selection 397/9
Variation, SD & t-test 214/9
Hardy-Weinberg Rare71/9
Skill: planning a method Rare61/9
Skill: conclusions & interpreting data Rare41/9
Skill: statistics (SD, SE, CI, t-test, Spearman, chi-squared) Rare31/9
Skill: errors, reliability & improvements Rare21/9

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