External Evaluation of the European Baccalaureate (Annexes)

Topic Present in OCR A level Present in IBD(H) Comments
Impacts of humans on the environment
Roles of carbon dioxide, methane,
CFCs in global warming
Option 3 IBD(H) 4.5 two examples one of which has to
be the greenhouse effect
Ozone and its destruction Option 3 Option G
Ways to reduce impact of emissions Option 3
Effects of sewage and fertilisers on
freshwaters
(fertiliser) Option 3 Option G
Sampling freshwater and BOD Option 3
Pollution by DDT, PCBs and heavy
metals
Option 3
Origin and effects of acid deposition
(acid rain)
Option 3 Option G
Generation of methane from biomass Option 4 Option G
Production of gasohol
Mathematical techniques
Option 4 Option G
calculating a mean
standard deviation
Statistical analysis
() Option 3 Expected knowledge about standard
deviation in IBD(H); implied in OCR GCE A
level core, need to calculate it in Option 3
chi-squared test Option 2
t-test Option 3 Option G
Summary of subject content.
Most of the topics covered by the EB syllabus for Years 6 and 7 are also covered by the OCR GCE A level and IB. There are very few topics that are unique
to the EB. Most of the common topics are in the core syllabus for the OCR GCE A level and IB. Therefore there is very close agreements between what
constitutes ‘core’ Biology at this level. Topics not covered by the EB are in the syllabuses for lower years, such as mitosis and meiosis (Year 5), ecology,
plant transport and mammalian transport (Year 4) and human reproduction (Year 5) or they are topics that fill the five OCR options and the five IB(H) options.
There is very little repetition from previous years. The EB course builds on work in previous years without repeating any or much of it.
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