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Evaluation and conclusion

The ability to evaluate information and form valid conclusions is an essential skill for GCE biology students. Former senior examiner Martin Rowland examines why these skills are important, provides advice on how to structure your attempts to evaluate information and form conclusions, and offers tips on how to avoid common pitfalls

Figure 1 Students recording species within a quadrat along a transect of a rocky shore

In his book, The Demon-Haunted World, the famous astrobiologist Carl Sagan made the following statement:

We use a short-hand for this in GCSE and GCE specifications. We call it ‘how science works’ and, as we shall see, the high-level intellectual skills of evaluation and conclusion are an essential component.

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