Everything the AS examines and nothing from the second year. Drill the 14 topics you are actually sitting in Wales this summer.
WJEC AS-Level Biology 601-5290-0
WJEC AS Biology is the first year of the 601-5290-0 course and a qualification in its own right, examined in 2 units, AS Unit 1 and AS Unit 2. This page holds only what the AS examines: 14 topics across 120 subtopics, 1,364 active recall questions, starting with Chemical Elements Are Joined Together to Form Biological Compounds, Cell Structure and Organisation and Cell Membranes and Transport. The 22 topics kept back for the second year are not shown, so nothing here is content you have not been taught yet.
Starting the second year? The full WJEC A-Level Biology page adds the A2 topics on top of everything here.
WJEC GCE AS and A Level Biology, qualification numbers 601/5864/5 (AS) and 601/5846/3 (A level). Read the WJEC specification ↗
AS Unit 1
1 hour 30 minutes80 marks20% of A level
AS Unit 2
1 hour 30 minutes80 marks20% of A level
14 topics, 120 subtopics. Open any topic to see what is inside it.
Pick the mode that fits the time you have.
No account needed. Answer from memory first.
How reviews are timed
Levo will automatically distribute all of your progress into a spaced repetition calendar. Once you’ve answered, it’s scheduled for you on the next day in the spaced repetition schedule. Over time, the gaps between your recall get bigger, from a day to three years, reinforcing memorisation over a long period of time.
Interval sequence
Six ways to work the same material
Common questions about revising WJEC AS-Level Biology. Tap any to open it.
14 topics across 120 subtopics, examined in AS Unit 1 and AS Unit 2. They are all listed on this page, and each one opens to the subtopics inside it. The full topic list is Chemical Elements Are Joined Together to Form Biological Compounds, Cell Structure and Organisation, Cell Membranes and Transport, Biological Reactions Are Regulated by Enzymes, Nucleic Acids and Their Functions, Genetic Information Is Copied and Passed on to Daughter Cells and more.
Yes. In Wales the AS units are marked as a standalone AS qualification and also carry forward into the full WJEC A level, which is why the first year matters more here than it does in England. Check the current weighting on the 601-5290-0 specification, as it is set by the board rather than by us.
AS is the first-year units only. The A level adds 22 further topics, among them Importance of ATP, Photosynthesis Uses Light Energy to Synthesise Organic Molecules, Respiration Releases Chemical Energy in Biological Processes, and expects you to connect them back to the AS material. Work the AS content here, then move up to the full A level page when you start the second year.
Normally at the end of Year 12, in the summer series. That gives you one year to memorise 1,364 questions' worth of material, which is roughly 7 questions a day across an academic year if you start in September.
By retrieval, not rereading. Cover the answer, pull it from memory, then check. Levo runs that loop across all 14 AS topics and brings each question back on a spaced schedule, so what you learn in September is still there in June.
Yes, and it is the mistake most students make. The second-year papers assume the first year, and in Wales the AS marks usually count towards the final grade as well. Keeping the AS material on a spaced schedule through Year 13 costs far less time than relearning it.
1,364, written from the 601-5290-0 subject content and grouped into 120 subtopics so you can work one small area at a time rather than a whole topic at once.
Yes. Pick your subject, choose the AS topics on the topic screen, and every mode — the 3-step method, Cram, Blank Blitz, Build It and Test It — works only that material. Add the second-year topics when you get to them.
Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.
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