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Presenting data

Collecting and presenting data are essential skills in scientific investigations. Former senior examiner Martin Rowland discusses what teachers and examiners are looking for when assessing the data-presentation skills of their students

During the 2 years of your A-level biology course, you will undertake at least 12 different practical activities. During most of these, you will collect numerical data. There are certain ways you should present these data. Your ability to present data appropriately could be assessed during examinations as well as during your coursework. As you collect the data, you will normally record them in a table. Let’s start by looking at how to tabulate data.

Early in the first year of your course, you will have investigated the effect of a named independent variable on the rate of an enzyme-catalysed reaction, the dependent variable. There are many ways in which you could have done this. A simple way would be to take the following steps.

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