TIPS TO SCORE QUESTION 1 PAPER

BY BIOLOGY UNIT TEACHERS

INTRODUCING……

MAGIC BOX TECHNIQUE

11 SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS
SPS ITEMS
SPS 1 OBSERVING
SPS2 CLASSIFICATION
SPS3 MEASURING USING NUMBERS
SPS4 MAKING INFERENCE
SPS5 PREDICTING
SPS6 COMMUNICATING
SPS7 USING SPACE- TIME RELATIONSHIP
SPS8 INTERPRETING DATA
SPS9 DEFINE OPERATIONALLY
SPS10 VARIABLE
SPS11 HIPOTHESISING
THE WAYS….

1. Find out the MV and RV

Tips!!!!
 Search the word TO and highlight
 Find the MV and RV from the highlighted
words @
 Look at the table showing the result
 What you change= MV
 What you have to fill up= RV
 The next step= built up the Magic Box
MAGIC BOX
VARIABLE MANIPULATE RESPONDING CONSTANT
D VARIABLE VARIABLE VARIABLE
CONCRETE(c) MV + (Value) RV + (Value) CV + (Value)
ABSTRACT(a) Rate
METHOD TO 1. Change + 1. Measure and 1.Fixed + CV
HANDLE MV+ value Record + +which are___
2. Use different cRV+by using 2. Used the
+ MV+ value Instrument same + CV
2. Calculate + +which are___
Record + aRV
+by using
Formulae
MAGIC BOX (Example)
VARIABLE MANIPULATED RESPONDING VARIABLE CONSTANT
VARIABLE VARIABLE
MEASURED Temperature The time taken for the blue Volume of starch
(10°C , 20°C, black colour of iodine to suspension (5 ml)
30°C, and 40°C disappear (min)
)
ABSTRACT Rate of reaction catalysed by
salivary amylase.
METHOD TO Use different Measure and record the Fixed the volume of
HANDLE temperatures time taken for the blue black starch suspension as
i.e 10°C , 20°C, colour of iodine to disappear 5 ml.
30°C, and 40°C. by using a stopwatch
Change with
different Calculate and record the
temperature rate of reaction catalysed by
salivary amylase by using the
formula 1 / time.
 The next step..
Applying to:
SPS ITEMS
SPS 1 OBSERVING
SPS3 MEASURING USING NUMBERS
SPS4 MAKING INFERENCE
SPS6 COMMUNICATING
SPS7 USING SPACE- TIME RELATIONSHIP
SPS8 INTERPRETING DATA
SPS9 DEFINE OPERATIONALLY
SPS10 VARIABLE
SPS11 HIPOTHESISING
Answering Question (How To
Get FULL MARK!! )
1. SPS 1 Observing:
cMV ⁺ cRV⁺ FINAL READING

2. SPS 4 Inference

cRV ⁺ CHANGE OF cRV⁺ (because)aRV +(due to) REASON FOR

aRV

3. SPS 10 Variables:
Fill up based on MAGIC BOX
 Answering Question
4. Hypothesis :
cMV ⁺ cRV⁺ SPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP

5. Communicating (Construct the table)

MV (Unit) RV RV
Concrete(Unit) Abstract(Unit)

6.Communicating (Construct the GRAPH)

X Axis= MV + (unit)
Y Axis= RV +(Unit)
Plot graph (Free hand)
7. Sps7 Using Space Time Relationship
Relationship between MV/RV with TIME
+ Reason

8. Sps9 Define Operationally

Given term + is shown by cRV + affected by MV +
in/ by using FV
SPS3: MEASURING USING NUMBERS
Tips
 Students should be able to record the final
reading of the apparatus given, for example;
1. Thermometer
2. Ruler
3. Stop watch
4. Measuring cylinder
5. Syringe and others
SPS 1OBSERVING
Tips

 Students should:
 i)be able to write down their observation
starting with the manipulated variable
followed by the responding variable and end
up with the complete final reading of the
apparatus made before.
MV ⁺ RV⁺ FINAL READING

 ii) choose two inverse or contrast observations

when they are more than 2 values of MV
SPS 1OBSERVING
SPS4:MAKING INFERENCE
Tips
 Responding
variable

Observation Inference
(Refer Table 12) Give reason why the potato strip
length increase
Observation 1 The final length of potato strips
In distilled water, the final length of the increase because the water molecules
potato strip after being immersed is 6.0 from the distilled water diffuse into the
cm cell sap of the potato strip by osmosis
Observation 2 The final length of potato strips
In o.5 M of sucrose solution. The final decrease because the water molecules
length of the potato strip after being diffuse out from the cell sap of the
immersed is 4.2 cm. Potato strip to the 0.5 M of sucrose
solution by osmosis

Change of RV Reasoning base on

related basic concept
SPS10 VARIABLE
SPS10 VARIABLE
SPS10 VARIABLE
SPS11 HIPOTHESISING
Example 3
SPS 6 COMMUNICATION
Tips
SPS 6 COMMUNICATION
SPS 6 COMMUNICATION
SPS 6 COMMUNICATION
SPS 6 COMMUNICATION
SPS 6 COMMUNICATION
SPS7USING SPACE TIME
RELATIONSHIP
 The skills are
related with the
changes of certain
quantity and time
@ (Concentration,
volume…)
 Or the relationship
between MV/RV
with TIME
 + Reason
SPS8 INTERPRETING DATA

 TIPS!!!
1. State the relationship between the MV &
RV based on the Communicating Data.
2. Explain the relationship between the
MV& RV by using a Basic Concept.
SPS8 INTERPRETING DATA
SPS8 INTERPRETING DATA
SPS 5 PREDICTING

 TIPS!!
I. Predict by giving one fix rational value @ a
possible general value based on the data
of the experiment before.
II. Explain the prediction based on a basic
concept.
Usually the MV will be change and the
students are required to predict the changes
of the RV
SPS 5 PREDICTING
SPS9 DEFINE OPERATIONALLY

 The ability of
students to describe the given
term based on what can be seen in an
experiment. The answer must consists of
both Manipulated Variable and
Responding Variable+ fixed variable
SPS9 DEFINE OPERATIONALLY
Tips

 Identify the define task work in the question; conclude,

deduce, define or state the operational definition.
 Write down the answer starting with the given term,’
Osmosis is…’
 Continue expanding the term with core basic concept
 Describe the term based on the observation⁺inferences
(refer to the experiment’s result and answers of the
observation⁺inferences)
Given term + is shown by cRV + affected by MV +
in/ by using CV
 SPS9 DEFINE
OPERATIONALLY
GIVEN TERM

 Enzymatic amylase reaction is the time

taken for the blue black colour of iodine to RV
disappear using 5 ml starch as substrate in
different temperatures (10°C , 20°C, 30°C,
and 40°C).
FV
MV
SPS9 DEFINE OPERATIONALLY
Example 1; refer to the result in Table 12
 Sample answer 1

Fixed Variable (FV)

Example 2:
SPS2 CLASSIFICATION
 There are 3 methods on how the
classification skills are asked in Paper 3
Biology.