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Agricultural Science
Apply agricultural principles, analyse production evidence and justify decisions for the Units 3–4 external examinations.
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Animal Nutrition
- Explain nutrient functions and feed utilisationExternal exam
- Trace energy losses and productive energyExternal exam
- Compare ruminant and monogastric digestionExternal exam
- Explain microbial protein and nitrogen useExternal exam
- Select rations from feed labels and nutritional dataExternal exam
- Calculate and compare feed conversion ratiosExternal exam
Animal Growth
- Interpret growth stages and tissue-development patternsExternal exam
- Match carcass evidence to market specificationsExternal exam
- Explain how management affects animal growth and productsExternal exam
Animal Health
- Explain disease mechanisms and production impactsExternal exam
- Target pest and disease life-cycle stages with controlsExternal exam
- Compare animal pest-control evidence and system constraintsExternal exam
- Predict biosecurity consequences for a production systemExternal exam
- Explain welfare issues and justify production responsesExternal exam
Plant Production
- Apply establishment and water-management principlesExternal exam
- Explain soil and nutrient management through production mechanismsExternal exam
- Interpret hormone manipulation of plant productionExternal exam
- Explain post-harvest processes and infer product-quality effectsExternal exam
- Select integrated plant-health controls from pest evidenceExternal exam
- Compare asexual propagation methods for production goalsExternal exam
- Explain variety selection and genetic improvementExternal exam
Agricultural Markets
- Trace product value chains and explain quality assuranceExternal exam
- Analyse supply, demand and price movementsExternal exam
Enterprise Decisions
- Select and interpret physical and financial recordsExternal exam
- Calculate and compare enterprise gross marginsExternal exam
- Interpret financial documents to justify enterprise decisionsExternal exam
- Apply risk management and justify property recommendationsExternal exam
Sustainability Decisions
- Interpret resource hazards and predict production consequencesExternal exam
- Compare sustainable production practices using explicit criteriaExternal exam
- Analyse ownership and diversification decisionsExternal exam
- Infer trade and policy impacts on agricultural enterprisesExternal exam
Scientific Evidence
- Extract precise information from unseen agricultural stimulusExternal exam
- Analyse trends and relationships with quantitative supportExternal exam
- Identify limitations and uncertainty in supplied evidenceExternal exam
- Justify conclusions and predictions from agricultural evidenceExternal exam
Supporting Context
- Explain how evidence and society influence agricultural innovationSupporting learning
- Construct appropriate representations for an investigationSupporting learning
Independent Inquiry
- Design and conduct a justified agricultural experimentInternal assessment only
- Evaluate experimental validity and propose improvementsInternal assessment only
- Research and evaluate an agricultural claimInternal assessment only
- Communicate an investigation with traceable evidenceInternal assessment only