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Topic 3: Movement Into and Out of Cells

4 subtopics · Diffusion, osmosis and active transport — and the water potential language Cambridge wants

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Heads up — every Biology exam here is Challenge level. There are no standard mocks for Biology: all six papers for this topic are deliberately harder than a normal Cambridge paper. So read your scores in that light — a mark that looks low here would usually be higher on a real paper.
3.1
Diffusion
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Net movement down a concentration gradient, factors affecting rate, surface area to volume
3.2
Osmosis
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Water potential, partially permeable membranes, turgor, plasmolysis and animal cell effects
3.3
Active Transport
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Movement against the gradient using energy from respiration, protein pumps, root hair cells
3.4
Exam Technique & the Exact Words Cambridge Wants
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Why this topic loses marks, and the sentence patterns that keep them
📝 Topic 3 Challenge Exams
3 × Paper 2 (MCQ) · 3 × Paper 4 (Theory) · all Challenge level
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