IGCSE Exam Tips
CORMS Compare. What are you comparing in the experiment ? Location / distance / rate / light intensity / temperatures Organism. what are you going to study? species / gender / size / age / breed / health Repeat. three times
Measure. What are you going to measure? mass / length / count number / collect gas STATE THE TIME PERIOD ( seconds / minutes / hours / days) Same. All the things you must keep the same. Specified concentrations: mass / volume / times / age / gender
Slap u scale linear and half the graph paper used lines Neat and through the points (ruler)
Axes the correct way round and labelled Points correctly plotted Units (ml) / (°c) / (S) / (g) etc
The thing you are measuring / recording dependent variable: The thing you are measuring / recording
Independent variable: The thing you are changing
Independent variable: is the first (left hand) column in a table Goes on the X-axis is the first (left hand) column in a table
dependent variable: Goes on the y-axis
To make an experiment more accurate you change the measuring equipment to get closer to the true value
To make an experiment more reliable repeat 3 times
Increase the Temperature More kinetic energy More collisions More enzyme activity More respiration / photosynthesis