Paper 2 — Required practicals (overview)
Sampling and ecology practical skills: quadrats, transects, risk, and evaluation.
How Paper 2 practical questions usually work
- They give you a scenario (fieldwork / distribution)
- You choose: quadrat or transect (or both)
- You explain:
- where you sample
- how often / how many repeats
- what you measure
- how you reduce bias
Mark checklist
- clear method
- repeats + mean
- random sampling / systematic sampling
- limitations + improvements