Syllabus update: Cambridge IGCSE
®Biology (0610)
for examination in 2019
We have updated this syllabus. The latest syllabus is version 3, published August 2017.
What has changed? Detail
Changes to syllabus From 2019
This document has been refreshed. The subject content and specimen question papers remain the same.
Minor changes to the wording of some sections have been made to improve clarity.
Changes to Version 2 of the syllabus:
A correction has been made to page 21.
In Section 10.1 Diseases and immunity, Supplement subject content
• Explain the role of vaccination in controlling the spread of diseases
has been reinstated after it was mistakenly removed from version 1.
Changes to version 3 of this syllabus:
Combining with other syllabuses
• From 2019 candidates cannot take Cambridge IGCSE (9-1) Co-ordinated Sciences (Double Award) (0973) with this syllabus.
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