Carry out an extended practical agricultural or horticultural investigation
You need to plan and carry out a real agricultural or horticultural investigation from start to finish, collecting actual data over time and then analysing what you found. This means deciding what you want to test or observe, describing your method clearly, recording your results, working out what the data tells you, and writing it up properly with reference to ideas from other sources.
You carry out the complete investigation process (planning, data collection, analysis, reporting) with a clear purpose, workable method, recorded data, and a valid conclusion linked to findings from another source.
Your investigation is in-depth: your method is workable and considers important factors like valid ranges, valid measurements, or sources of error; you process data to find clear trends or patterns; your conclusion is valid and linked to your purpose; and you discuss the biological ideas using both your findings and other sources.
Your investigation is comprehensive: you justify why you made the choices you did in your method, you evaluate whether your method was valid or your data was reliable, and you explain your conclusion by connecting it to the agricultural or horticultural science ideas involved in the investigation.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.