Can you use any biology textbook or do you have to buy the dedicated one?

SNAB is organised contextually and not along biological topic lines. Therefore the dedicated textbook currently published by Heinemann (a member of the Pearson group) and to be published for 2008 by Pearson, covers the course most closely.

As an absolute minimum you must have at least one copy of the dedicated textbook for the teacher! Ideally every student would have their own textbook.

Centres must reach their own compromise between these two extremes, finances permitting. A few books in the library on reference only, and a class set of 1 book between 2 students to use in lessons would probably work.

Other textbooks, including textbooks published for the concept-led Edexcel specification can be used to support aspects of the course in general terms. A reading list for each topic is one of the resources available.