CORE SUBJECT: Combined Science
CORE SUBJECT: Combined Science
GCSE - AQA Combined science triolgy
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The Combined science course will:
take opportunities to link science to issues relevant to all learners as citizens.
develop learners’ abilities to evaluate knowledge claims critically, by looking at the nature, quality, and extent of the evidence, and at the arguments that link evidence to conclusions.
develop learners’ understanding of the concepts and models that scientists use to explain natural phenomena.
develop learners’ ability to plan and carry out practical investigations and their understanding of the role of experimental work in developing scientific explanations.
Content and skills taught in this subject
Content and skills taught in this subject
Biology
Chapter B1: Cell biology
Chapter B2: Organisation
Chapter B3: Infection and response
Chapter B4: Bioenergetics
Chapter B5: Homeostasis and response
Chapter B6: Inheritance, variation and evolution
Chapter B7: Ecology
Chemistry
Chapter C1: Atomic structure and the periodic table
Chapter C2: Bonding, structure, and the properties of matter
Chapter C3: Chemicals of the natural environment.
Chapter C4: Quantitative chemistry
Chapter C5: Chemical changes
Chapter C6: Energy changes
Chapter C7: Organic chemistry
Chapter C8: Chemical analysis
Chapter C9: Chemistry of the atmosphere
Chapter C10: Using resources
Physics
Chapter P1: Energy
Chapter P2: Electricity
Chapter P3: Particle model of matter
Chapter P4: Atomic structure
Chapter P5: Forces
Chapter P6: Waves
Chapter P7: Magnetism and electromagnetism
Delivery structure - how is the subject assessed?
Delivery structure - how is the subject assessed?
The AQA combined science trilogy course will be assessed over six 70 mark papers. Each paper is equally weighted.
Biology
paper 1 (topics B1-B4) (70 marks)
Paper 2 (topics B5-B7) (70 marks)
Chemistry
paper 1 (topics C1-C5) (70 marks)
Paper 2 (topics C6-C10) (70 marks)
Physics
paper 1 (topics P1-P4) (70 marks)
Paper 2 (topics P5-P7) (70 marks)
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