GCSEChemistry (4421) – specification overview

Find out why there is a new suite of GCSE Science specifications.

This specification:

• allows students to pursue an interest in an individual science
• offers continuity with the previous AQA specifications
• C3 is delivered in addition to C1 and C2
• C1 + C2 + C3 gives a single GCSE in Chemistry
• includes 75% external assessment
• includes a straightforward centre-assessed unit (25%).

Find out more:

• what to teach

• Read/download in PDF format:
  
  

• the specification at a glance (2007, version 1.2)
• the full specification
• teaching tips (Teachers' Guide and Schemes of Work for Units C1, C2 and C3)

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• tel: 01483 477 756 or 01483 477 736
• or use our online enquiry service Ask AQA