Specification at a glance
This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams at the end of the course.
Subject content
- 1. Building blocks
- 2. Transport over larger distances
- 3. Interactions with the environment
- 4. Explaining change
- 5. Building blocks for understanding
- 6. Interactions over small and large distances
- 7. Movement and interactions
- 8. Guiding Spaceship Earth towards a sustainable future
- 9. Key ideas
Assessments
Paper 1 |
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What's assessed Life and environmental sciences Topics 4.1–4.4: Building blocks; Transport over larger distances; Interactions with the environment and Explaining change. |
How it's assessed
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Questions Multiple choice, structured, closed and open short answer questions, with greater emphasis on knowledge and application (AO1 and AO2) than analysis and evaluation (AO3). |
Paper 2 |
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What's assessed Life and environmental sciences Topics 4.1–4.4: Building blocks; Transport over larger distances; Interactions with the environment and Explaining change. |
How it's assessed
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Questions Multiple choice, structured, closed and open short answer questions. This paper assesses most of the analysis and evaluation (AO3) skills, and most of the work on the required practicals, for the topics. |
Paper 3 |
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What's assessed Physical sciences Topics 4.5–4.8: Building blocks for understanding; Interactions over small and large distances; Movement and interactions and Guiding Spaceship Earth towards a sustainable future. |
How it's assessed
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Questions Multiple choice, structured, closed and open short answer questions, with greater emphasis on knowledge and application (AO1 and AO2) than analysis and evaluation (AO3). |
Paper 4 |
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What's assessed Physical sciences Topics 4.5–4.8: Building blocks for understanding; Interactions over small and large distances; Movement and interactions and Guiding Spaceship Earth towards a sustainable future. |
How it's assessed
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Questions Multiple choice, structured, closed and open short answer questions. This paper assesses most of the analysis and evaluation (AO3) skills, and most of the work on the required practicals, for the topics. |