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A Level Science: how each board marks it

AQA · OCR · Pearson Edexcel. A separate book for each

The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically whichever board you teach. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. Each book quotes its own board’s specification word for word, and the first 8 pages of each are open to read here.

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The assessment objectives

  1. AO1 Knowledge
  2. AO2 Application
  3. AO3 Analysis

Read off the A Level Science specification. The weightings, the mark scheme levels and what separates a middle answer from a top one are set out board by board inside each book.

3 books, one per board

A Level · 25–35 pages each · the first 8 pages open

Cover of AQA A Level Science Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Science · A Level · AQA £4.99

AQA A Level Science Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only: AQA A Level Biology (7402), Chemistry (7405) and Physics (7408). An examination manual for an A Level science department, covering Biology, Chemistry and Physics. It is about how the three qualifications are assessed and how students gain marks, not how to teach the content. The three sciences share one set of assessment objectives and weight them differently, so most pages here cover all three.

  1. AO1 Knowledge
  2. AO2 Application
  3. AO3 Analysis

AQA A Level Biology (7402), Chemistry (7405) and Physics (7408) · 25 pages, 18 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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Cover of OCR A Level Science Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Science · A Level · OCR £4.99

OCR A Level Science Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only: Biology A (H420), Biology B (H422), Chemistry A (H432), Chemistry B (H433), Physics A (H556) and Physics B (H557). Six qualifications in two architectures, and the routes are not interchangeable: what OCR examines, how it asks for it, and what a strong answer looks like, split by route throughout.

  1. AO1 Knowledge
  2. AO2 Application
  3. AO3 Analysis

OCR A Level Biology A (H420), Biology B (H422), Chemistry A (H432), Chemistry B (H433), Physics A (H556) and Physics B (H557) · 35 pages, 28 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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Cover of Pearson Edexcel A Level Science Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Science · A Level · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

Pearson Edexcel A Level Science Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

Pearson Edexcel only: Biology A (9BN0), Biology B (9BI0), Chemistry (9CH0) and Physics (9PH0). Four qualifications that share their assessment objectives and not their papers, so the weightings hold across the sciences while Paper 3 does not — and Paper 3 is 40 per cent.

  1. AO1 Knowledge
  2. AO2 Application
  3. AO3 Analysis

Pearson Edexcel A Level Biology A (9BN0), Biology B (9BI0), Chemistry (9CH0) and Physics (9PH0) · 35 pages, 28 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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