—·GCSE · Science

GCSE 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 opens at its first fifteen pages here.

The assessment objectives

AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding
AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding
AO3 Analyse information and ideas

Read off the GCSE 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

GCSE · 28 pages each · first 15 pages open

Science · GCSE · AQA £4.99

GCSE Science — AQA

AQA only — AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464). A working manual for a GCSE science department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding
AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding
AO3 Analyse information and ideas

AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464) · 28 pages, 23 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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Science · GCSE · OCR £4.99

GCSE Science — OCR

OCR only — OCR GCSE (9–1) Gateway Science Combined Science A (J250). A working manual for a GCSE science department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding
AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding
AO3 Analyse information and ideas

OCR GCSE (9–1) Gateway Science Combined Science A (J250) · 28 pages, 23 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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Science · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

GCSE Science — Pearson Edexcel

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Combined Science (1SC0). A working manual for a GCSE science department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

AO1 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding
AO2 Apply knowledge and understanding
AO3 Analyse information and ideas

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Combined Science (1SC0) · 28 pages, 23 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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