Combined Science
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View topicsWJEC GCSE Science (Double Award) is the route most learners in Wales take. It covers biology, chemistry and physics and is worth two GCSE grades, awarded as a pair such as 6-6 or 5-4.
The content mirrors the separate sciences but with reduced depth in some topics: cells, organisms, disease, genetics and ecology; atomic structure, bonding, quantitative chemistry, rates, organic chemistry and the Earth's resources; and electricity, energy, waves, radioactivity, forces, motion and space.
Double Award is a full and demanding qualification that keeps A Level science open. Because it covers three subjects across a shared timetable, pace is the usual difficulty, and targeted support on the specific weakest strand is the most efficient help.
Important Topics
- Cells & OrganismsCell structure, transport, enzymes, respiration, photosynthesis and body systems.
- Genetics, Evolution & EcologyInheritance, variation, natural selection, ecosystems and human impact.
- Atomic Structure & BondingAtoms, the periodic table, and ionic, covalent and metallic bonding.
- Chemical Reactions & CalculationsEquations, the mole, rates, energy changes, acids, bases and electrolysis.
- Electricity & EnergyCircuits, power, energy resources, efficiency and the national grid.
- Waves, Radioactivity & SpaceWave properties, the EM spectrum, half-life, stars and the universe.
- Forces & MotionNewton's laws, motion graphs, momentum, work and power.
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