Combined Science and Triple Science questions

As far as I’m aware, triple award will cover subjects into more depth- hence it is harder than a combined award. So combined whilst doing physics, biology and chemistry, won’t cover as much as triple, as they will be working at a faster pace, therefore being able to cover more.

Ds has just been moved into top set for science, he’s year 9. He was told that he has been asessed at levels higher than half of the top set. It also made him a prime candidate to do triple award which he would not be able to do in set 2.

Hopefully a science teacher will come along and tell us!

There are some topics that are triple only. There are also some topics which have small parts which are triple only- for example, in the biology topic on hormones, triple students learn about plant hormones as well. Assuming both students were doing higher tier, then everything they did on hormones in humans would be done to the same level- so they'd both know the same things about diabetes and the menstrual cycle (in theory).

I hope that makes sense?

That's a good question.

I would hope that a student getting 9,9 in Combined Science would be working at a similar level as a student getting 9,9,9 in Physics, Biology and Chemistry (it's just that they have covered fewer topics) so I would guess that the questions on the overlapping topics would be of a similar difficulty.

I'm not a science teacher though, so I could be wrong.