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"Science" reports

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LotusCheesecake · 07/12/2021 12:48

Hi,

My DD is in year 10, studying all 3 sciences as separate subjects. She has just received a snapshot review from school, which gives me a grade for effort / grade for ability (so no wording - we have a parents evening next term).

Despite doing the three individual sciences (and to be clear she will do three individual GCSEs) she has just got one blended science grade. What are other peoples experiences in terms of something like this?

In my view this isn't helpful and I think we should get three separate grades for three separate subjects - they might as well lump her history and geography in together and tell me a humanities grade!!

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LotusCheesecake · 07/12/2021 13:08

Sorry I've obviously not explained this well.

My DD is doing 3 separate GCSEs - biology, chemistry, physics.

However for the purpose of her school report, we can just see one grade for "science" (I assume it must be her physics teacher, as they have said she is performing well, which from the recent chemistry test she did recently she most certainly isn't).

My point is - if she is doing biology, chemistry, physics as separate GCSEs, shouldn't we be seeing three separate ratings from the three separate teachers rather than bunging it all together. If she was doing "science" as a gcse, then the single grade would make more sense.

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DraigFach · 07/12/2021 13:03

Triple award science where you get a GCSE for each studied subject is much more difficult to attain than single award or double award where all three independently studied subjects are blended for a grade. It gives students 3 opportunities to achieve a decent "science" GCSE grade.

In general terms, the single award science pupils are those who either show a lack of aptitude or enthusiasm for the more in depth requirements for double or triple science.

This isn't a new concept, my science GCSE grade was A/B back in 1995, I opted for an extra humanities subject rather than step up to triple award science.

To be honest, I'm surprised the school haven't told you about all this before - we were prepped at the end of year 8 for the structure of GCSEs in year 10...which was probably done better through virtual channels because of covid as we recieved digital copies of the presentations.

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