GCSE science setting

[janinlondon]

Just curious really. Does your secondary set triple science GCSE students for the individual sciences or are they assigned one science set for all three combined? Think school size might be relevant so if you know how many in the year that may help me please. TIA.

Selective school.Everyone does triple science taught as 3 separate subjects.No ability setting.

DC's schools don't set for science at all - they are selective schools, but the kids who are much better at English and languages are in the same science classes as the science geniuses. They're taught in forms, so yes it is the same for each science.

Like DoctorDonna's kids, mine were/are set only for maths and French.

About 270? in DD's year group. GCSE Science starts in Y9, I think doing B1, C1 and P1? Those that are more able and want to do triple are split off and do the rest of the chemistry and then the exam in Y10 whilst the others do the Core exam . The triple Science students then do Biology and Physics as separate lessons and take them in Y11. Then the others mainly do the Additional exam (so get double science) and the strugglers retake the Core exam. I think!

In DS's year (same school, similar sized year group, I think) they have just taken a Biology test to ascertain who could opt to do triple and they will start specialising earlier, I think. Though this is just heresay from the DC!

Jan, the fact that you say it has just happened suggests that these aren't real GCSE results. As I'm on holiday I have just looked at the results analysis for 120 kids doing triple for the past three years, actual results.
Only 2 students in that collection scored more than A*-B variance over the three sciences, and the vast majority had all three grades within one grade variance. The two outliers were one student with B,B, d and one with A, C,C.