GCSE Combined Science Paper

[Frostytiger87]

Hi, I'm looking for advice please my child is doing GCSE'S this year & although able has chosen to do the Combined Science exams for the Mocks .
Is this a good decision ? he said that it'll make no difference later on when it comes to the GCSE exams & he'll just be missing a mark or two is this correct ?

@RedskyThisNight sorry I more meant that they don't set so there will be people doing combined higher/foundation and those doing triple award all in one class.

@SnowDownShowdown

For mocks that are coming up ds class were also given the choice to choose the triple or combined science papers. I have been previously told that everyone studies the triple science topics even if they are taking combined as they have found students do better. The science classes aren't set either,

DD2's school does this. All children are taught science with 3 separate teachers, in 3 discrete subject lessons (Biology, Chemistry, Physics). This allows students to potentially move up or down sets throughout the year, and leaves the combined/trilogy choice open to the school at around March time. They do it like this so that students who start off lower don't get penned in by missing content.

The 3 separate sciences are usually taken as an option as they cover a lot of extra work that would be difficult to cover in the timetabled 4 x 1 hour per week for combined science.

Ds2 is sitting triple despite it not being an option. They have a high achieving cohort so had covered all of combined before the end of year 10 and started covering triple. The yr10 mocks were there to test the triple content knowledge and make the decision as to who would continue in year 11.

Ds2 does 1 hour of study support after school every week to cover triple content as well as the 4 timetabled lessons. They cycle the lesson content every few weeks in school so each week is biology, chemistry, physics plus one hour of say, biology. Then it moves on to physics.

Ds1 only did combined science as that was all that was offered, he went on to do A level physics with no issues.