AQA GCSE Additional Science 4461

About this course

This is the outgoing Additional Science course which will be examined for the last time in Summer 2012, with last re-take in January 2013. Whether you are following the old or the new course will depend on which year you are in and whether or not you are aiming for triple science. Make sure you know which you are taking!

Exam dates for 2012

There are three exam papers (Biology, Chemistry, Physics) plus the controlled assessment. The papers can be taken in January or June. The controlled assessment can be taken at any time and submitted in June.

Biology: January 24th and May 21st.
Chemistry: January 26th and May 24th.
Physics: January 30th and May 30th.

Exam papers and other resources

Exam papers and marking schemes, course specification, details of the controlled assessment, and more, can be found on the AQA website.

Course content

Biology

11.1 What are animals and plants built from?
11.2 How do dissolved substances get into and out of cells?
11.3 How do plants obtain the food they need to live and grow?
11.4 What happens to energy and biomass at each stage in a food
chain?
11.5 What happens to the waste material produced by plants and
animals?
11.6 What are enzymes and what are some of their functions?
11.7 How do our bodies keep internal conditions constant?
11.8 Which human characteristics show a simple pattern of
inheritance?

Chemistry

12.1 How do sub-atomic particles help us to understand the
structure of substances?
12.2 How do structures influence the properties and uses of
substances?
12.3 How much can we make and how much do we need to use?
12.4 How can we control the rates of chemical reactions?
12.5 Do chemical reactions always release energy?
12.6 How can we use ions in solutions?

Physics

13.1 How can we describe the way things move?
13.2 How do we make things speed up or slow down?
13.3 What happens to the movement energy when things speed up
or slow down?
13.4 What is momentum?
13.5 What is static electricity, how can it be used and what is the
connection between static electricity and electric currents?
13.6 What does the current through an electrical current depend
on?
13.7 What is mains electricity and how can it be used safely?
13.8 Why do we need to know the power of electrical appliances?
13.9 What happens to radioactive substances when they decay?
13.10 What are nuclear fission and nuclear fusion?

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