Chemistry
WJEC GCSE
Studying GCSE Chemistry provides the foundations for understanding the material world. Scientific understanding is changing our lives and is vital to the world’s future prosperity, and all learners should be taught essential aspects of the knowledge, methods, processes and uses of science. They should be helped to appreciate how the complex and diverse phenomena of the natural world can be described in terms of a small number of key ideas relating to the sciences which are both inter-linked, and are of universal application.
Assessment
CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, REACTIONS and ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Written examination : 1 hour 45 minutes, 45% of qualification
A mix of short answer questions, structured questions, extended writing and data response questions with some set in a practical context. To be completed at the end of year 10.
CHEMICAL BONDING, APPLICATION OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS and ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Written examination: 1 hour 45 minutes, 45% of qualification
A mix of short answer questions, structured questions, extended writing and data response questions with some set in a practical context. To be completed at the end of year 11.
PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT 10% of qualification
Practical assessment that will be carried out in school, but will be externally marked by WJEC. It will take place in the first half of the spring term (January – February). To be completed during year 11.