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Why does Double Science count as two GCSEs?

I have never unsterstood why. I did two single science GCSEs (you cannot do double or triple at the school i went to) with Edexcel, both which had two papers, the second one being slightly harder. How can Double science be worth the same as two seperate single science GCSEs when you only do paper 1? :confused:

Reply 1

aMasterPieceOfDNA

Simple. Double Science = double the content of Single Science.

That was the case with my exam board anyway...

Reply 2

FaTcUtEcHeKiEz

2

Edexcel double science has both paper 1 which covers modules 1-6 and paper 2 which covers modules 7-12

Reply 3

Morgan141

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onthenightrain

I have never unsterstood why. I did two single science GCSEs (you cannot do double or triple at the school i went to) with Edexcel, both which had two papers, the second one being slightly harder. How can Double science be worth the same as two seperate single science GCSEs when you only do paper 1? :confused:

I've never heard of that before, for my exam board the double science and separate sciences were completely different exams.

Reply 4

Happy_Holidays

15

Well I did a double science modular award and did. 6 modualr papers and 2 papers in the final exam.

Reply 5

twinkle.twinkle

For my double science I had to do 3 exams in year 11 and 1 in year10.

It's twice the amount of units in double award.

Reply 6

onthenightrain

OP

1

Thanks for replying. Can someone then tell me the difference then from doing 2 Single science GCSE's and a Double Award science GCSE (linear).

Reply 7

Morgan141

2

double award includes a bit of all three sciences and two single awards is only two sciences but in more detail.

Reply 8

no1mohsin

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onthenightrain

How can Double science be worth the same as two seperate single science GCSEs when you only do paper 1? :confused:

Don't know where you've heard that :confused:

. I did Double Science and we sat three, 1 and an half hour long papers - I think two GCSEs is only fair :confused:

Reply 9

calcium878

18

Double Science has approximately 2/3 of each full Science course. 2/3 x 3 sciences = 2 subjects overall. It's basically a way to study all three sciences without it taking up loads of your timetable, hence its content is trimmed down.

Reply 10

lil one

2

Because the content wise is worth 2gcses..we had a 1 and a half hour paper in each physics, chem, and biology..personally i think we should get 3 grades :biggrin:

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Reply 11

Berto90

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calcium878

Double Science has approximately 2/3 of each full Science course. 2/3 x 3 sciences = 2 subjects overall. It's basically a way to study all three sciences without it taking up loads of your timetable, hence its content is trimmed down.

Reply 12

Happyness

14

Because the exam board says so.

Reply 13

ebam_uk

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lil_one

Because the content wise is worth 2gcses..we had a 1 and a half hour paper in each physics, chem, and biology..personally i think we should get 3 grades :biggrin:

x

Well i did an extra hour exam in biology, chemistry and physics so altoghether i did 7.5 hours of exams in science whilst you did 4.5 hours.

Which is why i get 3 grades and you get 2 grades.

Reply 14

calcium878

18

Separate Science rules all :biggrin:

AQA = 6 3/4 hours of exams :p:

Reply 15

anon53

4

You don't do one paper for Double Science GCSE. For the linear papers, you do 3 papers each lasting 1 and a half hours. Each paper covers one of the 3 aspects of the science GCSE - Biology, Chemistry and Physics. It usually requires twice the teaching time of a normal GCSE and therefore has two grades. I think GCSE single sciences include a grade for each science. Some people just do one or two of these though. There is additional material for single science, so it takes longer to teach - it takes less time to teach Souble Award than the sciences as three separate diciplines. With DS, your performance on all 3 papers is combined and amalgantes into two overall grades - you get your grade twice basically.

I hope this helps

Reply 16

AisAis

13

According to one of my science teachers, those of us who take them seperately as three GCSEs aren't having as many lessons as they should for a full GCSE. You only have four lessons a fornight for each science, when for most full GCSEs you would have five.

But all you clever-clogs on here doing about 20 GCSEs at once probably have less than five for mosy subjects anyway :-P

Reply 17

kellywood_5

17

I did 2 or 3 exams for double science and they each lasted about 1.5 hours, I think. It was 2 years ago now, so my memory is a little fuzzy :p:

That was for OCR linear. Each paper was mixed rather than having one for each science. Put simply:

Single award is a mix of all 3 sciences in not much detail and worth 1 GCSE
Double award is a mix of all 3 sciences in more detail, sometimes examined separately and sometimes together, and worth 2 GCSEs
Separate sciences are in a lot of detail, examined separately and worth 1 GCSE each

Reply 18

XxJaninexX

15

1 exam??????

Erm i hade a module thing worth 25% in year 10 and then 3 exams, one in each science.

Why does Double Science count as two GCSEs?

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