What does HT mean in GCSE?

What does HT mean in GCSE?

Higher tier content
My GCSE Science Revision Checklists include every topic and learning objective on the specification. Higher tier content is labelled ‘HT’.

What grade is 60% in GCSE?

If a paper is allocated 120 uniform marks, the range of marks allocated to grade B is 84 to 95 (70% to 79% of 120); for grade C, 72 to 83 (60% to 69% of 120).

Is combined science higher hard?

The grade boundaries in June 2019 for the AQA exams for the individual sciences were all very similar to or slightly higher than the grade boundaries for Combined Science. This shows that to the students themselves the course isn’t particularly harder.

Is GCSE chemistry or physics harder?

GCSE Chemistry has a high pass rate of 89.7% in 2018. This is actually slightly higher than GCSE Biology, and slightly lower than GCSE Physics. The reason the pass rate is higher is because there is a larger amount of students getting lower grades in GCSE Chemistry than in GCSE Biology.

Do you get grades for Combined Science GCSEs?

Students taking combined science won’t get grades for the separate sciences or separate papers. “The new GCSE science qualifications can be taken in different ways – students can take single GCSEs in one or more of biology, chemistry and physics, or they can take a double GCSE in combined science.

What grades do GCSEs use statistics for?

In biology, chemistry and physics, exam boards will use statistics so that broadly the same proportion of students will achieve a grade 4 and above as previously achieved a grade C and above in the legacy GCSE single science qualifications. The same holds for grades 7/A and 1/G.

What GCSEs can you take in a levels?

A levels and GCSEs The new GCSE science qualifications can be taken in different ways – students can take single GCSEs in one or more of biology, chemistry and physics, or they can take a double GCSE in combined science.

What are the new GCSE science qualifications?

The new GCSE science qualifications can be taken in different ways – students can take single GCSEs in one or more of biology, chemistry and physics, or they can take a double GCSE in combined science. Students who take combined science will study all three sciences and they’ll cover roughly two thirds…