GCSE Integrated Science
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg CBAC.
Integrated Science (Single Award) asks learners to read a pre-release Resource Folder worth a third of the Unit 1 paper, judge how reliable health and climate information is, write balanced evaluations, and write up a scientific enquiry alone under high control using precise scientific terms. Its numeracy load is heavy: Appendix D lists units, percentages, significant figures, substituting into equations, plotting graphs and, at higher tier, standard form, rearranging equations and gradients, all applied to energy costs, efficiency, density, motion and practical data. The single biggest thing Key Stage 3 should build is routine, confident handling of practical data: measuring with units, calculating means and values from equations, and plotting and explaining graphs.
- Corff dyfarnu
- CBAC
- Lefel
- Level 1 and Level 2
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2026
- Faint o waith llythrennedd
- Canolig
- Faint o waith rhifedd
- Uchel
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
- Unit 1: Living on Earth: Written examination (tiered), 1 hour 30 minutes, 72 marks, includes pre-release Resource Folder, 45%
- Unit 2: Science in a Changing World: Written examination (tiered), 1 hour 30 minutes, 72 marks, 45%
- Unit 3: Scientific Enquiry: One enquiry from a choice of two: practical task (1 hour) and written task (1 hour), 28 marks, externally marked by WJEC, 10%
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Rhuglder
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Percentages, efficiency and significant figures
Learners calculate efficiency from Sankey diagrams, energy transfer between trophic levels, Rf values and carbon footprints, and use ratios, fractions, percentages and a sensible number of significant figures. Standard form is higher tier only (Appendix D, page 46).
Rhifedd: Cyfrifiad, Y system rif, Perthnasoedd yn y system rif, Rhuglder, Dealltwriaeth gysyniadol
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils use a calculator to work out what percentage of the energy in a packet of crisps comes from fat, and round the answer to the nearest whole number.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils draw a Sankey diagram for a filament bulb from given energy values and calculate its efficiency as a percentage.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils calculate the percentage of energy passed along a food chain from given data, round to 2 significant figures, and write the largest energy values in standard form.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 1, Section 1.3.2a, page 23
“determine the efficiency of a device or process from a Sankey diagram.”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu cyfrifo canran, ffracsiwn a degolyn o unrhyw faint gyda chyfrifiannell lle y bo'n briodol.
Rwy'n gallu amcangyfrif drwy dalgrynnu i'r 10, 100, 1000 neu'r rhif cyfan agosaf.
Rwy'n gallu ddefnyddio dealltwriaeth o gywerthoedd ffracsiynau, degolion a chanrannau syml, e.e. dod o hyd i 25% o 60cm a gwybod bod hyn yn cyfateb i ¼ o 60cm.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu mynegi un maint fel canran maint arall.
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio a dehongli rhifau mewn ffurf safonol mewn cyfrifiadau.
Rwy'n gallu cyflwyno atebion i nifer penodol o leoedd degol neu ffigurau ystyrlon.
Cam cynnydd 5
Rwy'n gallu dewis a chymhwyso strategaethau gwirio priodol.
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio cyfrifiannell wyddonol yn effeithiol ac yn effeithlon i gwblhau cyfrifiadau gan ddefnyddio'r amrywiaeth o fysellau swyddogaeth sydd ar gael.
Rwy'n gallu dehongli atebion o fewn cyd-destun y broblem ac ystyried a yw atebion, gan gynnwys dangosyddion cyfrifiannell, analog a digidol, yn synhwyrol.
Da gwybod
- Unit 1 includes a pre-release Resource Folder released one month before the examination: '24 marks will be allocated to questions linked to the pre-release material', and candidates receive a clean copy of the folder with the question paper (page 11).
- Unit 3 Task 2 (22 marks) is written alone: 'Learners must work independently in high controlled conditions' (page 33). In Task 1 (6 marks) learners 'may work in groups of no more than three' (page 33).
- Higher tier only mathematics is shown in bold in Appendix D (page 46): standard form, changing the subject of an equation, and determining and interpreting the gradient, slope and intercept of a linear graph. Calculating acceleration from the gradient of a speed-time graph (page 13) and calculating rate from a straight line (page 20) are also higher tier content.
- The uncertainty formula is provided: 'There is a formula to calculate this which you will be given in an exam' (Appendix C, page 44).
- AO3, 'Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific information, processes, techniques and procedures', carries 25% of the qualification (page 35).
- The specification awards no separate marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar and makes no statement about calculator use.
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
The Appendix D mathematics overlaps closely with GCSE Mathematics and Numeracy, and the carbon footprint, air quality and energy cost work overlaps with Geography.
Ffynhonnell: WJEC GCSE Integrated Science (Single Award) specification, teaching from 2026, for award from 2028, © WJEC CBAC Ltd 2025.