We’ve designed the controlled assessment and theory content to ensure that the controlled assessment is:
  

• easy to plan
• straightforward to mark
• structured to help test students’ actual investigative skills
• based on students’ own practical work and collection of secondary evidence – as required by Ofqual’s subject criteria.

 
*Please note that when marking workbook answers:

• No reduction in marks will result from using the workbook
   
• This workbook is generic. For GCSE Science, candidates can write in the hypothesis to be tested, although no marks are awarded
   
• Ensure that you mark the equipment choices to the appropriate mark scheme. The number of marks is different for GCSE Science and the other qualifications in the suite
   
• Candidates will sometimes write down answers in the wrong section. Where this happens, you may award the mark and should annotate the script to show that you have done this.