Entry Level Science | The Unicorn School

The table below outlines how Entry Level Science is taught and assessed at The Unicorn School.

Subject	Qualification	Exam Board
Entry Level Science	Entry Level Science and Further Science	Edexcel
Assessment overview
How is this assessed?	Exams are sat throughout the year during lessons. They are externally set tests administered by Unicorn Science teachers. There are no public exams at the end of Year 11. Instead, exams are end‑of‑topic tests taken after lessons that include guided revision. There is no formal time limit for each exam, although they usually take between half a lesson and a full lesson. Students have followed this approach since starting the course in Year 9.
Link to exam board	Entry Level Science (Edexcel)
Percentage weighting – exam component	Set paper worth 40%
Other useful notes	Exams can be retaken after additional revision to improve scores. Once all tests have been completed, they are submitted to the exam board for moderation and the awarding of grades. Science and Further Science are two separate qualifications. The content covered also prepares students for Combined Science GCSE. In some cases, we may recommend that a student studies Entry Level Science rather than GCSE.