GCSE Science Exam Technique Bundle: Command Words Practice Packs and Posters for AQA

Five practice packs, an evaluate question bank and seven classroom posters teach your students how to answer every kind of GCSE science exam question. Each routine gives students a short set of steps to follow, so they know how to start an answer and what the mark scheme rewards.

What’s in the bundle

• Evaluate: fact, reason, judgement, for “evaluate” questions
• Describe and explain: what the data shows, then why, for graph and table questions
• PEEL: point, evidence, explain, link, for 6-mark extended answers
• CIDERM: control, independent, dependent, equipment, repeats, method, for planning a required practical
• VARP: valid, accurate, repeatable and reproducible, precise, for judging results
• Evaluate question bank: 24 more evaluate questions across Biology, Chemistry and Physics
• Free posters: seven A3 command word routine posters and an A4 summary sheet

Inside every pack

• the routine on one page
• 3 worked examples with full-mark answers
• 12 practice questions across Biology, Chemistry and Physics
• 3 ‘mark it and improve it’ tasks
• a full mark scheme with model answers
• three files: full colour, print-friendly with a white background, and student pages with no answers

That makes 84 practice questions and 15 worked examples in total, all with answers.

For your department

• Ready to use in lessons, revision sessions, intervention groups or homework
• Built for AQA GCSE Combined Science (8464)
• Uses AQA’s command words and vocabulary, including repeatable and reproducible
• The same routines in every class gives your department a shared language for exam answers

Who it is for
GCSE science exam technique and command words practice for Year 10 and Year 11, including mock preparation and Year 11 revision.

Every question is original and every answer has been independently checked.