Where can I find them?
Log into Exampro and click on Science on the left hand side
Click GCSE Science topic tests under ready-made assessments
General guidance
These tests have been developed for formative assessment of specification content. They consist of new and re-purposed AQA questions written and adapted by subject specialists. One test is available for each topic covering both Foundation and Higher tier content.
The tests and mark schemes are editable Word documents so can be adapted for your students’ needs. Each test includes a feedback form to enable both self and teacher assessment.
Some questions require students to draw/label a graph or diagram or complete a calculation. Students can complete their response by hand, take a photo or scan and send it, or insert it into the Word document. Alternatively, students can use the drawing tools in Word.
Advice for students
How to enable Web Layout
Open the downloaded document and click Enable Editing at the top of the page
Go to View in the toolbar
Select Web Layout
Tip Every document will open in this view until it is changed back to Print Layout (the default)
Feedback form
The feedback form is in three sections:
- Instructions for students
- Self-assessment
- Teacher review
The self-assessment section allows students to enter a confidence score as well as their mark and a comment for each question.
We encourage you to use the feedback form in whatever way suits you and your students.
You could:
- invite students to complete the confidence scores before sharing the mark scheme with them
- have students self-assess some questions and just comment on others where the mark schemes are more complex
When students have filled in the table, they can leave an overall comment by completing the ‘I can…’ and ‘I need to…’ sentences. To help students with this, we have suggested some ideas for the comments.
Technical requirements
Microsoft Word (2007 and above)
These tests have been created as Word documents. Once you download them, you can open, edit and save the files by using any version of Microsoft Word 2007 and above.
Google Drive
You can download and share the tests in Google Drive. Users will have to download the documents or use Google Drive File Stream to be able to open them in Word with the original content and layout. If you open a document as a Google Doc you will lose the original formatting and some functionality, like editable answer boxes.
ZIP folder
Use your preferred file compression application to unzip the downloaded archive. In Windows, you will probably need to right-click the compressed (zipped) folder and select Extract All from the context menu to extract the files to the current folder.
On a Mac, double click the compressed (zipped) folder to extract the files to the current folder.