Please clarify so I'm 100% sure: pupils who do the triple award will still sit the normal exams for GCSE Science and Additional Science, then extra exams for individual sciences?
Students on track for separate sciences (GCSE Biology, GCSE Chemistry, and GCSE Physics) must do exam papers in subject groups. That is, B1 B2 B3, C1 C2 C3, P1 P2 P3 etc. Students must not do B1 C1 P1, B2 C2 P2, etc.
For separate sciences, students also do different Ideas in Context papers (Unit 3 in each subject, including the 7th modules B7 C7 P7.)
In each of the three sciences, students must do either GCSE Science type coursework (Unit 4 case study & data analysis) or GCSE Additional Science type coursework (Unit 5 investigation).
It makes sense if, across the three subjects, students do both GCSE Science type and GCSE Additional Science type coursework. That way, GCSE Science plus GCSE Additional Science can still be a fall-back for any students not on track for the separate sciences GCSEs after January year 11. (Such students would then entered for appropriate Ideas in Context papers.)
For further clarification see the specifications downloadable from the OCR website. Here is our guide to the OCR website.
