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The first college in Switzerland to offer an English Year 10 programme.
Component 1: 50% of the total qualification. Personal Portfolio: Internally-set personal portfolio of work based on centre devised themes, projects or tasks. Marks available: 72.
Component 2: 50% of the total qualification. Externally-set assignment based on the same endorsed title as Component 1, to be marked externally. Marks available: 72.
Component 1: 60% of the total qualification. Title: Personal Investigation Internally set, assessed by the teacher and externally moderated.
Overview of content
This component allows students opportunities to generate and develop ideas, research primary and contextual sources, record practical and written observations, experiment with media and processes, and refine ideas towards producing personal resolved outcome(s).
Students must work within one of the following titles: Art, Craft and Design, Fine Art, Graphic Communication, Textile Design, Three-dimensional Design, Photography.
Overview of assessment
Incorporates three major elements: supporting studies, practical work, and a personal study.
Supporting studies and practical work will comprise a portfolio of development work and outcomes based on themes and Ideas developed from personal starting points.
The personal study will be evidenced through critical written communication showing contextual research and understanding in a minimum 1000 words of continuous prose, which may contain integrated images. The personal study comprises 12% of the total qualification and is marked out of 18. Marks available: 90.
Component 2: Personal Investigation
Externally set, assessed by the teacher and externally moderated. 40% of the total qualification
Overview of content
This component allows students opportunities to generate and develop ideas, research primary and contextual sources, record practical and written observations, experiment with media and processes, and refine ideas towards producing personal resolved outcome(s) in response to an externally set theme.
This will require students to address each of the Assessment Objectives given on page 3. Students must continue to work within the same title as component 1.
Overview of assessment
Incorporates two major elements: preparatory studies and the 15-hour period of sustained focus.
Preparatory studies will comprise a portfolio of practical and written development work based on the Externally Set Assignment.
During the 15-hour period of sustained focus under examination conditions, students will produce final outcome(s) extending from their preparatory studies in response to the Externally Set Assignment.
The Externally Set Assignment is released on 1 February and contains a theme and suggested starting points.
Students have from 1 February until the commencement of the final 15-hour period of sustained focus to develop preparatory studies.
The 15-hour period of sustained focus under examination conditions may take place over multiple sessions (a maximum of five, within three consecutive weeks). Marks available: 72.
EC1:
EC2:
EC3:
Unit 1: Molecules, diet, transport and health
Unit 2: Cells development, biodiversity and conservation Unit 3: Practical skills
EC4:
Unit 4: Energy, environment, microbiology and immunity
Unit 5: Respiration, internal environment, coordination and gene technology
Unit 6: Practical skills
Paper 1C:
Foundations of Chemistry – atomic theory, periodic table, bonding; group chemistry; atmospheric chemistry, acid-base theory, chemical tests; physical chemistry; organic chemistry.
Paper 2C:
As paper 1C, but with extra details not tested in 1C.
Foundations of chemistry, atomic theory, bonding, molecular shapes, alkanes, alkenes.
Unit 2:
Chemical energetics, intermolecular forces, redox chemistry, group chemistry, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibria, halogenoalkanes, alcohols, mass spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy.
Practical chemistry techniques, chemical tests.
Unit 4:
Chemical kinetics, entropy, lattice energy, chemical equilibria, acid-base equilibria, chirality, carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acids, acyl chlorides, esters, spectroscopy, chromatography.
Unit 5:
Redox equilibria, transition metal chemistry, arene chemistry, amine chemistry, amide chemistry, amino acids and proteins, organic synthesis.
Unit 6:
Practical chemistry techniques, chemical tests.
Paper 1:
Computer Systems
Algorithms, Programming and Logic
Paper 1:
Theory Fundamentals
Paper 2:
Fundamental Problem-Solving and Programming Skills
Paper 3:
Advanced Theory
Paper 4:
Practical (on-screen Python programming exam)
Paper 1:
Macroeconomics and the Global Economy
Unit 1:
Markets in action
Unit 2:
Macroeconomic performance and policy
Unit 3:
Business behaviour
Unit 4:
Developments in the global economy
Paper 1:
Non-Fiction & Transactional Writing
Poetry and Prose Texts and Imaginative Writing
Paper 1:
Unseen Poetry, Anthology Poetry, ‘Of Mice and Men’
Drama – ‘An Inspector Calls’ and ‘Macbeth’
Unit 1:
Prose (Novel) – ‘The Kite Runner’
Poetry (Anthology – 21 poems selected) – ‘Poems of the Decade’
Unit 2:
Drama (Literary Heritage – Shakespeare) – ‘Twelfth Night’
Drama (Modern) – ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
Unit 3:
Prose (Novel) – ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ & ‘Frankenstein’ – Comparative question
Poetry (Modern Poetry) – Unseen poem – Write a commentary
Unit 4:
Drama (Literary Heritage – Shakespeare) – ‘Hamlet’
Poetry (Literary Heritage) – ‘Romanticism’
Please note: The focus is on the four skills (listening, reading, writing & speaking), grammar and vocabulary (topics below) building.
*Sub-topics A3, C3, C5, D2 and E4 will not be assessed in Paper 3: Speaking
General topic areas (GTAs) Subtopics
Paper 1:
Unseen Poetry, Anthology Poetry, ‘Of Mice and Men’
Reading and Writing
Paper 3:
Speaking
Unit 1:
Speaking
Unit 2:
Understanding and written response
Unit 3:
Speaking
Unit 4:
Research, understanding and written response
Please note: The focus is on the four skills (listening, reading, writing & speaking), grammar and vocabulary building (topics and subtopics are below).
Development of Society in Russia
Political and artistic culture in the Russian-speaking world
Changes in the life of a big city – Moscow or Saint-Petersburg
The final years of the USSR – M.S. Gorbachev (1985-1991)
Paper 1:
Physical Geography
Human Geography
Unit 1:
Global Challenges
Unit 2:
Geographical Investigations
Unit 3:
Contested Planet
Unit 4:
Researching Geography
Paper 1:
Germany 1918-1945 and USA 1945-1974
Russia 1905-1924 and Int. Organisations League of Nations and UN: 1919- 2011
Unit 1:
Germany 1918-1945
Unit 2:
The USSR: 1917-1991
Unit 3:
Unit 4:
International Relations: 1879-1945
Basic number skills, standard form, limits of accuracy, surds and indices, ratio and proportion, percentages
Basic algebra skills, set notation, plotting graphs, solving quadratics, completing the square, inequalities, simultaneous equations, sequences, change of subject, algebraic proof, function notation and transformations, differentiation.
Properties and areas of shapes, angles in polygons and circles, symmetry and constructions, Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry, compound measures (speed and density) and volume, sine and cosine rules, similarity, circle theorems, vectors.
Basic probability, statistical measures, cumulative frequency diagrams and histograms, tree diagrams, conditional probability.
Pure Mathematics 1
Algebra and Functions, Quadratic Functions, Inequalities, Transformations, Coordinate Geometry (straight lines), Trigonometry, Calculus
Unit P2:
Pure Mathematics 2
Proof, Algebra and Functions, Coordinate Geometry (circles and straight lines), Sequences and Series, Exponential and Logarithms, Trigonometry, Calculus
Unit S1:
Statistics 1
Mathematical models in Probability and Statistics, Representation and summary of data, Probability, Correlation and Regression, Discrete Random Variables, Discrete Distributions, Normal Distribution
Unit P3:
Pure Mathematics 3
Modulus and Functions, Trigonometry, Exponential and Natural Logarithms, Calculus, Numerical Methods
Unit P4:
Pure Mathematics 4
Proof, Algebra, Parametric Equations, Binomial Expansion, Calculus, Vectors
Unit M1:
Mechanics 1
Mathematical models in Mechanics, Vectors in Mechanics, Kinematics of a particle
moving in a straight line, Forces (Newton’s laws and Friction), Collisions, Moments
A-Level:
P1, P2, P3, P4, M1, S1
A-Level & Further M.:
FP1, FP2, FP3, D1, M2, S2
Unit FP1:
Further Mathematics 1
Complex Numbers, Roots of Quadratics, Numerical Solutions, Coordinate Systems, Matrices, Series, Proof
Unit FP2:
Further Mathematics 2
Inequalities, Series, Further Complex Numbers, First Order Differential Equations, Second Order Differential Equations, Maclaurin and Taylor Series, Polar Coordinates
Unit FP3:
Further Mathematics 3
Hyperbolic Functions, Further Coordinate Systems, Calculus, Vectors, Further Linear Algebra
Decision Mathematics 1
Algorithms, Algorithms on graphs, Algorithms on graphs II, Critical Path Analysis, Linear Programming
Unit S2:
Statistics 2
Binomial Distribution, Poisson Distribution, Continuous Random Variables, Samples, Hypothesis tests
Mechanics 2
Kinematics of a particle moving in a straight line or plane, Centre of mass, Work and Energy, Collisions, Statics of rigid bodies
Paper 1:
Germany 1918-1945 and USA 1945-1974
Russia 1905-1924 and Int. Organisations League of Nations and UN: 1919- 2011
Unit 1:
Germany 1918-1945
Unit 2:
The USSR: 1917-1991
Unit 3:
Unit 4:
International Relations: 1879-1945
Forces and Motion
Electricity
Topic 3:
Waves
Topic 4:
Energy resources and energy transfer
Topic 5:
Solids, liquids and gases
Topic 6:
Magnetism and electromagnetism
Topic 7:
Radioactivity and particles
Topic 8:
Astrophysics
Unit 1:
Topic 1: Mechanics
Topic 2: Materials
Topic 3: Waves and particle nature of light
Topic 4: Electric circuits
Unit 3:
8 Mandatory experiments
Unit 4:
Topic 5: Further mechanics
Topic 6: Electric and magnetic fields
Topic 7: Nuclear and particle physics
Unit 5:
Topic 8: Thermodynamics
Topic 9: nuclear decay
Topic 10: Oscillations
Topic 11: Astrophysics and cosmology
Unit 6:
8 Mandatory experiments