Specification points

AQA Entry Level Certificate Science 5960

92 points in 6 topics, with AQA's codes and titles.

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3.1 Component 1 – Biology: The human body

3.1.1 What is the body made of?
3.1.1.1 Outcome 1: cells and their parts
3.1.1.2 Outcome 2: tissues, organs and the circulatory system
3.1.1.3 Outcome 3: the digestive system
3.1.2 How the body works
3.1.2.4 Outcome 4: respiration, lifestyle and health
3.1.3 How the body fights disease
3.1.3.5 Outcome 5: pathogens and infectious disease
3.1.3.6 Outcome 6: white blood cells and vaccination
3.1.3.7 Outcome 7: medical drugs and antibiotics
3.1.4 How the body is coordinated
3.1.4.8 Outcome 8: automatic control and reflex actions
3.1.4.9 Outcome 9: hormones and the menstrual cycle
3.1.4.10 Outcome 10: hormones and fertility

3.2 Component 2 – Biology: Environment, evolution and inheritance

3.2.1 What are the feeding relationships between living organisms?
3.2.1.1 Outcome 1: energy from the Sun and photosynthesis
3.2.1.2 Outcome 2: adaptations for survival
3.2.1.3 Outcome 3: food chains and food webs
3.2.1.4 Outcome 4: recycling materials and decay
3.2.2 What determines where particular species live?
3.2.2.5 Outcome 5: competition between plants and between animals
3.2.2.6 Outcome 6: environmental change
3.2.2.7 Outcome 7: pollution of water, air and land
3.2.3 How life has developed on Earth
3.2.3.8 Outcome 8: evolution, natural selection and selective breeding
3.2.3.9 Outcome 9: sexual and asexual reproduction
3.2.3.10 Outcome 10: DNA, chromosomes, genes and genetic engineering

3.3 Component 3 – Chemistry: Elements, mixtures and compounds

3.3.1 Atoms, elements and compounds
3.3.1.1 Outcome 1: atoms, elements and the periodic table
3.3.1.2 Outcome 2: compounds and word equations
3.3.2 How structure affects properties
3.3.2.3 Outcome 3: states of matter and changes of state
3.3.2.4 Outcome 4: diamond and graphite
3.3.3 Separating mixtures
3.3.3.5 Outcome 5: mixtures and ways to separate them
3.3.3.6 Outcome 6: paper chromatography
3.3.4 Metals and alloys
3.3.4.7 Outcome 7: extracting and recycling metals
3.3.4.8 Outcome 8: properties and uses of metals
3.3.4.9 Outcome 9: alloys and steels
3.3.5 Polymers
3.3.5.10 Outcome 10: polymers and waste disposal

3.4 Component 4 – Chemistry: Chemistry in our world

3.4.1 Reactions of acids
3.4.1.1 Outcome 1: acids with metals, and the test for hydrogen
3.4.1.2 Outcome 2: neutralisation and making salts
3.4.2 Energy and rate of reaction
3.4.2.3 Outcome 3: reactions that release or take in energy
3.4.2.4 Outcome 4: rates of reaction
3.4.3 Earth's atmosphere
3.4.3.5 Outcome 5: the early atmosphere and the rise of oxygen
3.4.3.6 Outcome 6: how the atmosphere reached its present composition
3.4.4 Fuels and human impacts on the atmosphere
3.4.4.7 Outcome 7: crude oil and fractional distillation
3.4.4.8 Outcome 8: gases released by burning fuels
3.4.4.9 Outcome 9: greenhouse gases and climate change
3.4.5 Water for drinking
3.4.5.10 Outcome 10: safe drinking water

3.5 Component 5 – Physics: Energy, forces and the structure of matter

3.5.1 Energy, energy transfers and energy resources
3.5.1.1 Outcome 1: changes in energy stores
3.5.1.2 Outcome 2: energy transfers, efficiency and insulation
3.5.1.3 Outcome 3: energy resources
3.5.2 Forces and work
3.5.2.4 Outcome 4: contact and non-contact forces
3.5.2.5 Outcome 5: work done and friction
3.5.3 Speed and stopping distances
3.5.3.6 Outcome 6: speed and average speed
3.5.3.7 Outcome 7: thinking distance and braking distance
3.5.3.8 Outcome 8: reaction times
3.5.3.9 Outcome 9: what affects braking distance
3.5.4 Atoms and nuclear radiation
3.5.4.10 Outcome 10: radioactive decay and nuclear radiation

3.6 Component 6 – Physics: Electricity, magnetism and waves

3.6.1 Electrical current
3.6.1.1 Outcome 1: current, voltage and resistance
3.6.1.2 Outcome 2: circuits, direct current and alternating current
3.6.2 Domestic electricity
3.6.2.3 Outcome 3: mains wiring, earthing and fuses
3.6.2.4 Outcome 4: energy transferred by appliances
3.6.3 Magnetism and electromagnetism
3.6.3.5 Outcome 5: magnets and magnetic forces
3.6.3.6 Outcome 6: magnetic fields around wires
3.6.4 Different types of waves
3.6.4.7 Outcome 7: transverse and longitudinal waves
3.6.4.8 Outcome 8: amplitude, wavelength and frequency
3.6.5 Electromagnetic waves
3.6.5.9 Outcome 9: the electromagnetic spectrum
3.6.5.10 Outcome 10: uses of electromagnetic waves