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Exam key terms

Typing practice for GCSE The Sciences

The largest lexicon of any GCSE: cells and metabolism, bonding and rates, forces and waves, plus the units, quantities and formulae pupils have to type exactly.

Terms
420
Lessons
15
Spec code
3455QD

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) specification, first teaching 2026.

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A sample of what pupils type

One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.

  • limiting factor of photosynthesis
  • double circulatory system
  • non-governmental organisation
  • complementary base pairing
  • electrostatic force of attraction
  • law of conservation of mass
  • sodium hydroxide solution
  • enhanced greenhouse effect
  • gradient of a speed-time graph
  • total internal reflection
  • pumped storage hydroelectric station
  • Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
  • validity of experimental design
  • gravitational field strength
  • selectively permeable membrane
  • cardiovascular disease
  • invasive non-native species
  • non-communicable disease

What the pack covers

Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.

Biology

  • 1.1 Cells and metabolism
  • 1.2 Systems and control
  • 1.3 Ecosystems and biodiversity
  • 1.4 Inheritance, evolution and health

Chemistry

  • 2.1 Matter and bonding
  • 2.2 Electronic structure, periodicity and rates
  • 2.3 Acids, salts and metals
  • 2.4 The Earth's resources and crude oil

Physics

  • 3.1 Motion and forces
  • 3.2 Waves
  • 3.3 Electricity, energy and electromagnetism
  • 3.4 Radioactivity and the Universe

Working scientifically

  • 4.1 Apparatus, method and data
  • 4.2 Units and quantities
  • 4.3 Explaining terms in your own words

How a lesson works

Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.

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Where the terminology comes from

Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.

  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Specification (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching Unit 1 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching Unit 2 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching Unit 3 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching Unit 4 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching Unit 5 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching Unit 6 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE The Sciences (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching Unit 7 (Undated)

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