NEO’s broader science pathway, for learners with academic ambitions or where the EHCP specifies broader curriculum coverage. Counts as two GCSEs (double award). Covers biology, chemistry, and physics in a single qualification.
Papers
Six papers — two each in biology, chemistry, and physics. Calculator allowed throughout. The chemistry and physics components require some additional resource support for online delivery (virtual lab simulations, video demonstrations).
Three components
- Biology — cell biology, organisation, infection and response, bioenergetics, homeostasis and response, inheritance and variation, ecology
- Chemistry — atomic structure, bonding, quantitative chemistry, chemical changes, energy, rates, organic chemistry, chemical analysis, atmosphere and resources
- Physics — forces, energy, waves, electricity and magnetism, particles, atomic structure (radioactivity)
Pathway choice
A learner taking Edexcel IGCSE Human Biology alone will not encounter formal Chemistry or Physics content. A learner taking Combined Science covers all three sciences but at a lighter weighting per topic than the single-science routes (Edexcel International GCSE in Biology / Chemistry / Physics — Phase 2 candidates for NEO).
Tests canonical
Each component page wikilinks to the canonical KS4 Science strands its content covers.
Status
Component-level indexes populated as overview. Outcome-level pages (per topic, with spec ID per outcome) to populate when a NEO Combined Science cohort needs them.