Integrated Science is a core subject for school candidates, with English Language, Core Mathematics and Social Studies. Private candidates sit it too. WAEC sets the paper. GLearn does not, and GLearn does not publish a pass rate. Read the timetable for your own series.
Objective, theory, and the practical alternative
The examination scheme has three papers. Papers 1 and 2 are taken at one sitting. Paper 3 is separate. The timetable for your series names each paper and gives the time. This page does not copy those times, because a later file can change them.
Paper 1 is the objective paper. You answer every item.
Paper 2 is the theory paper. It is a set of essay questions, and you answer a choice of them, not every one. Read the instruction on the paper before you start writing.
Paper 3 tests practical work. In Ghana the timetable has named this paper Alternative to Practical Work. You write about an experiment: the apparatus, the method, an observation, a precaution, and a conclusion. It is not a promise of a laboratory session in the hall. Confirm the name on the timetable for your series.
The examination syllabus has expected candidates to keep notes of laboratory and field work, to visit a farm or a workplace where science is applied, and to take part in rearing poultry or animals such as goats, sheep or cattle. Your school, and the file for your series, say what applies to you. GLearn does not set that work.
Topic areas from the syllabus
The Integrated Science examination syllabus groups the work in five sections. Use them as a map. A section is not a promise that every unit appears on your paper. GLearn does not host the WAEC file. If the file your school gives you uses a different name, follow the file.
1. Diversity of matter
Measurement and units, cells, acids, bases and salts, soil, water, and metals. The living world and the materials it is made from.
2. Cycles
The nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, crop production, and animal production. Say what enters, what leaves, and why the pattern repeats.
3. Systems
Respiration, food and nutrition, digestion, transport, excretion, reproduction, and the circulation. A part, and the job of that part.
4. Energy
Photosynthesis, electrical energy, light, heat, and sound. Where the energy comes from, and what it becomes.
5. Interactions of matter
Ecosystems, infections, force and motion, and machines. How one change moves through a system.
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How to revise
Rotate the three papers. A week of theory with no practical question leaves Paper 3 cold.
1. Give each paper a turn
One session for objective items, one for a full theory answer, one for a practical account. Do not save Paper 3 for the night before.
2. Reject the wrong options
On an objective item, say why the other options fail, not only why one looks right.
3. Lead with the point
In theory, write the point the mark is for in the first line, then the reason. A long paragraph that never states the point is hard to mark.
4. Write the whole practical account
Apparatus, steps, what you would see, and the conclusion. Add one precaution when the question asks for it.
5. Use SI units
The syllabus says calculations use SI units. Convert before you substitute, and put the unit on the final quantity.
6. Keep Science inside the wider plan
The revision plan orders the weeks across every subject you sit. This page is the Integrated Science part of that plan. Anna marks the answers on GLearn. Kevin marks BECE Science. The first questions need no account.
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Mistakes that cost marks
These show up when a written answer is marked. Treat each one as a check you run before you move on.
1. Revising biology and calling it Integrated Science
Diversity of matter and energy include chemistry and physics. The papers draw on all of them, and on agriculture.
2. Treating Paper 3 as optional
The practical paper is its own paper. Skipping it is a missing score, not a detail you can repair in theory.
3. Stopping before the observation
The observation is the evidence. The conclusion comes after it. A method with neither is a story, not a result.
4. Swapping the wall and the membrane
The cell membrane selects what passes. The cell wall does not. A plant cell has both. An animal cell has no wall.
5. Putting a chloroplast in every cell
A chloroplast is in green plant cells. Root cells and animal cells are not a place to put one.
6. Ignoring the theory instruction
Answer the number of essays the paper asks for. Starting one more than that, and leaving it unfinished, spends time the marked answers needed.
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