How many hours a week do you need to teach the course?

Science in Society is a full A level. Each year is fully funded by LSC for 180 guided learning hours in a normal advanced curriculum. Our schemes of work assume that you will spend 120 hours teaching the content each year (about 4 hours a week) with additional time spent on preparing and supervising the internally assessed work, examination preparation and so on.

Some centres have found that is possible to deliver the AS level successfully in a shorter time slot (e.g. as part of the enrichment curriculum) but this is a decision that only you can take based on particular circumstances (e.g. an option for brighter science students, ‘gifted and talented’ Year 11s)