The two Advanced Practical Skills papers contain different questions but are equivalent in difficulty and the level of practical competency that is examined. Students should be prepared in the same way whichever of these papers they are to be entered for.
The practical papers will be timetabled on different days. We anticipate that schools will decide which paper to enter students for based on the number of students and the laboratory resources available. Schools can either:
- enter all students for the same practical paper (it does not matter which one, but the school will need to have enough laboratory space and resources to accommodate all of their students) or
- enter half the students for one paper and the other half for the other paper (which means that the laboratories only have to be able to accommodate half the total number of the students on any one day. However, the laboratories will be in use for two days rather than one).
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