What is the difference between the two Advanced Practical Skills paper options?

These two Advanced Practical Skills papers are equivalent in every respect, except that they will contain different questions. Students should be prepared in exactly 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 their students for, based on the number of students and the laboratory resources available. They can either:

• enter all their students for the same practical paper (it does not matter which one, but the school will need to have sufficient laboratory space and resources to accommodate all their students) or
• enter half of their students for one paper and the other half for the other (which means that the laboratories only must be able to accommodate half of the students on any one day, but which means that the laboratories will be in use for two days rather than one).