Year 11

A variable learns to hold many values at once, and then to hold them under names of your choosing. Programs stop forgetting everything the moment they finish, and start saving what they know into files and reading it back. A spreadsheet learns to count and add only the rows that pass a test, and to look one table's answers up in another. Then the two things the whole subject has been circling — how a page actually reaches you, and how a hundred thousand records are kept so that any one of them can be found — get a term each of their own.

5 units · 12 skills

The passive in every tense, naming a subordinate clause by its job, tenses and agreement across a whole passage, reporting a full conversation, small words in a gap-fill, the sentence rebuilt in every shape, editing a passage to its last mistake and the errors that come round again and again — plus reading a passage closely and writing a summary, an analytical paragraph or a letter to an official.

3 units · 14 skills

Real numbers, polynomials, number sequences and simultaneous equations, trigonometry put to work on heights and distances, coordinate geometry, circles, composite solids, probability and grouped data to close Key Stage 4.

5 units · 12 skills

Balancing an equation and naming the five kinds of reaction, acids and bases on the pH scale, the activity series and how each metal is won from its ore, carbon's covalent habit, the life processes of the human body and the plant, control by nerve and by hormone, reproduction and the rules of heredity, light and the eye, current in a circuit, and the magnetic effects of a current.

6 units · 12 skills