NCE Grade 8 science practice — nutrition and digestion, respiration, acids and bases, forces, pressure, magnetism, work and energy.
13 chapters
400+ questions
Aligned with the MIE curriculum
Science is still a single subject at Grade 8, but read down the chapter list and next year is already showing through it. Digestion, respiration and disease are biology. The language of chemistry, and acids, bases and salts, are chemistry. Forces, pressure, magnetism, and work and energy are physics. A pupil who spots that has understood something about the shape of the course a year before anybody tells them.
The division is a real one: at Grade 9 the NCE sets Biology, Chemistry and Physics as three independent 45-minute, 50-mark papers. That makes Grade 8 the last year in which one way of thinking covers the whole subject, and the best use of it is the parts that transfer — designing a fair test, reading a symbol correctly, and treating nutrition, disease and technology in society as consequences to reason about rather than lists to recite.
What NCE Grade 8 Science covers
Scientific Inquiry
Food & Nutrients
Mixtures & Separation Techniques
The Digestive System
The Respiratory System
Language of Chemistry
Communicable & Non-Communicable Diseases
Acids, Bases & Salts
Forces in Nature
Pressure
Magnetism & its Uses
Work, Energy & Power
Science, Technology & Society
How it is practised
Force, pressure and magnetism questions come with inline SVG figures, so an arrow points in exactly the direction intended and the diagram survives having no connection.
Alt text on an organ or a circuit is written so that it cannot give away the thing the question is asking about.
The four multiple-choice options are held to one grammatical shape and length, so the correct one is never simply the answer that looks most complete.
Each chapter breaks into named sub-topics with live question counts, so respiration can be revised apart from digestion rather than alongside it.