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GCSE Statistics

GCSE Statistics at the Grange is taken as an option in Year 10 if pupils have met their targets in Mathematics. Taking GCSE Statistics supports pupils with their Mathematics GCSE because some of the syllabus overlaps between Statistics GCSE and Mathematics GCSE e.g. two way tables; stem and leaf diagrams; cumulative frequency diagrams; box plots. 

  • Exam board/Specification: Edexcel
  • Exam details: 75% exam paper (2 hours); 25% Controlled Assessment 
                 - This year’s themes are: Climates; Puzzles and Games; Journeys

The topics taught for GCSE Statistics are:



Autumn TermSpring TermSummer Term
Half Term 1Mean, median, mode and range. Estimating the mean.
Measures of spread.
Box plots and cumulative frequency diagrams.

Completion of coursework 
Variance.
Index numbers.
Scatter diagrams and correlation.
Spearman’s rank.
Lines of best fit

Half Term 2Types of data.
Population and sampling.
Questionnaires.
 Two way tables.
Pie charts.
Stem and leaf diagrams

Multiple and composite bar charts.
Frequency polygons and histograms.
Population pyramids.
Choropleth maps

Time series.
Moving averages.
Probability, including Venn diagrams, tree diagrams and Binomial distribution

 

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