Higher Environmental Science is offered on a year on/year off basis at Gairloch High School. It will next run in 2024-2025 and 2026-2027.
Environmental Science brings together the study of the Sciences and Geography to examine the natural world and landscape through a lens of sustainability.Â
In 2018, changes were made to some of the course content. These older exams are structured differently and they may have questions on topics/themes which are no longer in the course.
Each Higher Environmental Science exam contains two extended response questions, worth 10 marks. This booklet brings together all the extended response questions so far, along with their marking instructions.
The SQA course specification for Environmental Science details everything you need to know for your assessments.
The SQA Understanding Standards website has examples of how exams and assignments are marked.