Grade 8–9 Workbook – AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (8464) Physics Higher

The skills that turn a Grade 7 into a Grade 9, written just for Combined Science students.

Every question is on the AQA Trilogy (8464) Higher physics specification, so there's nothing to skip: no Space, no moments, no transformers, no lenses. It covers just the physics on your papers, at the level the top marks need.

Every chapter, 6 steps

What a 9 looks like: the ideas top students still get wrong

Worked examples: hard questions solved step by step, with the examiner's thinking alongside

Grade 7 vs Grade 9: two marked answers to the same question, so you can see exactly what earns the extra marks

Practice ladder: 10 questions from warm-up to Grade 9, including synoptic questions that mix topics

Explain like an examiner: mark a 6-mark answer with the levels grid, then rewrite it to reach Level 3

Practical and data skills: plot real-style data and evaluate it, including anomalies, gradients, intercepts and errors