English General PaperCode 8019
Science, including its history, philosophy, ethics, general principles and applications; environmental issues; technology and mathematics
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- Advances in medicine and science, and the ethical issues they give rise to
- Testing, making and supplying drugs
- Nutrition, teaching about health, and the provision of medical care
- Venturing into space and the commercial sector linked to it
- Information and communications technology
- Surveillance and privacy
- Environmental concerns
- Natural disasters, including how their effects can be reduced and how they are managed
- Rural and urban concerns
- Food and water security
- Transport, travel and tourism
- How mathematics is put to work in practice