CCSLC Integrated Science

It is for secondary school candidates in the Caribbean working towards the Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence. It usually sits in the lower secondary years and serves as a foundation before CSEC®-level science subjects. Ask your school which term you will be entered for it.

Five equally weighted areas: scientific processes and skills; living things and the environment; the human body and health; matter and materials; and energy, forces and Earth in space. Expect questions that mix recall with interpreting data, diagrams and simple experiments rather than pure definitions alone.

CCSLC is a competence-based certificate at a lower level than CSEC®, so the science content is less specialised and the mathematics lighter. Difficulty usually comes from careless reading and weak explanations, not from advanced content. Solid grasp of each strand's core ideas is normally enough.

Start with scientific processes and skills, because measuring, tabulating and interpreting results appear inside every other strand. Then pair living things and the environment with the human body and health, since they share ecology and nutrition ideas. Finish with matter and materials and energy, forces and Earth in space.

Leaving explanation questions blank or answering with a single word, ignoring units in measurements, misreading tables and graphs, and neglecting one whole strand because they find it dull. Since all five strands carry equal weight, one weak area can pull the overall result down noticeably.

Retake arrangements are set by CXC® and your local examination centre, and they can change between sessions. Check the current CXC® regulations and speak to your school's examinations officer rather than relying on what older students tell you.

Those details are set by CXC® and are not stated on this page, so confirm them with your school or the official CXC® website before you plan revision timings. Do not assume figures from previous years still apply, because regulations are revised periodically.

No. This is an independent study resource with no affiliation to, endorsement by, or connection with the Caribbean Examinations Council. Use it for practice and revision, and treat CXC® and your school as the authoritative sources for registration, dates and grading.

Take a simple everyday situation, such as cooling water in a covered and uncovered cup, and write a prediction, a method, a results table and a conclusion. Doing this regularly builds the habit of explaining evidence clearly, which is exactly what the processes and skills strand rewards.