English Language
and Literature
ENGLISH LANG EXAM BOARD: CAMBRIDGE IGCSE
ENGLISH LIT EXAM BOARD: PEARSON
HEAD OF ENGLISH: Mrs Scally
KS4 ENGLISH LEAD: Mrs Brooks
Most students will be entered for both Language iGCSE and Literature GCSE qualifications. Both English Language and English Literature exams will be taken terminally (in the summer series of Year 11).
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Click here to view English Language specification.
Click here to view English Literature specification.
English Language Examination:
The English Language qualification contains elements of Literature to ensure that all students meet the National Curriculum requirements. This means that students are still able to pursue either English Literature or English Language at A Level, if successful at GCSE.
PAPER 1: READING
Duration: 2 hours. 80 marks total. Entry May/June of Year 11.
Structured and extended writing questions. Questions will be based on three reading texts.
This component is eligible for grades A* - G.
50%
PAPER 2: DIRECTED WRITING AND COMPOSITION
50%
Duration: 2 hours. 80 marks total.
Candidates answer two questions.
This component is eligible for grades A* - G.
English Literature Examination:
PAPER 1: POETRY & PROSE
Duration: 2 hours. 90 marks total. Closed book (texts are not allowed in the exam). Externally assessed.
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Section A: Unseen Poetry
Section B: Anthology Poetry
Component 1 Part 3 of the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology. If-, Rudyard Kipling; Prayer Before Birth, Louis MacNeice; Blessing, Imtiaz Dharker; Search For My Tongue, Sujata Bhatt; Half-past Two, U A Fanthorpe; Piano, D H Lawrence; Hide and Seek, Vernon Scannell; Sonnet 116, William Shakespeare; La Belle Dame sans Merci, John Keats; Poem at Thirty-Nine, Alice Walker; War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy; The Tyger, William Blake; My Last Duchess, Robert Browning; Half-caste, John Agard; Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas; Remember, Christina Rossetti
Section C: Modern Prose - To Kill a Mockingbird
60%
PAPER 2: MODERN DRAMA & LITERACY HERITAGE TEXTS
40%
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes. 60 marks total. Open book exam. Externally assessed.
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Section A: An Inspector Calls
Section B: Macbeth