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December, 2016
4th year IGCSE Literature Exam Syllabus.
Category B:
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Exam component: One test-written.
Duration: 60 Minutes.
Students will write an essay. They will be able to choose from two options. The questions are
modeled upon an IGCSE Literary Question.
Syllabus
Poetry
Registers. Michael Laskey.
Launderette. Liz Lockhead
In Our Tenth Year. Simon Armitage.
Sonnet 116: The Marriage of True Minds. William Shakespeare.
First Love. John Clare
Prose
The Phoenix. Sylvia Townsend Warner
Of White Hairs and Cricket. Rohinton Mistry.
Games at Twilight. Anita Desai.
Sredni Vashtar. Saki- H. Munro
Ming´s Biggest Prey. Patricia Highsmith,
Bilennium. J.G. Ballard
Tyres. Adam Thorpe
The Prison. Bernard Malamud.
December, 2016.
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4th year IGCSE Literature Exam Syllabus
Category C:
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Exam component: Two tests
Test 1: Written- Duration 60 minutes: Students will write one essay. They will be able to choose from
two options. The questions are modeled upon IGCSE Literary Questions.
Syllabus
Poetry
Registers. Michael Laskey.
Launderette. Liz Lockhead
In Our Tenth Year. Simon Armitage.
Sonnet 116: The Marriage of True Minds. William Shakespeare.
First Love. John Clare
Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer´s Day? William Shakespeare.
To Marguerite. Mathew Arnold.
Prose
The Phoenix. Sylvia Townsend Warner
Of White Hairs and Cricket. Rohinton Mistry.
Games at Twilight. Anita Desai.
Sredni Vashtar. Saki- H. Munro
Ming´s Biggest Prey. Patricia Highsmith
Bilennium. J.G. Ballard
Tyres. Adam Thorpe
The Prison. Bernard Malamud.
To Da-Duh, in Memoriam. Paule Marshall.
The People Before. Maurice Shadbolt.
Test 2: Oral- Duration 10 minutes.
Section A:
The student will draft an envelope containing a fragment from a story or a whole poem. Each
fragment will come with a guiding question.
He/She will have 10 minutes to make notes and plan an answer in silence. Then he/she will speak for
about 5 minutes uninterruptedly commenting on the text and answering the guiding question. The
examiners will then ask him/her further questions on the text.
The Phoenix.S.Townsend Warner.
Sredni Vashtar. H.Munro.
Billenium. J.G. Ballard.
Launderette. Liz Lockhead.
In Our Tenth Year. S. Armitage.
First Love. J. Clare.
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Section B:
For this section, the examiners will question the student on at least one of the following texts for 5
minutes.
Of White Hairs and Cricket. Paule Marshall.
Games at Twilight. Anita Desai.
To Da-Duh, in Memoriam. Paule Marshall.
The People Before.Maurice Shadbolt.
Tyres. A. Thorpe.
The Prison. Bernard Malamud.
Ming´s Biggest Prey. Patricia Highsmith.
To Marguerite. Mathew Arnold.
Sonnet 116: The Marriage of True Minds. William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer´s Day? William Shakespeare.
Registers. Michael Laskey.
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