GCSE SUBJECTS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
The information below relates to the timings of GCSE assessments for pupils in Year 10 who began their GCSE in
course in September 2016.
Subject
Exam Board
Course
Specification
English Language
English Literature
Cambridge International Examination (IGCSE)
English First Language 0627 (9 – 1)
http://www.cie.org.uk/images/203894-2017-2019-syllabus.pdf
http://www.cie.org.uk/images/203356-2017-2019-syllabus.pdf
English Literature 0477 (9 - 1)
Teaching
Group(s)s
Exams
Dates
Details (eg weightings etc)
All
All
All
All
All
Year 10 Summer Examinations
Year 11 Trial Exams
GCSE English Language
GCSE Speaking and Listening test
GCSE English Literature
Summer 2017
November 2018
Summer 2018 (dates TBC)
March/April 2018
Summer 2018 (dates TBC)
Internal
Internal
100%
Separately endorsed
100%
Teaching
Group(s)s
Coursework
All
N/A
Dates
Details (eg weightings etc)
N/A
N/A
Recommended *Either Arthur Miller A View From The Bridge or Terence Rattigan The Winslow Boy
*Either The Macbeth or Henry V
Textbook(s)
*Either Michael Frayn Spies or Kate Grenville The Secret River or from Stories of Ourselves the following 10
stories: no. 10 Saki (Hector Hugo Munro), ‘Sredni Vashtar’ no. 17 Sylvia Townsend Warner, ‘The Phoenix’
no. 19 Bernard Malamud, ‘The Prison’ no. 22 J G Ballard, ‘Billennium’ no. 24 Maurice Shadbolt, ‘The
People Before’ no. 30 Patricia Highsmith, ‘Ming’s Biggest Prey’ no. 34 Anita Desai, ‘Games at Twilight’ no.
39 Paule Marshall, ‘To Da-duh, in Memoriam’ no. 40 Rohinton Mistry, ‘Of White Hairs and Cricket’ no. 45
Adam Thorpe, ‘Tyres’
And from Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 1, the following 15 poems: William Blake, ‘The Clod and the
Pebble’ Patricia Beer, ‘The Lost Woman …’ Dilip Chitre, ‘Father Returning Home’ Amanda Chong, ‘lion
heart’ John Donne, ‘Lovers’ Infiniteness’ George Herbert, ‘Love (3)’ Sam Hunt, ‘Stabat Mater’ Emma Jones,
‘Tiger in the Menagerie’ John Keats, ‘Last Sonnet’ Liz Lochhead, ‘For My Grandmother Knitting’ Kathleen
Raine, ‘Passion’ Owen Sheers, ‘Coming Home’ Edith Sitwell, ‘Heart and Mind’ William Wordsworth, ‘She
was a Phantom of Delight’ Lady Mary Wroth, ‘Song’ (Love a child…)
*Teacher to inform
Recommended Language:
Revision Guide Cambridge IGCSE First Language English
Workbook (by Marian Cox)
ISBN 9781107695771
Literature:
CGP Revision Guides
York Notes
Spark Notes
Literature:
Recommended Language:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize http://www.cie.org.uk/images/163029-cambridgeRevision
/english/
learner-guide-for-igcse-english-literature.pdf
Website(s)
http://www.cie.org.uk/images/2043392017-2019-specimen-paper-1.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_liter
ature/
http://www.cie.org.uk/images/2043402017-2019-specimen-paper-2.pdf
http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/