—·GCSE · English

GCSE English: how each board marks it

AQA · OCR · Pearson Edexcel — a separate book for each

The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically whichever board you teach. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. Each book quotes its own board's specification word for word, and opens at its first fifteen pages here.

The assessment objectives

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Read off the GCSE English specification. The weightings, the mark scheme levels and what separates a middle answer from a top one are set out board by board inside each book.

3 books, one per board

GCSE · 48–49 pages each · first 15 pages open

English · GCSE · AQA £4.99

GCSE English — AQA

AQA only — AQA GCSE English Language (8700) and English Literature (8702). A working manual for a GCSE English department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, practice, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions actually get made. Part One is the only part that is board-specific, and it is quoted verbatim from the published specification.

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AQA GCSE English Language (8700) and English Literature (8702) · 48 pages, 18 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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English · GCSE · OCR £4.99

GCSE English — OCR

OCR only — OCR GCSE (9–1) English Language (J351) and English Literature (J352). A working manual for a GCSE English department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, practice, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions actually get made. Part One is the only part that is board-specific, and it is quoted verbatim from the published specification.

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OCR GCSE (9–1) English Language (J351) and English Literature (J352) · 48 pages, 18 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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English · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

GCSE English — Pearson Edexcel

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) English Language (1EN0) and English Literature (1ET0). A working manual for a GCSE English department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, practice, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions actually get made. Part One is the only part that is board-specific, and it is quoted verbatim from the published specification.

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Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) English Language (1EN0) and English Literature (1ET0) · 49 pages, 19 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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