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 the first 8 pages of each are open to read here.

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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 · the first 8 pages open

English · GCSE · AQA £4.99

AQA GCSE English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

AQA only, covering 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. 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, 17 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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English · GCSE · OCR £4.99

OCR GCSE English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

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, 17 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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English · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

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. 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, 18 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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