GCSE Expectations
This section provides resources to support teachers and leaders of GCSE English explore and understand the detail of GCSE requirements in order to support planning and teaching.
AQA is by far the most widely taught GCSE specification in Hampshire, with a smaller number of schools teaching the Edexcel and Edquas specifications. For board-specific questions and detailed analysis of specifications, we advise schools to approach the subject advisers for their own exam board directly, and to access the training and exemplification materials available from the exam boards' secure websites.
Materials shared in this section are often inspired by past papers and mark schemes openly available, but the intention is that suggested ideas and resources can (and should) be adapted for any board to suit the requirements of the school's GCSE curriculum.