Major Changes to English:

1. Our exam board is now EDUQAS.2. There no controlled assessments for either English

Language or Literature. It is now 100% exam. 3. The weighting for SPAG has now increased to 20%

of the overall grade for English Language.4. All students must do both Language and Literature.5. There are no tiers in the exam.

English Language - GCSE

2 Papers

English Literature - GCSE

2 Papers

Changes to the Maths GCSEs

• A minimum four and a half hours assessment time across both tiers

• 100% terminal exam – no controlled assessment

• Increased teaching time – greater content

• Revised subject content – fixed for all Awarding Bodies by DfE

• Tiered exams will still exist

Subject content introduced in the new GCSE at both Foundation and Higher

• know the exact values of sinθ and cosθ for θ= 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°;

•know the exact value of tanθ for θ = 0°, 30°, 45° and 60°

• use inequality notation to specify simple error intervals due to truncation or rounding

• change freely between related standard units (eg time, length, area, volume/capacity, mass) and compound units (eg speed, rates of pay, prices, density, pressure) in algebraic contexts

• Venn diagrams

• work with percentages greater than 100%

• identify turning points of quadratic functions graphically

Previously Higher tier content now included at

Foundation tier• trigonometric ratios

• calculate with and interpret standard form (A x 10n), where 1 ≤ A < 10 and n is an integer

• simplify and manipulate surds

• apply addition and subtraction of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a scalar, and diagrammatic and column representations of vectors

• factorising quadratic expressions of the form x2 + bx + c, including the difference of two squares

• using y = mx + c to work with straight lines on graphs

Dfe Content

Maths exams format

• 3 exam papers• Each 90 minutes long• One non-calculator, two calculator

• Students must have a calculator and start bringing it to lessons – they must be confident in using their calculator in the exam• Sharp or Casio - £5.20 from the maths shop

The new GCSEgrades