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In short:
English GCSE to be scrapped
English literature GCSe and English Language GCSe to continue.
Many schools have to try to teach two exams in 3 lessons maybe 4 a week.

Ah, thanks for that zamantha, it's good to know what's going on !

Bugger, we've only just started offering English to our least able couple of sets...nothing on AQA site, Samantha, are you sure? I'd better give HOD a head's up on that one!

In an email/letter to schools - these were in his list of intentions - Gove that is. I presume the English GCSe will be dropped in about 4/5 years as he had planned all the changes with ebac to do so. However, will he be lobbied about this? It works for many pupils.

Thanks (& sorry I got your name wrong - predictive text!).

I've had middle/top sets for the last couple of years, so never taught it, but it does look like a better option than inflated Lang results & dismal ones for Lit for our C/D borderliners. Ah well...

My DS took it last year and he covered a lot of literature which is good. Was a fiasco with AQA English grades in summer though and we were lucky, as only a few were, his exam was upped by 2 grades. His school, a good all boy comp, had most except top set doing this to maximise grades which had worked prior to the deflation of 2012.

Revision Buddies have a nice blog post on this subject...
www.revisionbuddies.com/?p=330