Orwell’s 1984 - tell me if you or your children studied this please?

[Tinysoxxx]

Help needed on when it was studied please mumsnetters.

I need:

1. level of study eg. Gcse/higher
2. year of exam
3. subject eg drama or English Literature
4. board eg AQA, if known

Thank you

p.s. if anyone knows how I can find out when/where this was studied historically too that would be great.

English literature. I can't remember if it was for my O level or a year or two before that, so between 1979 -1982.

1982 - 1984 olevel don't remember board
1984 - 1986 alevel associated examing board

Thank you to everyone who’s posted so far - please keep all the information coming.
I forgot teachers as a wonderful resource as well. Any English/drama teachers comments also gratefully received!

English Literature, although can't remember if it was GCSE or A Level, so would haven been either 2000 or 2002! Exam board was possibly OCR.

I never studied it, but read it when I was about 14 (late 70s). I read voraciously in my teens - Orwell, Huxley, Waugh, Greene, Laurie Lee. I thought 1984 was a classic ‘must read’?

Didn't read it at school, Got it from the library when I was 14. Only chose it because the title was intriguing. This was in1952. Have got all his fiction in Penguins.

Year 9. Although we didn’t call it that in 1989. We did Fahrenheit 451 as well as a comparison.

Why?

English teacher here. Have taught it to 15/16/17 year olds many times in the last 10 years. I'm in Scotland, so we have more freedom over exam texts for Higher/Advanced Higher.

We also regularly have pupils choose it as part of their dissertation study.

I read it in my 20s.

I did it for English Leaving Cert (Ireland) in 1984

Read it and saw the (first) film aged about 14, not on O level syllabus. Orwell was brilliant and truthful.

So in the 70s

I studied it in year 8, my DC has recently studied it in year 9.

This & Animal Farm

O-Level 1985.

I studied it in 5th year for Higher in 1987!

Oops, me in 1980s, DC in 2022

English Lit!

We did it, in 1970 when I was 12.

Are you checking up on someone’s age and place of origin?

I did O levels in 1983.
We studied it at secondary school but not for O level, it was all classics still, just a few modern texts coming in in some places

Why?

I know my Mum studied it when she did her O levels in 1984

I studied it at AS level English lit. 2014. AQA

Gsce English lit, 1993. I'd think it may have been Cambridge exam board but not 100% sure.

now I think about it, I read it BEFORE 1984, because 1984 was looming!