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.

Me too.
DS informs me it is the next book they are studying (currently Animal Farm). Y9, Age 14. West Yorkshire.

I did it for O Level Eng Lit in, unsurprisingly, 1984. Not sure which board, possibly one that no longer exists.

Why do you want to know this @Tinysoxxx ?

Scottish higher English 1982.

Another one who sat O level exams on it in 1984!

We need to know why you're asking?!

She’s been asked by Big Brother to find out!

(But yes, on a serious note, would it not be polite to explain why you are gathering this data?)

I'm teaching this to A Level now for OCR English Literature A Level.

Curious - why do you want to know?

I read it in school in year 9 I think. It was pre-O level (I did AO in 1985; Hamlet, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve, Seamus Heaney, King Lear...) so I guess we just read it for study practice. We did Brave New World and Animal Farm too, must have been dystopian novels. It was 1983 or 1984. I remember the year being significant!

I read it when I was 14 and it scared the beejeezus out of me (but in a good way) and I went on to be slightly obsessed by Orwell and I read everything they had in the library. It's v v popular as (candidate choice) Advanced Higher English dissertation text. If I were teaching it I'd probably say Higher (aged 16) or top set N5 (aged 15). I'd do extracts from an earlier age though.

IN 1984! Towards O Level Literature, which I got a B in

A level
1992
Associated examining board

Actually I was only 13 then.. it wasn't in my exams which were 3 yrs later. I did Dickens for actual O Level,, we also did Brave New World, Romeo &Juliet and Modern Short Stories in English.
when I was 13 we also did Gregory's Girl.. believe me, we needed the light relief! Teacher seemed to enjoy a little too much, talking about tortures and room 101

English literature

I studied it as a comparative text (alongside Brave New World) for A Level English Lit in 2001/2002. Don't know the exam board.

Another one who studied it for O Level in 1984.
Now an English teacher and have looked at extracts. DS, 18, read it over Christmas.

I did it for A level in 1984, same year the film of it came out!

People still read books...

Anyway read it 3rd or 4th year standard grade English, sometime around the mid 2000s, can't quite remember the year.

International Baccalaureate, 1998 - 2000, higher level English. Studied alongside The Handmaid's Tale, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Hard Times. (I'm sure it made sense at the time.)

Apologies just got back to thread - a friend is trying to write a play - I am an ex-teacher so asked me how to get this info for him. I thought mumsnetters could help me thanks x

I studied it in 1984 :) I was in y9. I was veeerrrrrrrry young for the year, obvs..

I read it again in my 20s/30s because 13 is waaaaay too young to appreciate it properly. Not to say we shouldn't have read it - it was powerful and special to us in that year. Just I needed more maturity next time. Could prob read again at least once.

Snap!

We did this at school, but I think it was before GCSE. It was certainly English. Either 3rd yr text (probable) or gcse.

And 3rd snap ...
Not in a small girls' indie in Herts, perchance?

Sorry, 3rd Yr would gave been 1990/91

It was on CIE IGCSE English Literature for 2022. My ds happened to study it in both Y9 and Y11.