100% Coursework GCSES

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Does anyone know which GCSEs if any are 100% coursework? It's actually iGCSEs my child will be doing so I think some of these are different to regular GCSEs. As far as I know, some of them still have coursework components eg. English lit.

Does anyone know if there are any that are fully coursework or almost all coursework (apart from art). It would be nice to be able to cut down on numbers of exams taken at end of year 11, provided of course that my child is interested and competent at that subject.

I did mine in 1988 too - 100% exam.

I defo had a lit exam. Perhaps we had a different exam board. I wish I had, had 100% exam. I didn't do a separate eng language gcse, as they do now. It was just called English but I do remember general comprehension being on the exam & creative writing. Can't remember if it was one long paper or 2 separate ones. In fact, I can't remember doing loads of papers for each subject like they do now, but my memory is shocking. Anyway, am rambling!

Probably none 100%, but those with a coursework/practical element:

music, art, DT, food tech, sport/PE (guessing?), drama, photography

DS had Classical Civilisation with 25% coursework, but I think that's gone now.

I think art is the only one without any written exam. Photography is the same, because it comes under the general heading of 'art'.

The others with the least writing are D&T, music, drama, dance and PE.

For each subject, the proportions of 'non-exam assessment' are exactly the same, whatever Exam board is used. IGCSEs might be different though as they haven't been reformed to reduce the coursework element in the same way as normal GCSEs (which is one of the reasons they don't count in Government league tables).

Does computing still have the project, or was that canned after last year's nightmare?

Does computing still have the project, or was that canned after last year's nightmare?

Students have to complete a 20 hour project, samples are sent to the exam board, inspections are made to centres checking they are being completed however it is worth 0% towards the final grade

Have never heard of 100% coursework GCSEs. Would be astonished if there were any

My English Lang and Lit was 100% course work - year before A* were introduced. I got As - nearly counted against me at Uni where I was seeking dyslexia diagnosis as they said if you've got A then there no issue - as soon as I pointed out 100% course work they were fine with proceeding - after checking board.

I don't think there are any left.

Please don’t think that GCSE DT is less writing! It’s 50/50 exam and coursework. The exam is 2 hours long and the coursework has loads of writing. It’s a big undertaking

Apologies, I was using 'less writing' as shorthand for 'less of the total mark comes from the written exam'. In the case of D&T, as you say, 50% is written exam and 50% is non exam assessment, which involves some writing.

It therefore might be a good choice for the OP's child as she wants to cut down on the exams taken at the end of year 11. For D&T there is one exam, whereas for many other subjects there are far more.