sitting GCSE French privately

[hellodave]

Hi DS is in year 11 and obviously at a loose end at the moment. He is going to a selective sixth college to do humanties/ essay subjects.

Back at the end of Year 9 we suggested he should do a language GCSE. He didn't and did DT instead. Now he has started looking at courses he quite university. He would like to do humanities with a year in china at university ( or any year abroad really), but they often need a 6 of above in any language at GCSE. He is gutted and Im resisting "I told you so".

So my question is, is there any way of doing it home school style over the next 6 months. ( I speak French reasonably well, my half-brother is fully bilingual and grew up in france so he'd have lots of support). More importantly DS is really keen and has bags of spare time.

Is it possible to organise a private GCSE/ iGCSE- preferably in November in case of clashes with a level stuff next summer?? Where should we start ? Im happy to throw some money at it if needed

would you be looking for him to do a distance learning course? I will link one below that would cover the grammar, writing and listening exams as well as the listening. there is info about exam dates on the website.

www.ool.co.uk/igcse/french/

A friend of mine was putting her ds through exams this summer with a group called Tutors and Exams who may be able to help.

Not sure there is always a November series for MFL tho. I taught MFL and now tutor it and I much prefer the AQA GCSE syllabus to Edexcel IGCSE as it goes.

If I were you I would certainly look for a tutor who knows what's needed to do well in the exam, esp if you are looking at an autumn sitting.

iGCSEs usually have 2 sittings for their exams in the UK. One in May/June and one in January. As the May/June exams are cancelled there may be an Autumn sitting but am not sure if this will be taking new candidates or only those who were entered for the Summer ones (if that makes sense).
I would second the Tutors and Exams suggestion - they have dealt very well with private candidates for current Y11s and seem fairly flexible.

this is all great! thank you- I knew someone on mumsnet would be able to point me in the right direction.
not sure if we want a tutor/ online course or what really

Have a look on the he exams wiki for info https://he-exams.wikia.org/wiki/HEExamss_Wiki

My dc is home added and took it last summer.
Be aware of the exam fees, it's more for languages as you have to pay for someone to do the oral exam as well as a normal invigilator for the written papers.
Feel free to pm me if you need any more info.

If you need an online tutor I'm available BTW 😁😁

no AQA GCSE this autumn but looks as tho Cambridge may be sitting them

Clary Do you know when Cambridge will be making a final decision re Autumn exams? My dc is due to take AS levels this year.

Not sure about Autumn exams, what subject us that in? AS level not essential now, if I were you I would look at focusing on A level next year?

Dd2 did GCSE from home and there were a few difficulties getting somewhere to take it’s a private student