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Is this normal for GCSE English Literature?

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Violet38 · 28/05/2026 14:17

Dd is coming to the end of year 10 in a large mainstream secondary. They’ve still only covered one and a half of the AQA literature texts. A Christmas Carol finished in January, and they’ve been on Macbeth ever since. The class she’s in is an Act behind her friends classes due to her teacher being unwell for two weeks, and the sub teachers just went over what they’d already covered at that point.

Is this standard at this point in year 10 and am I worrying unnecessarily? They still need to finish Macbeth, then even if they start An Inspector Calls this term, there’s also all the poetry to cover. They haven’t done any themes, or exam questions / past papers, exam skills etc. Is it normal for all this to be crammed into year 11?!

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NeverDropYourMooncup · 20/07/2026 19:07

Going back many years, we did Of Mice and Men, the first chunk of poetry, Macbeth and the war poets in Y10, then An Inspector Calls by Christmas Y11, formal poetry analysis after that.

It wasn't a big thing, we were all done by the beginning of March.

makemineadecaf · 21/07/2026 11:04

Dd adored English literature and can’t wait to start the alevel in September!

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