Getting ready for the summer 2017 exam series
This update contains a reminder of the processes for preparing your students' work, key deadlines, the materials you need to send to the moderator and exam timetables.
Final dates for submission of coursework and controlled assessment
For the following qualifications, the final date for submitting your marks and samples of work for the summer 2017 series is 15 May 2017:
- Spoken Language Endorsement (SLE) for GCSE English Language 9-1 (1EN0)
- Legacy GCSE English and English Language, controlled assessment
- Legacy Edexcel Certificate in English Language (submission of Speaking and Listening marks)
- International GCSE English Language A (Papers 3 and 4) and English Literature (Paper 3)
- GCE English Language, English Language and Literature and English Literature (legacy 2008 and 2015 specifications).
By 15 May 2017 you must have:
1EN0 Spoken Language Endorsement: entered your grades and selected your sample on Edexcel Online; and sent your chosen sample to your monitor (details on Edexcel Online). Please see this post with details on entering grades and identifying your sample. Please note that you should only submit grades and samples for students who are certificating in summer 2017. Recordings of students who are certificating in summer 2018, must be submitted in May 2018.
All other English qualifications: submitted your coursework/controlled assessment marks on Edexcel online, and sent your sample (visible now on Edexcel online) to the moderator. Your moderator’s name and address is available on Edexcel online now. This video shows you how to enter your marks.
Assessment record sheet links
1EN0 Spoken Language Endorsement:
Complete the assessment record sheet and the Head of Centre declaration. Send the Head of Centre declaration with your sample to your monitor.
Other English qualifications:
Each student's work should be accompanied by the relevant record sheet/s attached to the front of their work using a treasury tag:
English/English Language 5EH01
Please remember to include transcripts/recordings and their sources used for the Spoken Language Study if you have not used Edexcel resources.
For 5EH3A and 5EN3A, please note that one mark needs to be entered on Edexcel Online:
5EH3A GCSE English, Unit 3, 'Creative English'
5EH3A Poetry (Reading) task and Creative Writing task /48
5EN3A GCSE English Language, Unit 3, The Spoken Language
5EN3A Spoken Language Study and Writing for the Spoken Voice /48
Speaking and listening 5EH3B (for both English and English Language)
Please retain these for inspection. As you are aware, although speaking and listening is an endorsement, it remains an integral part of the GCSE English/English Language specification. All candidates must be entered for this component (5EH3B) and have marks submitted for their speaking and listening activity.
English Language A 4EA0/03 (written coursework)
English Language A 4EA0/04 (speaking and listening coursework)
Fpr 4EA0, please send the Paper 3 coursework front sheets and an authentication sheet for each student in the sample to the Paper 3 moderator. For Paper 4, please retain the coursework front sheets (NB Paper 4 front sheets do not need to be sent to a moderator).
Frequently Asked Questions
For each English qualification, several examples of marked work are available to help exemplify the mark scheme band descriptors, the most recent from summer 2016 under ‘teaching and learning materials’ and then ‘exemplar materials’ on each qualification page.
Enhanced Principal Moderators' Reports also contain lots of useful guidance, together with several examples of controlled assessment and coursework with moderator comments. These are also on the relevant qualification pages under 'examiner reports'.
Every year, some centres have their marks changed as a result of the moderation process, so please make sure you read the moderators' reports carefully.
In large centres with multiple teachers, it's essential that you carry out internal moderation before you finalise the coursework or controlled assessment marks. You should sample double-mark, selecting mark points within the same band from different teaching sets. The double marking should continue until you are satisfied that you have achieved comparability.
Small schools with only one teacher need not carry out internal standardisation. It is helpful to include a covering note with your sample explaining that you are in this situation.
It's important that you annotate the coursework or controlled assessment to show the moderator how you have interpreted the mark scheme and applied it to the students' work.
Indications in the margins as to where specific assessment objective bands are perceived, together with summative comments at the end of each part of the coursework or controlled assessment, are ideal. Please ensure that the audience for your comments is clearly the moderator rather than the student.
You should mark and annotate the work in ink (rather than pencil). If you have already annotated in pencil, please make a note to use ink next year.
You should not attempt to grade the work; you should be marking the work by applying the marking criteria in a consistent manner.
The controlled assessment and coursework grades will be awarded at the end of each examination series using the standard code of practice awarding process.
Grade boundaries, which are subject to change each exam series, are published on the grade boundaries page of our website. For summer 2017, they'll be available to download from results day: 17 August 2017 for GCE and IAL; 24 August 2017 for GCSE, Edexcel Certificate and International GCSE.
Please also remember that the mark you submit to us should be the total raw mark, not the UMS mark (on legacy specifications). The UMS marks on legacy GCSE and GCE are allocated by us as a result of the awarding process.
A score of zero should only be used if a candidate has submitted work that is found to meet none of the assessment criteria. An X should be used for any candidate who is absent.
Your marks should be submitted online via Edexcel Online/ EDI. You must print out a copy of the marks for the moderator and for your own records. Find out how here.
In order to enter marks you must have ‘basic access’ and ‘coursework and portfolio’ ticked on your Edexcel online profile. If you don’t have this, your exams officer can amend your profile.
If you've already submitted a mark but it needs to be amended (for example, because of an administrative error), please email the details to courseworkmarks@pearson.com.
On Edexcel Online, you'll see a tick next to the names of those students whose work needs to be sent for moderation. You also need to send the work of the highest- and lowest-scoring candidates in addition to the requested sample. If your highest or lowest scoring candidate is in the sample, please provide an additional folder/s. If any of the called-for candidates have been withdrawn or have incomplete submissions, please provide additional candidates' work of a comparable level, along with a covering note.
The name and address of your moderator is on Edexcel Online or EDI.
Most GCSE controlled assessment tasks have a recommended length of 'up to 1000 words'. This total is for guidance only and there are no penalties for exceeding the word count guidance.
Please see the specification guidance at the beginning of each coursework unit which gives clear information on word counts. Titles, bibliographies and footnotes (that are references rather than content) are not included in word counts. Quotations are included.
Legacy GCEs: word counts must not be exceeded.
2015 GCEs: word counts are advisory.
When are the summer exams (UK centres)? Open/closed book? Prescribed editions?
You can also consult our exam timetables page, which includes an exam date search function. International centres should consult the international exam timetables which are available on this page.
English Language (2015 specification)
| Paper code | Unit title | Duration | Date | am/pm | Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? | Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1EN0 01 | Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing | 1h 45m | 06/06/2017 | am |
No |
NA |
1EN0 02 |
Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing | 2h | 12/06/2017 | am |
No |
NA |
English Literature (2015 specification)
| Paper Code | Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1ET0 01 |
Paper 1: Shakespeare and Post-1914 Literature |
1h 45m |
22/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
1ET0 02 |
Paper 2: 19th Century Novel and Poetry since 1789 |
2h 15m |
26/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
English
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5EH2F |
Unit 2: The Writer’s Craft Foundation |
2h |
06/06/2017
|
am |
No |
NA |
5EH2H |
Unit 2: The Writer’s Craft Higher |
2h |
06/06/2017
|
am |
No |
NA |
English Language
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5EN2F |
Unit 2: The Writer’s Voice Foundation |
1h 45m |
06/06/2017
|
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 67 of the specification |
5EN2H |
Unit 2: The Writer’s Voice Higher |
1h 45m |
06/06/2017
|
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 67 of the specification |
English Language A/ Certificate in English Language
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4EA0 01 KEA0 01 |
Paper 1 |
2hr 15m |
06/06/2017 |
am |
No, examined text from anthology reproduced in section B of the question paper. |
NA |
4EA0 02 KEA0 02 |
Paper 2 |
1hr 30m |
12/06/2017 |
am |
No, examined text from anthology reproduced in Q1 of the question paper. |
NA |
English Language B
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4EB0 01 |
Paper 1 |
3h |
12/06/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
English Literature
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4ET0 01
|
Paper 1 Drama and Prose |
1hr 45 |
22/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
4ET0 02
|
Paper 2 Unseen Texts and Poetry Anthology |
1hr 30 |
26/05/2017 |
am |
No
Section C poetry provided as an insert to the exam paper. |
NA |
English Language, 2015 specification
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8EN0 01 |
Component 1: Language: Context and Identity |
1h 30m |
22/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
8EN0 02 |
Component 2: Child Language |
1h 30m |
26/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
9EN0 01 |
Component 1: Language Variation |
2h 15m |
14/06/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
9EN0 02 |
Component 2: Child Language |
1hr |
20/06/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
9EN0 03 |
Component 3: Investigating Language |
1h 45m |
23/06/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
English Language and Literature, 2015 specification
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8EL0 01 |
Component 1: Voices in Speech and Writing |
1h 30m |
22/05/2017 |
am |
No |
Relevant text from ‘Voices Anthology’ provided in source booklet. See June 2016 paper. |
8EL0 02 |
Component 2: Varieties in Language and Literature |
1h 30m |
26/05/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 33-44 of the specification |
9EL0 01 |
Component 1: Voices in Speech and Writing |
2h 30m |
14/06/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p.49 of specification |
9EL0 02 |
Component 2: Varieties in Language and Literature |
2h 30m |
20/06/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 50- 59 of specification |
English Literature, 2015 specification
Please also see this post.
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8ET0 01 |
Component 1: Poetry and Drama |
2h |
19/05/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, ‘Poems of the Decade’ and free choice for drama. See p. 29-30 of the specification. |
8ET0 02 |
Component 2: Prose |
1h |
24/05/2017 |
pm |
Yes |
Free choice of edition on prose texts, see p. 29-30 of the specification. |
9ET0 01 |
Component 1: Drama |
2h 15m |
15/06/2017 |
am |
Yes(not the Shakespeare critical anthologies) | Free choice of edition, see p. 57 of the specification. |
9ET0 02 |
Component 2: Prose |
1h |
22/06/2016 |
am |
Yes |
Free choice of edition, see p. 57 of the specification |
9ET0 03 |
Component 3: Poetry |
2h 15m |
29/06/2017 |
am |
Poems of the Decade not needed. Yes for Section B |
Yes, see p. 57-72 of the specification. |
English Language
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6EN01 |
Unit 1: Language Today |
2h 15m |
22/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
6EN03 |
Unit 3: Language Diversity and Children’s Language Development |
2h 45m |
14/06/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
English Language and Literature
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6EL01 |
Unit 1: Exploring Voices in Speech and Writing |
2h 15m |
22/05/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 63-65 of the specification |
6EL03 |
Unit 3: Varieties in Language and Literature |
2h 45m |
14/06/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 63-65 of the specification |
English Literature
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6ET01 |
Unit 1: Explorations in Prose and Poetry |
2h 15m |
19/05/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 63-75 of the specification |
6ET03 |
Unit 3: Interpretations of Prose and Poetry |
2h 45m |
15/06/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, see p. 63-75 of the specification |
English Language
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WEN01 |
Unit 1: Context and Identity |
1h 45m |
22/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
WEN02 |
Unit 2:Language in Transition |
1h 45m |
26/05/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
WEN03 |
Unit 3: Crafting Language (Writing) |
2h |
14/06/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
WEN04 |
Unit 4: Investigating Language |
2h |
20/06/2017 |
am |
No |
NA |
English Literature
Paper code |
Unit title |
Duration |
Date |
Am/pm |
Texts allowed in the exam: yes/no? |
Prescribed editions of set texts? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WET01 |
Unit 1:Post-2000 Poetry and Prose |
2h |
19/05/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, ‘Poems of the Decade’ and free choice of editions for prose. See p. 47-48 of the specification. |
WET02 |
Unit 2: Drama |
2h |
24/05/2017 |
pm |
Yes |
No, free choice of editions. See p. 47 of the specification. |
WET03 |
Unit 3: Poetry and Prose |
2h |
15/06/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Yes, for poetry. See p. 49-53 of the specification. For prose, free choice of editions. Please see p. 47 of the specification. |
WET04 |
Unit 4: Shakespeare and Pre-1900 Poetry |
2h |
22/06/2017 |
am |
Yes |
Free choice of editions. for Shakespeare, yes for pre-1900 poetry. See p. 47-53 of the specification. |
I hope you've found this update useful. If you have any further questions about the submission of coursework or controlled assessment, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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