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  1. GCSE
  3. English Language WJEC

English Language

Spec 3700QS

Free WJEC GCSE English Language revision: 1,194 exam-style questions, 338 worksheets, and past papers from 2017–2025 with mark schemes.

1 Subject content: oracy, reading and writing skills

1.3 Reading skills

1.4 Writing skills

2 Unit 1: Non-examination assessment — Oracy (20%)

2.1 Task 1 (10%) – Individual Researched Presentation

3 Unit 2: External assessment — Reading and Writing: Description, Narration and Exposition (40%)

3.1 Section A (20%) – Reading

3.2 Section B (20%) – Writing

4 Unit 3: External assessment — Reading and Writing: Argumentation, Persuasion and Instructional (40%)

4.1 Section A (20%) – Reading

4.2 Section B (20%) – Writing

5 Assessment objectives

5.1 AO1 Oracy (20%)

5.2 AO2 Reading (40%)

Assessment at a glance

AssessmentFormatDurationMarksWeighting
Unit 1: OracyNon-exam assessment—80 marks20%
Unit 2: Reading and Writing — Description, Narration and ExpositionWritten exam2h80 marks40%
Unit 3: Reading and Writing — Argumentation, Persuasion and InstructionalWritten exam2h80 marks40%

Course aims & skills

WJEC GCSE English Language builds the skills examiners reward. By the end of the course you should be able to:

  • present and organise information clearly in a formal spoken presentation
  • listen and respond to others' ideas in discussion
  • retrieve, infer and analyse information from a wide range of texts
  • synthesise and summarise information from multiple sources
  • write descriptive and narrative prose
  • write persuasively and argumentatively for real-life contexts
  • edit and proofread written work for accuracy
  • use accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation

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