{"id":5301,"date":"2020-08-03T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2020-08-03T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:26:48","slug":"gcse-2021-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/03\/gcse-2021-update\/","title":{"rendered":"GCSE 2021 Update:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61GYO6u7i3L._AC_UY218_.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford School Shakespeare: Macbeth\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome news for students taking GCSEs next year, Ofqual has announced a change to English Literature exams. Instead of having to answer questions on the full 4 areas (Shakespeare, poetry, 19<sup>th<\/sup> century novel&nbsp; and post 1914 fiction\/drama) students will &nbsp;have to answer a Shakespeare question but will be able to select 2 out of 3 of the other content areas (poetry, 19<sup>th<\/sup> century novel and post 1914 fiction\/drama). \u201cFor 2021 only \u2026 &nbsp;Effectively, this means schools can drop one of their set literature texts for the coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tes.com\/news\/coronavirus-english-gcse-pupils-can-drop-text-2021\">https:\/\/www.tes.com\/news\/coronavirus-english-gcse-pupils-can-drop-text-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a literature fan, I feel a little sad at children missing some of the of rich content; as a realist, I can see this offers children the very best chance of doing well in exams for which they have lost 4 months preparation time. Schools will make their decision as to which area to drop \u2013 I have my suspicions what area that might be for most schools but wait with interest to see if I\u2019m right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As ever, at EKT we can provide expert tuition for all areas of the Literature exam. Feel free to contact us at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome news for students taking GCSEs next year, Ofqual has announced a change to English Literature exams. Instead of having to answer questions on the full 4 areas (Shakespeare, poetry, 19th century novel&nbsp; and post 1914 fiction\/drama) students will &nbsp;have to answer a Shakespeare question but will be able to select 2 out of 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastkent-tutors.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}