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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9 - 1) in English Literature (1ET0)
First teaching from September 2015
First certification from June 2017 Issue 2
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,Summary of Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE
(9-1) in English Literature specification
Issue 2 changes
Summary of changes made between previous issue and this current Page
issue number
Component 1
We have added four new diverse texts to the prescribed texts list for post-
1914 Literature: two British plays and two British novels. These are:
● play: The Empress, Tanika Gupta
3, 8
● play: Refugee Boy, Benjamin Zephaniah (adapted for the stage by Lemm
Sissay)
● novel: Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin
● novel: Boys Don’t Cry, Malorie Blackman.
Component 2
5, 10,
We have added a new poetry collection on ‘Belonging’ into the Poetry
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Anthology.
Breakdown of Assessment Objectives table
In line with the addition of new texts – this table has been updated to include 16
the new question numbers.
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