{"id":12,"date":"2007-04-17T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=12"},"modified":"2009-07-23T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T10:31:37","slug":"aqas-new-a-levels-go-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"AQA&#8217;s new A Levels go live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t spotted this, the new AQA draft specifications for 2008 are now on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqa.org.uk\/qual\/gce.php\">the AQA site<\/a>. There are also specimen question papers and mark schemes to give you an idea of what the new papers might look like. I&#8217;m probably biased: I think the reading lists for AQA Literature A look really interesting, both for the set texts and the coursework lists &#8211; the sort of reading that should benefit anyone thinking of studying English after A Levels as well as being an enjoyable and coherent course. Teachers can ask for approval for other texts, but they&#8217;ll need to fit into the theme chosen. Outside the &#8216;set&#8217; texts, reading is likely to be more selective, perhaps by extracts and overview rather than the line-by-line approach used in the past. <\/p>\n<p>But take a look for yourselves and post a comment here. AQA is running <a href=\"http:\/\/events.aqa.org.uk\/ebooking\/\">training sessions<\/a> on these new course this term and next.<\/p>\n<p>No news yet from Edexcel, it seems &#8211; they must be keeping their powder dry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AQA publishes new A Level specifications for 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-examining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}