{"id":2,"date":"2007-04-03T22:14:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=2"},"modified":"2009-06-10T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T11:25:05","slug":"re-examining-the-examination-new-a-levels-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=2","title":{"rendered":"Re-examining the examination: the new A Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting times lie ahead as the new AS and A Level specifications spill into the public domain. I learnt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nate.org.uk\">NATE<\/a> Conference at the weekend that OCR put its new specifications on their website on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a quick look at the English Literature specs. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocr.org.uk\/qualifications\/AS_ALevelGCE14-19EnglishLiterature.html\">OCR summary<\/a> has a rather disturbing sick rose lying on a book, not sure what to make of that other than something about the death of the author\/text\/canon\/subject&#8230;. My impression is that the OCR A2 has a fairly heavy pre-1800 feel, though I may be misreading this, so take a look for yourself if you want.<\/p>\n<p>The WJEC has also put its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjec.co.uk\/newspec-e.html\">new course on the web<\/a> &#8211; it has some apparent similarities to OCR, with much longer coursework for AS, at least, with, like OCR, a quite prescribed list of texts in some of the units, and a pre-1800 bias to the A2 course. But again, see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I understood from the AQA representative on Saturday that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqa.org.uk\/qual\/gce.php\">AQA<\/a>&#8216;s offerings would be up today, Tuesday, though at present (10.00pm), all the English specifications are still &#8216;coming soon&#8217;. Media and sociology are already there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New AS and A Level English specifications trickle, leak or spill into the public domain<\/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-2","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\/2","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=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}