GCSEs

GCSEs are changing to meet new subject criteria. As one of the country's leading awarding bodies, OCR has already taken this opportunity to improve the quality of our GCSEs for teachers and learners for first teaching in September 2009.

We've made improvements in three key areas: updated and relevant content, a focus on developing students' personal, learning and thinking skills, and flexible assessment, so teachers can choose the best learning approach for the job.

We want to make the introduction of these new GCSEs as easy for teachers to manage as possible.

Full draft specifications and specimen assessment materials (SAMs) for all new OCR GCSEs are now available to download. We will publish and distribute the final QCA-accredited material in September 2008.

There are a few exceptions:

• GCSE Science has already been revised and teaching began in 2006
• New GCSEs in English, ICT and Maths will be available for first teaching in 2010.

GCSE qualifications (for first teaching in 2009)

Select a qualification from the list below to access specifications, specimen assessment materials and compare current and revised specifications at a glance with our What are the changes? pages.