GCSE (for first teaching in 2009) Leisure and Tourism: Single/Double Award - J444/J488

What are the changes?

While we've made some important changes and improved our GCSEs, we haven't changed everything. Here you can see which aspects of GCSE Leisure and Tourism are changing, and which will stay the same.

 

What changes?

What stays the same?

Structure and content
  • There will be a two-unit single award and a four-unit double award
  • Two examinations and two units of controlled assessment.
  • Updated content, modernising the specification.
  • Clear specification layout.
  • Unit B181 is an introductory unit, the same as the current unit 4875.
  • Some general content themes from the current three units are now mapped across four new units.

Assessment
  • Coursework will be replaced by controlled assessment
  • Terminal rule – some assessment has to be completed at the end of the course.
  • Length of examinations has been extended
  • Assessment objective weightings
  • Structure and format of coursework evidence.
  • The language of testing and use of command words.
  • Research time for controlled conditions.
  • Controlled conditions evidence assessed internally and moderated externally.