Cambridge IGCSE
International 🌍FoundationsCambridge IGCSE — tiered Core and Extended practice for eleven subjects, from Mathematics 0580 to Computer Science 0478.
📏 IGCSE subjects are tiered: Core candidates sit the shorter objective and structured papers for grades C to G, Extended candidates sit the same papers at a harder tier plus the Supplement, for A* to E. Typical weightings are 30-40% for the objective paper, 50-60% for the structured/theory paper and 20% for the practical or alternative-to-practical paper; syllabus codes and windows are printed on the question papers.
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Beginner skill
Short-answer and inferential reading, summary as point-counting in your own words, and the writing skills that carry both papers: register, text type, paragraph structure and the five error habits to check.
English as a Second Language — Reading & Writing
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- Reading for explicit information and detail in newspapers, reports, letters, advertisements and memosIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →
- Reading to understand meaning, opinion and attitude, and to identify the writer's purposeIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →
- Summary — selecting and condensing relevant points and rewriting them accurately and conciselyIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →
- Directed and extended writing — letters, emails, articles, reports, compositions and narratives appropriate to the readerIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →
- Register, tone and audience: adapting formality, and using connectors, tense and concord accuratelyIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →
- Vocabulary and structure — nominalisation, phrasal verbs and prepositions, and the word order tested in the counting/optional-words exercisesIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →
- Speaking — responding to questions, discussing a topic and developing an argument in the test (0511)/speaking endorsementIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →
- Listening — note-taking, identifying gist and detail, and following a sequence of informationIGCSE ESL — Reading and Writing that Answer the Question →