Quality British Education in Saudi Arabia
Introduction to the GCSE Programme
The GCSE programme of study is followed in Years 10 and 11.
All students study English language and literature, mathematics and at least two sciences. Additionally students take four electives, the choice of which includes art, business studies, French, Arabic, design technology, information technology, geography, economics and history. The GCSE programme takes two years and is assessed by external examinations held at the school at the end of Year 11.
A fast track maths programme is run for the top set in Year 10 with the aim of taking the examinaton in June of Year 10. In Year 11 these students follow an additional maths examination programme. All other students follow a regular KS4 maths programme.
The school is registered examination centre for Cambridge International and Edexcel.
Ou students' results are excellent and can be seen here.
GCSE Results
You can seen a full analysis of our examination results here (pdf link).
Syllabus links
Edexcel and Cambridge both provide downloadable syllabus copies and examples of past papers.
