Which A levels require absolutely NO coursework at all - 100% WRITTEN PAPER Exam.

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  1. apocalipse117's Avatar
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    Re: Which A levels require absolutely NO coursework at all - 100% Exam.
    AQA Spanish
    OCR Latin
    no coursework!
  2. Revolution is my Name's Avatar
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    (Original post by Stricof)
    Good point - although usually I'd just say Further maths
    you can get an A Level in Further Maths and one in Additional Further Maths, so I'd classify them as being different
  3. BillyMarsh's Avatar
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    Re: Which A levels require absolutely NO coursework at all - 100% Exam.
    (Original post by Stricof)
    An experiment is not an exam though.
    Is it a 100% written and timed examination paper?
    It is a timed exam whereby half of the time you're meant to do microscopy and the other half you do the experiment.

    At the same time you have to answer a written paper regarding your findings and then on a 'students' attempt at the same experiment.
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    I do edexcel politics which is 100% exam. It's brilliant!
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    (Original post by BillyMarsh)
    It is a timed exam whereby half of the time you're meant to do microscopy and the other half you do the experiment.

    At the same time you have to answer a written paper regarding your findings and then on a 'students' attempt at the same experiment.
    So...it's not 100% paper written examination then right?:yep:
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    AQA Accounting requires no coursework and is 100% examinations.
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    none of my subjects have coursework-
    maths ocr
    further maths ocr
    french aqa
    spanish aqa
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    Re: Which A levels require absolutely NO coursework at all - 100% Exam.
    (Original post by Maya_beans)
    my English Literature doesn't , although there is a coursework option ...that my college chooses not to take.... and this is on WJEC by the way
    We do OCR for english lit, our coursework is worth 40% of our AS grade!
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    business studies OCR has no coursework.
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    Law - AQA
    Psychology - WJEC
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    Re Aqa
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    Re: Which A levels require absolutely NO coursework at all - 100% Exam.
    Not including practicals or internal C/W but including orals? OK...

    Old Specs:

    AQA
    Accounting
    Archaeology - AS
    Bengali
    Business Studies (Unit 5 written option)
    Economics (Unit 4 written option)
    English Language A (Units 2 and 4 written options)
    English Language and Literature A
    English Literature A (Units 2 and 5 written options)
    Environmental Science (Unit 7 not Unit 6)
    French (Unit 5 written option)
    General Studies A (Unit 3 written option)
    General Studies B (Unit 4 written option)
    Geography A (Unit 7 not Unit 6)
    Geography B (Unit 6 not Unit 7)
    German (Unit 5 written option)
    Government and Politics
    History of Art - AS
    Law
    Mathematics / Further Mathematics / Pure Mathematics (non-C/W options for M1, S1; non-C/W now compulsory for M2, S2)
    Modern Hebrew
    Panjabi
    Polish
    Psychology A - AS
    Religious Studies
    Social Science: Citizenship AS
    Sociology (Unit 3 and Unit 5 written options)
    Spanish (Unit 5 written option)
    Statistics (non-C/W option for SS1)

    Edexcel
    Arabic
    Business Studies (Unit 5 written option)
    Chinese
    Economics
    English Language - AS (Unit 3 written option)
    English Language and Literature (Units 3 and 4 written options)
    English Literature (Units 3 and 4 written options)
    French (Unit 5 written option)
    General Studies (Unit 3 written option)
    Geography A (Unit 3 written option)
    German (Unit 5 written option)
    Government and Politics
    History (Units 3, 4, 5 written option)
    Italian
    Japanese
    Mathematics / Further Mathematics / Further Mathematics (Additional) / Pure Mathematics
    Modern Greek
    Russian (Unit 5 written option)
    Spanish (Unit 5 written option)
    Urdu

    OCR
    Accounting (4 unit)
    Ancient History (written option)
    Biblical Hebrew
    Business Studies (written option in A2)
    Classical Civilisation (written option for a unit in AS and a unit in A2)
    Classical Greek
    Critical Thinking
    Dutch
    Economics
    French (written option for Unit 6)
    General Studies (written option for a unit in AS and a unit in A2)
    German (written option for Unit 6)
    Government & Politics (written option for one A2 unit)
    Gujarati
    History - AS
    Latin
    Law (4-unit)
    Mathematics / Further Mathematics / Pure Mathematics
    Further Mathematics (MEI) / Further Mathematics (Additional) (MEI) if transferring from another board, dependent on options (NM, DE have coursework); not Mathematics (C3 has compulsory coursework)
    Persian
    Portuguese
    Psychology - AS
    Religious Studies
    Sociology (written option for a unit in AS and a unit in A2)
    Spanish (written option for Unit 6)
    Statistics (MEI) AS



    New Specs:

    AQA
    Accounting
    [Anthropology - possibly AS only]
    Archaeology - AS only
    Business Studies
    Citizenship
    Classical Civilisation
    Economics
    English Language and Literature A -AS only
    English Language and Literature B - AS only
    Environmental Studies
    General Studies A
    General Studies B
    Geography
    Government and Politics
    History - AS only
    History of Art
    Information and Communication Technology - AS
    Law
    French
    German
    Spanish
    Bengali
    Modern Hebrew
    Media - AS
    Panjabi
    Polish
    Philosophy
    Psychology A
    Psychology B
    Religious Studies
    Sociology
    Critical Thinking
    Mathematics (continuing spec) (option for non C/W)
    Further Mathematics (continuing spec) (option for non C/W)
    Pure Mathematics (continuing spec)
    Statistics (continuing spec) (option for non-C/W)

    Edexcel
    Arabic
    Business Studies
    Chinese
    Economics
    French
    General Studies
    Geography
    German
    Government & Politics
    History - AS
    Italian
    Japanese
    Mathematics (reformed and continuing specs)
    Further Mathematics (reformed and continuing specs)
    Further Mathematics (Additional) (reformed and continuing specs)
    Pure Mathematics (reformed and continuing specs)
    Modern Greek
    Psychology
    Religious Studies
    Russian
    Spanish
    Urdu

    OCR
    Accounting
    Biblical Hebrew
    Business Studies
    Classics
    Classics: Ancient History
    Classics: Classical Civilisation
    Classics: Classical Greek
    Classics: Latin
    Computing - AS
    Critical Thinking
    Dutch
    Economics
    French
    General Studies
    Geography
    German
    Government and Politics
    Gujarati
    History A - AS
    History B - AS
    Home Economics (Food, Nutrition and Health) - AS
    Law
    Persian
    Portuguese
    Psychology
    Religious Studies
    Sociology
    Spanish
    Turkish
  13. Stricof's Avatar
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    Re: Which A levels require absolutely NO coursework at all - 100% Exam.
    (Original post by michaelyus)
    Not including practicals or internal C/W but including orals? OK...
    Ah great man!!!!!!
    Genius!
    NowI need to weed out the Assessment ones...
    Last edited by Stricof; 08-03-2009 at 22:00.
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    None in Psychology and Sociology anymore.
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    Geography AQA (Your school can choose whether to do coursework or a skills exam)
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    geography B aqa, we did fieldwork but it was written up in the exam and not as coursework
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    Re: Which A levels require absolutely NO coursework at all - 100% Exam.
    (Original post by Geek_Pride)
    We do OCR for english lit, our coursework is worth 40% of our AS grade!

    you LUCKY thing! I wish we were on OCR
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    (Original post by Stricof)
    Ah great man!!!!!!
    Genius!
    NowI need to weed out the Assessment ones...
    Just some procrastination from my Chemistry C/W - no intellect required.
    All the internal assessment has been removed; otherwise old AQA Philosophy and old AQA History (AS) would have been included (I think they're the only ones that have internal assessment which aren't really practicals, unlike Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Human Biology, Computing, Electronics, Geology, Science AS).
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    Physics on OCR.
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    I'm doing German AQA A-Level and there's no coursework in it. Just ~30% Speaking exam and ~70% Listening/Reading/Writing Exam.
    Pretty sure it's the same for french and spanish too.
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