See the official Edexcel syllabus (or specification, as the examination body calls it) and learn the specific topics you need to read.
The researchers examined 42 documents in both English and Chinese, including proficiency scales, teaching syllabuses, curriculum requirements, test specifications and rating scales, resulting in 1240 descriptors.
Descriptors are collected from both teachers' description of students' listening ability (with a sample of 159 teachers and 475 students at different educational stages and 119 professionals) and existing documents, both in English and Chinese, such as proficiency scales, teaching syllabuses, curriculum requirements, test specifications and rating scales.
She added: "It is useful for Ofqual to prioritise English and maths specifications as the first syllabuses to go into schools and colleges, but all the new qualifications should be trialled and evaluated before being introduced".
Through documentation, we collected a wide range of existing documents such as English proficiency scales (e.g. CEFR, Canadian Language Benchmark), teaching syllabuses, curriculum requirements (e.g. College English Curriculum Requirements), test specifications and rating scales (totally 42 documents, both in English and Chinese) which may contain descriptors of listening ability.
The table of specifications was used to draft a common syllabus.
For a system to achieve high quality and high equity, an effective balance of professionalism and prescription must be achieved, with the form of the syllabus playing a key role in setting the level of specification and locus of control and authority required.
Print off the specification and make sure you are aware of all aspects of the syllabus.
I can't help but be reminded of Orwellian doublethink when reading of Michael Gove's insistence that he has "not banned anything" from the new GCSE English literature specifications – yet there is clearly less scope for the study of modern/contemporary texts in the new syllabuses (Gove hits back in English GCSE syllabus row, 27 May).
A syllabus was developed.
The John McPhee syllabus.
