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The new GCSE is an opportunity for us to challenge the status quo and do something different that will improve the student experience.  \nIn our new qualifications, the three listens, moderate speaking pace, appropriate pause lengths, chunked texts and gap fill in dictation will all be working to make our listening paper much more accessible for your students. All these great features have required a slight increase in the exam duration for listening compared to the current exams, an additional 10 minutes at Foundation and 15 minutes at Higher. Therefore, it was important that we reviewed the current practice of scheduling the listening and reading exams in the same exam session to make the right decision for you and your students.  \nListening and Reading Exam Scheduling  \nAn overview of your thoughts and feedback  \nIn January and February, we invited MFL teachers and their students to respond to our surveys about the scheduling of our listening and reading exams. We had responses from 75 teachers and 465 students, and the results were clear.  \nWhat is your preference for the scheduling of the listening and reading exams?  \n69% of teachers  \nwould prefer the reading and listening exams on different days  \nThe reality of back-to-back scheduling  \nYou told us about a number of downsides to back-to-back exams, including:  \ns negative impact on student confidence in the second exam if they felt they struggled in the first  \ns cognitive overload of two intense exams back-to-backs tiredness and loss of focus  \ns lack of opportunity to provide focussed revision sessions prior to each exams logistical rooming issues for two exams  \n“We have to schedule listening exams in classrooms which causes lots of re-rooming. Impact would be less if exams were separated as reading could be done in exam hall.”  \n“Some students are so overwhelmed with the first exam; they lose focus on the second.”  \nYou also shared that the immense practical difficulties mean that less than 50% of centres are able to consistently deliver back-to-back exams in the mocks. This means many students have never experienced the back-to-back scheduling before the high stakes  \nlive assessments.  \n©FG Trade/Getty  \n2  \nAccessible access arrangements  \nof you agreed that having separate days for the listening and reading exams would be better for those students who can access 25% extra time. This suggests that the current back-to-back scheduling is detrimental to those very students who most need improved access arrangements.  \nStudent perspectives  \nWe wanted to understand how students feel about doing back-to-back listening and reading exams to better understand how the scheduling of these exams would affect their overall assessment experience.  \n52% of students selected the more negative emotions of ‘worried’ and ‘tired’, with their comments revealing the depth of anxiety felt by the students in response to the thought of back-to-back exams:  \n“Overwhelmed- I feel like in order to do your best on the reading and listening exams, they should be done at separate times, so we’re not having to have double the amount of information in our heads going into the exam.”  \n“StressedReading and listening exams are the hardest and the thought of having them back-to-backscares me.”  \n“Mentally destroyed.”  \n“On the one hand, I feel relieved to get them both out the way, but again I don’t really want a reading and a listening back-to-back because I’ll lose motivation especially if the ","cbCairVFWpKzhJAd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairVFWpKzhJAd","pdf",1169919,"English","# Listening and Reading Exam Scheduling\n## An overview of feedback\n## The reality of back-to-back scheduling\n## Accessible access arrangements\n## Student perspectives\n## Results","[{\"question\":\"What feedback drove the decision to change listening and reading scheduling?\",\"answer\":\"Teachers and students reported that back-to-back exams increase worry and tiredness, reduce focus, and negatively affect confidence in the second exam.\"},{\"question\":\"What specific issues were linked to back-to-back scheduling?\",\"answer\":\"Reported downsides include cognitive overload, loss of focus from fatigue, limited opportunity for focused revision, and logistical rooming problems for delivering two intense exams in succession.\"},{\"question\":\"When will GCSE French, German, and Spanish listening and reading exams be scheduled separately?\",\"answer\":\"They will be scheduled in separate exam sessions starting from Summer 2026.\"}]","2024 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Listening and Reading Exam Scheduling (Summer 2026) | PDF",1792473385]