Edexcel IGCSE online classes

How Edexcel IGCSE works

Edexcel International GCSE is examined entirely by written paper — no coursework, and in the sciences no practical exam at all.

Cambridge students sit either a laboratory test or a written Alternative to Practical. Edexcel students sit neither. Experimental skills are examined inside the written papers instead: a question hands your child a method and a table of results and asks them to find the flaw, plot the data, or explain the anomaly. Nothing is assessed by a teacher and nothing needs a school laboratory.

For a Pakistani family that suits two situations especially well. If your child is a private candidate, or at a school whose laboratory provision is thin, the problem disappears. And because Edexcel runs both a January and a June series, a student who wants to sit early, retake, or split subjects across two sittings has options that a single annual sitting does not offer.

Edexcel also has a distinct examining habit worth preparing for: it likes to place familiar material in an unfamiliar setting. The underlying content is the content your child already knows, but students who have only memorised worked examples freeze when it arrives dressed as something new. A good deal of our teaching is about making the reasoning solid enough that the disguise does not matter.