CCEA Frech for General Certificate of Secondary Education

Speaking
Controlled assessment

Students prepare and complete two tasks
under supervision.

Teachers can either:
•  select or adapt the two tasks from a list
that we provide; or
•  set their own two tasks, keeping within
the parameters described in Section 6.

Teachers mark the assessments and CCEA
moderate them.
30%

Every
Summer
(beginning
in 2010)
Writing
Controlled assessment

Students prepare and complete two tasks
under supervision.

Teachers can either:
•  select or adapt the two tasks from a list
that we provide; or
•  set their own two tasks, keeping within
the parameters described in Section 6.

CCEA mark the assessments.
30%

Every
Summer
(beginning

in 2010)
Listening
One externally assessed written paper

Two tiers of entry:
•  Foundation (35 minutes); and
•  Higher (45 minutes)

Stimulus material in French, recorded by
native speakers

Responses include selection, gap filling and
answering some questions in English
20%

Summer

Reading
One externally assessed written paper

Two tiers of entry:
•  Foundation (40 minutes); and
•  Higher (50 minutes)

Stimulus material of various lengths on a
range of topics in French

Responses include selection, gap filling and
short answers in French, and some answers
in English
20%

Summer