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Edexcel A Level English Literature

at The Grange School, Aylesbury · school or sixth form

Level 3A levelsGCE A level15 monthsFull timeFree

What the college says

Students with A Level English Literature have a wide range of exciting career opportunities. You will learn and use a huge variety of transferable skills during the course. These include writing critically, responding to and analysing literary texts, and expressing informed and independent opinions. More widely, you will learn to identify and develop the links between different parts of the subject across texts and genres. These skills are in demand by employers, universities and colleges. English Literature can be studied as a single subject in higher education or can be combined with a variety of other subjects. It can form an excellent basis for study in any arts-based subject combination with for example film studies, law, politics, philosophy or modern languages. Many students may use this qualification to go straight into employment and opportunities to receive further training in journalism, the media and law could be offered. The course will enable you to: 1/ Develop your interest and enjoyment of literature by reading widely, 2/ Communicate your response to a wide variety of texts and respond to texts of different types and periods, 3/ Make informed opinions and judgements on literary texts and 4/ Gain an understanding of cultural, historical and other influences on texts.  Develop a range of thinking and learning skills

What you need to get on

You need to have a passion for reading: if not this really isn’t the course for you. To study this subject you need to have GCSE qualifications in English Language (level 4) and English Literature (level 5). You will need to be prepared to study poetry, prose and drama texts and to make comparisons between texts and study unprepared texts. You will need an ability to analyse what you have read and to communicate your ideas effectively in writing.

How you are assessed

Academic subjects, mostly exams, three or four at once. The traditional route to university.

What this level means

The A-level-equivalent step, and what universities and employers ask for.

Is it open to 16 to 18 year olds?

Approved for 16 to 18 study on the government's Section 96 list.

Where it runs

  • The Grange School

    Wendover Way, Aylesbury, HP21 7NH

    DaytimeClassroom based
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