This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Allow students taking the new GCSE to bring blank anthologies to the exam
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In previous years, students were allowed to take in blank anthologies so they had the piece of text in front of them. In the new exam students are not allowed to so, essentially, the exam is heavily based on memory. We cannot analyse a poem without the text!
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