This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Allow GCSE students to have an anthology in their English Literature exam.
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The new English GCSE requires students to learn 14 poems off by heart along with the pages of annotations that go with them, which only tests the students' memory and not knowledge of the poem, stopping students on focusing on the skills they need to answer the questions to the best of their ability
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/172405
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