English Baccalaureate Languages

• Introduction
• English
• Maths
• Science
• Humanities
• Languages

To achieve the English Bacc, students need at least one A* to C grade from a list of Modern and Ancient Language qualifications.

AQA Language course information

Students need to complete a Full Course in order for the GCSE to be counted towards the English Bacc.

AQA qualifications that currently count towards the English Bacc:

• AQA GCSE Bengali 4635
• AQA GCSE Chinese (Mandarin) 4670
• AQA GCSE French 4655
• AQA GCSE German 4665
• AQA GCSE Italian 4630
• AQA GCSE Modern Hebrew 4675
• AQA GCSE Panjabi 4680
• AQA GCSE Polish 4685
• AQA GCSE Spanish 4695
• AQA GCSE Urdu 4645.

All our Language qualifications include Listening and Reading units and Speaking and Writing units, with a choice of topics.

Why choose AQA for GCSE Languages?

Support materials are available in the Teacher Resource Bank for each qualification.

For traditional languages:

• teachers benefit from the personal support provided by our Controlled Assessment Advisers
• annual teacher standardisation meetings help teachers with the Speaking Controlled Assessment.

Schools teaching languages with an externally-assessed Speaking test benefit from annual training meetings.

For expert advice contact our languages team.