GCSE (Exam Training)

"This distance learning home study course is designed to prepare you for your GCSE Dutch examinations and is aimed at achieving a top grade."

This course will suit you if you already have a proficiency in Dutch close to GCSE Dutch standard, but just require exam training lessons to help achieve a top grade.

The course consists of:
• 20 lessons covering topics from the GCSE Dutch syllabus.
• Selected Dutch grammar covered by the GCSE Dutch syllabus.
• The examination procedures, instructions, formats, and exam practice, etc.
• Audio CDs with listening exercises.
• Templates for all the homework exercises available online. Just fill them in and send them off!
• Homework correction by e-mail.
• Unlimited e-mail support from a qualified Dutch teacher for 12 months.
• Course progress status available online.
• FREE sample past exam papers.

This course is designed to be completed in one academic year where each lesson takes between one and two hours of study to complete. You may study at your own pace and send in your homework assignments when you are ready. The course is delivered in three parts. Part 2 and part 3 will be delivered on completion of the preceding part.

As well as preparing you for the GCSE examinations, this course also revised key areas of the Dutch grammar in preparation for the exams. This course is principally focused on preparing you for the Reading and the Writing examinations.

We usually recommend that students begin this course in the autumn, say in September or October, to prepare for exams the following summer. However, you may start any time from the end of July until the beginning of January. The very latest starting date is the second week of January provided you have a very good elementary level and are prepared to complete 2 lessons per week.

This course is suitable for adults and children from the age of about 14.

What you will need before starting this course:
• A good elementary level in Dutch equivalent to about 90 to 100 hours of Dutch lessons (grammar you should be familiar with). We will ask you to complete our online Dutch test and write a short passage in Dutch before starting this course to ensure that your level is appropriate.
• Access to a computer (so that you can complete your homework assignments).
• Access to the Internet (so that you can copy your homework templates and view your course status).
• An e-mail account (so that you can return your homework assignments and communicate with your teacher).
• Microsoft Word or other software that can display the 'track changes' information created by Microsoft Word (for viewing your corrected homework assignments).

Examinations:
You may also sit your GCSE Dutch exams or mock exams at our school in Oxford. The cost of enrolling for the examinations and/or mock examinations is in addition to the cost of this course.

Investment:
£269 + £18 postage (to a UK address)
£244 + £18 postage (to a UK address) - For bookings received by 15 July 2008

Please contact us for postage rates to other countries.

To book this course simply complete and return our booking form with your payment.