IGCSE syllabus
Every IGCSE First Language English skill maps to a topic in the syllabus, so sessions cover what the exams test.

IGCSE First Language English
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Every IGCSE First Language English skill maps to a topic in the syllabus, so sessions cover what the exams test.
Share your teacher's syllabus, textbook, or pacing guide and sessions follow your child's actual class.
Aiming for an A*? Aristotle plans review back from your child's target grade and exam date.
Exam prep
Aristotle tracks 87 IGCSE First Language English skills, finds the ones costing your child points, and plans review back from exam day.
Follows the syllabus, unit by unit.
Your child talks it through. Aristotle coaches from the step that went wrong.
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See what's mastered and what's left.
Features
Talk things through, work side by side, and come back next time to a tutor who remembers where you left off.
Ask questions out loud, hear explanations in Aristotle’s voice, and interrupt whenever you need to.
Aristotle draws steps, diagrams, and images to help you learn visually.
Get practice problems tailored to the exact topics you’re struggling with.
From middle-school math to AP exams to SAT/ACT prep. We also build custom plans matched to state standards and specific courses.
Revisit session summaries, session whiteboards, and uploads in one place.
Aristotle can read and navigate any PDFs and images with the learner. That includes textbooks with hundreds of pages!
We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.
Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.
The curriculum
Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.
Sample curriculum
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Reading
Writing
Directed writing and text types
Assessment components
Speaking and listening
IGCSE First Language English tutoring curriculum87 skills across 5 units
Reading
Half the qualification, and 80% of Paper 1. Topics: Understanding explicit and implicit meaning, Summary and selection, How writers achieve effects, Developing and evaluating ideas and opinions.
Writing
The other half. Topics: Composition: description and narrative, Organising and structuring writing, Vocabulary and sentence craft, Spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Directed writing and text types
Writing to a brief: someone else's text, a specified audience, a specified form. Topics: Audience, purpose and form, The seven text types.
Assessment components
What each paper actually asks for, question by question, with its word counts and mark splits. Topics: Paper 1: Reading, Paper 2: Directed Writing and Composition, Component 3: Coursework Portfolio.
Speaking and listening
The optional, separately endorsed test: a 3-4 minute individual talk on a topic the candidate chooses, then a conversation about it, roughly 10-12 minutes and 40 marks in total. Topics: The individual talk, The conversation.
A few things you might wonder before getting started.
Aristotle's IGCSE First Language English course tracks 87 skills across 5 units, mapped to the IGCSE syllabus, including Reading, Writing, and Directed writing and text types. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of IGCSE First Language English your child has mastered and what to teach next.
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