IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education)

Link to IGCSE website

In Years 10 and 11, Key Stage 4, Avi-Cenna International School offers the Cambridge IGCSE, the world's most popular international curriculum for 14 - 16 year olds. Cambridge IGCSE is an international curriculum that develops students' skills in creative thinking, enquiry and problem solving, and gives them excellent preparation for the next stage in their education.

Schools worldwide have helped develop Cambridge IGCSE. It incorporates the best in international education for students at this level. It develops in line with changing needs, and is regularly updated and extended. Cambridge IGCSE teachers can draw on excellent resources, training and advice from subject experts. Cambridge IGCSE has wide recognition from higher education institutions and employers around the world as evidence of academic ability.

Some subjects are compulsory, while students elect to take some as ‘options’. Students generally take 8 subjects, and all students sit the IGCSE examinations in all subjects they are taking. Examinations are set and conducted by the Cambridge International Exams syndicate in England, and papers are all marked externally.


At Avi-Cenna, we offer the following subjects at IGCSE level.

CORE
· English
· Mathematics
· P.E. (no examination)

OPTIONS
· ICT
· Geography
· Business Studies
· Economics
· History
· Physics, Chemistry, or Biology
· French or Arabic
· Additional Maths
· English Literature

Students have 25 weekly lessons which are one hour long. Students should follow at least one course from the Humanities. At Avi-Cenna, we believe that studying a broad range of subjects enriches students’ general knowedge and cultural understanding and keeps their options open for study beyond IGCSE level.