Modular specifications

Edexcel’s GCSE in Mathematics: Modular specifications are flexible options where students take their exam papers periodically throughout the course, receiving formative and diagnostic feedback on their performance.


These specifications give pupils and teachers the opportunity to identify weaknesses and to address them.  Candidates who demonstrate performance that is more appropriate to a different assessment tier may, in further sessions, take modules aimed at that tier in order to fulfil their maximum potential.

The curriculum for GCSE in Mathematics: Modular is identical to that of the GCSE in Mathematics: Linear, allowing modular pupils to change to a linear programme and vice versa.

Modular structure for
GCSE in Mathematics (2544)
with coursework

Modular structure for
GCSE in Mathematics (2381)
without coursework

  • 20% internal coursework assessment (10% project and 10% task) [Unit 1]
  • 10% external assessment
    Data Handling modular test
  • 20% external assessment
    Algebra, Number Shape and Space modular test (calculator and non-calculator papers)
  • 50% external examination
    Algebra, Number Shape and Space (calculator and non-calculator papers)

100% external assessment:

  • 20% Data Handling unit
    (calculator and non-calculator papers)
  • 30% Algebra & Shape, Space & Measure (calculator and non-calculator papers)
  • 50% terminal examination



Specification (Modular) (2544) with coursework
First examination March 2007 and first certification June 2008.
PDF (636 KB) 05/05/2006
Specification (Modular) (2381) without coursework
First examination March 2008 and first certification June 2009.
PDF (1 MB) 03/05/2007