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Title: GCE 'O' Level
Institution: Aggrey Memorial School, Malawi, SADCC

Level:
Secondary.

Description:
The General Certificate of Education is an international examination of great repute. It is a key to a variety of careers, professional and university courses. There is a wide choice of subjects. AMS now offers tuition for two examining bodies as shown below. The figure in brackets indicates the syllabus on which tuition is given by AMS where a subject has more than one syllabus.

University of London:
Biology (040)
Human Biology
Economics
Chemistry
English Language
Geography
English Literature
Mathematics
History
Integrated Science
Physics
Religious Studies
Chichewa/Nyanja

University of Cambridge:
English Language (1123)
Chichewa/Nyanja
Biology or
Human and Social Biology
History (9020/3 and 9020/211)
Mathematics
Principles of Accounts
Economics
Religious Studies
Physics
Law
Chemistry
Business Studies.

A GCE O-Level Certificate must contain not less than 6 subjects passed with credit if it is to be of use to students when searching for a job, promotion or entry to advanced studies. Students do not have to sit and pass all the six at once. Students will be issued a
certificate for any subject they pass but it is only when they have passed six subjects in all that they can be recognised as a fully fledged GCE person.

Assessment is by examination.


Languages:
English

Media and methods employed: Printed text.
Printed correspondence texts prepared by/for institution, tutorial support.

Administrative information:
Students must contact the Ministry of Education, Lilongwe, to arrange to sit the examination.

The address of the University of Cambridge is:
The Secretary
Syndicate Buildings
1 Hill Road
Cambridge
United Kingdom.


Classification:
000000 BROAD, MULTISUBJECT STUDIES GENERAL

Date: 4 September 1995 vmb
Source: 1995 Brochure

© 1999 International Centre for Distance Learning, The Open University

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