Greenwood High International School
Syllabus Focus
IGCSE - Grade 9
ST 3- March 2025
Subject & Syllabus Focus Duration Max marks Date of test
Level
First Language 1.Paper 1 – Writers' Effect 45mins 25 marks 25th March
English (0500) 2.Paper 1 – Comprehension Tuesday
3. Paper 1 – Extended Writing
Interview
Literature in Poetry 45 mins 25 marks 24th March
English (0475) 1. Lament –Gillian Clarke Monday
2.The Cockroach-Kevin Halligan
3.. Follower- Seamus Heaney
4.. Storyteller- Liz Lochhead
Foreign Topic – At home (A la maison) 4 minutes 30 marks Speaking tests
Language Speaking (General Conversation) per student start from
French (0520) 21st March
Friday
Foreign Speaking Speaking (40 Writing
3. Where I live and what it’s like
Language approx. 6 marks) + 25th March
Spanish (0530) 3.5 Weather mins per Writing 12 Tuesday
student marks Speaking
3.6 Finding the way Writing- 20 Total marks exam starting
3.7. Travel and transport mins 52 from 24th
March
4.1 Spanish schools
Skills: Speaking (1 Role Play + 1
topic conversation) and Writing (1
task of 80-90 words)
3 Where I live and what it’s like 45 mins 28 marks 25th March
Foreign 3.1 Home town and geographical Tuesday
Language surroundings
German (0525) 3.2 Shopping
3.3 Public Services
3.4 Natural environment
3.5 Weather
3.6 Finding the way
3.7 Travel and Transport
Essay writing – 130 – 140 words (28
marks)
Hindi as a 35-45 Mins 30 marks 25th March
Listening Skill Test
Second Tuesday
Language Unit: 1 to 6
(0549)
• Written examination consists
of four exercises that test
listening skills. Candidates
listen to recordings of short
and longer spoken texts.
Types of tasks include short
answer questions, gap-fill
sentences, information
correction and multiple-
choice questions
Additional Trigonometry –Trigonometric 60 mins 40 Marks 27th March
Mathematics identities and equations, Bearings and (No Thursday
(0606) link to sine and cosine rule, Functions calculators)
– domain and range, Quadratic
equations and functions including
sketching of quadratic curves.
Probability – Sample Space and 60 mins 40 marks 27th March
Events, Theoretical probability, (GDC Thursday
Probabilities from Venn diagrams, allowed).
The Addition law of Probability,
Cambridge Independent Events, Dependent
International Events, Experimental Probability,
Mathematics Probabilities from Tabled Data,
(0607) Expectation.
Measurement: Length and Area –
Length, Perimeter, Area, Area
Formulae for Polygons, Area
formulae for circles and sectors.
Measurement: Surface Area,
Volume and Capacity – Surface
Area of a solid with planar faces,
Surface area of a cylinder, cone and a
sphere, Volume of a solid of uniform
cross-section, Volume of a Tapered
solid, Volume of a sphere, Capacity,
Connecting volume and capacity.
Mathematics Sets and Functions: sets, logical 60 mins 40 marks 27th March
(without problems, functions, composite and Thursday
coursework) inverse functions. (Calculator is
(0580) Graphs: Drawing linear graphs, not allowed)
coordinate geometry, equations of
straight lines, plotting curves.
Biology (0610) Unit 9 - Transport in Animals 30 mins 25 Marks 31st March
9.1 Circulatory systems Monday
9.2 Heart
9.3 Blood vessels
9.4 Blood
Chemistry Unit 6.4 Redox and 30 mins 25 Marks. 27th March
(0620) Unit 4.1 Electrolysis excluding the Thursday
applications i.e. electrolytic refining
and electroplating.
Chapter 5 Thermal Effects 30 mins 25 marks 31st March
5.1 Moving particles Monday
5.2 Temperature
Physics (0625) 5.3 Expanding solids and liquids
5.4 Heating gases
5.5 Thermal radiation
5.6 Convection
5.7 Thermal radiation
5.8 Liquids and vapours
5.9 Specific heat capacity
Chapter 6: Waves and Sounds
6.1 Transverse and longitudinal
waves
6.2 Wave effects
Chapter 7: Algorithm Design and 30 mins 25 Marks 26th March
Problem Solving Wednesday
7.7 Trace Tables to document dry run
Computer of algorithm
Science (0478) 7.8 Identifying errors in Algorithm
7.9 Writing and amending Algorithm
Chapter 8 : Programming
8.1.4(e) String Handling
8.1.4(f) Arithmetic , logical and
Boolean Operators
8.1.5 Use of nested statements
8.1.7 Library Routine
8.1.8 Creating a maintainable
program
Program Code, flowchart and
Pseudocode for Conditional
Statements: If-else, Iteration
Statements : For, while and
Repeat....Until
Economics 3.3 Workers 40 mins 20 Marks 28th March
(0455) 3.4 Trade Union Friday
Business Motivating Employees 30 mins 20 marks 26th March
Studies (0450) Recruitment, selecting employees Wednesday
Why was Hitler able to dominate 25 mins 15 Marks 24th March
Germany by 1934? Monday
History (0470) - Munich Putsch
- The Wilderness years
- The depression and the rise
of the Nazis
- How did Hitler become
chancellor?
- How did Hitler consolidate
his power?
Geography Paper 4: Alternative to Coursework- 30 mins 15 marks 24th March
(0460) Geographical Investigations on rivers Monday
and coasts
Drama (0411) Based on the pre-release material 30 mins Theory – two 28th March
students will have to answer two Long answers Friday
questions from sections B and C. (10 +15
marks)
Music (0410) -Music For Small ensembles 30 mins Listening and Listening-
1. Hindustani classical music theory-20 28th March
2. Music Theory Marks Friday
-Classical music Performance:
-Solo Music Performance Performance- 6th March
10 marks Lesson 8&9
Art (0400) AO 2 : Artist Study and analysis N/A 25 Marks 28th March
Friday
DT (0445) 1.8.2 Manufacturing production 60mins 30 marks 28th March
1.8.3 design Ideas Friday
1.8.9 Using models to test
proposals
1.8.10 Modelling and its
types
