2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Arabic Paper 1H Question Paper and Mark Scheme Combined (1AA0/1H: Listening and understanding in Arabic Higher Tier)

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2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Arabic Paper 1H Question Paper and Mark Scheme Combined (1AA0/1H: Listening and understanding in Arabic Higher Tier)

Paper 1H is the Higher Tier Listening and Understanding component of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE in Arabic (specification 1AA0, paper code 1AA0/1H). It assesses how well students understand spoken Arabic across a range of contexts, accents, and levels of complexity.

This paper accounts for 25% of the total GCSE Arabic qualification.

✔ What the Paper Includes

Students listen to a series of recorded Arabic passages and answer questions that test comprehension. Recordings typically include:

Conversations and dialogues
Announcements and messages
Interviews and reports
Formal and informal speech
Longer passages requiring interpretation of detail, gist, opinions, and attitudes

The listening material covers the full range of GCSE themes, such as identity and culture, local area, school, social issues, and global/world topics.

✔ Question Types

The Higher tier includes a mix of:

Multiple-choice questions
Matching tasks
True/false statements
Short-answer questions
Questions requiring responses in English or in Arabic, depending on the task

Questions increase in difficulty as the paper progresses.

✔ Language of Answering

Some questions must be answered in English (for comprehension).
Some must be answered in Arabic (to show understanding of detailed meaning).
No dictionary is allowed.

✔ Mark Scheme (Included in the Combined Document)

The official mark scheme provides:

Correct answers and acceptable alternatives
Clarification of which parts of the audio correspond to each answer
Rules for marking ambiguous or partially correct answers
Guidance on ignoring irrelevant extra information (as long as the correct core meaning is present)

Marking focuses on:

Accuracy of comprehension
Correct extraction of meaning, opinions, and details
Ability to understand both gist and specific information from spoken Arabic

Paper 1H is intended for students targeting grades 4–9, reflecting higher-level listening comprehension demands.

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