2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese Paper 3H and Mark Scheme Combined (1CN0/3H: Reading and understanding in Chinese Higher Tier)

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2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese Paper 3H and Mark Scheme Combined (1CN0/3H: Reading and understanding in Chinese Higher Tier)

Paper 3H is the Higher Tier Reading and Understanding component of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese qualification (1CN0/3H). It assesses students’ ability to read, comprehend, and interpret written Chinese texts across a variety of contexts, including authentic and extended passages.

This paper is designed for students targeting grades 4–9 and forms 25% of the total GCSE Chinese qualification.

✔ What the Paper Covers

Paper 3H includes a range of text types and tasks, such as:

📝 Text Types

Emails, messages, and letters
Short articles and extracts from stories or reports
Notices, advertisements, and social media posts
Cultural and lifestyle topics

📝 Question Types

Multiple-choice questions
Matching exercises
True/false or correct/incorrect statements
Short-answer questions in English or Chinese
Extracting key information, interpreting meaning, and summarizing ideas

📌 Marking Focus

Comprehension: accurate understanding of explicit information
Inference: interpreting implied meaning
Accuracy: precise extraction of details
Language Understanding: recognizing grammar, vocabulary, and context

✔ Structure of the Paper

Section A: Short texts with simple comprehension questions
Section B: Longer texts with questions requiring more detailed understanding
Section C: Translation of short sentences from Chinese into English

The combined document includes both the question paper and the official mark scheme, showing accepted answers, alternative wording, and allocation of marks for comprehension and translation.

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Published	09 Dec 2025
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