2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese Paper 1F and Mark Scheme Combined (1CN0/1F: Listening and understanding in Chinese Foundation Tier)
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2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese Paper 1F and Mark Scheme Combined (1CN0/1F: Listening and understanding in Chinese Foundation Tier)

Paper 1F is the Foundation Tier Listening and Understanding component of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese qualification (1CN0/1F). It assesses students’ ability to understand spoken Chinese in everyday contexts, using familiar vocabulary and basic sentence structures.

This paper is designed for students targeting grades 1–5 and forms 25% of the total GCSE Chinese qualification.


What the Paper Covers

Paper 1F includes a variety of listening tasks, such as:

🎧 Audio Texts

  • Short dialogues and conversations

  • Simple announcements or instructions

  • Everyday messages

  • Interviews or short reports on familiar topics

📌 Key Topics

  • Personal information and identity

  • School and local area

  • Hobbies and free-time activities

  • Daily routines and holidays

  • Social and cultural topics relevant to the student’s life

📝 Question Types

  • Multiple-choice questions

  • Matching exercises

  • True/false or correct/incorrect statements

  • Short-answer questions in English or Chinese

  • Extracting specific information and understanding general meaning

📌 Marking Focus

  • Comprehension: identifying key facts and details

  • Accuracy: correct extraction of information

  • Understanding: following instructions and messages in context


Structure of the Paper

  • Section A: Short listening texts with simple questions

  • Section B: Longer texts with slightly more complex questions

  • Section C: Short-answer questions requiring interpretation or inference

The combined document includes both the question paper and the official mark scheme, which provides accepted answers, alternative wording, and guidance on mark allocation.