2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE French Paper 1 and Mark Scheme Combined (1FR0/1H: Listening and understanding in French Higher Tier)
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2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE French Paper 1 and Mark Scheme Combined (1FR0/1H: Listening and understanding in French Higher Tier)

  • Paper code: 1FR0/1H.

  • Paper title: Listening and understanding in French (Higher Tier)

  • Duration: 45 minutes (including 5 minutes reading time before listening starts). 

  • Marks: 50 marks. This paper contributes 25% of the total GCSE French grade. 

  • Purpose: To assess students’ comprehension of spoken French in a variety of contexts — both formal and informal, social and public settings — across the full range of themes/topics of the course. 

  • Response format: Students answer multiple‑response and short‑answer open response questions. There is no requirement to produce written responses in French (answers are in English unless otherwise specified).

  • Structure: The paper typically has two sections (Sections A and B). For Higher Tier: Section A instructions are in French; Section B instructions are in English.

  • Administration: Students get 5 minutes reading time before listening begins (to look through questions and make notes). The recordings (monologues, dialogues, announcements etc.) are played; students usually hear each extract twice and may write responses at any time during listening. 

  • No dictionaries are allowed.