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Key Stage 3 · iLowerSecondary English
The LEH11 achievement test assesses Key Stage 3 English skills through one externally-set paper. This is your go-to learning area: read what the exam is, see how it is marked, and start revising the reading and writing skills it tests.
This qualification is sat by Year 9 students following the Pearson Edexcel iLowerSecondary English Curriculum. There are no prior learning or other requirements for this qualification. Skills are drawn from Year 9 of the Pearson Edexcel iLowerSecondary English Curriculum. The content amplification also includes aspects of learning from Years 7, 8 and 9. Strong performance progresses naturally to:
Assessment
LEH11/01
One externally-set achievement test (externally assessed)
Duration
1 hour 45 minutes
One sitting, no breaks. Dictionaries are not allowed.
Total marks
70
Section A: Reading (40) + Section B: Writing (30).
Sections
2
Section A: Reading (suggested 1 hour 10 minutes); Section B: Writing (suggested 35 minutes).
Grading
S1 - S2 - S3 - S4
Graded on a four-level scale from S1 to S4, of which S4 is the highest and S1 the lowest. Achievement below the minimum standard receives an unclassified (U) result.
Availability
June & October
Specification: Issue 2 - November 2024. First assessment June 2019.
Every question targets one of these objectives. The percentages are the weighting each carries across the qualification.
Identify and retrieve ideas and information from a range of texts.
Deduce, infer or interpret information, events or ideas from texts.
Identify and comment on the structure and organisation of texts.
Explore writers' use of grammatical and literary language at word and sentence level.
Consider writers' purposes and viewpoints, and the overall effect of the text on the reader.
Communicate appropriately according to form, audience and purpose; organise writing, sequencing and structuring information appropriately and coherently.
Communicate meaning in writing through the use of accurate grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Specification
The full content breakdown - what is assessed and why.
Exam format
Section A reading, Section B writing, timings and the source booklet.
Mark scheme
How examiners award marks, including the levelled writing grids.
Grade targets S1-S4
What each grade looks like and how to move up a level.
Reading skills
Retrieval, inference, structure, language and comparison.
Writing skills
Form, audience and purpose, structure, grammar and accuracy.
Question types
Every question style with how-to-answer guidance.
Text types
The non-fiction and fiction texts you may meet.
Fiction
Working with the unseen fiction text and its genres.
Practice papers
Original, exam-style papers written by The English Hub.
Quiz
Quick-fire questions to test your understanding.
Grammar lab
Sentences, punctuation and grammatical terminology drills.
Vocabulary
Build precise, ambitious word choices for top marks.
Qualification facts, assessment objectives and mark grids reproduced for educational guidance from the Pearson Edexcel International Award in Lower Secondary English Specification (Issue 2, November 2024, ISBN 978 1 446 95667 0) and the LEH11/01 October 2025 mark scheme. © Pearson Education Limited. The English Hub is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pearson. All practice texts on these pages are original works written by The English Hub and are not reproduced from any past paper.