Petition · past parliament
Allow GCSE students to have an anthology in their English Literature exam.
Rejected
16 signatures
What the petition asks
The new English GCSE requires students to learn 14 poems off by heart along with the pages of annotations that go with them, which only tests the students' memory and not knowledge of the poem, stopping students on focusing on the skills they need to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 13 Feb 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 15 Feb 2017 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
16
Status
Rejected
Rejected
15 Feb 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.