Petition · past parliament
Make the English literature exam (Summer 2019) open book.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
GCSE students every year struggle in their English literature exams as they have to remember the context and several quotes from 16 poems and they have to remember the plot, characters and several quotes from 3 novels/plays.
Shouldn't the exam boards be testing us on our knowledge on analysing instead of our strength at cramming quotes into our memory while we have other exams as well?
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 25 Oct 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 1 Nov 2018 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
1 Nov 2018
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.