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The Cambridge IGCSE curriculum offers a variety of routes for learners with a wide range of abilities, including those whose first language is not English. Cambridge International helps schools build a curriculum around their specific needs.
Starting from a foundation of core subjects, it is easy to add breadth and cross-curricular perspectives. Encouraging learners to engage with a variety of subjects, and make connections between them, is fundamental to our approach. For schools, Cambridge's IGCSE board offers a flexible and stimulating curriculum, supported with excellent resources and training.
For learners, Cambridge IGCSE helps improve performance by developing skills in creative thinking, inquiry, and problem-solving. It is the perfect springboard for advanced study. There are approximately 70 subjects available at Cambridge IGCSE, including 30 languages, and schools can offer them in any combination.
Cambridge IGCSE develops learner knowledge, understanding, and skills in:
Schools worldwide have been involved in the development of Cambridge IGCSE. The IGCSE board syllabus 2024 are international in outlook but retain a local relevance. They have been created specifically for an international student body and avoid cultural bias.
Candidates can follow the steps given below to download IGCSE board syllabus 2024 from the official website:
Step 1: Visit the website- cambridgeinternational.org
Step 2: Click on the "Programmes and qualifications" section and select "Subjects" (For Cambridge Upper Secondary IGCSE).
Step 3: Now candidates can download the pdf required subject group.
Content overview
1. The fundamentals of accounting
2. Sources and recording of data
3. Verification of accounting records
This section concentrates on the use of trial balances, bank reconciliation statements and control accounts as means of verifying accounting records. The procedures for the correction of errors are also covered.
4. Accounting procedures
5. Preparation of Financial statements
6. Analysis and Interpretation
7. Accounting Principles and Policies
Content overview
The Syllabus has been Updated. You are strongly advised to read the whole Syllabus before Planning. The Latest Syllabus is version 2, Published on Feb 2019.
Candidates study the following topics:
1 Characteristics and classification of living organisms
2 The organization of the organism
3 Movement in and out of cells
4 Biological molecules
5 Enzymes
6 Plant nutrition
7 Human nutrition
8 Transport in plants
9 Transport in animals
10 Diseases and immunity
11 Gas exchange in humans
12 Respiration
13 Excretion in humans
14 Coordination and response
15 Drugs
16 Reproduction
17 Inheritance
18 Variation and selection
19 Organisms and their environment
20 Biotechnology and genetic engineering
21 Human influences on ecosystems
Content overview
1. Understanding business activity
This section introduces the underlying ideas and concepts of business and includes the purpose and nature of business activity and how businesses can be classified.
Enterprise and entrepreneurs, and why some businesses grow while others remain small are further important issues. How business size can be measured, types of business organization, business objectives, and stakeholder objectives are the concluding topics.
2. People in business
The focus is the functional area of human resources and includes the importance and methods of motivating a workforce. How businesses are organized and managed and the methods of recruitment, selection, and training of employees are also considered.
Finally, the section covers the importance and methods of effective internal and external communication.
3. Marketing
This section includes the role of marketing, the distinctions between niche and mass markets and the techniques of market segmentation. The methods and importance of market research are covered.
The central role of the marketing mix, i.e. the four Ps, is made clear. Marketing strategies to influence consumer decisions at home and in new foreign markets are the final topics in this section.
4. Operations management
5. Financial information and decisions
6. External influences on business activity
This section focuses on different external influences on business activity and how these impact on a business. It includes government influences on economic, environmental and ethical issues and how they impact on the functional areas of businesses.
In addition, the international economy including globalization and its effects on businesses and governments, multinational businesses and exchange rates are important issues.
Legal constraints are an external influence to be considered but these influences are covered in the relevant functional areas above, as well as in this last section.
Candidates study the following topics:
1. The particulate nature of matter
2. Experimental techniques
3. Atoms, elements and compounds
4. Stoichiometry
5. Electricity and chemistry
6. Chemical energetics
7. Chemical reactions
8. Acids, bases and salts
9. The Periodic Table
10. Metals
11. Air and water
12. Sulfur
13. Carbonates
14. Organic chemistry
Content overview
The syllabus is divided into three themes:
Theme 1: Population and settlement
Theme 2: The natural environment
Theme 3: Economic development.
The themes are designed to develop an understanding of natural and human environments
All candidates study all the Core Content in either:
Option A
The nineteenth-century: the development of modern nation-states, 1848–1914
The content focuses on the following Key Questions:
• Were the Revolutions of 1848 important?
• How was Italy unified?
• How was Germany unified?
• Why was there a civil war in the United States and what were its results?
• Why, and with what effects, did Europeans expand their overseas empires in the nineteenth century?
• What caused the First World War?
or
Option B
The twentieth century: international relations since 1919
The content focuses on the following Key Questions:
• Were the peace treaties of 1919–23 fair?
• To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
• Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
• Who was to blame for the Cold War?
• How effectively did the United States contain the spread of Communism?
• How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989?
• Why did events in the Gulf matter, c.1970–2000?
In addition, all candidates must also study at least one of the following Depth Studies:
• The First World War, 1914–18
• Germany, 1918–45
• Russia, 1905–41
• The United States, 1919–41
• China, c.1930–c.1990
• South Africa, c.1940–c.1994
• Israelis and Palestinians since 1945
Content Overview
Candidates may follow either the Core curriculum or the Extended curriculum. Candidates aiming for grades A* to C should follow the Extended curriculum.
All candidates will study the following topics:
1 Number
2 Algebra and graphs
3 Geometry
4 Mensuration
5 Coordinate geometry
6 Trigonometry
7 Matrices and transformations
8 Probability
9 Statistics
Candidates study the following topics:
1. General physics
2. Thermal physics
3 Properties of waves, including light and sound
4 Electricity and magnetism
5 Atomic physics
Content Overview
The syllabus provides candidates with an opportunity to study both the practical and theoretical aspects of Physical Education. It is also designed to foster enjoyment in physical activity.
The knowledge gained should enable candidates to develop an understanding of effective and safe physical performance.
Candidates will study all of the following topics:
1: Anatomy and physiology
2: Health, fitness, and training
3: Skill acquisition and psychology
4: Social, cultural and ethical influences
Candidates will also undertake four different physical activities chosen from at least two of the seven categories listed in section 6.2. Physical activities make a significant contribution to syllabus aims and objectives, serving as a source of material to facilitate learning.
Content Overview
The syllabus content that follows is divided into three sections: Biology (B1–B12), Chemistry (C1–C12) and Physics (P1–P6). Candidates must study all three sections.
Candidates can either follow the Core syllabus only, or they can follow the Extended syllabus which includes both the Core and the Supplement. Candidates aiming for grades A* to C should follow the Extended syllabus.
B1. Characteristics of living organisms
B2. Cells
B3. Biological molecules
B4. Enzymes
B5. Plant nutrition
B6. Animal nutrition
B7. Transport
B8. Gas exchange and respiration
B9. Coordination and response
B10. Reproduction
B11. Organisms and their environment
B12. Human influences on ecosystems
C1. The particulate nature of matter
C2. Experimental techniques
C3. Atoms, elements and compounds
C4. Stoichiometry
C5. Electricity and chemistry
C6. Energy changes in chemical reactions
C7. Chemical reactions
C8. Acids, bases and salts
C9. The Periodic Table
C10. Metals
C11. Air and water
C12. Organic chemistry
P1. Motion
P2. Work, energy and power
P3. Thermal Physics
P4. Properties of waves, including light and sound
P5. Electrical quantities
P6. Electric circuits.
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