Thats awesome!! I wish I could take a test on HP! ^_^

so totally ahead of mugglenet

Mmm.. a bit late MuggleNet. Leaky had this up several hours ago... :P Anyhoo, maybe I'll be reading PS for my English Lit A Levels. I think it's neat they've made it part of the curriculum.

well it was only a matter of time before something like this happened!!! haha this is awesome

Bad idea ppl. Kids who are babies right now will have to take these tests when they grow up and think that it's some sort of burden. It's just like Shakespeare...ppl back in the days are like, "OMG, Shakespeare is so awesome and so are his play...i gotta read it 10x's!" get the idea? now we are like, "oh shoot, Hamlet." well some might like Hamlet but not all... viki co-webmis s: evannalynchonline.com jessiecave.net

That is the only reason to take A-Levels...

Omg this is awesome! I wish they would allow Potter on AP tests. Supposedly you shouldn't write about it because it doesn't have "literary merit". Stupid...everybody knows they do. Hopefully they'll allow them soon. Too bad I'm a senior so this will be my last year to take them.

uh! that's no fair! :D i want to be able to do that!! it would be awesome! :D

A-Levels, High Court judge!!! How's that for gibberish???

Ahh! That is so cool. I would totally get a perfect score if I could write about Harry Potter! In fact, I just pulled my Philosopher's Stone out yesterday. Blahh so not fair, but toally awesome at the same time. :D

Wow, that's pretty cool. I just took the ACT last week and I wish that we could have written about Harry Potter in the writing portion... it would've been way more interesting for me than the topic of "should environmental science be a required high school class" - although I do believe the environment is important... I think that HP would've been wayyyy more interesting =]

LOL, that would be soo cool! I would take a test on HP any day!

We here in the USA recognize the graphic as the cover of Harry Potter Year 1, but these tests are in England. Shouldn't you be using the British book cover?

ha i would love 2 take a test on HP however im in the us

Holy crap, it's about time they use HP in its full potential. The US is still under the impression that it's some crappy children's book! Good job, UK!

That's cool. Gibberish? No.

Lol, now everybody has to write fanfiction!

Wow.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! I SO WANT 2 DO THAT!!! THE SHORT STORY INSPEIRED BY THE BOOKS WOULD BE FUN AND KINDA EASY AND KINDA HARD! I HAVE TONS OF IDEAS 4 THAT!!!!:D

So are the a-levels taken in 11th grade like she SATs?

very cool! Jo should be proud !

wow I would totally ace that! lol

I am so jealous!!!!!!!!!! College would be a shoe-in for all of us! The A-levels sound way cooler than the SAT. Oh man, if only. The lucky people!!

I don't know if that is a good idea. You either injoy reading the series and not take the test or take the test and not injoy reading the series. Any type of book, were injoyable to read or not injoyable to read is still school work. I am sorry to say, but please leave the harry potter series alone!!!

I don't agree that this will make HP seem as boring as Hamlet. I had to make myself not read more than 250 pages a day when a new HP would come out, but I had to force myself to READ about 10 pages of hamlet when I had to for school this year. They're completely different kinds of books. Hamlet is good for slowing down and reading and rereading different 'eloquent' passages, while HP is has an amazing story that's impossible to put down. How could anything make it boring?

Hmmm...that is really cool news, but somehow I would fear that while taking the test, I would be more likely to go off on tangents because I know the material so well, and not fully answer what the prompt is asking. I however still wish that this had been something I could have done for the SATs. It would have made them tolerable at the very least. :)

OMG. GO UK. The test will be a bit hard but at leat it has something to do with Harry Potter! Randomchat, i agree with you...why does America still think HP is a crappy children's book that has no potential to be a great portion on the writing part of an SAT? :D

One more thing...GIBBERISH?!?!!?!? !? I THINK NOT! ID LIKE TO SEE YOU WRITE SOMETHING CREATIVE YOU EFFIN PEICE OF CRAP HIGH COURT JUDGE.

THIS IS SO COOL! In my country, we follow the UK... we do O-Levels and A-Levels and stuff! I've always wanted to do Englsh and Literature for my O-Levels... Now if i do that, and take it for my A-Levels... MAYBE I COULD DO HARRY POTTER! I WOULD ACE IT! WHOOO I LOVE THIS!

Australia seems to think HP is just a kids book just like the US. I wish I could do this for my VCE!!!!!! It would take so much of the pressure off it!

I'm in the middle of my A-levels.... But I'd never ever do English (I'm doing Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Computing). I hated English at GCSE... but I think I'd have done alot better if I was writing about Harry Potter (ie something I was actually interested in, instead of some crappy war poetry and stuff)

Firstly.. No idea what 11th Grade is as an equivalent to any English year, so all I can say is that A-Levels are sat in the last year of high school or in 2nd year at a college when most of the students are 18. I think, as much as I wish'd I could have had Harry Potter on the syllabus when I did my Literature A-Level, I think as other people have said, it could lead to people disliking the books purely because they 'have' to read it, rather than just choosing to themselves. I think it's going to be difficult for harry potter fans to compare JK's style to other writers as I think people will just be biased, as I know I would be. Again, I think perhaps its a mistake for the course to be 'advertised' as it has been, as now people will take the course solely on the basis of harry potter rather than the other content. All just my opinions...

hehe I know.... Im doing it.... Im studying for part of my english lit and lang course harry potter 1 and tom brown school days... comparing education in it.... lol.... Im not doing the coursework though. That would have been fun! same with the story... oh thats so unfair! for anyone not from england here, A-levels arent compulsary and are for 16-18 year olds..... Ive got my exam on harry potter and tom brown in about a month, i think you get an extract from both books in the exam and write about it and know where in the book that extract is and some other stuff as well.... :D

This is completely pathetic, Potter is not a book that can be studied at A-level. There's not enough of the criteria that will get you marks for one thing. And I know i certainly wouldn't have wanted to do my A level coursework on a chldrens book, you need much more stretching topics than that. For people who do want to do it, there's already the coursework option with AQA to do an essay comparing two books of your choice, which is what I did, but forcing this book on people who read this book when they were ten and are actually looking for something a bit more in depth and meaningful is ridiculous. Having said that, I'd be suprised if many schools actualy did do it. Doing Potter at GCSE or before that would be one thing, but at A level it's a joke.

Will it carry on? 'Cause I'm in year ten now and have got another year and a half before I can do A-levels, and I'm definately taking English Lit. My mum teaches English Lit =]

Stupid Stupid. I switched Lit and lang for just lit. I would be doing that next year otherwise.

Hp becomes obligatoir reading for A-levels? or just one of the items allowed? the newsreel isn't quite clear to me. But in the first case it's worst case scenario. HP should be a book to enjoy voluntarily and not because some instructor or teacher dictates it. I remember the list of dictated litarature form my schoolday and if there was anything to turn you down on reading it was that. Besides that as an allowed item it too can kill the joy of reading HP, also from my distant past, when I got permission to put the comic Asterix, a hype in those days, on my list of French books. The way the examinator digged merciless deep in it made me back off from Asterix forever. Best let HP in the arrea where it florish best, the area of enjoyment.

Oh bugger....I do english Lit at As Level...but i'm dropping it next year because i have no room to carry it on with my other courses....darn....only if i were one year younger i could be studying it.....sigh oh well....that would be awesome

Great!! just finished my english a level last year!!

This is so cool! I'm only in Year 10 right now so I still have one and a half years left till A Levels but this is totally another reason for me to do A Level English/English Lit (my fave subject anyway) XD

eeeeeeee!!!! I'm doing english lang and lit next year!!!!!

oh yay. finally they got sumthin gud. wish i was doing a levels.

Oh that's so unfair! Why couldn't it have been set when I did A level English!? Although it did actually come up in the exam! It's really good 4 Jo, she must be really happy! Harry Potter is 100% worthy of an A level set book! There are so many themes to explore and its so well written (of course I don't need to tell u all that!)

Positively the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Harry Potter is good, but JK Rowling is NOT a literary genius. Her books have now place in the English A Levels. Experts are right to worry about the dumbing down of A Levels. I'm at university, (I did not do A Levels, but an Access course, which is for mature students) and I've met students who can't even construct an essay!

Thats so great! Hopefully it will inspire America to do the same. I just hope that kids don't find it a pain to read, li!

I'm doing AS English Lang & lit this year and studying 2 different books, No. 1 Ladies Detectives Agency and Hound of the Baskervilles. However our college used to use this book along with Tom Brown's School days the year before but was dropped as the latter was deemed as too difficult. And even at my Secondary school the books were studied. Yes, it's a fun subject, yay!

I'm happy to say I have already taken my AS-level (Year 12) studying Harry Potter :P I was quite amazed/extremly happy when the teacher handed them out. In my class, we compaired it to Tom Hughes' 'Tom Brown's school days' who attended Rugby School in the 1830's. It's a good pairing because as the article says it focuses on lifes and friendships in boarding-type schools. Just a warning to people who have this book, its sooo bloody long and boring! Just my opinion though, make sure you revise this book, seen as all Harry Potter mania's out there won't have to put much hard work in studying Philosopher's Stone :P Chooow!

Do we do A-Levels in Scotland? I don't think so. But if any of my Standard Grades or Higher english exams ever have Harry Potter in them [which they probably won't] then I'll pass for certain!! Hahaha.

ugh! I'm in year 12 now, doing English Lit AS, and I'm taking it onto A2 next year as well, though tbh, I highly dubt if my school would use Harry Potter, our teachers are pretty old fashioned (for loss of a better word). So for my coursework I did Hamlet, and next year I think our coursework is on The Great Gatsby. I would love to do HP though ! But our school doesn't do lit & lang together, we can only do lit cause were a pretty small school. tsch!

Oh well we know what this means.. *screams to Mom* WERE MOVING TO ENGLAND!! Ha I wish it was that easy. What is A Levels in the UK anyway.. I just must know before I sneak on a plane and go tehre... :D