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Functional Skills

Functional Skills provide the fundamental skills that people need in their personal and working lives. Our Functional Skills Tuition Service is friendly and personable, our team will take the time to support you to learn the knowledge and skills you need for everyday life.

By offering tuition at levels 1 and 2, we can support students of all abilities. Once completed, you may wish to study one of our further tuition such as Key Stage 1 English.

English Functional Skills Level 1

Component 1: Speaking, Listening and Communication

The assessment will cover all the level 1 speaking, listening and communication skill standard.

  • Pearson will provide guidance on devising activities to meet the skill standard to centres
  • Learners must complete two activities
  • Learners must achieve all level 1 criteria across the two activities at least once 33.3% of the total qualification

Component 2: Reading

This component is assessed through a 45-minute examination paper, set and marked by Pearson.

  • There will be two texts based on a single context and learners will answer all questions on each text.
  • The total number of marks available is 20. 33.3% of the total qualification

Component 3: Writing

This component is assessed through a 45-minute examination paper, set and marked by Pearson.

  • There will be two writing tasks with contexts and learners will answer both tasks.
  • The total number of marks available is 25. 33.3% of the total qualification

English Functional Skills Level 2

Component 1: Speaking, Listening and Communication

The assessment will cover all the level 2 speaking, listening and communication skill standard.

  • Pearson will provide guidance on devising activities to meet the skill standard to centres.
  • Learners must complete two activities.
  • Learners must achieve all level 2 criteria across the two activities at least once
  • 33.3% of the total qualification

Component 2: Reading

This component is assessed through a 60-minute examination paper, set and marked by Pearson.

  • There will be three texts based on a single context and learners will answer all questions on each text.
  • The total number of marks available is 30
  • 33.3% of the total qualification

Component 3: Writing

This component is assessed through a 60-minute examination paper, set and marked by Pearson.

  • There will be two writing tasks with contexts and learners will answer both tasks.
  • The total number of marks available is 30. 33.3% of the total qualification

Next steps

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