Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese Paper 1h 2025 Mark Scheme

Download the official Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese (9–1) Paper 1: Listening and Understanding in Chinese Higher Tier mark scheme for the Summer 2025 examination series (1CN0/1H). This examiner-approved PDF contains complete listening answers, accepted alternative responses, detailed transcripts, and official Pearson marking guidance used during the June 2025 GCSE Chinese examinations.

The mark scheme provides full answers for every Higher Tier listening question, including multiple-choice tasks, short-answer comprehension questions, inference-based listening activities, and opinion-based spoken extracts. Students can analyse exactly how Pearson Edexcel examiners award marks for listening accuracy, contextual understanding, vocabulary recognition, and interpretation of spoken Mandarin Chinese.

Topics covered in the examination include Shanghai winter-sports attractions, Beijing taxi drivers, healthcare volunteering in rural China, opinions about learning Chinese, hotel bookings, tourism, travel planning, environmental awareness, school trips, childhood career ambitions, journalism, performing arts, and crowdfunding support for disadvantaged families. The mark scheme includes examiner-approved answers and accepted alternative responses for all tasks.

Students can study detailed listening extracts involving practical GCSE Chinese scenarios such as indoor skiing in Shanghai after the Olympics, a Beijing taxi driver improving her English through foreign passengers, successful dessert businesses in China, environmentally friendly public parks in Guangzhou, travel planning discussions, and conversations about career dreams including becoming a pilot, veterinarian, journalist, and performer.

The document also contains complete Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese transcripts for every listening recording used in the live Summer 2025 examination. These transcripts help students improve pronunciation recognition, comprehension speed, contextual vocabulary understanding, and listening confidence using authentic spoken Chinese.

Question 9 and Question 10 provide advanced Higher Tier inference practice involving environmental concerns, equal pay for women, childhood ambitions, university experiences, poverty, illness, crowdfunding, and social-media support. Students can study how Pearson accepts alternative valid answers while assessing deeper comprehension and implied meaning in spoken Chinese.

The mark scheme also explains Pearson’s official positive-marking principles, including accepted alternative wording, rejected responses, and how marks are awarded for successful communication rather than exact wording alone.

Ideal for revision, self-assessment, mock exam marking, classroom listening practice, intervention sessions, transcript study, and preparation for future GCSE Chinese examinations, this downloadable PDF provides authentic examiner guidance and realistic examples of high-scoring Higher Tier listening responses.

This document is designed for Year 10 and Year 11 students studying Pearson Edexcel GCSE Chinese (9–1) Higher Tier, including students preparing for the 2026 examinations, independent learners, heritage speakers, home-educated candidates, and students aiming for grades 7–9 in GCSE Chinese listening comprehension.

It is also highly valuable for Chinese language teachers, tutors, revision centres, intervention coordinators, and parents who require authentic examiner guidance, listening transcripts, accepted answers, and official Pearson assessment standards for Higher Tier GCSE Chinese revision.