Cambridge IGCSE (9-1) Art & Design 0989

From 2025, you must submit the work for this syllabus online using Submit for Assessment. We first emailed schools about this change in October 2023. Do not send any hard copy work to Cambridge for marking.

In June, this syllabus is available in Administrative zone 3 and for centres in Oman and UAE. In November, this syllabus is available in Administrative zone 3 only. Check the administrative zones for your school.

We are withdrawing Cambridge IGCSE (9–1) Art & Design (0989) from the November exam series. The last November series for this syllabus will be November 2024.

From 2025, we will only offer this syllabus in the June exam series.

We communicated this change to schools in May 2022.

Please note that if you make an entry for the 9-1 grading scale, it is not then possible to switch to the A*-G grading scale once the entries deadline has passed. If you find that you have accidentally made an entry for the 9-1 syllabus, you must withdraw and re-enter before the entries deadline.

For some subjects, we publish grade descriptions to help understand the level of performance candidates’ grades represent.

We paused the publication of grade descriptions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the temporary changes to the awarding standard in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

As the awarding standard has now returned to the pre-pandemic standard, we are working to produce up-to-date grade descriptions for most of our general qualifications. These will be based on the awarding standards in place from June 2023 onwards.