The exams watchdog has announced sweeping cuts to GCSE coursework as part of the Government's drive to stamp out cheating in schools.
Traditional coursework will be axed in business studies, classical subjects, economics, English literature, geography, history, modern foreign languages, religious studies and social sciences.
The QCA said final decisions on English and information technology would be made later when further reforms are finalised.
Maths will lose its coursework element from 2007 while other changes will be introduced in September 2009.
Instead, there will be more external exams and controlled assessments carried out in the classroom under strict supervision, the QCA said.
But coursework will continue in art, music, design and technology, PE and home economics.
The details followed an announcement last week from Education Secretary Alan Johnson that coursework would be cut from GCSE maths.
Ministers ordered the QCA to review the role of coursework in GCSEs after the watchdog highlighted growing problems with pupils copying work from the internet or getting too much help with essays from their parents and teachers.
Mr Johnson said: "Despite our rigorous system, more needs to be done to assure all parents that coursework assesses pupils' work in a fair and robust way. That is why we asked the QCA to examine the position of coursework within GCSEs.
"The changes that they have outlined today will toughen up the way in which coursework is assessed so that the hard work of the vast majority of students is not undermined by questions of validity."
