Practice paper for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 (non-fiction and transactional writing). All questions included, texts on the theme of civil war. Based on the new specification.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from November 2021 (Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2017 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen texts. Questions 1-4 only for extracts from ‘The Other Side of the Dale’ and ‘The Ragged School’.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya and Don’t dread downsizing! By Libby Purves). Three model answers each for questions 3, 6, 7a and 7b for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Written to meet the mark scheme as well as examiner’s report for that year. Notes are included to show where and how requirements are met. Intended as an adaptable teacher’s tool to aid demonstration of models for the Language non-fiction exam. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 June 2018 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the extract from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2020 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen texts. Questions 1-4 only for extracts from ‘Touching the Void’ and ‘Climbing the Meije’.

Model answers for OCR GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2017 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the extracts from John Buchan’s ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2017 (with 2019 question updates) with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen texts. Questions 1-7 only for extracts from ‘Return to Earth’ and space:uk magazine

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from November 2020 (The Silk Factory by Judith Allnatt). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 from June 2017 (The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins). Three model answers each for questions 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Written to meet the mark scheme as well as examiner’s report for that year. Notes are included to show where and how requirements are met. Intended as an adaptable teacher’s tool to aid demonstration of models for the Language fiction exam. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 June 2018 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen texts. Questions 1-7 only for extracts from the obituary of Little Milton and ‘Really the Blues’

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 from November 2018 (Letter from E.B, White and The Pregnancy Book by the Department of Health). Three model answers each for questions 3, 6 and 7(b) for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the mark scheme was met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from November 2019 Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Questions 1-4 only for extracts from ‘Shooting an Elephant’ and ‘Wild Animals in Captivity’. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2019 (Extract from The Crossing by James Cracknell and Ben Fogle and Idle Days in Patagonia by WH Hudson). Three model answers each for questions 2-4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the mark scheme was met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 November 2017 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the extract from George Eliot’s ‘Mill on the Floss’.

Practice paper for Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 1 (Fiction and Imaginative Writing). All questions and based on new specification. Text is an HG Wells' short story.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from November 2018 (A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a good answer at each level looks like, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the different bands of the mark scheme were met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.

Model answers for OCR GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee and A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Written to meet the mark scheme as well as examiner’s report for that year. Notes are included to show where and how requirements are met. Intended as an adaptable teacher’s tool to aid demonstration of models for the Language fiction exam. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

Model answers for OCR GCSE English Language Paper 2 November 2017 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the extracts from ‘Trafalgar: An Eyewitness History’ and ‘Band of Sisters’ by Kirsten Holmstedt

Model answers for OCR GCSE English Language Paper 1 from November 2018 (A Living Wage for Factory Girls at Crewe by Ada Nield Chew and The Secret Life of a Fast-Food Worker). Three model answers each for questions 2, 3 and 4 for the purpose of showing what a full mark answers looks like, as well as one and two levels below, roughly equivalent to a level 9, 7 and 5. Notes are included to show where and how the mark scheme was met. Intended to be used for teachers and students to see how to improve. For example, a level 5 answer will be useful for a student currently working at level 3 or level 4. Please provide feedback on how you’ve used the resource and anything that could be added to make it more useful.