Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 specimen assessment material 1 (Jamaica Inn). Models for questions 1-4 with annotations showing how to practically interpret the mark scheme.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 June 2018 with tips and notes, based on the examiner’s report, providing knowledge of how students can do consistently meet the mark scheme at a high level when dealing with an unseen text. Questions 1-4 only for the edited extract of Joanne Harris’ short story from ‘Jigs and Reels’, known as Mr. Fisher.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 from June 2017 (The Tiredness of Roasbel by Katherine Mansfield). 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.

Model answers for questions 1-4 written to meet AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 requirements, responding to Specimen Material 3 - Claire Dean's 'Glass, Brick and Dust'. Adapt as needed.

Model answers for AQA 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 1-4 only for extracts from ‘Morning Glass’ and ‘The Hawaiian Archipelago’.

Model answers for AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from June 2017 (How can my son be a year old already? From The Guardian and Boy Lost from a Victorian newspaper). 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 AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 from November 2018 (‘All cyclists fear bad drivers’ From The Guardian and ‘On a Bicycle in the Streets of London’ from a Victorian magazine). 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 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 resource and anything that could be added to make more useful.

This is a set of model answers for questions 1-4 of specimen assessment material one for AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2 (Jay Rayner and Henry’s letter) with tips and advice relating to how to meet the mark scheme requirements.

Model answers for AQA 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 opening of Kate Mosse’s novel ‘Labyrinth’.

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.

Practice paper for OCR English Language GCSE new specification. This is for Paper 1, non-fiction, and contains all questions and is modelled after the exam board. Sources are an article by Charles Dickens and another from The Guardian on the subject of school and childhood achievement.

A full OCR English Language Paper 1 exam, questions 1-6, featuring texts from Emma Watson and Florence Nightingale on the theme of feminism.

All questions in the style of OCR GCSE English Language Paper 2. Texts include Prince Charles biography and Louisa May Alcott's 'Old Fashioned Girl' on the theme of being a newcomer.

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’.

Featuring two texts on sailing adventures, one non-fiction and one fiction following OCR guidance. Full paper/all questions based on OCR criteria.

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 and tips for Edexcel English Language GCSE Paper 1. Full answers for questions 1-4 with notes on how they match the mark schemes and examiner’s guidance. This matches up with Edexcel’s publicly available first sample assesment material for The Tell Tale Heart, for the new 9-1 GCSE.

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’.

Revision presentation with tips and requirements for each question on the OCR English Language Paper 1. Not in depth, just an overview.

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’