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Eduqas/WJEC GCSE English Language
Past Papers
Sample set for new specifications
Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Question Paper includes extract
from The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional /Persuasive Writing
Question Paper includes extracts from The American Frugal Housewife written in 1832 by Lydia M. Child and a newspaper article entitled 'Waste not, Want not'' by John Humphrys
Summer 2017
Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Question Paper
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Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Resource Material
Extract taken from Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Component 2: 19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Question Paper includes extract from American Notes for General Circulation written by Charles Dickens in 1842.
Component 2: 19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Resource Material
Article entitled 'Inside America's Toughest Prison' by Mark Binelli
Autumn 2017
Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Question Paper
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Component 1: 20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Resource Material
Extract taken from Cleopatra's Sister by Penelope Lively
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Question Paper includes extract from The Whaleman's Adventures written by Henry Cheever in 1850.
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Resource Material
Article entitled 'Whales Under Threat Again' by Michael McCarthy in 2006.
Summer 2018
Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Question Paper
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Component 1: 20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Resource Material
Extract taken from Two Stories about Emma by Margaret Atwood
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Question Paper includes extract from a description of the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883 by Pieter Sandrick
Component 2: 19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Resource Material
Article entitled 'Iceland's erupting volcano'' by Tom Robbins.
Autumn 2018
Component 1: 20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Question Paper includes Resource Material
Extract about Samuel Hamilton taken from the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Question Paper includes extract from a biography of Blondin, a famous tightrope walker, entitled Blondin: His Life and Performances by George Banks.
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional/Persuasive Writing
Resource Material
Article entitled 'Nik Wallenda Makes History at Niagara Falls' by Jacob Burnett.
Summer 2019
Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Question Paper
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Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Resource Material
Extract taken from Heavy Weather by Helen Simpson
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Question Paper includes an account of a rescue which appeared in a Victorian magazine called Penny Review.
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Resource Material
Article entitled 'Miners rescued from Chilean mine' by Jeffrey Brown.
Autumn 2019
Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Question Paper
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Component 1:
20th Century Literature Reading and Creative Prose Writing
Resource Material
Extract taken from a story by W. Somerset Maugham
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional / Persuasive Writing
Question Paper includes a page from a Victorian magazine London As It Is.
Component 2:
19th and 21st Century Non-fiction Reading and Transactional/Persuasive Writing
Resource Material
Article entitled 'Is it the end of the road for London's traditional street markets? Meet the last stallholder in Hackney's Kingsland Road market'.