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GCSE English Language (AQA): written practice

Write your answer as you would in the exam. Within a minute you get a level and a mark, what is working, and what to add to move up a level.

Language analysis: the marshes and the convict (Great Expectations)8 marks · about 12 min
Language Used to Present Scrooge's Cold Character (A Christmas Carol)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure Moving from Scrooge's Nature to Setting (A Christmas Carol)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Scrooge's Isolation and the Gloomy Setting (A Christmas Carol)20 marks · about 25 min
Language Presenting the Man's Brutal Attack on the Child (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)8 marks · about 12 min
Structuring Enfield's Story From Eerie Streets to Twist (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating the Man as Evil and Mysterious (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)20 marks · about 25 min
Language describing the creature's awakening and appearance (Frankenstein)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure of the whole extract: creation to flight (Frankenstein)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Victor's horror and sympathy for the creature (Frankenstein)20 marks · about 25 min
Language Creating the Bleak Marsh Setting and Pip (Great Expectations)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure Moving from Wide Landscape to Sudden Threat (Great Expectations)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Whether the Convict Is Terrifying or Pitiable (Great Expectations)20 marks · about 25 min
Language Showing Mrs Reed's Exclusion of Jane (Jane Eyre)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure of the Whole Extract: Confinement to Escape (Jane Eyre)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Jane's Refuge and Isolation in the Window-Seat (Jane Eyre)20 marks · about 25 min
Mrs Bennet's excited report about the new tenant (Pride and Prejudice)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure: from universal truth to domestic dialogue (Pride and Prejudice)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating who controls the Bennets' conversation (Pride and Prejudice)20 marks · about 25 min
Language Describing Holmes's Ritual of Injecting the Drug (The Sign of the Four)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure From Silent Ritual to Open Confrontation (The Sign of the Four)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Watson's Friendship and Holmes's Distance (The Sign of the Four)20 marks · about 25 min
Language Presenting Humanity as Unknowingly Watched and Studied (The War of the Worlds)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure Shifting from Human Complacency to Martian Threat (The War of the Worlds)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating How Scientific Detail Makes the Threat Believable (The War of the Worlds)20 marks · about 25 min
Language Used to Describe Count Dracula's First Appearance (Dracula)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure of Harker's Arrival and Journey Inside (Dracula)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating the Count as Welcoming Host or Captor (Dracula)20 marks · about 25 min
The Merging Sky at Maximum Velocity (The Time Machine)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure of an Unconveyable Experience (The Time Machine)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Loss of Control in the Second Half (The Time Machine)20 marks · about 25 min
Language Describing the Grandeur of Judge Miller's Estate (The Call of the Wild)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure From Gold Rush Warning to Buck's Reign (The Call of the Wild)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Buck as Powerful Ruler Facing Change (The Call of the Wild)20 marks · about 25 min
Language of the narrator's terrifying encounter at the window (Wuthering Heights)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure moving from dream-horror back to waking reality (Wuthering Heights)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating pity versus horror in the ghost scene (Wuthering Heights)20 marks · about 25 min
Language of shock at Mortimer's hound revelation (The Hound of the Baskervilles)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure: from dramatic revelation to forensic interrogation (The Hound of the Baskervilles)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating Holmes's cold logic against the hound (The Hound of the Baskervilles)20 marks · about 25 min
Language describing the captain's arrival at the inn (Treasure Island)8 marks · about 12 min
Structure: from arrival to an unanswered mystery (Treasure Island)8 marks · about 12 min
Evaluating the captain as commanding and threatening (Treasure Island)20 marks · about 25 min
AQA Paper 2, Question 3 style: Dickens on solitary confinement (American Notes)12 marks · about 15 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 3 style: Language (12 marks, AO2) (Travels in West Africa)12 marks · about 15 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 3 style (12 marks, AO2) (Notes on Nursing)12 marks · about 15 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 3 style (12 marks, AO2) (The Voyage of the Beagle)12 marks · about 15 min
AQA Paper 2, Question 3 (12 marks, AO2) (The People of the Abyss)12 marks · about 15 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 3 style (12 marks, AO2) (A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains)12 marks · about 15 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 3 style: the sleeping town and its awakening (12 marks, AO2) (Life on the Mississippi)12 marks · about 15 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 4: Comparing perspectives on hidden suffering (comparison)16 marks · about 20 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 4: Comparing perspectives on travelling through unfamiliar landscapes (comparison)16 marks · about 20 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 4: Comparing perspectives on dramatic events that disrupt everyday life (16 marks, AO3) (comparison)16 marks · about 20 min
AQA Paper 2 Question 4: Hidden harm inside institutions (comparison)16 marks · about 20 min
Description: The night market packing up40 marks · about 45 min
Description: A seaside town the morning after a storm40 marks · about 45 min
Story opening: A lift that stops between floors40 marks · about 45 min
Story: A letter that was never sent40 marks · about 45 min
Viewpoint article: The future of town centres40 marks · about 45 min
Viewpoint speech: Switching off the algorithm40 marks · about 45 min
Viewpoint letter: Limiting tourists40 marks · about 45 min
Viewpoint leaflet: Pet ownership as a privilege40 marks · about 45 min