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GCSE English Language (Edexcel): 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.

Scrooge Presented as Colder Than the Weather (A Christmas Carol)6 marks · about 10 min
Creating a Vivid Cold, Unfeeling Character (A Christmas Carol)15 marks · about 22 min
Showing the Man's Effect on Those Around Him (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating Mystery and Unease Throughout the Extract (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde)15 marks · about 22 min
Language and structure showing Victor's terror (Frankenstein)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating the creation of horror across the extract (Frankenstein)15 marks · about 22 min
Language and Structure Presenting the Man as Frightening (Great Expectations)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating the Creation of Threat and Vulnerability (Great Expectations)15 marks · about 22 min
Language and Structure Showing Jane's Unhappiness at Gateshead (Jane Eyre)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating How the Writer Creates Sympathy for Jane (Jane Eyre)15 marks · about 22 min
Society's attitude to a wealthy single man (Pride and Prejudice)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating humour in the Bennets' first conversation (Pride and Prejudice)15 marks · about 22 min
Watson's Frustration and Hesitation Over Holmes's Habit (The Sign of the Four)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating the Contrast Between Holmes and Watson (The Sign of the Four)15 marks · about 22 min
Language and Structure Showing Human Vanity and Blindness (The War of the Worlds)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating the Creation of Unease and Approaching Danger (The War of the Worlds)15 marks · about 22 min
Power and Politeness Between Harker and Count (Dracula)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating Mystery and Unease in Castle Dracula (Dracula)15 marks · about 22 min
Language of a World in Dissolution (The Time Machine)6 marks · about 10 min
Conveying the Disorientation of Time Travel (The Time Machine)15 marks · about 22 min
Language and Structure Foreshadowing Trouble in Opening (The Call of the Wild)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating Presentation of Buck's Privileged, Contented Life (The Call of the Wild)15 marks · about 22 min
Language and structure revealing the narrator's panicked fear (Wuthering Heights)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating terror created by blurring nightmare and reality (Wuthering Heights)15 marks · about 22 min
Holmes's urgent questioning of Dr Mortimer (The Hound of the Baskervilles)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating how suspense builds around the mystery (The Hound of the Baskervilles)15 marks · about 22 min
Language and structure showing the captain's dominance (Treasure Island)6 marks · about 10 min
Evaluating how memorably the stranger is presented (Treasure Island)15 marks · about 22 min
Edexcel Paper 2, Question 3 style: language and structure in American Notes (American Notes)15 marks · about 20 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 3 style: Language and structure (15 marks, AO2) (Travels in West Africa)15 marks · about 20 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 3 style (15 marks, AO2) (Notes on Nursing)15 marks · about 20 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 3 style (15 marks, AO2) (The Voyage of the Beagle)15 marks · about 20 min
Edexcel Paper 2, Question 3 (15 marks, AO2) (The People of the Abyss)15 marks · about 20 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 3 style (15 marks, AO2) (A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains)15 marks · about 20 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 3 style: language and structure across the whole extract (15 marks, AO2) (Life on the Mississippi)15 marks · about 20 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 7(b): Comparing how the writers present places society ignores (comparison)14 marks · about 18 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 7(b): Comparing presentations of the experience of travel (comparison)14 marks · about 18 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 7b: Comparing how writers present the effect of a sudden event on a community (14 marks, AO3) (comparison)14 marks · about 18 min
Edexcel Paper 2 Question 7(b): The treatment of the sick and the imprisoned (comparison)14 marks · about 18 min
Guide: Surviving your first part-time job40 marks · about 45 min
Review: An experience worth having (or avoiding)40 marks · about 45 min