June 2025
Birds of prey
[Peregrine falcons and the countryside]
YOUR NEXT PAPER, WITHOUT THE HUNT.
AQA GCSE English Language
Paper 2 — Writers’ viewpoints and perspectives
8700/2 · 1 hour 45 minutes · 80 marks · 50% of GCSE
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November 2024
Egypt
[Tutankhamun and travel in Egypt]
June 2024
Medical work
[Adam Kay and Mary Seacole]
November 2023
Nature and wellbeing
[How nature helps people]
Question paper unavailable.
June 2023
Train journeys
[Peter Fleming and Fanny Kemble]
November 2022
Sleeplessness
[Two accounts of insomnia]
June 2022
Camping holidays
[France and the wilderness]
November 2021
Entertainment
[Cinema and sweet-making]
June 2020
Climbing
[Joe Simpson and Gertrude Bell]
November 2019
Elephants
[Orwell and Jumbo]
Reading extract redacted.
June 2019
Danger on the water
[Atlantic rowing and Patagonia]
November 2018
Cycling
[Road safety and riding in London]
June 2018
Surfing
[Mike Doyle and Isabella Bird]
November 2017
Schools
[School inspector and ragged school]
Reading extract redacted.
June 2017
Parenthood
[Babies and lost children]
Specimen
Homework
[A father and nineteenth-century letters]