June 2025
Poor Pretty Bobby · Rhoda Broughton
[Bobby returns from the war]
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YOUR NEXT PAPER, WITHOUT THE HUNT.
Edexcel GCSE English Language
Paper 1 — Fiction and Imaginative Writing
1EN0/01 · 1 hour 45 minutes · 64 marks · 40% of GCSE
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November 2024
The Monster · Stephen Crane
[Henry rescues Jimmie from the fire]
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June 2024
The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell
[Hester, Rosamond & ghost child]
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November 2023
Was it an Illusion? · Amelia B. Edwards
[Lost on the way to Pit End]
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June 2023
The Dream Woman · Wilkie Collins
[Percy and his wife at the inn]
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November 2022
A Study in Scarlet · Arthur Conan Doyle
[Man & child in the desert]
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June 2022
Oliver Twist · Charles Dickens
[Oliver forced into a burglary]
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November 2021
Lady Audley’s Secret · Mary Elizabeth Braddon
[Lucy & Sir Michael’s proposal]
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June 2020
Dracula · Bram Stoker
[Prisoner in Dracula’s castle]
November 2019
North and South · Elizabeth Gaskell
[Margaret, Thornton & angry workers]
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June 2019
Dombey and Son · Charles Dickens
[Florence runs away]
November 2018
The Time Machine · H. G. Wells
[Arrival in a strange future]
June 2018
Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[Escape after the murders]
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November 2017
The Mill on the Floss · George Eliot
[Maggie & Tom in the flood]
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June 2017
The Woman in White · Wilkie Collins
[Stranger at the crossroads]
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Specimen 1
Little Women · Louisa May Alcott
[Jo’s disastrous dinner]
Specimen 2
The Mortal Immortal · Mary Shelley
[Cornelius & the magic potion]
Specimen
The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe
[Hidden body & visiting police]