AQA GCSE English Language past papers
AQA GCSE English Language June 2025 Paper 1
- 8700/1
- Explorations in creative reading and writing
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- 80 marks
Practise this paper's topics
3 new exam questions, 22 minutes, marked as you go. Free, no account.
- Language effects in fiction
- Structure for a named effect
- Retrieval within the lines
What it tested
- Description and narrative40 marks
- Evaluate and compare20 marks
- Language and structure16 marks
- Read closely4 marks
- Q1Retrieval within the lines4 marks
- Q2Language effects in fiction8 marks
- Q3Structure for a named effect8 marks
- Q4Evaluating a statement20 marks
- Q5DescriptionTechnical accuracy: the SPaG trainer40 marks
June 2025 grade boundaries
Marks needed across both papers, out of 160.
- Grade 9119
- Grade 8109
- Grade 7100
- Grade 691
- Grade 582
- Grade 473
- Grade 354
- Grade 235
- Grade 116
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