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Pearson Edexcel GCSE Non-fiction and Transactional Writing: Reading practice papers

The Pearson Edexcel English Language GCSE is comprised of two papers. Paper 1 asks students to analyse an extract from a 19th century fiction text and then produce a piece of imaginative writing. This paper is worth 40% of the GCSE overall and has time-limit of one hour and 45 minutes. Paper 2 is worth 60% and has a time-limit of two hours and five minutes. It focuses on two thematically-linked non-fiction texts from the 20th/21st century and produce a piece of non-fiction (transactional) writing. All texts in this exam are unseen. There is also an internally assessed speaking and listening component which is unweighted.

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Content of Writing for Audience, Impact and Purpose (OCR)

Content of Writing Imaginatively and Creatively (OCR)

Our English Language Writing GCSE revision resources and practice papers are designed to help your child become their best future self by giving them the tools they need to succeed in their GCSEs. All exam-style questions and practice papers are tailored to exam boards and cover all topics in AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqasspecifications; 



  • Producing clear and coherent text: writing to describe

  • Producing clear and coherent text: writing to narrate

  • Producing clear and coherent text: writing to explain

  • Producing clear and coherent text: writing to instruct

  • Producing clear and coherent text: writing to give and respond to information

  • Producing clear and coherent text: writing to argue

  • Producing clear and coherent text: selecting vocabulary, grammar, form, and structural and organisational features to reflect audience, purpose and context

  • Producing clear and coherent text: using language imaginatively and creatively

  • Producing clear and coherent text: using information provided by others to write in different forms

  • Producing clear and coherent text: maintaining a consistent point of view

  • Producing clear and coherent text: maintaining coherence and consistency across a text

  • Writing for impact: selecting, organising and emphasising facts, ideas and key points

  • Writing for impact: citing evidence and quotation effectively and pertinently to support views

  • Writing for impact: creating emotional impact

  • Writing for impact: using language creatively, imaginatively and persuasively, including rhetorical devices (such as rhetorical questions, antithesis, parenthesis)

 

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To help you support your child best, all our resources are aligned to exam boards AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas. We also focus on progressive leveling, starting at an introductory level and working up to exam-style questions and practice papers - all available at your fingertips in the EdPlace app.

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