GCSE English Language

English Language Course overview

GCSE English Language

English Language Specification

The English Language course develops your reading and writing skills.

English Language Course content

Your ability to retrieve information from a range of different texts:

Your ability to comment on the overall structure of a text
Your ability to analyse a writer’s use of language
Your ability to compare the content of two different texts
The overall structure of your writing; how well you can plan and paragraph
Your ability to use different types of sentences
The breadth of your vocabulary
Your accuracy with spelling and grammar

English Language Exam board and Exam Structure

Paper

Content

Marks

Exam board

Paper 1

There are two papers which ask you to look at different types of text. Read and comment on an extract of fiction and write a piece of descriptive or narrative writing.

Read and comment on an extract from non-fiction text and write to present your viewpoint on a topic.

Written exam: 1 hr 45 mins

80 marks - 50%

Eduqas

Paper 2

Non-Fiction Texts - What's assessed?

Section A: Reading one non-fiction text and one literary non-fiction text (19th Century)

Section B: Writing to present a view point

80 marks - 50%