past papers · AQA English Literature
English Literature Paper 1 — June 2025
- Board
- AQA
- Specification
- English Literature 8702
- Series
- June 2025
- Paper
- Paper 1 · Shakespeare and the 19th-century novel
- Marks
- 64
- Time
- 105 minutes
- Mark scheme
- released
the board's copy
open on www.aqa.org.uk ↗
On AQA's finder choose English Literature (8702), June 2025, Paper 1.
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use it as a mock
- 1. Get the paper. Open it on www.aqa.org.uk, print it or work it in your exercise book, and set a timer for 105 minutes.
- 2. Mark it honestly. Open the mark scheme afterwards, not during. Write the marks per part in the margin and add them up.
- 3. Sort the lost marks. Not by topic, by what you did on the page: a rearrangement done in your head, an “explain” answered with the conclusion only, a graph described without numbers. The habit that fixes a bucket fixes it in every topic.
Weak spots from the paper? The AQA English Literature page has source-linked decks and practice questions by topic.