GCSE English Language and English Literature
A comprehensive resource for teaching, assessment and CPD. Hundreds of real AQA questions and mark schemes with a wide range of exemplification.
Why Exampro is ideal for English teachers
- Ready for 2026! All English Language questions and mark schemes have been updated by AQA examiners to align with the changes to exams for summer 2026.
- Save time – find and repurpose questions, mark schemes and exemplars for classroom, homework and standardisation of marking.
- Trusted resources – all the content comes from AQA including examiner comments.
- Find what you need with ease – filter by topic/source, question number and level of response.
- Quick links to extracts and sources.
- Create documents quickly – to print, for whiteboard and easy sharing.
It is the best resource I have to demonstrate and be able to break down for my pupils how marks get awarded in English. In a sense, it demystifies what can sometimes feel a little ambiguous in terms of marking English work.
What’s included?
Question
Banks
Exemplar
Banks
Annotated
Exemplars
Mock Analysis and
Reporting
Question banks
Quickly access hundreds of questions, mark schemes and examiner comments to create tasks and deepen understanding.
Save time
Find exactly what you need with our search tool. Search all the questions relating to a particular source or topic. For Language, search by question number too.
Build assessments instantly
Drag and drop questions to build your assessment with everything you need, all in one place. Include mark schemes and examiner comments if you wish.
Share easily
Export to PDF/Word (to edit) or share a weblink with colleagues or students.
Exemplar banks
Focus on student responses to exemplify the levels, help students progress and support marking consistency within your department. Find out more.
Search smarter
Explore and review responses at a particular level, generally or specific to a particular source or topic. For Language, search by question number too.
Create documents quickly
Simply drag and drop exemplars to create focused resources to support teaching, learning, and marking.
Simple to share
Export to PDF, view on the whiteboard for teaching or share a weblink with colleagues or students.
Highlights – Annotated Exemplars
Have you ever wanted to find good examples of a Level 3 response? Or any other level? Or a range of responses to a given question? Explore hundreds of annotated student responses to GCSE English Language and Literature questions.
Discover how AQA questions are marked with examples of real responses and explanations of why these answers received – or lost – marks.
Exampro is useful for finding a range of exemplar answers and past papers. The ability to quickly locate what each level/mark looks like has saved me time in my planning and improved my knowledge of assessment.
Help students understand success and build exam confidence
Show students exactly what great work looks like. With hundreds of annotated exemplars across AQA GCSE English Language and Literature, Exampro gives you real responses at every level: from foundational answers to top-tier examples.
Use scripts, annotated by examiners, to highlight what earns marks and what loses them. Help learners clearly see the difference between ‘nearly there’ and ‘top tier’.
Whether you’re running targeted interventions or preparing whole cohorts for exams, our suite of exemplars can help your students understand expectations and walk into their exams with real confidence.
Perfect for CPD: Targeted, ready-to-use exemplars
Make CPD and standardisation clearer and more consistent. With Highlights, you can see and share levelled responses to complete past papers and SAMs, alongside explanations and exemplification of how the mark scheme has been applied.
Ideal for departmental meetings, training new members of staff, or aligning expectations, this suite of interactive exemplars gives teachers clear, reliable reference points:
- View responses to specific question types over time or from a range of sources
- Evaluate the consistency of marking across your department
- Use examiner commentary to inform teaching and learning
MERiT – English Mock Reports
Be ready for 2026 with reports on GCSE English Language: Specimen papers Sets 1, 2 and 3 (first exam 2026); for GCSE English Literature: 2025 papers.
Make the most of your students’ AQA English assessments.
- Meaningful reports
Gain detailed insights into your students’ strengths and weaknesses. - Population comparison
Understand how your students compare with others who took the same tests at a similar time*. - Flexible data
View, print and share reports with students, parents and colleagues. Export reports for further analysis.
*This information will be available as soon as enough marks have been entered.
What’s included?
- GCSE English Language (8700)
- GCSE English Language Exemplars
- GCSE English Literature (8702)
- GCSE English Literature Exemplars
- GCSE English Highlights (8700 8702)
- MERiT English
Content:
- Hundreds of questions, mark schemes and examiners’ reports selected from past GCSE Language and Literature questions and specimen papers
- Hundreds of unannotated and interactive marked and annotated exemplars and examiner commentaries
- Mapped to the current specifications – with English Language content updated for changes to exams for summer 2026
- Reporting tool for GCSE English
- Marking grids for: GCSE English Literature: 2024 and 2025 plus SAMs 1 (first exam 2025); GCSE English Language: SAMs 1, 2 and 3 (first exam 2026) plus Additional Papers Sets 1-2
Search by:
- Topic or Source
- Type
- Level of response
- Question …and more
- GCSE English Language (8700)
- GCSE English Language Exemplars
Content:
- Over 180 questions, mark schemes and examiners’ reports
- Over 850 annotated student responses with examiner commentary
- Hundreds of unannotated student responses, searchable by level of response, Levels 1-4
- Responses linked to question, source and mark scheme
- Selected from 2017-2024 exams, SAMs 1-3, new SAMs 1 (first exam 2026) + Additional Papers Sets 1-2
- All questions and mark schemes updated to align with changes to exams for summer 2026
Search by:
- Source
- Type
- Level of response
- Question …and more
- GCSE English Literature (8702)
- GCSE English Literature Exemplars
Content:
- Over 350 questions, mark schemes and examiners’ reports
- Over 550 annotated student responses with examiner commentary
- Hundreds of unannotated student responses, searchable by level of response, Levels 1-6
- Responses linked to question, extract or poem text (where needed) and mark scheme
- Mapped to the current specification
- Selected from 2017-2024 exam papers, SAMs 1 and new SAMs 1 (first exam 2025, paper 2)
Search by:
- Topic
- Type
- Level of response …and more
- GCSE English Highlights (8700 8702)
Hundreds of interactive marked and annotated responses to questions from Language and Literature papers.
English Language (8700):
- Standardisation materials (including June 2025)
- New SAMs 1, 2 and 3 (first exam 2026)
- Additional Papers Sets 1 and 2
- SAMs 1 and 2
- Questions and mark schemes updated for Summer 2026 assessments
English Literature (8702):
- Standardisation materials (including 2025)
- Paper 2 SAMs (first exam 2025)
- Additional material for lesser-used texts (2024)
- SAMs 1
- Reporting tool for GCSE English
Marking grids for:
- GCSE English Literature: 2024 and 2025 papers plus SAMs 1 (first exam 2025)
- GCSE English Language: SAMs 1, 2 and 3 (first exam 2026) plus Additional Papers Sets 1 and 2
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An excellent resource to help students identify how they could apply each AO in their own writing, it allows them to see examples of well written responses and have a go at improving those that didn’t score so well. It has been a game changer in my practice.
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