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EngPrep · GCSE English · AQA 8700 and 8702 · Grades 9–1Knowledge organisers, exam packs, plot timelines and free quizzes for AQA GCSE English Language and English Literature. The Language resources follow the question changes AQA made from June 2026, and every quotation from a set text is checked against the text.
Artists have been painting these texts for centuries. Each picture links to its unit.
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1843Image credits: Martin Droeshout, First Folio (1623); Henry Fuseli, Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers (exhibited 1812), Tate; Ford Madox Brown, Romeo and Juliet (1870), Delaware Art Museum; John Leech, Marley’s Ghost (1843). All Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
English Language and English Literature are separate GCSEs. Spoken Language is reported separately and does not count towards the Language grade.
One fiction extract, four reading questions and one piece of creative writing. Updated for the question changes AQA made from June 2026: multiple-choice Question 1, a single named effect in Question 3, and a story opening in Question 5.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each section of the paper.
PreviewA practice source with a model answer for every question.
PreviewEach part ends with an exam-style task and a plan.
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Two non-fiction sources, one from the 19th century, four reading questions and a piece of viewpoint writing. Updated for AQA’s 2026 wording, including the new inference question.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each section of the paper.
PreviewTwo sources with a model answer for every question.
PreviewEach part ends with an exam-style task and a plan.
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The most popular Shakespeare play at GCSE. Plot, characters, themes and Jacobean context, with quotations checked against the text and a full Level 6 model essay.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to answer the extract question, step by step.
PreviewThe whole play at a glance, then three swimlane timelines.
Organisers, exam pack and plot timeline together. Worth £12.97 bought separately.
The most popular 19th-century novel at GCSE. Plot, characters, themes and Victorian context, with quotations checked against the 1843 text and a full Level 6 model essay.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to answer the extract question, step by step.
PreviewThe whole novella at a glance, then three swimlane timelines.
Organisers, exam pack and plot timeline together. Worth £12.97 bought separately.
Shakespeare’s tragedy of love and hate. Plot, characters, themes and Elizabethan context, with quotations checked against the text and a full Level 6 model essay.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to answer the extract question, step by step.
PreviewThe whole play at a glance, then three swimlane timelines.
Organisers, exam pack and plot timeline together. Worth £12.97 bought separately.
Stevenson’s Victorian tale of duality. Plot, characters, themes and context, with quotations checked against the 1886 text and a full Level 6 model essay.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to answer the extract question, step by step.
PreviewThe whole novella at a glance, then three swimlane timelines.
Organisers, exam pack and plot timeline together. Worth £12.97 bought separately.
Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery of treasure, empire and love. Plot, characters, themes and context, with quotations checked against the 1890 text and a full Level 6 model essay.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to answer the extract question, step by step.
PreviewThe whole novel at a glance, then three swimlane timelines.
Organisers, exam pack and plot timeline together. Worth £12.97 bought separately.
Mary Shelley’s Gothic tale of ambition, creation and revenge. Plot, characters, themes and context, with every quotation checked against both the 1818 and 1831 texts and a full Level 6 model essay.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each part of your revision.
PreviewHow to answer the extract question, step by step.
PreviewThe whole novel at a glance, then three swimlane timelines.
Organisers, exam pack and plot timeline together. Worth £12.97 bought separately.
Two poems you have never seen: a 24-mark question on one, then an 8-mark comparison. Every school sits it, whatever texts it studies. Six real poems by Hardy, Dickinson, Owen, Brooke, Yeats and Edward Thomas, checked word for word against the original editions.
PreviewA two-page organiser for each skill.
PreviewThree pairs of real poems, with model answers.
PreviewEach part ends with an exam-style task and a plan.
The organisers and the exam pack together. Worth £9.98 bought separately.
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Content follows the AQA GCSE English Language (8700) and English Literature (8702) specifications, and AQA’s updated Language question wording for exams from June 2026. Always check the current specification. Not produced or endorsed by AQA.