General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams are already under way for 14 to 16-year-olds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They began on Friday, May 12. While various subjects and ...

GCSE students who are allowed to drop subject areas for their English literature exams next summer risk becoming “culturally illiterate”, teachers have warned. Exam regulator Ofqual said on Tuesday ...

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Here you can find AQA past papers for GCSE English literature. Use the links below to download question papers and mark schemes. If you’re unsure whether you need Foundation or Higher papers, consult ...

In the last week, a petition was spread around various social media platforms to change the English literature GCSE from closed book to open book; it currently has 161,291 signatures. This is because, ...

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GCSE exams in 2026 are scheduled to start from the week commencing Monday, 4 May and finish on Friday, 26 June. These are the most up-to-date exam dates set by each exam board, but they might change ...

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David Veal said students were stuck on a school bus thinking their exam had started without them Students were left upset after fearing they would miss a GCSE exam when they were caught up in gridlock ...

More “inclusive and diverse” contemporary stories should be included in the English literature curriculum, author Malorie Blackman has said. Blackman, author of the Noughts And Crosses series, said ...

DESPITE calls from some to scrap Shakespeare from schools, the Bard’s work remains, including with this tough GCSE question. Those who can get this GCSE question about the tragic Scottish play, ...