All the essays below were written by SHSG students in the actual GCSE exam and received a grade 9. They are included here to help you see the different essay writing skills in action in an authentic way. They are not intended to be used as revision for the content of the texts. Please don’t assume that everything written in these essays is necessarily exactly right — they were written in an exam by an actual teenager; they are not literary criticism. But they will help you see how to write essays to meet the AQA marking criteria.
