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AQA English Language GCSE examination guides

This section contains guides for the AQA English Language GCSE questions. The short answer question guides provide a recommended structure for each answer, plus some steps to take when planning and writing. The guides to creative writing questions provide links to the relevant guides elsewhere on the site.

NOTE FOR YEAR 10: On 30th January 2025 AQA announced that they are making changes to the English Language GCSE questions for 2026. This means they will affect current Year 10 students, but NOT current Year 11 students. You can read more about these changes on this page from AQA. As a result, our guidance for certain questions will be changing slightly. However, we will only make these changes once we have a clearer idea of exactly what AQA are looking for. We will add a note (like this one) to each guide that we update for 2026, with clear information about what has changed. We will also communicate this through your English teacher.