AQA Paper 1 English Language sample practice questions
This useful resource is a sample Section A text and questions in the style of AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1. The resource enables students to practice questions that might potentially appear on Paper 1 to build familiarity and confidence with the format and question type.
The questions take students through a typical Section A experience and help them to focus on language features, sentence forms and writers’ viewpoints ahead of their exams or for revision.
Exploring a section of the novel, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle, students are encouraged to evaluate the writer’s use of language and thematic concerns in line with AQA Paper 1 Section A questions.
There are also model answers included to help guide students to zoom in on relevant details and concepts.
Browse additional resources in the AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 section.
This practice paper focuses on an extract from Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha which can be found in the GCSE English Language Reading resource on the AQA website.
There are two extracts from this text within the booklet: the one accompanying this resource is the second extract, on pp.27–28.
A sample extract from the resource:
- Read again lines 1 to 11 from the first part of the source.
List four things about the bikes from this part of the source.
(4 marks)
- Look in detail at lines 1 to 16, from ‘We charged through on our bikes’ to ‘a second attack’.
How does the writer use language to describe the way the boys played on their bikes?
You could include the writer’s choice of:
- words and phrases
- language features and techniques
- sentence forms.
(8 marks)
- Now you need to think about the whole of the source.
How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader?
You could write about:
- what the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning
- how and why the writer changes their focus as the source develops
- any other structural features that interest you.
(8 marks)
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