AQA GCSE French Writing Paper 2025 Higher Pdf

Download the official AQA GCSE French Higher Tier Writing Paper for the June 2025 examination series (8658/WH). This authentic AQA GCSE French Paper 4 Writing exam was sat on Thursday 5 June 2025 and contains the complete Higher Tier writing assessment used in the live examination.
The paper contains advanced GCSE French writing tasks designed to assess grammar accuracy, translation ability, justified opinions, tense control, vocabulary range, and extended written communication. Students complete three questions featuring structured 90-word tasks, longer 150-word essays, and translation into French using authentic Higher Tier exam-style prompts.

Question 1 offers students a choice between two 90-word writing tasks. Topics include school holidays, holiday preferences, meals during holidays, activities completed in the past, future holiday plans, friendships, free-time activities at home, recent excursions, and future leisure plans. Students are expected to use multiple tenses, varied opinions, and developed answers to access the highest marks.

Question 2 contains a choice of two extended 150-word essays. One task focuses on friendship and how schools help other people, while the second asks students to describe their region for tourists and explain what they would do if they won a €100 competition prize. These tasks assess complex structures, detailed opinions, reasons, justified arguments, and extended written communication at Higher Tier level.

The final section includes an official Higher Tier translation passage into French about family life, housing, marriage, birthdays, jobs, and financial situations. Students are tested on advanced GCSE grammar including future tense, perfect tense, negatives, possessive structures, connectives, infinitive constructions, and time expressions.

This PDF is ideal for GCSE French revision, mock examinations, classroom assessment, tutor-led learning, independent study, homework practice, and Higher Tier exam preparation for the 2025–2026 academic year. Teachers and tutors can also use the paper to train students in timing, planning, structure, and examiner expectations using real 2025 AQA materials.

This document is designed for GCSE French students studying the AQA 8658 specification at Higher Tier who want authentic writing practice using a real 2025 exam paper. It is especially useful for Year 10 and Year 11 students aiming for grades 7–9 and preparing for advanced GCSE French writing, translation, and extended-response tasks.

The paper is also valuable for French teachers, tutors, revision-course providers, homeschooling families, and schools looking for realistic Higher Tier mock-writing assessments and official AQA-style exam practice materials.