Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature 2025 Paper 1 Qp

Get the official Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature Paper 1: Drama question paper from the June 2025 exam series (9ET0/01). This examiner-authored PDF contains the complete live assessment used for the 2025 A-Level qualification, including Section A Shakespeare essay questions and Section B modern and classical drama essay tasks across all prescribed texts. The paper preserves the original exam formatting, timings, mark allocations, and prescribed-text references exactly as issued in the live examination.

Section A includes Shakespeare questions on Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night, covering themes such as power, masculinity, manipulation, irony, comedy, deception, and social order. Section B features drama essay questions on Les Blancs, Doctor Faustus, The Duchess of Malfi, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Rover, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweat, and Waiting for Godot. Students are required to analyse dramatic methods, contextual influences, and critical interpretations in sophisticated literary essays. Use this paper for examiner-standard timed practice, dramatic analysis, and contextual evaluation ahead of the 2026 exam series.

This document is designed for Year 13 students preparing for the 2026 A Level English Literature examinations, retake candidates aiming for A/A* grades, home-schooled learners, and independent students following the Pearson Edexcel specification. It is especially valuable for students developing Shakespeare analysis, drama essay structure, contextual interpretation, and critical literary evaluation under timed examination conditions.

Teachers, tutors, sixth-form departments, revision-course providers, and parents can use this paper for timed mocks, extract-analysis workshops, Shakespeare revision sessions, intervention planning, and examiner-style essay practice. It is particularly effective for identifying weaknesses in quotation integration, contextual discussion, critical interpretation, and evaluative argument before the 2026 exam cycle.