Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 2025 Qp Pdf

Get the official Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2: Non-fiction and Transactional Writing question paper for the Summer 2025 examination series (1EN0/02). This examiner-issued PDF contains the complete Reading and Transactional Writing paper, including comparison questions, language-and-structure analysis tasks, evaluation questions, and persuasive/transactional writing prompts used in the live June 2025 examination.

This June 2025 Edexcel GCSE English Language Paper 2 question paper includes two non-fiction source texts: “Freak Hurricane kills 13” from The Guardian (1987) and “Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962” by Juliet Nicolson (2021). Students are required to analyse writers’ perspectives, compare ideas about extreme weather, evaluate language and structure, and complete transactional-writing tasks involving fundraising for communities and public transport in extreme weather.
The paper includes Section A reading tasks worth 56 marks and Section B transactional writing worth 40 marks, testing AO1–AO6 assessment objectives through real Edexcel exam-format questions. Pair it with the matching Edexcel GCSE English Language 1EN0/02 June 2025 mark scheme on markscheme.net for complete examiner-standard revision and self-assessment. Updated for the 2025/2026 academic year, fully mobile optimised, and instantly downloadable from markscheme.net.

This document is designed for GCSE English Language students preparing for the 2026 Edexcel examination series, including Year 10 and Year 11 learners, resit candidates targeting grades 7–9, home-educated students, and international learners studying the Pearson Edexcel specification. It is especially useful for students practising comparison responses, non-fiction analysis, evaluative writing, and transactional-writing techniques under timed examination conditions.

Teachers, tutors, intervention providers, revision-course organisers, and parents can use this official paper for timed mock examinations, classroom assessment, retrieval practice, examiner-technique modelling, and structured revision activities aligned to the Edexcel GCSE English Language specification.