Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 Paper 2 2025 Qp

Get the official Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 Paper 2: Contemporary Texts question paper for the Summer 2025 examination series (1EN2/02). This examiner-issued PDF contains the complete Reading and Imaginative Writing paper, including language-analysis questions, structure-analysis tasks, comparison responses, summary questions, and creative-writing prompts used in the live June 2025 examination.

This June 2025 Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 Paper 2 question paper includes two contemporary texts: an extract from *Madame Fourcade’s Secret War* by Lynne Olson describing Marie-Madeleine escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp, and an extract from Stephen King’s *IT* featuring Mike Hanlon being chased through the Derry trainyards. Students are required to analyse danger, escape, tension, fear, pacing, language, and structure across both fiction and non-fiction texts.

The paper tests AO1–AO6 reading and writing skills through summary writing, comparison, evaluation, language analysis, structure analysis, and imaginative-writing tasks. Section B includes a creative-writing prompt beginning with “Was this the right way?” and a narrative/descriptive task about working hard for something, supported by visual stimulus images.

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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 following the Pearson Edexcel English Language 2.0 specification. It is especially valuable for students practising comparison responses, structure analysis, language analysis, summary writing, and imaginative-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 2.0 specification.