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Full test · 4 h · 3 questions · 2 sections
A second full HL mock with new text types and themes. Paper 1 (2 hours 15 minutes): Text 1, a brochure for a community food festival (layout and images described), and Text 2, a blog post by a grandchild retracing a grandparent’s journey to a new country; two separate guided analyses, 20 marks each, 40 in all. Paper 2 (1 hour 45 minutes): four new general questions (on belonging and the outsider, guilt, ambition, and symbols); answer one in a comparative essay on two literary works you have studied, closed book, 25 marks on the 2026 criteria. The model essay compares Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife.
Paper 1: guided textual analysis (HL)
2 questions · 2 h 15 min · ≈ 67 min 30 s a question
Paper 2: comparative essay
1 question · 1 h 45 min · ≈ 105 min a question
A second full HL mock with new text types and themes. Paper 1 (2 hours 15 minutes): Text 1, a brochure for a community food festival (layout and images described), and Text 2, a blog post by a grandchild retracing a grandparent’s journey to a new country; two separate guided analyses, 20 marks each, 40 in all. Paper 2 (1 hour 45 minutes): four general questions (on the experience of being an outsider, guilt and its consequences, ambition as a destructive force, and a recurring image or motif); answer one in a comparative essay on two literary works you have studied, closed book, 25 marks on the 2026 criteria. The model essay compares poems by Maya Angelou and poems by Carol Ann Duffy.
This practice test follows the official English A L&L format: 2 sections, 240 minutes in total. Work under timed conditions and answer every question.
Your score arrives with section scores, a breakdown by topic, your time on every question and each answer explained. Questions you miss join your review queue, and written and spoken answers get an examiner’s report.