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Full test · 3 h · 2 questions · 2 sections
A second full SL mock with new text types and themes. Paper 1 (1 hour 15 minutes): Text A, a national park’s home page (multimodal: layout, photographs and captions described), and Text B, a speech given at a sports awards evening; analyse one, 20 marks. Paper 2 (1 hour 45 minutes): four new general questions (on memory and the past, power and authority, a minor character, and the significance of a title); 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 Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and poems from Seamus Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist.
Paper 1: guided textual analysis
1 question · 1 h 15 min · ≈ 75 min a question
Paper 2: comparative essay
1 question · 1 h 45 min · ≈ 105 min a question
A second full SL mock with new text types and themes. Paper 1 (1 hour 15 minutes): Text A, a national park’s home page (multimodal: layout, photographs and captions described), and Text B, a speech given at a sports awards evening; analyse one, 20 marks. Paper 2 (1 hour 45 minutes): four general questions (on the hold of the past over the present, power held and resisted, justice and injustice, and how titles shape our expectations); 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 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.
This practice test follows the official English A L&L format: 2 sections, 180 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.