About Language Paper 2 exam

About Language Paper 2

English Language Paper 2 is a 1 hour 45 minute exam paper. 

Within this, you will be given 15 minutes of reading time. 

This exam paper tests your understanding of non-fiction texts and how attitudes are presented through language in different non-fiction texts. 

You will be given two sources to read. The texts that you will be given will be taken from different historical time-periods between19th - 21st century. 

• Source A will be a modern text.

• Source B will be an older, 19th Century text. 

• They will be linked by a similar theme / topic. 

The types of texts you will be given could include:

•  high quality journalism

•  articles

• reports

•  essays

•  travel writing

•  accounts

• sketches

•  letters

• diaries

• autobiography and biographical passages 

• other appropriate non-fiction and literary non-fiction forms.

Paper layout and timings as follows: 

The beneath paper is the June 2020 Mountain Climbers Paper - you can print this out to practise the questions at home.