GCSE

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Paper 2 Modern texts and poetry

Wednesday 24 May 2023 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 15 minutes

Materials

For this paper you must have:

• an AQA 16-page answer book.

Instructions

• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Do not use pencil.

• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 8702/2.

• Answer one question from Section A, one question from Section B and both questions in

Section C.

• You must not use a dictionary.

Information

• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.

• The maximum mark for this paper is 96.

• AO4 will be assessed in Section A. There are 4 marks available for AO4 in Section A in addition

to 30 marks for answering the question. AO4 assesses the following skills: use a range of

vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and

punctuation.

• There are 30 marks for Section B and 32 marks for Section C.