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GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (9–1): Actual May 2025 PAST PAPER 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing. All Assessment Questions & Mark Scheme [Edexcel 1EN0/01] Exam Resource Summary The GCSE English Language (9–1) May 2025 Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing (Edexcel 1EN0/01) – All Assessment Questions & Mark Scheme combines the complete official examination paper with its detailed mark scheme, creating a comprehensive and practical study resource. This paper assesses students’ reading and analysis of 20th- or 21st-century fiction extracts alongside their ability to produce creative, imaginative writing. It develops key skills in interpretation, narrative technique, language analysis, structure, and descriptive writing, while helping learners understand how examiners evaluate content, accuracy, and creativity. The merged format presents each question beside its mark scheme, clarifying assessment criteria, examiner expectations, and effective response strategies. This resource is essential for focused revision, self-assessment, and creative skill enhancement, making it a key tool for preparation for the May 2026 Edexcel GCSE English Language (9–1) Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing examination.

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GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (9–1): Actual May 2025 PAST PAPER
1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing. All Assessment Questions &
Mark Scheme [Edexcel 1EN0/01]
Exam Resource Summary

The GCSE English Language (9–1) May 2025 Paper 1: Fiction and Imaginative
Writing (Edexcel 1EN0/01) – All Assessment Questions & Mark Scheme combines the
complete official examination paper with its detailed mark scheme, creating a
comprehensive and practical study resource. This paper assesses students’ reading and
analysis of 20th- or 21st-century fiction extracts alongside their ability to produce
creative, imaginative writing. It develops key skills in interpretation, narrative
technique, language analysis, structure, and descriptive writing, while helping learners
understand how examiners evaluate content, accuracy, and creativity. The merged format
presents each question beside its mark scheme, clarifying assessment criteria, examiner
expectations, and effective response strategies. This resource is essential for focused
revision, self-assessment, and creative skill enhancement, making it a key tool for
preparation for the May 2026 Edexcel GCSE English Language (9–1) Paper 1: Fiction
and Imaginative Writing examination.



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Reading
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Read the text in the Reading Text Insert provided and answer ALL questions.

You should spend about 1 hour on this section.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.
1 From lines 1–4, identify a word or phrase which shows that Bobby is going
somewhere that is dangerous.

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(Total for Question 1 = 1 mark)

2 Read this extract.


… somehow, it became clear to us that, if God left him alive, and if the war ever
came to an end, he and I should belong to one another. When he went he kissed
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me, I kissed him back again, most lovingly, with many tears.

Ah! parting. And so Bobby got into a carriage and drove away, and then
I wept as one that would not be comforted.


From the extract, give two ways in which the narrator shows how much she
loves Bobby.

You may use your own words or quotations from the text.

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(Total for Question 2 = 2 marks)




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One night, one hot night, having prayed even more heartily and tearfully, I had
lain down to sleep. The windows were left open, that all possible air might reach
me from the still and scented garden below. Thinking of Bobby, I had fallen asleep,
and he is still mistily in my head, when I seem to wake. The room is full of clear
light, but it is not morning: it is only the moon looking right in. I can see my own
ghostly figure sitting up in bed, reflected in the looking-glass opposite. I listen:
surely I heard some noise: yes—certainly, there can be no doubt of it—someone is
knocking loudly at the hall-door. At first I fall into a deadly fear; then reason comes
to my aid. If it were a robber, or person with evil intent, would he knock so openly
and clamorously*? At worst it is some drunken sailor; at best, it is a messenger with
news of our dear ones. At this thought I instantly spring out of bed and hurrying on
whatever garments come most quickly to hand, I open my door, and fly down the
passages, into which the moon is looking with her ghostly smile.

As I near the door I meet our old butler.
‘Who can it be, Stephens?’ I ask, trembling with excitement and fear.




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How does the writer use language and structure to show what the narrator
experiences on the night that Bobby returns home?

Support your views with reference to the text.
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