Mark Scheme (Results)
Summer 2025
Pearson Edexcel GCE
In Spanish (9SP0) Paper 01
Listening, Reading and Translation
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,Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications
Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We
provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and
specific programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites
at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the
details on our contact us page at www.edexcel.com/contactus.
Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere
Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone
progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of
people, wherever they are in the world. We’ve been involved in education for over 150 years,
and by working across 70 countries, in 100 languages, we have built an international
reputation for our commitment to high standards and raising achievement through
innovation in education. Find out more about how we can help you and your students at:
www.pearson.com/uk
Summer 2025
Question Paper Log Number P75542A
Publications Code 9SP0_01_2506_MS
All the material in this publication is copyright
© Pearson Education Ltd 2025
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,General Marking Guidance
• All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must
mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the
last.
• Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be
rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than
penalised for omissions.
• Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not
according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may
lie.
• There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the mark scheme
should be used appropriately.
• All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded.
Examiners should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the
answer matches the mark scheme. Examiners should also be
prepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is not
worthy of credit according to the mark scheme.
• Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide
the principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification
may be limited.
• When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the
mark scheme to a candidate’s response, the team leader must be
consulted.
• Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate has
replaced it with an alternative response.
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, Candidate responses
Language marking principles
There are no marks for quality of language in this paper so errors and omissions
in spelling and grammar will be tolerated as long as the message is not
ambiguous and do not interfere with communication.
Order of Elements
Consider only as many elements as there are marks, for example for a 1-mark
answer, the candidate’s first response is taken for assessment, even if this
response is incorrect but the correct information follows as a further element.
Where 2 marks are available, award the individual marks discretely but apply the
order of elements rule.
Written responses in the wrong language cannot be awarded a mark.
Open response questions
For open response questions, the candidate does not have to write in full
sentences. If appropriate, they may respond using single words or phrases (with
the exception of Question 4(b), summary writing).
Example of short phrases with two or more words:
o habla inglés (verb/noun)
o no sabían nada (verb/negation)
o (que) se habían agotado (verb/adjective).
When responding to open response questions, candidates may use words from
the listening passage or reading extract, but they must not transcribe or copy
whole sections where the question requires them to manipulate the language in
order to render the response accurate to the question.
Example:
Text: Como principalmente frutas y verduras para estar sano.
Question: Según el texto, ¿en qué consiste una dieta sana?
Rewardable answer: Comer principalmente frutas y verduras.
Non-rewardable answer: Como principalmente frutas y verduras para
estar sano.
Candidates who copy the whole sentence, as exemplified above as the Non-
rewardable answer, would not be awarded marks without manipulating the verb
in the sentence, ‘como’. This is because it does not render an accurate answer to
for more resources: tyrionpapers.com
Summer 2025
Pearson Edexcel GCE
In Spanish (9SP0) Paper 01
Listening, Reading and Translation
for more resources: tyrionpapers.com
,Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications
Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We
provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and
specific programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites
at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the
details on our contact us page at www.edexcel.com/contactus.
Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere
Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone
progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of
people, wherever they are in the world. We’ve been involved in education for over 150 years,
and by working across 70 countries, in 100 languages, we have built an international
reputation for our commitment to high standards and raising achievement through
innovation in education. Find out more about how we can help you and your students at:
www.pearson.com/uk
Summer 2025
Question Paper Log Number P75542A
Publications Code 9SP0_01_2506_MS
All the material in this publication is copyright
© Pearson Education Ltd 2025
for more resources: tyrionpapers.com
,General Marking Guidance
• All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must
mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the
last.
• Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be
rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than
penalised for omissions.
• Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not
according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may
lie.
• There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the mark scheme
should be used appropriately.
• All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded.
Examiners should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the
answer matches the mark scheme. Examiners should also be
prepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is not
worthy of credit according to the mark scheme.
• Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide
the principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification
may be limited.
• When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the
mark scheme to a candidate’s response, the team leader must be
consulted.
• Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate has
replaced it with an alternative response.
for more resources: tyrionpapers.com
, Candidate responses
Language marking principles
There are no marks for quality of language in this paper so errors and omissions
in spelling and grammar will be tolerated as long as the message is not
ambiguous and do not interfere with communication.
Order of Elements
Consider only as many elements as there are marks, for example for a 1-mark
answer, the candidate’s first response is taken for assessment, even if this
response is incorrect but the correct information follows as a further element.
Where 2 marks are available, award the individual marks discretely but apply the
order of elements rule.
Written responses in the wrong language cannot be awarded a mark.
Open response questions
For open response questions, the candidate does not have to write in full
sentences. If appropriate, they may respond using single words or phrases (with
the exception of Question 4(b), summary writing).
Example of short phrases with two or more words:
o habla inglés (verb/noun)
o no sabían nada (verb/negation)
o (que) se habían agotado (verb/adjective).
When responding to open response questions, candidates may use words from
the listening passage or reading extract, but they must not transcribe or copy
whole sections where the question requires them to manipulate the language in
order to render the response accurate to the question.
Example:
Text: Como principalmente frutas y verduras para estar sano.
Question: Según el texto, ¿en qué consiste una dieta sana?
Rewardable answer: Comer principalmente frutas y verduras.
Non-rewardable answer: Como principalmente frutas y verduras para
estar sano.
Candidates who copy the whole sentence, as exemplified above as the Non-
rewardable answer, would not be awarded marks without manipulating the verb
in the sentence, ‘como’. This is because it does not render an accurate answer to
for more resources: tyrionpapers.com
