2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 and Mark Scheme Combined (1EN2/02: Contemporary Texts)

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Paper 2 is the Contemporary Texts and Transactional Writing component of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 qualification (1EN2/02). This paper assesses students’ ability to read, analyse, and evaluate modern, non-fiction texts, and to produce clear, structured transactional writing for a specific purpose and audience.

Paper 2 contributes 50% of the total GCSE English Language 2.0 grade and combines reading comprehension with writing skills.

✔ What the Paper Covers

Paper 2 focuses on the following areas:

📖 Reading Contemporary Texts

Understanding and interpreting a variety of modern non-fiction texts (articles, blogs, reports, speeches, leaflets)

Analysing language, structure, and presentation to understand meaning, viewpoint, and effect

Comparing ideas, perspectives, and rhetorical techniques across multiple texts

✍️ Transactional Writing

Producing structured writing for a defined purpose and audience (letters, articles, reports, speeches, reviews)

Planning and organising ideas logically

Using appropriate tone, style, vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation

🧠 Critical Thinking

Making inferences and deductions from the text

Identifying bias, tone, and persuasive techniques

Evaluating how writers achieve impact on the reader

✔ Structure of the Paper

Section A – Reading:
- Comprehension and analysis of one or more contemporary texts
- Questions assessing retrieval, inference, language analysis, structure, and comparison

Section B – Writing:
- Transactional writing tasks requiring clear, coherent, and audience-focused responses

The paper assesses the following skills:

AO1 – Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information

AO2 – Analyse language, structure, and presentation

AO3 – Compare texts, evaluate viewpoints, and analyse effectiveness

AO5 – Communicate clearly, effectively, and appropriately in writing

AO6 – Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures accurately

✔ Mark Scheme (Included in the Combined Document)

The combined question paper + mark scheme includes:

Model answers and guidance for comprehension and analysis questions

Marking criteria for transactional writing tasks, including content, structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling

Allocation of marks for AO1–AO6 skills

Examiner guidance for consistent and fair marking

The mark scheme emphasizes textual evidence, clarity, audience awareness, and structured, effective writing.

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2025 Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 and Mark Scheme GCSE 2025 Mark Scheme Exam Description Combined Paper dexcel GCSE English Language 2.0 1EN2 1EN2/02 Contemporary Texts