All 6 AQA GCSE English Language (8700) papers from the November 2023 session are available on this page. You'll find 0 question papers and 2 mark schemes. Download any file instantly — these are the same official papers sat by students worldwide in 2023.

The November series is a resit opportunity for AQA GCSE, available only to a limited number of subjects including Mathematics, English Language, and English Literature. It is primarily used by students who did not achieve their target grade in the June sitting.

AQA filenames encode the tier directly: H = Higher, F = Foundation. For tiered subjects, always download the tier you are entered for. Mark schemes (`W-MS`) for AQA match exactly to their QP counterpart by paper number and tier — e.g., `AQA-87002F-QP` pairs with `AQA-87002F-W-MS`.

Past papers are most useful as diagnostic tools rather than just extra practice. After completing each paper, sort your errors into three categories: topics you don't know well enough, question types where your technique needs work, and topics where you lost marks to careless mistakes. Each category needs a different fix — content review, technique drill, or exam discipline respectively.

FAQs

Questions, answered.

This session includes 0 question papers and 2 mark schemes, plus 4 other resources. All files are official AQA exam papers.

Match by paper number and tier. QP (Question Paper) files pair with W-MS (Mark Scheme) files that have the same paper number and tier suffix. For example, AQA-87001H-QP matches with AQA-87001H-W-MS.

H = Higher tier (targeting grades 9-4) and F = Foundation tier (targeting grades 5-1). Make sure you download papers for your entered tier. The paper number appears before the tier letter — so 87001H means Paper 1 Higher, 87002F means Paper 2 Foundation.

Yes, these are the official past examination papers from AQA. They are the same papers that were sat by students in the November 2023 exam session.

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