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Every AQA A-Level English Literature A exam question on Unseen prose (AS), 2020–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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- June 2025, AS Paper 2, Q01 (25 marks): The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016) was published in 1966. Sophie, a young independent woman, is close to the end of a holiday in Italy wh
- June 2024, AS Paper 2, Q01 (25 marks): Commonwealth by Ann Patchett was published in 2016. In this extract, set in America in 1964, Bert Cousins, married to Teresa, meets Beverly Keating at the chris
- June 2023, AS Paper 2, Q01 (25 marks): Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman was published in 2007. In this extract the narrator, a young man called Elio, is talking with his father. Elio has met and
- June 2022, AS Paper 2, Q01 (25 marks): The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields was published in 1993. In this extract, set in Canada in 1936, Daisy Goodwill, a young, widowed woman, is about to meet Barke
- November 2020, AS Paper 2, Q01 (25 marks): Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was published in 1874. In this extract, William Boldwood, a prosperous farmer who is in his forties and u
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