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Eduqas GCSE English Language
Component 2

Eduqas GCSE English Language · C700

Eduqas GCSE English Language Component 2

19th and 21st Century Non-Fiction Reading and Transactional/Persuasive Writing

Length: 2 hours
Marks: 80
Weighting: 60% of the GCSE

From the Eduqas specification (opens in a new tab), Version 3, PDF pages 5 and 11.

4 sections · 23 revision notes · 15 past papers

What’s on Component 2

2 Reading skills

Reading skillsOn both papers4 notes

Reading skills

Explicit and implicit information
Analysing language

Component 2 past papers

June 2025 Component 2 (U20)
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Analysing structure and tone

Evaluating a text

Reading skills overview

2.2 Component 2 Section A: reading 19th- and 21st-century non-fiction

Component 2 reading questions7 notes

2.2 Component 2 reading questions

Reading 19th- and 21st-century non-fiction
Component 2 Questions 11 and 13: finding information
Component 2 Question 12: how the writer shows an idea
Component 2 Question 14: evaluating a statement
Component 2 Question 15: drawing details from both texts
Component 2 Question 16: comparing the two texts
Component 2 Section A worked through

Component 2 Section A: reading 19th- and 21st-century non-fiction overview

2.2 Component 2 Section B: transactional and persuasive writing

Component 2 writing7 notes

2.2 Component 2 writing

Component 2 Questions 21 and 22: the two writing tasks
Purpose, audience and register
Writing a letter
Writing an article
Writing a review
Writing a speech or talk
Building a persuasive argument

Component 2 Section B: transactional and persuasive writing overview

3.1 Technical accuracy

Technical accuracyOn both papers5 notes

3.1 Technical accuracy

Sentence demarcation
Punctuation for clarity and effect
Spelling
Standard English and grammar
Paragraphs and cohesion

Technical accuracy overview

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