This BBC Bitesize article features AQA English language past papers, exploring question trends to help students prepare for the English language GCSE exams.

Teenagers sitting the AQA English Language GCSE exam got a rather unexpected lesson about parenting from their source material.

When are the GCSE English language exams in 2023? AQA, Edexcel, Edquas, OCR, and WJEC English language paper one exams will take place on the morning of Monday, June 5.

AQA said digital exams have the potential to be more inclusive and fairer, especially helping those with special educational needs and bringing an end to so-called "handwriting bias".

According to polling for AQA, more than two-thirds (68%) of young people surveyed agreed digital exams would be better preparation for future work, education or training.

And that’s exactly what happened during the AQA English Literature GCSE paper yesterday [22 May] when the exam board decided to feature Banquo on a question about Macbeth.

An AQA spokesperson told the ECHO: “We’re very disappointed to hear that some students may have seen our A-level Chemistry paper 2 before the exam.

What were the AQA grade boundaries for summer 2019? A-level exams were cancelled in both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, meaning that no grade boundaries were set for A-level students.

GCSE exams continued yesterday with AQA Physics, and students on Twitter were comparing it to a Maths exam with Memes and reactions on Twitter.

Last year, AQA laid out plans for onscreen exams by 2030, saying it hoped the reading and listening components of GCSE Italian and Polish would be the first to move to digital exams in 2026.

GCSE students can check their grade boundaries on the AQA, Edexcel and OCR website on results day Thursday morning. Grade boundaries are not set until after students take their exams and they have ...