Edexcel (Pearson) English Literature revision guide
Last updated 11 September 2026
GCSE and A-Level · England and international. Edexcel papers reuse question stems across series, which makes past-paper pattern analysis especially useful.
Topics that come up most in Edexcel (Pearson) English Literature
These are the areas students most often need to revise. To see what actually recurs in your papers, upload them and let the past-paper analyser count the topics for you.
- Character and relationships
- Themes and context
- Poetry comparison
- Structure and form
- Language analysis
- Unseen texts
Command words to practise
Edexcel (Pearson) mark schemes reward answers that match the command word. Practise these until the structure is automatic: Analyse, Compare, How does the writer, Explore.
Get Edexcel (Pearson) English Literature papers
Official Edexcel (Pearson) past papers and mark schemes are free on the board's own website, and because they are copyrighted we link to them rather than host them:
Edexcel (Pearson) past papers and mark schemes
Inside ExamAI you can also generate an original English Literature practice paper written in Edexcel (Pearson)'s style, download it, sit it, then have every answer marked against its own mark scheme.
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Upload the papers you have for English Literature and ExamAI counts how often each topic appears, which question types recur, and where marks tend to sit. Results are described as "frequently appeared in the uploaded papers" — they are not predictions of what will be on your exam.
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