We will cover the following topics in the live classes:
Set texts for examination in 2025
Paper 1 Drama and Poetry
Learners study two set texts, one from Section A and one from Section B.
Candidates answer two questions, one from each section.
Section A Drama
Errol John - Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure - The Duchess of Malf
Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Section B Poetry
Maya Angelou - And Still I Rise
Simon Armitage - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
William Blake - Selected Poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Paper 2 Prose and Unseen
Learners study one set text from Section A. For Section B, learners prepare to respond to an unseen text that may be poetry, prose or drama.
Candidates answer two questions, one from each section.
Section A Prose
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Stories of Ourselves, Volume 1 - Selected Stories (new selection from Volume 1 for 2024, 2025 and 2026)
Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
Section B Unseen
Unseen text
Paper 3 Shakespeare and Drama
Learners study two set texts, one from Section A and one from Section B.
Candidates answer two questions, one from each section.
Section A Shakespeare
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew
Section B Drama
Lynn Nottage - Sweat
Eugene O’Neill - Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Wole Soyinka - Kongi’s Harvest
Paper 4 Pre- and Post-1900 Poetry and Prose
Learners study two set texts, one from Section A and one from Section B. They must study one poetry text and one prose text.
Candidates answer two questions. They answer one question from each section. One question must be on a poetry text and one question must be on a prose text.
Section A Pre-1900 Poetry and Prose
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
*Geoffrey Chaucer - The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale
*John Donne - Selected Poems
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd
*Walt Whitman - Selected Poems from Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)
Section B Post-1900 Poetry and Prose
*Louise Glück - Selected Poems from The Wild Iris
James Joyce - Dubliners
Toni Morrison - Beloved
*Gabriel Okara - Selected Poems from Collected Poems (2016)
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
*Natasha Trethewey - Native Guard
* Poetry texts are denoted by an asterisk. Candidates must answer one poetry and one prose question, each from a different section of the question paper.
Set poems and stories for examination in 2025
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Paper 1, Section B Poetry
William Blake: Selected Poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Paper 1, Section B Poetry
Songs of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Poetry
in English, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108462280)
Paper 1, Section B Poetry
Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of
Stories in English, Volume 1 (ISBN 9781108462297)
Paper 2, Section A Prose
John Donne: Selected Poems
Paper 4, Section A Poetry
Walt Whitman: Selected Poems from Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)
Paper 4, Section A Poetry
Louise Glück: Selected Poems from The Wild Iris
Paper 4, Section B Poetry
Gabriel Okara: Selected Poems from Collected Poems (2016)
Paper 4, Section B Poetry
- for A2 Level Students
Maryum Farrukh
Literature Teacher with a passion for reading and writing and a 12 years experience
O/A English Literature
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