AQA A level English Literature A past papers

This page links every English Literature A paper AQA publishes for everyone to download, newest first, starting with June 2025. Each link opens the PDF on AQA's own website. The most recent series is usually released a year or so after the exam, and it will appear here once AQA makes it public.

Yes, every question paper here has a mark scheme, and 16 have an examiner report as well, which is worth reading for the mistakes that cost the most marks.

In June 2026, an A needed 282 out of 375 and an E needed 115 on option A. On option B, an A needed 288 out of 375 and an E needed 113. The grade boundaries for every series from June 2017 to June 2026 are on this course's grade boundaries page, and each series of papers here links to its own year's table, so you can mark a paper and read your grade.

It is linked at the top of this page: AQA's own English Literature A specification (7712), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked. According to AQA's grade boundaries for June 2026, the course is examined in 4 papers, worth 275 marks in all.

Once you have worked through the papers, cookie has a practice deck for this course with fresh questions based on the specification and past papers, feedback on what you write, and spaced repetition.

Cookie Tutoring may have tutors for English Literature A. The Find a tutor link keeps the subject and qualification filters from this page, so you can check the marketplace without assuming that a suitable tutor is available.