Pearson AS English Language and Literature

How Dracula is examined. A printed extract, then the whole novel. Open book (clean copies).

• June 2024, Q8: extract in which the Count is destroyed; focus on violence across the novel †. The extract is confirmed from the mark scheme (mirror); the focus wording is not. Source details.

• June 2025, Q8: extract in which Van Helsing explains why it is essential to defeat Dracula; how Dracula is presented as a threat throughout the novel (QP). Source details.

• Reports and model answers: not reviewed. Papers before 2024 were not checked.

The materials gathered here do not yet include a full set of report findings for this qualification. Check the board’s assessment library and the source notes; do not assume that an unretrieved report does not exist.

Open the board’s assessment-materials library. The source register records individual reports, mark schemes and access notes. Sources for studying and teaching Dracula.

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