GCSE Spanish

Practice papers with model solutions

Original practice sets for GCSE Spanish, drawn from our own question bank. Each has a stable link, a printable PDF and a full worked mark scheme.

Foundation - Grades 1-5

GCSE Spanish Foundation Paper 1

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

16 questions - 60 marks

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Foundation - Grades 1-5

GCSE Spanish Foundation Paper 2

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

16 questions - 60 marks

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Foundation - Grades 1-5

GCSE Spanish Foundation Paper 3

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

17 questions - 60 marks

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Foundation - Grades 1-5

GCSE Spanish Foundation Paper 4

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

15 questions - 60 marks

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Foundation - Grades 1-5

GCSE Spanish Foundation Short Paper A

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 3 more.

11 questions - 40 marks

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Foundation - Grades 1-5

GCSE Spanish Foundation Short Paper B

Covers Grammar: Future and Conditional, Grammar: Ser, Estar, Negatives and Comparatives, Translation: English into Spanish and 3 more.

11 questions - 40 marks

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Higher - Grades 4-9

GCSE Spanish Higher Paper 1

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

12 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Grades 4-9

GCSE Spanish Higher Paper 2

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

13 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Grades 4-9

GCSE Spanish Higher Paper 3

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

12 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Grades 4-9

GCSE Spanish Higher Paper 4

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 9 more.

12 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Grades 4-9

GCSE Spanish Higher Short Paper A

Covers Reading: Daily Life and Family, Reading: School Life, Reading: Holidays and Travel and 3 more.

9 questions - 40 marks

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Higher - Grades 4-9

GCSE Spanish Higher Short Paper B

Covers Grammar: Future and Conditional, Grammar: Ser, Estar, Negatives and Comparatives, Translation: English into Spanish and 3 more.

8 questions - 40 marks

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Papers scoped to what has been taught

The papers above are scoped by grade band. These are scoped by teaching point instead: each one leaves out content a student at that stage has not met yet, so a mock in the middle of the course tests what has actually been covered.

These bands are a typical teaching order, not a syllabus rule. No exam board defines what belongs to Year 10, and schools sequence the course differently. Check the split against your own scheme of work before using it to decide what a class has covered. Unlike a fact you could point to in the exam board's specification, there is no document anywhere that fixes what a Spanish class has covered by the end of Year 10 - every school writes its own scheme of work, and centres genuinely differ in the order they sequence tenses and topics. Some schools teach future/conditional tense or the holidays/town topics earlier than assumed here, and others leave past tense until Year 11, so this split should be read as a typical, defensible ordering rather than a settled fact. I am least confident about exactly where the two translation topics and past tense sit in any particular school's plan - they are plausibly taught earlier in some centres than I have placed them here.

Year 10

Foundation - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 1: Core Skills

Present and past tense verbs, reading about daily life and school, and short written response tasks.

11 questions - 40 marks

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Foundation - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 2: Grammar, School Reading and Writing

Present and past tense verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, reading about school life, and short written response tasks.

17 questions - 60 marks

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Foundation - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 3: Grammar and Reading Comprehension

Present and past tense verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, and reading about daily life and school.

16 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 4: Present-Tense Grammar and Writing

Present tense verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, reading about daily life and school, and short written response tasks.

12 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 5: Past-Tense Grammar and Writing

Past tense verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, reading about daily life and school, and short written response tasks.

12 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Year 10

Year 10 Paper 6: Mixed Topics Review

Present and past tense verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, reading about daily life and school, and short written response tasks.

16 questions - 80 marks

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Year 11

Foundation - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 1: Verb Tenses and Reading

Present, past, future and conditional verbs, reading about daily life, and short written response tasks.

10 questions - 40 marks

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Foundation - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 2: Reading Across Contexts

Reading about daily life, school, holidays and the local town, present tense verbs, and short written response tasks.

15 questions - 60 marks

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Foundation - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 3: Grammar and Translation

Present, past, future and conditional verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, and translation both ways between English and Spanish.

16 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 4: Writing and Opinions

Short written response tasks, extended writing and giving opinions, past, future and conditional verbs, and translating from Spanish into English.

12 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 5: Grammar, Reading and Translation

Present, past, future and conditional verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, translating from English into Spanish, and reading about daily life, holidays and travel.

12 questions - 60 marks

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Higher - Year 11

Year 11 Paper 6: Mixed Skills Review

Reading about daily life, school, holidays and the local town, present tense verbs, ser and estar, negatives and comparatives, translating from English into Spanish, and extended writing and giving opinions.

16 questions - 80 marks

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