Edexcel English literature timings?

I don't do the same board as you but I would say divide the time up according to the marks and when you run out of time leave that question and move on to the next one and make sure you factor in time for planning to avoid just rambling on. I am also doing GCSEs and I find timing really hard especially for English and History, I just tend to write slowly. My teacher gave me advice and said to watch the news and write down as much as I can to practise writing faster, I just haven't got around to it yet.

I usually split it up like this:
105 minutes total
50 minutes on essay 1
-Made up of 5 minutes planning and 45 minutes of just writing my head off. I usually write about 3 points so I give about 15 minutes per point after doing my introduction and then a quick conclusion at the end that clearly links and sums up all of my points

50 minutes on essay 2
-Same as other one

Spare 5 minutes if I'm a bit slow in planning or if I have a really good but long point. Any time left is spent skimming through and checking all of my points.

My advice is: Just write. Start writing before you have time to have a mental breakdown
Good luck! I have my iGCSE Edexcel Eng. Lit. on Monday as well!

Thank you mate! Good luck too!

Haha np, but now that I think about it the GCSE paper might be structured differently to IGCSE if you're doing GCSE. For IGCSE we just get essay questions on the 2 written works.