Abstract
<jats:p>The research aims to identify the primary types of transformations that original texts undergo during their adaptation to the requirements of examination discourse in England. The material for the study consists of 20 pairs of original and secondary English-language examination texts. The scientific novelty lies in the comprehensive and systematic description of the mechanisms used to transform original English texts when integrated into the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) examination discourse, analyzed from the perspectives of pragmalinguistic and interdiscursive approaches. The results of the study establish that the dominant type of textual transformation is reduction (condensation), which is necessitated by the need to simplify and adapt content into a presentation that is relevant and comprehensible to examinees. The reasons for reduction include irrelevance, redundancy, taboo topics and lexical units, and the use of low-frequency or low-register vocabulary. Textual transformations involving the expansion of the main content, substitution of text fragments, and reordering of its parts were found to be less prevalent.</jats:p>