OCR A-Level English Literature - H472 Past Papers
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Available years: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022
June 2025 H472/01 and H472/02 together require 120 marks of work over 300 minutes: one two-part Shakespeare answer, one pre-1900 drama–poetry comparison, one unseen appreciation and one prose comparison. Charts use the five required response units, not the sum of optional questions; chapter totals therefore describe transferable skills across every valid route. Difficulty and accessibility are estimates. The attachments contain mark schemes, not an examiner report, and all five unseen extracts are removed from the supplied question paper.
A rigorous and comprehensive GCE A Level assessment pairing deep, text-focused close analysis of Shakespeare and pre-1900 writers with sophisticated comparative frameworks evaluating themes of isolation, power, and dystopian decay.
A highly rigorous OCR A Level English Literature series demanding sophisticated close-reading under time pressure, deep comparative synthesis of pre-1900 texts, and the integration of diverse critical perspectives.
The 2022 OCR A Level English Literature examination papers challenged students to demonstrate rigorous stylistic analysis in close readings and sophisticated thematic synthesis across diverse comparative essays.
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