OCR A-level Lit P1 S2: Practice 4

Practice for your OCR English Literature A-level English Literature with these exam practice papers in the style of the OCR exam board. Test yourself with questions the exam board has never asked before!

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When we’re practising writing excellent essays for our exams, we often rely on past papers. That’s useful for helping us to understand the exam board and its style more! But there are a couple of problems with it:

There’s a very small number of past papers. Eventually, you’ll run out and need more!
You could accidentally do one that a teacher is planning for a mock, meaning you won’t get a true experience of the exam.
It’s a past paper, so it’s unlikely that the question will ever come up again.

That’s why we have decided to make some of our own past papers in the style of the OCR A-level English Literature Paper 1 Section 2! They’re designed to give you a similar feel to the OCR papers while containing original content with thought-provoking statements. That way, you can use them to help you on your journey to success!

This past paper will help you to think deeply about your set texts. It offers you plenty of different themes and perspectives to help you get used to picking the best question and improve your writing. Whether you’re doing essay plans or writing full pieces, this past paper is here to provide you with the prompts you need to revise efficiently and effectively.

If you would like to try a practice paper before you purchase, Papers 1-3 are available to our community members. Just sign up for free and then access them here!

How these practice papers can help you

As well as offering you more exam questions so you can keep doing essay plans and timed practice, we’ve designed these practice papers to be extra helpful!

We have designed the statements in this practice paper to be more contentious than you might get in your real exam. That makes them a little bit more difficult than they’ll be on the day!

At Shani’s Tutoring, we strongly believe in encouraging you to answer the most difficult questions before your exam day. That way, once you’re in the exam hall, you’ll find the real thing a piece of cake in comparison. If you can get a good grade with these questions, you’re more likely to be fine with whatever comes up for real.

Plus, the statements are excellent at helping you to build up your bank of AO1 theses. The more you grapple with complex ideas like the ones we’ve included, the easier it will be for you to break away from saying the boring, bog-standard things in your thesis statements and say something truly worthy of an A*.

We help you to write better by encouraging you into the A* headspace as often as we can. That way, it becomes like second nature to you in the exam.

If you’re sitting a different exam board like AQA, Edexcel, CCEA or WJEC, you can still get the most out of this resource. Since the questions are so broad, you can also use them to encourage deeper thinking about your texts. It helps you to break away from writing boring, B-grade answers.

How to use these practice papers effectively

There are plenty of ways that you can use these papers to help you improve. Naturally, the more papers you try, the easier you’ll find things in the exam. However, here are some ways we recommend you use the questions we’ve given you.

Crafted essays: Before practice makes perfect, you’ve got to learn what it feels like and what it takes to get top marks. Start by crafting the perfect essay for one or more of our questions. Get a teacher or tutor to help you improve it until it’s perfect. Then, you can use the other questions to do the next important thing: timed essays.
Timed essays: Of course, one of the most effective revision techniques (once you know how to write a good essay) is to just write over and over again. The more timed essays you do, the more your writing stamina will improve!
Plans: If you’re low on time, doing an essay plan instead of a timed essay can be a huge lifesaver. You can pick out your arguments and quotes quickly and then move on to something new.
Question selection: In our experience, one of the most likely reasons for students getting a lower mark than they deserve is that they choose the wrong question. With our huge number of practice papers, you can try picking a good question for your texts over and over again!
Study group debates: If you’re the kind of person who studies well in a group, these practice papers make great debate topics! You can split the study group into two teams – agree and disagree. Let each team work together to figure out what they would say to win. Then, have a small debate and get everyone to write down where they stand at the end of it!

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Disclaimer: these are not official OCR papers

Shani’s Tutoring Ltd is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to OCR. All questions, statements and prompts in these practice materials are original works created independently. They are not reproductions of past examination papers.

While we attempt to help students replicate the experience of sitting the OCR exam, we do not reproduce any copyrighted material from the OCR examinations. It is also strictly against our policies to reproduce or resell existing examination material, including locked exam papers.

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