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OCR A‑Level English Literature questions by topic

Every question from every OCR A-Level English Literature paper, 2021–2025, question by question. Filter by topic, paper or year, open the mark scheme under any question, and download a set as a PDF. OCR publishes these papers from November 2021 (AS: June 2022) on. Each paper asks about every set text, so the topics here are the texts: pick the ones you studied. Component 2 is sat on one of five topics, each with an unseen passage and an essay comparing two of its texts, so those are topics too. Component 3, the coursework, has no paper.

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325 questions

  1. Q1(a)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  2. Q1(b)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  3. Q2(a)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  4. Q2(b)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  5. Q3(a)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  6. Q3(b)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  7. Q4(a)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  8. Q4(b)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  9. Q5(a)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  10. Q5(b)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  11. Q6(a)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  12. Q6(b)

    June 2025 · Component 1

    15 marks
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  13. Q7

    June 2025 · Component 1

    30 marks
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  14. Q8

    June 2025 · Component 1

    30 marks
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  15. Q9

    June 2025 · Component 1

    30 marks
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  16. Q10

    June 2025 · Component 1

    30 marks
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  17. Q11

    June 2025 · Component 1

    30 marks
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  18. Q12

    June 2025 · Component 1

    30 marks
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  19. Q1

    June 2025 · Component 2

    30 marks
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    0 words
  20. Q2(a)

    June 2025 · Component 2

    30 marks
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    0 words

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