OCR AS Level English Literature - H072 Past Papers
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Available years: 2024, 2023, 2022
The H072 June 2024 English Literature series provided highly accessible and well-balanced essay questions on Shakespeare and pre-1900 poetry, combined with demanding comparative prose and post-1900 drama prompts. Key challenges centered on integrating unseen connections and avoiding isolated, pre-prepared contextual knowledge.
An in-depth analysis of the OCR AS Level English Literature (H072) June 2023 examinations (Papers 1 and 2). This series features challenging thematic essay prompts in Shakespeare and Drama, detailed contextual extract analysis in pre-1900 Poetry, and demanding comparative essays in Prose pairing set texts with unseen extracts.
The 2022 OCR AS Level English Literature examination papers (H072/01 and H072/02) test students across Shakespeare, pre-1900 poetry, post-1900 drama, and post-1900 prose with a mandatory unseen comparison. The papers balance close stylistic analysis (AO2) with contextual framing (AO3) and critical interpretations (AO5).
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