OCR GCSE English Language Paper 1 2025 Question Paper

Download the official OCR GCSE English Language Communicating Information and Ideas (J351/01) June 2025 question paper — the authentic OCR exam paper used in the Summer 2025 GCSE English Language examination series. This downloadable PDF contains reading-comprehension questions, language-analysis tasks, comparison questions, evaluative responses, and transactional-writing activities based on Narrative of the Life of An American Slave by Frederick Douglass and Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani.

The paper includes OCR exam-style questions testing synthesis, comparison, language analysis, structure analysis, evaluation, and persuasive or transactional writing. Students are required to analyse how writers present reading, literacy, influence, persuasion, and personal experience while applying AO1–AO6 assessment skills. The writing section includes tasks such as writing a persuasive letter to a headteacher about encouraging students to read or delivering a speech persuading young people to join activities that unite people from different backgrounds.
This OCR J351/01 June 2025 question paper is ideal for timed exam practice, classroom assessment, mock examinations, independent revision, and improving GCSE English Language exam technique. Pair it with the matching OCR J351/01 June 2025 mark scheme on markscheme.net to compare your answers with official examiner guidance and understand how OCR awards marks for AO1–AO6 English Language skills.

This document is designed for OCR GCSE English Language students preparing for the 2026 examination series, including Year 10 and Year 11 learners, resit students, tutors, home-educated candidates, and independent learners studying language analysis, evaluation, comparison, and transactional writing.

It is also ideal for English teachers, intervention coordinators, revision providers, and schools seeking authentic OCR exam material for classroom practice, mock exams, AO1–AO6 assessment preparation, and persuasive-writing exercises.