OCR GCSE English Literature Paper 1 2025 Mark Scheme

Download the official OCR GCSE English Literature Exploring Modern and Literary Heritage Texts (J352/01) June 2025 mark scheme — the examiner-approved document used to award marks in the OCR GCSE English Literature Summer 2025 examination series. This downloadable PDF contains official assessment-objective guidance, examiner annotations, levels-based marking criteria, comparison-response descriptors, contextual-analysis expectations, and detailed instructions used during live OCR marking.

The mark scheme includes detailed examiner guidance for modern prose, modern drama, and nineteenth-century prose responses, covering AO1, AO2, AO3, and AO4 assessment criteria. It explains how OCR examiners award marks for textual analysis, contextual understanding, comparison skills, language and structure analysis, critical interpretation, and evaluative writing. The document also includes level descriptors, marking instructions, annotation systems, assessment-objective weighting grids, and indicative-content examples for texts including Anita and Me, Never Let Me Go, Animal Farm, An Inspector Calls, Leave Taking, DNA, and nineteenth-century prose texts.

Students can use this OCR J352/01 June 2025 mark scheme to understand exactly how marks are awarded for comparison essays, extract analysis, contextual interpretation, dramatic-feature analysis, and literary evaluation. It is ideal for improving GCSE English Literature exam technique, understanding OCR examiner expectations, learning how top-band responses are structured, and preparing effectively for the 2026 GCSE English Literature examinations. Pair this mark scheme with the matching OCR J352/01 June 2025 question paper on markscheme.net for complete OCR English Literature exam preparation.

This document is designed for OCR GCSE English Literature students preparing for the 2026 examination series, including Year 10 and Year 11 learners, resit students, tutors, home-educated candidates, and independent learners studying modern prose, drama, literary heritage texts, and nineteenth-century prose.

It is also ideal for English Literature teachers, revision providers, intervention coordinators, and schools looking for official OCR examiner guidance on AO1–AO4 assessment criteria, literary comparison essays, contextual analysis, dramatic-feature evaluation, and high-level critical responses.