OCR GCSE English Literature Paper 2 2025 Mark Scheme

Get the official OCR GCSE English Literature Exploring Poetry and Shakespeare (J352/02) June 2025 mark scheme PDF used by examiners to award marks across the 2025 exam series. This examiner-approved document contains the precise mark allocations, assessment-objective guidance, indicative content, level descriptors, Shakespeare responses, poetry comparison guidance, and SPaG marking criteria used during live marking for the June 2025 OCR examinations.
Use this OCR J352/02 June 2025 mark scheme to understand how examiners reward AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO4 responses across Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and the Poetry Across Time anthology. Pair it with the matching OCR J352/02 June 2025 question paper on markscheme.net for full exam-practice revision. Updated for the 2025/2026 academic year, optimised for mobile and desktop, and instantly downloadable from markscheme.net — your fastest route to top-grade OCR GCSE English Literature revision.

This document is designed for GCSE English Literature students preparing for the 2026 OCR examination series, including Year 10 and Year 11 learners, private candidates, resit students targeting Grade 7–9 responses, and home-schooled students studying the OCR Exploring Poetry and Shakespeare specification. It is especially valuable for students revising Shakespeare essays, poetry-comparison techniques, contextual analysis, and examiner expectations for AO1, AO2, AO3 and SPaG.

It is also essential for teachers, English departments, private tutors, revision-course providers, intervention coordinators and parents supporting GCSE revision at home. The mark scheme can be used for timed mock examinations, examiner-style feedback, standardisation meetings, essay modelling, grade-boundary analysis, and identifying recurring weaknesses in poetry comparison and Shakespeare responses.