OCR A Level Classical Civilisation Paper 32 2025 Mark Scheme

Get the official OCR A-Level Classical Civilisation H408/32 Love and Relationships mark scheme from the June 2025 examination series. This examiner-approved PDF contains the exact mark allocations, assessment-objective breakdowns, indicative content, source-analysis guidance, philosophical interpretation criteria, and extended-essay marking descriptors used during live Summer 2025 OCR marking.

This mark scheme provides detailed examiner guidance for questions covering Sappho’s relationship with Atthis, nostalgia and jealousy in Sappho’s poetry, natural imagery and female sexuality, Plato’s distinction between bodily desire and intellectual love, the Symposium, Phaedrus, Diotima’s Ladder of Love, the charioteer analogy, same-sex relationships in ancient Greek society, Seneca’s ideals of love and marriage, Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, and women’s education about relationships in classical literature. It includes accepted interpretations, AO1 and AO2 assessment guidance, level-of-response criteria, historiographical expectations, scholarly-analysis requirements, and OCR examiner principles used during the live 2025 marking process. Section B guidance explains how candidates are assessed on their use of classical evidence, secondary scholarship, philosophical analysis, and sustained evaluative argument in essays comparing Plato, Seneca, Sappho, and Ovid. Pair it with the matching OCR H408/32 June 2025 question paper on markscheme.net for complete examiner-style revision and essay-planning preparation. Updated for the 2025/2026 academic year, mobile-friendly, and instantly downloadable from markscheme.net.

This document is designed for OCR A-Level Classical Civilisation students preparing for the 2026 examination series, Year 13 learners studying Love and Relationships, retake students targeting A/A* grades, and home-schooled candidates seeking examiner-level insight into OCR marking expectations.

It is also essential for teachers, private tutors, revision-course providers, and parents supporting Classical Civilisation revision at home. The mark scheme can be used for mock-exam grading, source-analysis assessment, philosophical-essay planning, comparative-literature evaluation, and identifying weaknesses in OCR Classical Civilisation exam technique.