OCR GCSE English Literature past papers

This page links every English Literature paper OCR publishes for everyone to download, newest first, starting with June 2025. Each link opens the PDF on OCR's own website. The most recent series is usually released a year or so after the exam, and it will appear here once OCR makes it public.

Yes, 14 of the 16 question papers here have a mark scheme, and 10 have an examiner report as well, which is worth reading for the mistakes that cost the most marks.

In June 2026, a grade 7 needed 104 out of 160 and a grade 4 needed 47. The grade boundaries for every series from June 2017 to June 2026 are on this course's grade boundaries page, and each series of papers here links to its own year's table, so you can mark a paper and read your grade.

It is linked at the top of this page: OCR's own English Literature specification (J352), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked. According to OCR's grade boundaries for June 2026, the course is examined in 2 papers, of 80 marks each.

cookie's practice decks can make fresh exam-style questions from a specification or your own notes, with feedback and spaced repetition, so you can keep practising once the papers run out.

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