OCR GCSE English Literature set texts 2027
The texts students choose from for OCR GCSE English Literature exams in 2027, paper by paper, read from the board's specification. The school picks which ones its students study, so ask the English department which your child has.
J352/01Exploring modern and literary heritage texts
Modern prose or drama (study one)
- Anita and Me, Meera Syal
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestley
- DNA, Dennis Kelly
- Leave Taking, Winsome Pinnock
19th century prose (study one)
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The War of the Worlds, H G Wells
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
J352/02Exploring poetry and Shakespeare
Poetry anthology cluster (OCR Poetry Anthology) (study one)
- Love and Relationships
- Conflict
- Youth and Age
Shakespeare (study one)
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
- The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
- Macbeth, William Shakespeare
- Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
OCR's qualification page (checked 2026-09-26) links this version. The poetry clusters are from the OCR Poetry Anthology, Towards a World Unknown, whose content was updated for first teaching in 2022. Read from the specification (Version 3.0, November 2025), pp. 6, 9, 11, 14, on Saturday 26 September 2026.
Also: past papers, grade calculator, and other boards' GCSE set texts.
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