OCR GCSE English Literature Paper 2 - Tuesday, May 20, 2025 [Exam Chat]

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OCR GCSE English Literature Paper 2: Exploring poetry and Shakespeare (J352/02) - 20 May 2025 [Exam Chat]
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Date/Time: 20 May 2025 AM
Length: 2h
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Reply 1

yoannabn

Any predictions for Macbeth? Or what love and relationships poem might come up for section A

Reply 2

Radhar

I don’t know about Macbeth because OCR likes to repeat characters or themes quite a lot but for poetry it’s probably not going to be songs for the people because that was last year’s

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by yoannabn

Any predictions for Macbeth? Or what love and relationships poem might come up for section A

Reply 3

RaihanAhmed_

Any poetry predictions (ocr)?

Reply 4

wihf

What was the 2024 romeo and juliet paper about - fate?

Reply 5

ary4n.na1r

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by wihf

What was the 2024 romeo and juliet paper about - fate?

yeah and the extract was the prologue. the other question was about whether romeo is an unappealing character

Reply 6

anothersnail

Does anyone know what the 2024 Macbeth questions were?

Reply 7

er1n_20

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by anothersnail

Does anyone know what the 2024 Macbeth questions were?

The extract question was "Explore how horror is presented in the play. Refer to this extract from Act 2 Scene 3 and elsewhere in the play." The extract started with Macduff saying "O horror, horror, horror!" and ended with him saying "To countenance this horror! Ring the bell." and then the whole text question was something about Lady Macbeth

Reply 8

wihf

is there ao3 for poetry

Reply 9

helenc1978

Any predictions for Poetry or Romeo and Juliet tomorrow?

Reply 10

Pwca

TSR Community Staff

How did it go, everyone? :smile:

Spoiler

Reply 11

APP_1000

surely
surely not
surely not the queen mab speech
SURELY NOT THE QUEEN MAB SPEECHHH 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Reply 12

rosieh58

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by APP_1000

surely
surely not
surely not the queen mab speech
SURELY NOT THE QUEEN MAB SPEECHHH 💀💀💀💀💀💀

I’m just grateful the discursive essay was nice bc omg what was that extract question 😭

Reply 13

Bob12737!?2

lament for the poem was a godsend omds

Reply 14

ashpire21

for people doing conflict, did anyone use Partition for part b? I couldn’t choose between that and Honour Killing but Partition felt better 😭😭

Reply 15

ashpire21

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by BagOfRice

did honour killing over thirteen, was hoping to use papa t

i would have done destruction of sennacherib but i know 0 quotes for it 😭

Reply 16

ashpire21

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by BagOfRice

did you do good on part a, that poem was so damn short and dont think i got the meaning

I think I did alright-ish, i was honestly just making reaches lol. at first I thought it was an Emily Dickinson poem because istg she can’t right a single happy poem

Reply 17

BagOfRice

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by ashpire21

I think I did alright-ish, i was honestly just making reaches lol. at first I thought it was an Emily Dickinson poem because istg she can’t right a single happy poem