June 2025
Books and reading
[Frederick Douglass & Michiko Kakutani]
Reading extract redacted.
YOUR NEXT PAPER, WITHOUT THE HUNT.
OCR GCSE English Language
Component 1 — Communicating information and ideas
J351/01 · 2 hours · 80 marks · 50% of GCSE
Know the content.
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EXAM SERIESREADING CONTENT REMINDEROPEN PDF ↗
November 2024
Nursing
[Mary Seacole & Christie Watson]
June 2024
Living with disability
[Joseph Merrick & Christy Brown]
Reading extract redacted.
November 2023
Inventors and technology
[Nikola Tesla & Bill Gates]
June 2023
Food and cooking
[Alexis Soyer & Gillian McKeith]
Reading extract redacted.
November 2022
Rail journeys
[Manchester–Liverpool & London–Penzance]
Reading extract redacted.
June 2022
Childhood in London
[Playgrounds & Alan Johnson]
November 2021
P. T. Barnum
[Barnum’s defence & a film review]
November 2020
Becoming a writer
[Harriet Martineau & Jeanette Winterson]
Reading extract redacted.
November 2019
Dogs
[Animal behaviour & loyalty]
June 2019
Courage in war
[Light Brigade & Normandy veterans]
November 2018
Working conditions
[Factory girls & fast-food workers]
June 2018
Ants
[Thoreau & Journey to the Ants]
Reading extract redacted.
November 2017
Women in war
[Trafalgar rescue & Tammy Duckworth]
June 2017
Countryside walks
[William Hazlitt & Jeremy Clarkson]
Reading extract redacted.
Specimen
Freedom and equality
[Frederick Douglass & Nelson Mandela]