Below you will find our collection of revision notes and video tutorials. For the best revision experience, use both the notes and the videos at the same time to help you follow along. All resources are updated for the latest OCR 9-1 English Literature specification.
Revision Resources
- An Inspector Calls
- Animal Farm
- Animal Farm annotated sample script
- Anita and Me
- DNA
- Great Expectations
- Jane Eyre
- Jane Eyre annotated sample script
- Never Let Me Go
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- The War of the Worlds
- Conflict
- Macbeth annotated sample script
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Poetry across time
- Poetry across time - love and relationships
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Merchant of Venice
- Youth and Age
Candidate exemplars
by OCRVideo Tutorials
Some of the following videos are intended for AQA exams, but have not been omitted as they are mostly applicable to the OCR specification.
- Selecting and memorising quotations
- How to analyse context
- Context analysis example
- Top tips for analysing drama
- Assessment objectives
- 10 hidden poetry quotations
- Which power and conflict poems compare well?
- Which love and relationships poems compare well?
- Avoiding rubric infringements
- Language, structure and form explained (Shakespeare)
- The difference between structure and form in poetry analysis
- Unseen poetry 1
- Unseen poetry 2
- Unseen poetry 3
- Exam tip - characters change (or don't)
- An easy way to analyse structure in a play / novel
- Final tips