2025 GCSE English Literature J352/01 Exploring modern and literary heritage texts (Verified Question Paper With Mark Scheme Combined June 2025)

Monday 12 May 2025 – Morning GCSE English Literature J352/01 Exploring modern and literary heritage texts Time allowed: 2 hours (Verified Question Paper With Mark Scheme Combined June 2025) INSTRUCTIONS •Use black ink. •Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must be clearly shown. •Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet. •All questions in Section A have two parts, (a) and (b). Answer both parts of the question on the text you have studied. •Answer one question on the text you have studied in Section B. INFORMATION •The total mark for this paper is 80. •The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ]. •Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*). •This document has 24 pages. ADVICE •Read each question carefully before you start your answer. © OCR 2025 [601/4872/X] DC (ST) 333534/3 OCR is an exempt Charity Turn over BLANK PAGE Contents Page Section A – Modern prose or drama Question Page Anita and Me by Meera Syal 1 4 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2 6 Animal Farm by George Orwell 3 8 An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley 4 10 Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock 5 12 DNA by Dennis Kelly 6 14 Section B – 19th century prose Questions Page Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 7/8 16 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9/10 18 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 11/12 19 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 13/14 20 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 15/16 21 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 17/18 22 Section A – Modern prose or drama Answer one question from this section. 1Anita and Me by Meera Syal and The Boy with the Topknot by Sathnam Sanghera Read the two extracts below and then answer both part (a) and part (b). You should spend about 45 minutes on part (a) and 30 minutes on part (b). For part (a), you should focus only on the extracts here rather than referring to the rest of your studied text. (a)Compare how the characters’ feelings about family life are presented in these two extracts. You should consider: •the situations and experiences faced by the characters •how the characters react to these situations and experiences •how the writers’ use of language and techniques creates effects. [20] AND (b)Explore another moment in Anita and Me where Meena becomes aware of differences between her family’s life and others in Tollington.