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This four-page document is a quick guide to understanding the alternate dispute resolution in the A-Level exam. It contains details for the AO1 (knowledge and understanding), and the AO3 (evaluation) spec to ensure the highest mark bands are reached.

Grade A* A-Level English Literature comparative essay exploring the presentation of forbidden desire in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. This essay examines how both writers use Gothic conventions such as female sexuality, patriarchy, the ‘Other’, and fear of the unknown to present contrasting attitudes towards desire and repression. Includes detailed textual analysis, contextual links, and critical interpretations, making it a useful mode...

This document provides many extensively detailed notes on Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber', which I studied for my OCR A-level English Literature exam for the comparative essay in component 2: comparative and contextual study. The document focuses on the six main stories of 'The Bloody Chamber': the titular 'The Bloody Chamber', 'The Werewolf', 'The Company of Wolves', 'The Erl-King', 'The Lady of the House of Love', and 'Snow-Child'. Each short story is accompanied by a synopsis, its mean...

This document consists of an impressive amount of extensive notes on the Gothic genre, tailored to Component 2 of A-level OCR English Literature: comparative and contextual study. It is the perfect context document for this second exam, feeding both the Gothic unseen extract portion and the comparative essay. Thorough knowledge of the Gothic genre is integral to the exam and the A-level as a whole; examiners are not just looking for people who check the boxes and understand how the genre has e...

In this document, I have organised my research of Gothic novels into the concept which they exhibit as well as their publication date, which is useful in discussing influence of other Gothic texts in the Comparative and Contextual essay, as well as serving for the context portion of the Gothic unseen essay. Knowledge of the Gothic genre is integral to the OCR A-level in English Literature, and what examiners are looking for is a thorough knowledge of the genre. Simply naming books is okay, b...

This document is a compilation of detailed context notes that I have gathered throughout my study of the OCR A-level English Literature course throughout years 12 and 13 for Component 1, Drama and Poetry Pre-1900. My class studied Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' and Rossetti's 'Collected Poems'. Given that context (AO3) is the bulk of the mark scheme for this essay, 50%, it is incredibly integral to the A-level overall. Memorisation of these context notes, as well as practiced assimilation into ess...

The complete OCR H573 A Level Religious Studies revision guide — written by an A* student, now studying at the University of Cambridge — covering all three papers (Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Ethics, Developments in Christian Thought) in one download. Full scholar bank, essay question-spotting, worked essay plans, model essays, diagrams, and a synoptic links section connecting scholars across all three papers — 122 pages, instant-download PDF.

OCR H573 Developments in Christian Thought revision notes — written by an A* student in OCR H573 Religious Studies, now studying at the University of Cambridge. Covers the full OCR Christianity specification (H573/03): Augustine's Teaching on Human Nature, Death and the Afterlife, Knowledge of God, the Person of Jesus Christ, Christian Moral Principles, Bonhoeffer, Religious Pluralism, Gender and Society/Theology, Secularism, and Liberation Theology. Includes a full scholar bank, essay questio...

OCR H573 Religion and Ethics revision notes — written by an A* student in OCR H573 Religious Studies, now studying at the University of Cambridge. Covers the full OCR Ethics specification (H573/02): Natural Law, Situation Ethics, Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism, Euthanasia, Business Ethics, Meta-ethics, Conscience, and Sexual Ethics. Includes a full scholar bank, essay question-spotting lists, worked essay plans, model essays, and diagrams — 46 pages, instant-download PDF.

OCR H573 Philosophy of Religion revision notes — written by an A* student in OCR H573 Religious Studies, now studying at the University of Cambridge. This is the exact, complete revision guide used to achieve that grade, covering every part of the OCR Philosophy of Religion specification (H573/01): Ancient Philosophical Influences, Soul Mind and Body, the Cosmological, Teleological and Ontological Arguments, Religious Experience, the Problem of Evil, the Nature and Attributes of God, and both ...