Component 01 Section A worked through — OCR GCSE English Language J351
OCR GCSE English Language · J351
Component 01 Section A worked through
Component 01 reading questions
What you need to know
All four reading questions answered on the two linked texts in about an hour, the time the paper suggests for Section A, with time to read both texts first and the marks used as a guide to how the time is shared.
Answering the reading questions before the writing task, and what the paper looks like from June 2026, when the lines Questions 1 and 3 use are printed beside them.
The worked example uses two linked texts about hard journeys to a long-sought goal, both printed in the lesson: Text 1, from Isabella Bird's letters 'A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains' (1879), on her climb of Long's Peak, and Text 2, from Captain Scott's journal for the days in January 1912 when his party reached the South Pole.
