Component 02 Section A worked through — OCR GCSE English Language J351
OCR GCSE English Language · J351
Component 02 Section A worked through
Component 02 reading questions
What you need to know
All four reading questions answered on the two linked stories 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.
What the paper looks like from June 2026, when the lines Questions 1, 2 and 3 use are printed beside them.
The worked example uses two linked stories of fear in a dark house at night, both printed in the lesson: Text 1, the ending of W. W. Jacobs's story 'The Monkey's Paw' (1902), and Text 2, from Algernon Blackwood's story 'The Empty House' (1906).
