New diverse texts for September 2023
30 June 2022
We're pleased to confirm some planned text changes to component 02 of A Level and AS Level English Language and Literature (H074/H474), for first teach September 2023, with AS Level first assessment in June 2024 and A Level first assessment in June 2025.
Following consultation with our panel of experts and a recent teacher survey, we'll be replacing two of the least studied texts for both poetry and drama in component 02 with some new texts by diverse authors.
We've outlined the changes below:
| Current text |
New text |
| Seamus Heaney’s Opened Ground 1966-1996 |
Malika Booker's Pepper Seed |
| Eavan Boland's New Collected Poems |
Fatimah Asghar's If They Come For Us |
| Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good |
Nina Raine's Tribes |
| Brian Friel's Translations |
Inua Ellam's Barber Shop Chronicles |
You can read more about these changes in our English blog and on our AS and A Level English Language and Literature qualification page.
To learn more about our wider work on diversity in English, see our website.
If you have any queries about this update, please call our Customer Support Centre on 01223 553998, or email us at english@ocr.org.uk.
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