Othello: AS and A Level OCR Exam Preparation Pack
Ensure your students stay faithful to the affairs of the A Level OCR Component 1 exam with this thorough and supportive pack. Apply understanding and refine exam technique with key revision activities, detailed exam advice, essay-building activities, exam-style questions and model answers.
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- Student-friendly revision notes and activities on key elements of Othello including:
- Act-by-act and character revision tables, and quick activities to recap knowledge of themes, setting, language, form, structure, genre, context, performance history and the Edexcel critical anthology
The variety of different activities ensures that students are engaged, enjoy the learning and cover all the necessary aspects to prepare them for examinations. There is clear explanation of the topics and how they need to be tackled with examples for students to follow
- ‘Exam Skills’ section containing:
- Sample essay plans with activities to provide a supportive framework for any exam-style question
- Tasks on writing introductions to ensure students make a great first impression
- Guidance on writing clearly and accurately for clarity
- Concise advice on crafting conclusions
- 12 exam-style questions with indicative content, 4 original sample essays with detailed AO commentary and reflective student activities – familiarise students with examiner thinking and demonstrate how to improve grades
- Student-friendly mark schemes – perfect for easy marking and self-assessment
- Plus! Indicative content for all exam-style questions
Ready to embed into your revision programme in class or as homework.
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What do teachers say about this resource? (12923)
An excellent resource, particularly useful given that Othello is set for first teaching in September 2025. It offers a methodical and comprehensive approach to the teaching of the text, supporting teachers and students. It would be particularly useful for ECTs as it offers well structured activities and well-considered model answers... An invaluable resource for any department moving to Othello in September.. Methodical approach applied to Act and Character Revision which will be really beneficial for students to consolidate their knowledge and understanding of the text. It’s also really good to see attention given to minor characters - given that any passage may be given in the exam, students need a full and holistic understanding of the text and all characters and the pack provides this. Such a comprehensive pack will be particularly useful in supporting students in the transition from GCSE to A Level. The focus on independent learning, with the majority of activities modelled, is of clear value meaning that this resource can be used both in and outside of lessons. It offers clear methods of consolidation for students to reflect upon their classroom learning, producing resources that will be extremely useful in terms of future revision... The model answers are a key strength, directly targeting and modelling the skills need to exhibit for the OCR specification. Similarly, the example questions provide a great basis for staff to build their own schemes of learning around.
An excellent resource. Very detailed and engaging. Lovely breadth of activities and very useful information too. This is an excellent resource - very well-structured. Content is superb - great to see such depth in a resource. Impressive range of tasks - lots of focus on exam readiness and development of skills and key elements to include. Focus on application of Aos is very clear. Great to be able to revise acts, characters and then themes, settings, motifs, images and language as well as considering the significance of form and structure too. Zooming in on dramatic techniques is very helpful, and good for students to think about. Role of performance history and critics will also boost attainment – excellent. Ending with sample questions is great. Focuses on all aspects of an A* response. Good to have sections directed at both teacher and student. Breaks down AOs very clearly. Increases in challenge with breadth of possible questions. Indicative content is excellent. Gives students ownership of the mark scheme and how to develop ideas.