Examiner’s eye

Real answers to OCR’s 15-mark literature question, with the marks and comments the examiners gave them: handwritten scripts from the exam, OCR’s typed model answers and the extracts quoted in its reports. Mark them yourself, see exactly what earns the marks, and practise turning a weak point into a strong one.

Sources. The scripts, answers, marks, commentaries and examiners’ comments are OCR’s, from: Exemplar candidate work, A Level Latin H443/03 Prose Literature (Tacitus), Summer 2022 series; A Level Latin Candidate Style Answers, H443/03 & 04 (2018); and the examiners’ reports on H443/03 for the Summer 2024, 2025 and 2026 series. Each answer names its source. The typed versions of the handwritten scripts, the tags, and the stronger points marked as Classicalia’s are ours.

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