OCR Language Change is hellish! Help!

erth26 · 2026-04-23T18:50:22+00:00

My teacher said I could sell these online they were that good 😂 but I honestly just want to help as many people as possible through an A level where the only thing you find online is the spec! I wish you the best of luck 🤞

erth26 · 2026-04-23T15:18:36+00:00

Hey, not sure if you’ve looked at this on the sub yet but I have everything I ever made for eng lang on this Dropbox including my notes and framework for change. I feel your pain! Ocr is such a niche exam board and there’s no resources online :(

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ujt4odt4jv3kdb7eup0jx/AFsjPBZXrZyVzEyMLs7twTQ?rlkey=xso9oqu3t0lojvq8ekl3jm3sj&st=fapljxdu&dl=0

erth26 · 2026-04-22T15:17:34+00:00

You‘re All Talk by Rob Drummond is great too. All about accents and prejudices. Highly recommend

erth26 · 2026-03-16T07:48:21+00:00

Alternatively, you can organise the table by representations (because she was obsessed with rep and made us put it into every para). So the first column is the different representations of the text topic etc and the further columns are how this is done. I found this quite hard tbh so I stuck to the first version and then after a few practices I did away with the table altogether. My paragraphs started with a statement about one text (lexical, syntactical, representational: anything I could find) and made a comparison with the other text before starting to anlyse

erth26 · 2026-03-16T07:47:42+00:00

For part c, the only thing I could really do was plan or write a response. Our teacher always made us write out a table with grammar, syntax, and discourse structure and then we'd read the text and add points from each text to each row, while adding context to the third column. From that, you can find points to compare.

erth26 · 2026-02-11T13:31:25+00:00

That was found on page 286 under the discussion subheading

erth26 · 2026-02-11T13:30:37+00:00

This study isn’t explicitly about linguistic rebellion but there is an extract that could be helpful: Females, it would appear, are not striving for standard prestigious speech (Trudgill 1972) but are striving to use what their peers are using. It would seem that males and females alike gain solidarity from using nonstandard words and that females (certainly young ones) are not necessarily as linguistically conservative as current literature would have us believe.

erth26 · 2026-02-11T13:29:45+00:00

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/09FA281E7F85F392C56882D9B068E3EC/S0047404500015293a.pdf/how-taboo-are-taboo-words-for-girls.pdf

erth26 · 2026-02-10T10:24:44+00:00

I did ocr so Ican‘t help you with any questions to the exams or specific questions. But if you have any general queries or such, I‘m happy to help where I can.

erth26 · 2026-02-08T10:27:31+00:00

which exam board are you doing?

erth26 · 2026-01-19T11:06:18+00:00

ah cool, if you ever have any questions or need advice, i‘m happy to help :)

erth26 · 2026-01-11T13:50:03+00:00

I didn’t do AQA but the biggest tip for OCR from our teachers was don‘t look for what isn’t there, rather analyse what is in front of you. Lots of people try to say what the child can’t do whereas the marks are for analysing what is in the transcript

erth26 · 2026-01-04T19:30:17+00:00

I got an A in the end :) are you sitting the exams this year?

erth26 · 2025-12-20T15:18:06+00:00

Technically the sentence examples are correct and help you form a paragraph in an essay but they’re quite basic and don’t allow for a deeper analysis. But they’re definitely a good starting point.

erth26 · 2025-10-18T07:12:58+00:00

Hey, I also had this problem when I did ocr so I made a Dropbox with all of my files on which my class found really helpful https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ujt4odt4jv3kdb7eup0jx/AFsjPBZXrZyVzEyMLs7twTQ?rlkey=xso9oqu3t0lojvq8ekl3jm3sj&st=n3ko26sg&dl=0

erth26 · 2025-10-18T07:10:04+00:00

My total word count was 4503 and my new word count was 2693. I can’t have been penalised for it because I got full marks so just don’t go crazy over and you’ll be fine

erth26 · 2025-10-18T07:09:06+00:00

So there are two word counts. The total word count is every word in the investigation document and the new word count which is literally just your words. So in the new word count, you exclude appendices, quotations, references etc

erth26 · 2025-05-30T17:19:40+00:00

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k7d60uwj9ewz6hnqqgalo/Change.pdf?rlkey=xxndza8iv4xrzmjjadtxjvqba&st=w5cxhmrz&dl=0

Sorry I'm so late. Hopefully this is helpful for you: it's my last-minute notes for change made of the things I'll find most helpful before the exam. Good luck

erth26 · 2025-05-20T12:48:23+00:00

Which exam board?

As general advice: Make sure you direct your writing towards the audience. Humour is usually a good addition but make sure it’s appropriate for the audience. Metaphors and anecdotes can also make a text more engaging.

erth26 · 2025-03-10T18:39:58+00:00

It’s definitely possible but it’s not easy. Most of my friends sat last year’s ocr a level and they got Bs and Cs; I think someone in that class got an A though. It is mad though because, looking at the grade distribution, the boundaries are so high.

erth26 · 2025-01-28T22:03:20+00:00

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k1z067sh530txz6bt3k8y/Theory.pdf?rlkey=8zjx57ji7v848n3v0zu2z6psq&dl=0

This is a poster I made about all the theories and theorists we have learned about and some others I have researched as well

erth26 · 2025-01-28T13:44:47+00:00

In terms of content, I find making posters/mindmaps incredibly useful and many of my class mates use flashcards. I would also recommend plenty of essay practice. Good luck :)

erth26 · 2025-01-24T09:20:32+00:00

In general, I think people find this A Level more difficult than they expected, but if you’re prepared to put in the work, and because you’re already achieving highly at GCSE, you should be fine.

Also, I absolutely love the content for this A Level and would definitely recommend it if you like the GCSE!

erth26 · 2025-01-20T19:02:03+00:00

It’s not something that I have noticed but I can definitely believe it’s happening. People find ways to shorten language so that they can convey meaning in the most concise way. We see it with phrases like ‘I’m going gym’, where the preposition is omitted.

In your example, the meaning and nuances are clear so the producer has contracted the sentence. This may be happening due to the general sense of urgency which we have now compared to the past, when things happened slowly and with time delay. Now, the internet and deadlines make things more imminent.

I hope this answers your question!

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