Extended writing examples for your GCSE PE Course - Part 3 OCR GCSE PE

After two really successful posts in the last two weeks on extended writing examples for AQA GCSE PE (available here: Extended writing examples for your GCSE PE Course - Part 1 AQA GCSE PE) and Edexcel GCSE PE (available here: Extended writing examples for your GCSE PE Course - Part 2 Edexcel GCSE PE), I’m following up this week with an equivalent set of resources for OCR GCSE PE.

OCR GCSE PE uses a slightly odd structure for the extended writing. They are the mainstream exam board with the lowest extended-writing requirement, with just six marks per paper (10%) but these six-markers are always made up of both Paper 1 and Paper 2 material. For example, the six-marker on Paper 1 ALWAYS contains writing topics from BOTH Paper 1 and ALSO Paper 2. Fine, you say? Why shouldn’t they? Well, in my opinion, there is an issue here. Think about being 16 years old and being in the midst of your GCSE exam programme. Consider that you would be preparing for GCSE PE Paper 1 in mid-May. How likely is it that, along with a robust knowledge of Paper 1 topics, you are also going to peak your Paper 2 knowledge at that point? And how likely is it that you would, once again, peak your Paper 2 and Paper 1 knowledge in early June when the Paper 2 exam is about to occur? The reality is that OCR students enter their Paper 1 and Paper 2 exams too often underprepared on the inverse. This is an issue, and I encourage OCR to consider this for future iterations of the qualification. 

Another point of consideration is that the award of assessment objectives is varied with OCR GCSE PE six-markers. Unlike the other mainstream GCSE PE courses, where AOs are established before a student answers a question, OCR has variable AO distribution in six-markers year-on-year. This is the case, presumably, because of the variation of AOs in the rest of the papers. 

So, with all this in mind, I want to provide some examples of OCR GCSE PE extended planning and writing. The document that you can download below is very comprehensive. It includes questions, mark schemes, planning documents and answers for two extended-writing pieces. They are completely free and are designed as learning resources for BOTH students and teachers. 

**This post is most relevant to teachers and students of OCR GCSE PE 9-1.**

In addition to this week's OCR GCSE post, other posts for other courses are available:

Wed 19th March: AQA GCSE PE

Wed 26th March: Edexcel GCSE PE

Coming soon...

✅ AQA A-level PE

✅ OCR A-level PE

Thank you for taking a look and I hope you enjoy the resources.

James