LawByLak — Topic 48: Contract Formation (OCR H418, Paper 4)
Offer, acceptance, consideration, intention and privity. The most examined topic on Paper 4.
Four of the five Section B essays OCR has ever set are on Formation. In June 2025, all three Part 1 questions were Formation — 60 of the 80 marks on the paper. If you revise one contract topic properly, this is the one.
What's inside
Three things, in one download:
- The interactive revision module — a single file you open in any browser. Tabs, search, flashcards, self-marking, progress tracking, dark mode. Works offline once downloaded.
- The cheat sheet — the whole topic on a few printable pages. For the night before.
- The revision guide — the full written guide as a PDF, for reading away from a screen or printing in one go.
Inside the module:
- 77 authorities — every case OCR names in a mark scheme or the Teachers' Guide, plus the five promissory estoppel cases the specification requires and OCR's own summary table leaves out, and all six provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
- 117 flashcards, badge-filtered so you can drill only what has actually been examined.
- 48 specification points in a progress tracker you rate yourself against, red to green.
- Three-level answer climbs: for every practice question, a Level 2, a Level 3 and a Level 4 answer to the same facts, each with a verdict explaining exactly why it stops where it does. The gap between Level 3 and Level 4 is usually one paragraph. This shows you which one.
- 21 practice questions across four tiers, plus a scored quiz, a matching game and an interactive element drill.
- Timelines, flowcharts, decision trees, a mind map with a blank-it-out mode, cheat sheets and a full glossary.
Why it's different
Every case carries its court and its year, and says which sitting named it. Where OCR's own material contains an error, we print the error, the correction and where we found it — rather than quietly fixing it and leaving you to be confused in the exam hall.
Works on your phone. Dark mode. No login, no subscription, one file that opens in any browser and prints cleanly.
More A-Level Law revision, and the rest of the contract block, at lawbylak.co.uk