FORM OF NOTE OF 7.35% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2019

JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey (the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS on the Stated Maturity specified above, and to pay interest thereon from the Original Issue Date specified above or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which Interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on the Interest Payment Dates specified above in each year, commencing with the Interest Payment Date specified above, and at Maturity, at the Interest Rate per annum specified above, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment.  No interest shall accrue on the Maturity Date, so long as the principal amount of this Global Note is paid on the Maturity Date.  The interest so payable and

punctually paid or duly provided for on any such Interest Payment Date (except for interest payable on the Stated Maturity specified above, or, if applicable, upon redemption or acceleration) will, as provided in the Indenture (as defined below), be paid to the Person in whose name this Global Note is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date specified above (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date; provided, that the first Interest Payment Date for any part of this Global Note, the Original Issue Date of which is after a Regular Record Date but prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date, shall be the Interest Payment Date following the next succeeding Regular Record Date; and provided, that interest payable on the Stated Maturity specified above or, if applicable, upon redemption or acceleration, shall be payable to the Person to whom principal shall be payable on such Maturity Date.  Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and shall be paid to the Person in whose name this Global Note is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Noteholders not more than fifteen days or fewer than ten days prior to such Special Record Date.  Payment of principal of, interest and premium, if any, on this Global Note shall be payable pursuant to Section 2.12(a) of the Indenture.

This Global Note is a global security in respect of a duly authorized issue of 7.35% Senior Notes due 2019 (the “Notes of this Series”, which term includes any Global Note representing such Notes) of the Company issued and to be issued under an Indenture dated July 1, 1999 between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture) and indentures supplemental thereto (collectively, the “Indenture”).  Under the Indenture, one or more series of notes may be issued and, as used herein, the term “Notes” refers to the Notes of this Series and any other outstanding series of Notes.  Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a more complete statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Noteholders and of the terms upon which the Notes are and are to be authenticated and delivered.  This Global Note has been issued in respect of the Notes of this Series, which are limited in  aggregate principal amount to $300,000,000.

Each Note of this Series shall be dated and issued as of the date of its authentication by the Trustee and shall bear an Original Issue Date.  Each Note of this Series or Global Note issued upon transfer, exchange or substitution of such Note or Global Note shall bear the Original Issue Date of such transferred, exchanged or substituted Note or Global Note, as the case may be.