I achieved A*AB in respectively OCR Religious Studies, Edexcel Economics and Maths. Graduated at the University of Warwick. My notes are concise and invaluable in helping you attain top grades in your upcoming A level exams!!
I achieved A*AB in respectively OCR Religious Studies, Edexcel Economics and Maths. Graduated at the University of Warwick. My notes are concise and invaluable in helping you attain top grades in your upcoming A level exams!!
This is a revision powerpoint, going in relevant and key essay summaries and A* details in order to allow students to be accessible to higher grade marks.
I tailored this to ideally be a prediction of the 2019 philosophy paper, however many topics I specifically wrote these revision details for, did not appear. Therefore, this may be useful in preparing for potential 2020 exam questions.
Topics Included in this powerpoint are:
Mind, Body and Soul
Problem of Evil
Attributes of God: Omnipotence
20th century perspectives:
Verification and meaning
Falsification symposium
Language Games
How I have structured these set of notes:
Each powerpoint slide of notes will contain a detailed comprehensive analysis of what many scholars argue.
Ideally the main (textbook) scholars of the topic. Providing criticisms of their arguments, further supported or challenged by other critics.
Some slides will contain additional scholars, who propose different views.
This may be useful for introducing a more specific argument to a specifically focused essay question.
* Problem of Evil and Mind, Body and Soul specifically have a comprehensive set of pure evaluative points, in order to access level 6 band of analysis and depth when evaluating scholarship.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, covering many aspects of Kant and Utilitarian applications to business ethics, along with evaluative pointers and critics to add weight to your argument. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding business ethics. These essay plans are applicable to general questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on an ethical theory.
The content in this document, if correct links are made, can be used to answer many essay Qs, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
This document contains concise, specific exam questions, focused to multiple topics of theme 1, which are also applicable to multiple higher mark questions in section B. These plans are theory or article-driven, and will gurantee an A grade in AS Microeconomics exam for Edexcel.
The exam plans are used as an example to show students how concise answers can be in economics, and how specific mark schemes are for a category of questions.
These Plans Cover:
Free market economy
Division of labour
Specialisation and trade
XED
Subsidies
Government intervention
Government Failure
These are general paper 3 essay plans: I achieved a grade A in this paper.
These plans are not an exhaustive list, as 25 mark essays can cover both macro and microeconomic topics.
This is useful for Edexcel Specification 2015 AS/A-level
This is for OCR Religious Studies A-Level New Specification H573:
You cannot simply “blag” an A* ({sadly, this is true :(((})
These documents provide very useful information on how to structure and write essays, but most importantly, establishing a critical tone/judgment (which is essential for consistent attainment of level 6 band for AO2)
These documents focus on how to use the structure PEREL (to ensure that paragraphs are not merely asserting AO1 knowledge, but doing so in an argument-driven manner with sustained evaluation.)
Whilst this also encourages specific AO2 phrases, this document provides some synoptic links that can be used to develop arguments (due to exam pressures/conditions), avoiding students from drifting off into other topics that have unsuccessfully left not linked towards the question, with tips on time management in the exam.
(This structure is not objective, however if used to a critical standard, but played a massive role in achieving an A*)
This essay plan on religious experiences is very broad and focuses on 3 important aspects of the topic which is essential to attaining A* in religious experiences essay.
Whether the experience is real
Is there a cause for the experience
Can the experience be verified and/or falsified (year 2 additional aspect)
Experiencing God individually and with other individuals
These documents are summarised essay plans for general/specific questions for religious language.
The resources are very useful in achieving high marks, unfortunately, as I did not predict falsification to appear in my exams, I did not produce an essay plan for this, hence reflecting the overall price.
These notes were very helpful in achieving an A/A* grade in economics. These also include additional documents, such as additional exam questions for AQA/Edexcel, keywords and information on Graph Analysis for popular theme 1 topics:
This covers all aspects in concise detail, such as:
The nature of economics
How markets work
Market failure
Government intervention.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, using a general structure to answer questions on Religious pluralism, along with evaluative pointers and critics to add weight to your argument. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding topics in pluralism. These essay plans are applicable to general questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on exclusivism, inclusivism or pluralism.
The content in this document, if correct links are made, can be used to answer many essay Qs, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
This is an Exemplar Response, scoring 33/34 in timed conditions for a Macbeth Paper 1 question.
The techniques and quality of response from this answer is very consistent and touches upon A-level technique.
These are very condensed and concise revision notes, useful to easily remember and quick to learn, with the information to write an A* essay on any question on the given topic. These notes were invaluable to my revision and attaining an A/A* in Religious Studies. The knowledge in these revision plans are sufficiently detailed and have are able to fill the scope/demand of any essay question within the topic.
This provides quick, summary details of all of Kant’s moral philosophy, with some criticisms of each of his ethics, from his categorical imperative to his argument for duty and goodwill.
The document also provides a scholarly list of objections and evaluations for and against Kantian ethics, with an essay plan for Kant (summary), focusing on duty.
These are very condensed and concise revision notes, useful to easily remember and quick to learn, with the information to write an A* essay on any question on the given topic. These notes were invaluable to my revision and attaining an A/A* in Religious Studies. The knowledge in these revision plans are sufficiently detailed and have are able to fill the scope/demand of any essay question within the topic.
Through studying A-level Religious Studies, I learnt that it is not important to have thorough detailed notes, but a critical writing style and notes focused to the specification with some wider reading. I’ve made this as concise as possible with evaluative pointers, so it is easier to memorise in time for upcoming examinations.
These essay plans focus on OCR Religious Studies: Philosophy of Religion -> Arguments from observation:
Cosmological Argument
Teleological Argument
With a specific applied Q on a priori argument vs a posteriori argument as the most persuasive in proving the existence of God.
(All these plans are critical and comprehensive, and essential in helping me achieve an A* in religious studies)
This theme 3 Edexcel essay plans have been invaluable to my revision. The content of these plans have been tailored specifically to fulfill demands of the specification. Whilst I personally use a 2 paragraph structure with however points in my essay in the exams, I like to write 2-4 paragraphs in these plans to provide choice in what content you can build up upon, either contextually or theoretically (in terms of economic analysis). These plans are very example based and/or article driven, as the content/theory is rather easier to apply with given examples provided.
These plans specifically are more unique to my general plans and are very brief pointers of ideas you can use for analysis and evaluation when writing a variety of economic essays for theme 3.
This is an exemplar sample essay plan of a religious pluralism and society essay focusing on inter-faith dialogue, with 3 aspects of theology of religions, exclusivism, inclusivism (scriptural reasoning) and pluralism. I memorised this essay plan for my 2019 DCT Exam and scored 40/40 making specific links to the question, allowing me to achieve A* in DCT overall. This essay plan if used correctly, can be used to answer a broad range of questions within the society chapter of Christian Thought (OCR)
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, using a general structure to answer questions on Gender and Theology, along with evaluative pointers and critics to add weight to your argument. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding topics in Gender. These essay plans are applicable to general questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on Theology and presenting God in male/female terms.
The content in this document, if correct links are made, can be used to answer many essay Qs, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
These are very condensed and concise revision notes, useful to easily remember and quick to learn, with the information to write an A* essay on any question on the given topic. These notes were invaluable to my revision and attaining an A/A* in Religious Studies. The knowledge in these revision plans are sufficiently detailed and have are able to fill the scope/demand of any essay question within the topic.
These notes cover naturalism, emotivism and intuitionism, with strengths, weaknesses and critics.
These are very condensed and concise revision notes, useful to easily remember and quick to learn, with the information to write an A* essay on any question on the given topic. These notes were invaluable to my revision and attaining an A/A* in Religious Studies. The knowledge in these revision plans are sufficiently detailed and have are able to fill the scope/demand of any essay question within the topic.
These notes are condensed, very specific, with each attribute of God containing scholars and evaluation to access level 6 bands for AO1 and AO2, when writing an essay. Content is concise and very simple, with additional scholars at the end so you can apply their arguments and be synoptic and take a holistic approach.
These are very condensed and concise revision notes, useful to easily remember and quick to learn, with the information to write an A* essay on any question on the given topic. These notes were invaluable to my revision and attaining an A/A* in Religious Studies. The knowledge in these revision notes are sufficiently detailed and have are able to fill the scope/demand of any essay question within the topic.
These notes contain detailed information of all aspects of verification (Ayer and Vienna Circle with opposing critics and alterative views), falsification (all contributors to Symposium) and Wittgenstein with a non-cognitive analysis (Don Cupitt) and Cognitive analysis (D.Z Phillips).
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan on situation ethics, covering many aspects of Kant’s explanation, along with evaluative pointers and critics to add weight to your argument. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding kantian ethics. This essay is applicable to a general question on Kant’s ethics as a helpful method as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on duty. The content in this document, if correct links are made, can be used to answer many essay Qs in the following topics, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
These essays contain very nice broad introductions (AO1), that can be applied to any KE essay and conclusion (AO2), needing to be tailored to specific Q.