Sociology Exam techniques

**This pack is designed for the AQA Paper 1 - Education, Theories, Methods Paper.

This pack contains a 54 slide PowerPoint presentation that covers the following:**

*** Slides 1 - 11 -** Break down of the exam, types of questions students will face and discussion of marks awarded for each question

• Slide 12 - PEEEL - how to structure answers to 10 mark questions
  *** Slides 14 - 19 -** How to plan and write a ten mark response to the question: **
  • 1. Outline and explain two ETHICAL problems faced by sociologists using laboratory experiments**
  • Slides 21 - 23 break down of another 10 mark question RESEARCH METHODS question (unstructured interviews)
  • Slides 25 - 28 - break down of another 10 marks question RESEARCH METHODS non-Participant Obervations

SLIDES 35 - 54: How to answer 20 mark questions

**20 mark Research Methods question: **

Applying material from ITEM A and your knowledge, evaluate how far different factors may affect sociologists’ choice of research methods [20 marks]

**20 mark Research Methods in Context question: **

Applying material from ITEM B and your knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using written questionnaires to investigate working-class educational achievement. [20 marks]

Both 20 mark questions have slides that explain:

• how to read and interpret the item

• structure of 20 mark responses

• Exemplar responses

  ** The pack also contains a 20 page booklet containing 10 exemplar 10-mark questions (with P.E.E.E.L planning activities for each question.) ** The booklet also contains 10 20-mark questions with space for essay planning.

** An additional booklet is also attached - this booklet contains a sample response with assessment notes for the questio**n

**The additional booklet also contains 2 additional RESEARCH METHODS IN CONTEXT questions with planning a tasks. **