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The content uploaded in my shop is a collection of revision notes, knowledge organisers, model essay plans and model essays all directly in line with the exam specifications and assessment objectives.
I am currently studying History at Exeter University. I studied English Literature, History, Religious Studies and an EPQ at A level achieving AAAA.
I wish to share my revision notes and resources so others can achieve top grades too.
Also, it would be really helpful if you could leave a review!
POPULAR CULTURE (A Level OCR History) Popular Culture and the Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th Centuries Revision Notes
Revision notes for ‘POPULAR CULTURE’ for Popular Culture and the Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th Centuries OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes, with historians interpretations:
• Definition of popular culture
• Role and importance of popular and elite culture
• Common cultures: ritual, pageants, festivals, carnivals
• Legal punishments and public humiliation in early modern society: gender, role of the local community, legal punishments
• The role of magic in society: magic, prophecy, astrology and alchemy
• Challenges to popular culture
Also included are plans and notes for the 25 marker essays. Just learn these to achieve full marks. Historical interpretations and ideas are included, which are important to back up your points, enhance your essays and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions from 2019.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks, the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Included are revision notes collating all the textbooks and revision guides for OCR religious studies, and an A* essay on Chapter 2 Death, Life & the Afterlife for the Developments in Christianity paper.
Learn these condensed but detailed notes with philosophers, Christian and ethicists interpretations and arguments to get an A*.
The A* essay included will provide you with a plan to structure all your essays and possible questions for this topic.
Included are revision notes collating all the textbooks and revision guides for OCR religious studies, and an A* essay on Chapter 4 The Person of Jesus Christ for the Developments in Christianity paper.
Learn these condensed but detailed notes with philosophers, Christian and ethicists interpretations and arguments to get an A*.
The A* essay included will provide you with a plan to structure all your essays and possible questions for this topic.
Love and sexuality / Lady of the House and Hostess –‘Women in literature are often restricted in love and sexuality.’ / The most important role for female figures in literature is to present as the lady of the house and hostess of social occasion.
Sense and Sensibility & Mrs Dalloway
Model Introduction paragraph
Full mark essay plan and essay
AO3, AO5, AO2, AO4
Education and ignorance - ‘Female characters in literature are often disadvantaged by a lack of education and are perceived as ignorant.’
Sense and Sensibility & Mrs Dalloway
Model Introduction paragraph
AO3, AO5, AO2, AO4
Motherhood – ‘Motherhood is central to literature by and about literature’.
Sense and Sensibility & Mrs Dalloway
Model Introduction paragraph
AO3, AO5, AO2, AO4
Model essay plan worth full 30 marks
Revision notes for Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary I & Edward VI from the Early and mid-Tudors topic for OCR History A Level. I achieved an A* in this paper using these notes.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations.
Also included are a list of possible exam questions covering every topic.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
A Level English Literature (OCR): Women In Literature Section A Revision Notes
Including:
all books/literature to be aware of for the course
key dates quotations and relevant knowledge from each book in themes such as sexuality, education, religion, marriage, domestic violence/rape/abuse, motherhood…
information of authors such as the Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy and Goerge Eliot in relation to the course including their lives and work
AO3: key dates, social and historical context regarding women from 1800 to 2000 for the UK, Australia, Canada and America.
AO5: critical literary interpretations
AO2: 90+ terms for analysing structure, language and form
Revision notes for ‘The Third Crusade’ for The Crusades OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations:
Preparation and Journey to the Holy Land
Events of the Third Crusade
Saladin
Siege of Acre
The March to Jaffa
The Battle of Arsuf
Attempts to capture Jerusalem
Truce
Failure or success?
Also included is an extended full detailed model essay (1 of the 6 possible essay questions you could be asked for the Crusades topic) and a condensed essay plan to revise from for the exam. Just learn these to answer both the 20 markers and the 10 markers (just two points from the 20 marker plans), and achieve full marks. Historical interpretations and ideas are included, which are important to back up your points, enhance your essays and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions from 2019.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Revision notes for ‘The Fall of Jerusalem and Rise of the Muslims’ for The Crusades OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations:
• The rise of Nur ad-Din and developments in Islam
• The Crusader States after the Second Crusade
• The campaigns in Egypt
• The rise of Saladin
• Trouble in Jerusalem
• The victory at Hattin and conquest of Jerusalem
Also included is an extended full detailed model essay (1 of the 6 possible essay questions you could be asked for the Crusades topic) and a condensed essay plan to revise from for the exam. Just learn these to answer both the 20 markers and the 10 markers (just two points from the 20 marker plans), and achieve full marks. Historical interpretations and ideas are included, which are important to back up your points, enhance your essays and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions from 2019.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Revision notes for ‘The Second Crusade’ for The Crusades OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations:
The fall of Edessa, 1144 & Zengi
Bernard of Clairvaux, Louis VII & Conrad III
The events of the second crusade
The immediate impact of the second crusade
The failure of the second crusade
Also included is a condensed essay plan(1 of the 6 possible essay questions you could be asked for the Crusades topic) to revise from for the exam. Just learn these to answer both the 20 markers and the 10 markers (just two points from the 20 marker plans), and achieve full marks. Historical interpretations and ideas are included, which are important to back up your points, enhance your essays and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions from 2019.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Revision notes for ‘The Crusader States’ for The Crusades OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations:
Problems, weaknesses, strengths, leaders and events for:
The County Edessa
The Principality of Antioch
The County of Tripoli
The Kingdom of Jerusalem
Also included is an extended full detailed model essay (1 of the 6 possible essay questions you could be asked for the Crusades topic) and a condensed essay plan to revise from for the exam. Just learn these to answer both the 20 markers and the 10 markers (just two points from the 20 marker plans), and achieve full marks. Historical interpretations and ideas are included, which are important to back up your points, enhance your essays and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions from 2019.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Revision notes for ‘The First Crusade’ for The Crusades OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations:
• People’s crusade: Nov 1095 – Oct 1096
• Constantinople to Antioch: May 1097 – Oct 1097
o Fall of Nicaea: June 1097
o Battle of Dorylaeum: 1st July 1097
o Reached Antioch: 21st Oct 1097
• The Siege of Antioch: Oct 1097 – July 1098
o Antioch captured: 4th June 1098
o Battle outside gates: 28th June 1098
o (By March 1098: Baldwin ruler of Edessa)
• Set off for Jerusalem: May 1099
• Capture of Jerusalem: 14th – 15th July 1099
Also included is an extended full detailed model essay (1 of the 6 possible essay questions you could be asked for the Crusades topic) and a condensed essay plan to revise from for the exam. Just learn these to answer both the 20 markers and the 10 markers (just two points from the 20 marker plans), and achieve full marks. Historical interpretations and ideas are included, which are important to back up your points, enhance your essays and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions from 2019.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Revision notes for ‘Causes of the First Crusades’ for The Crusades OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations:
Context for pre-1095: The Great Schism, founding of the Byzantine Empire & the rise of the Muslims
Byzantine Empire
Alexius I
Western Society
Church Reform
Pope Urban II
Motivations for Crusading
Also included is an extended full detailed model essay (1 of the 6 possible essay questions you could be asked for the Crusades topic) and a condensed essay plan to revise from for the exam. Just learn these to answer both the 20 markers and the 10 markers (just two points from the 20 marker plans), and achieve full marks. Historical interpretations and ideas are included, which are important to back up your points, enhance your essays and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions from 2019.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Revision notes for Edward VI from the Early and mid-Tudors topic for OCR History A Level. I achieved an A* in this paper using these notes.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes with historians interpretations:
Tudor Society and Economy in 1485
Henry’s Position and Actions in 1485
Threats to Henry VII
Henry’s Government Hierarchy
Financial Policies
Domestic Policy - Nobles
Foreign Policy
Also included are a list of possible exam questions covering every topic.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks (by Hodder Education), the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations such as Keith Randell from extra sources to gain the top grades.
Essay plans with historians interpretations for the big 6 essay 20 markers.
With past essay questions and practice questions.
Causes for the first crusade - To what extent was Urban II’s appeal at Clermont the main reason for the First Crusade?
Reasons for the success of the first crusade - To what extent was crusade leadership the greatest reason for the success of the First Crusade?
Reasons for Survival of the Crusader States - ‘The ability of the rulers of the Crusader States was the most important reason for their survival in the early 12th century.’ How far do you agree?
Causes for failure of the second crusade - ‘The military power of the Muslims was the greatest reason for the failure of the second crusade.’ How far do you agree?
The Fall of Jerusalem - To what extent was Saladin’s military leadership the main reason for the Muslim recapture of Jerusalem in 1187?
The Third Crusade - How significant was the third crusade?
Edexcel Pearson spec revision notes & model answers: fieldwork process, types of data and sampling, primary and secondary data, evaluation of a river’s rock size, infiltration and gradient.
Included is the specification for Paper 1 and Paper 2 of Edexcel Pearson IGSCE Geography. This revision guide contains definitions, key content and crucial exam technique with full mark model answers.
I achieved a grade 9 in Geography GSCE using these revision notes.
DEPTH STUDIES (A Level OCR History) Popular Culture and the Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th Centuries Revision Notes
Revision notes for ‘DEPTH STUDIES’ for Popular Culture and the Witchcraze of the 16th and 17th Centuries OCR History A Level. Use these notes to achieve an A/A*.
Included are detailed and easy to revise from notes, and essay plans with historians interpretations on the following:
The Witchcraze in Southern Germany c.1590-1630
Hopkins and the witch hunt of 1645-1647
The Salem witch trials
Also included is a guide on how to structure and answer the 30 marker essays, and an exemplar A* answer. Follow this guide to write a perfect essay, enhance your writing and achieve top grades.
Also included are a list of past exam questions.
These notes combine 2 main textbooks, the ‘my revision notes’ revision guide and historians interpretations from extra sources to gain the top grades.
GSCE AQA English Language Paper 2 Guide
(With the source and questions from the November 2021 Paper)
The ultimate guide on how to:
• Analyse and annotate a source
• Finding literary devices - structure, language and tone in a source
• List of literary devices - structure and language, with explanations and examples
• Guidance to answer questions 1, 2, 3 and 4
What the question is asking and how to achieve full marks
How to plan for each question
The structure for every question - variations of PEEL paragraphs personalised to each question
Model full mark answers
• Instructions for question 5
How to do well and an example answer
Planning, what to include and model paragraphs