I achieved A*AB in respectively OCR Religious Studies, Edexcel Economics and Maths. Graduated in PPE 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 in PPE at the University of Warwick. My notes are concise and invaluable in helping you attain top grades in your upcoming A level exams!!
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.
These business ethics notes are split into 4 sections (convenient for any essay question). Focusing on
Globalisation
Corporate social responsibility
Good ethics is good business
Whisteblowing
All topics covered above, also contain analysis from both a Kantian and Utilitarianism perspective, all contextualised with relevant and valuable examples, to encourage higher AO1 marks.
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.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, covering many aspects of Freud and Aquinas on conscience, 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 conscience. This essay is applicable to a general question on conscience as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on Freud/Aquinas/Conscience as an umbrella term/theological. 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.
As conscience can be approached in multiple ways when writing an essay, there are 3 plans. A very broad plan, analysing Aquinas, Freud and Alternative religious/biological/sociological approaches to the conscience. Whilst, one essay plan, contrasts and compares the view critically of the conscience existing or either as an umbrella term. The last plan, focuses specifically around whether Freud’s psychological approach is the most helpful (2019 OCR exam Q).
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.
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.
The topics I’ve included in this are:
Controlling monopolies
Subsidies
Competitive tendering
Privatisation
(I did not include nationalisation, as I predicted it would not be in the 2019 exam, however there is a possiblity of seeing it in 2020 for Edexcel and other exam boards, so be prepared for this possiblity ;)
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, covering many aspects of intuitionism, naturalism and emotivism, 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 meta-ethics. This essay plan is applicable to a general question on meta-ethics.
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 for me attaining an 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 focus on all aspects of Augustine on human nature, free will, predestination, grace, pride and disobedience, along with some detailed strengths and weaknesses, including critics and overall differing views of human nature from alternative philosophers.
In Theme 4 Edexcel Economics
Developing and Emerging Economies:
I chose Nigeria, as my developing country, in where i explored their strengths and weaknesses, summarised a few articles on Nigeria, for economic context, along with a detailed range of statistics of Nigeria to present a strong essay.
Along with this, I also discussed in reasonable lengths, the UK economy, as well as news articles with focus of other economies, such as Germany and China, for variety, and a breadth of knowledge in preparation for essay questions and longer mark responses.
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.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, using a general structure to answer questions on CMP, 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 CMP. These essay plans are applicable to general questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on the Bible, Principle of Love and Christian ethics.
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 just a quick concise descriptive summary of scholars and explanations/ AO2 arguments that can be used to quickly conceptualise your revision for year 1 Philosophy of Religion, and make flashcards for each topic.
These simple plans follow a very general structure, that can be restructured (in terms of content) to answer various exam questions. I have done this for:
Ancient Philosophical Influences
Soul, Mind and Body
Arguments for the existence of God: From observation and reason
Religious experiences
Problem of evil
This document contains concise, specific exam questions, focused to multiple topics of theme 2, 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 Macroeconomics 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:
Objectives
Policies
Conflicts
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 collation of notes that helped me achieve an A* in Paper 2. These notes include all the content for Theme 2 & 4 For Edexcel Economics A
This contains:
Detailed specification Notes
Detailed comprehensive essay plans for all topics for macroeconomics
Challenging topics addressed in critical detail for theme 4.
Developing country analysis for Theme 4, which serves specifically useful for developing economies essays. The chosen country is Nigeria, with some additional information on the UK, Germany and China for extra economic application to similar essays.
Essay Plans for Edexcel Economics A AS and A-level 2015:
Theme 1
Theme 2
Theme 3
Theme 4
Macro & Micro Essay Plans
Covers all/most topics in the specification
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