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!!
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 essay is based on extension and further reading.
I selected a topic from a Cambridge University Exam, using content from the specification to answer the essay question within time constraints.
This essay is extremely focused purely on Aquinas’ second way, including a sophisticated criticism and counter-argument as well as two popular critics
The essay obtained a high A grade scoring 33/40
This is a blank summary sheet that can be used to summarize the relationship between macroeconomic policy and economic objectives covered in the A-level specification.
i made this for specifically Edexcel, but can be used for other specification
These essay plans are broad, focusing on a general problem of evil question, along with a detailed summary of content on how to approach a question on Augustine and/or Irenaeus and achieve an A*
I have also included an individual John Hick essay plan (as he is specified in the specification)
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 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 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 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 arguments to consider, so it is easier to memorise in time for upcoming examinations and achieve high level 5/6 bands in essay Qs :))
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 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:
Business Growth
Efficiency (E.g. allocative, productive)
Pricing strategies (and non-pricing strategies)
These are detailed Edexcel economic essay plans that are very comprehensive, with examples, specifically UK based and Nigeria (as my chosen developing country for Theme 4). I’ve separated the essays into 5 differing parts covering all/majority of the specification. I have divided all chapters into 5 individually to provide option of buying one chapter. The Topics of my essay plans include:
Economic development, debt cancellation, trade liberalisation.
These critical essay plans helped in me achieving 107/120 (A*) in my ethics paper, averaging 36/40 per question. These are comprehensive, critical essay plans, covering all aspects of topics in religion and ethics. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding any topic in ethics. The essay plans are generally applicable to a wide range of questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on an ethical /meta-ethical theory.
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 notes were very helpful in achieving an A/A* grade in economics. These also include additional documents, such as additional exam questions for Edexcel, keywords and information on Graph Analysis for popular theme 2 topics:
This covers all aspects in concise detail, such as:
Macroeconomic objectives
Aggregate Demand
Aggregate Supply
National Income
Economic policy and conflicts
These are my A-level notes for Theme 3 Economics, which really helped me in securing top grades in my Paper 1 Exam. The notes are full and concise, covering every aspect of the specification in detail, with a structure outlining all points on the specification in order to ensure this. Examples have been provided when necessary to apply context to the economic concepts in Theme 3.
These notes are very easy to learn and are summarised sufficiently, respective to the broadness of a specific topic in the business behaviour and labour market unit. Overall, these notes are invaluable in securing top grades in Edexcel Economics A (A-level 2015) and the content can easily be applicable to other specifications.
These also include;
Essay plans
Essay Outlines
Essay Analysis for Market Structures
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.