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, 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.
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.
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 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 knowledge of God through natural, revealed and innate knowledge, with additional scholarly views. This is structured in the order natural, revealed and innate in order to establish a solid essay structure in the set of notes, to prepare you for a wide range of questions and provide a line of argument (where suitable). This helped me achieve 40/40 for this topic in last years exam.
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.
This document contains general analysis for cosmological argument, with critics from Kant, Temple, Copleston, Hume etc… This also provides very detailed evaluation to Both Aquinas and Paley’s teleological arguments, with criticisms from scholars, along with consideration of whether critics are successful. There also contains a few scholars from wider reading.
Very concise and detailed and has the content to ensure a high A/A* quality essay
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 have been divided into individual lectures of conscience I was taught, covering, Aquinas, Freud, Newman, Modern Psychological views and Religious or alternative explanations to the conscience.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 Liberation theology, including Marxism, preferential option of the poor and other critical views. All of the views posed by academic scholars have been evaluated in order to give students pre-rehearsed counter-arguments when writing their essays. These notes were invaluable to me achieving an A* in my DCT exam for the 2019 paper.
I predict that Plato and Aristotle, either a comparison, or on their individual merits will appear in the 2020 Paper. Rather than using a comparison, I have prepared detailed essay plans, specifically covering points on the OCR H173 specification in relation to:
Plato’s understanding of reality:
Theory of Forms
The Allegory of the Cave
Aristotle’s understanding of reality:
Theory of Causation
Prime Mover
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 utilitarianism notes are split into 3 sections:
Act utilitarianism
Rule utilitarianism
Preference utilitarianism
This supplemented with general strengths and weaknesses. The content of utilitarianism is condensed, with quotes, and detailed AO1 focusing on all aspects of the approaches taken on by utilitarians.
This document is also supplemented with 2 detailed essay plans, one with a comparison of act and rule, and another referring to the nature of utilitarianism as a helpful method of moral-decision-making. (Easier way of remembering notes/content).
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 euthanasia notes are divided into 5 pieces of content for AO1:
Quality of life
Sanctity of life
Personhood
Non-voluntary euthanasia
Voluntary euthanasia
This is also briefly and concisely supplemented with application of Aquinas’ Natural Law and Fletcher’s situation ethics, with arguments of whether these applications are successful. This document provides a sufficient amount of information to attain high scoring marks in essays, very brief and easy to remember and understand.
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 are revision notes of Plato. This contains comprehensive notes on Plato on the Forms along with a summary (Powerpoint), and a scholar notes section, to ensure high marks and essays with breadth in scholars and academic approaches to access level 6 band for AO1 and AO2.