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 on Sexual ethics, covering many aspects of Natural Law and a Kantian explanation applied to sexual ethics (homosexuality and sex), along with evaluative pointers and wider reading scholars. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding sexual ethics. This essay is applicable to a specific question on Kant or Natural Law as a helpful method in making decisions around sexual ethics as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on religious beliefs having a continuing role in the area of sexual ethics. The content in this document, if correct links are made, can be used to answer many essay Qs in the following topic, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
This essay contain very nice broad introductions (AO1), which can be applied to any sexual ethics essay.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, covering many aspects of Natural Law and Situation Ethics applications to euthanasia, 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 euthanasia. This essay is applicable to a general question on conscience 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 in the following topics, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan on utilitarianism, covering many aspects of Bentham and Mill’s explanation, along with evaluative pointers 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 utilitarianism. The complexity of the argument for this specific plan is very advanced, and very argument driven. The content in this document, if correct links are made, can be used to answer many essay Qs in the following topic, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
These essays contain very nice broad introductions (AO1), that can be applied to any utilitarianism essay and conclusion (AO2), needing to be tailored to specific Q.
Essays covering (FOR OCR H173 -> 40 markers - PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION)/Applicable to other specifications in content
Problem of evil as a whole
Augustine
Hick
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).
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 essay plans are focused on: (OCR H573/01)
These focus on 3 different questions that could be asked on the ontological argument. With both an A* summarised essay plan, with all the relevant and extra scholars and evaluative pointers, which can guarantee high scores in essay questions.
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.
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.
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.
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)
These essay plans are focused on: (OCR H573/01)
• Soul, Mind and Body
–> General essay plan
–> Category error
–> Descartes Q
–> Materialism vs dualism
(All these plans are critical and comprehensive, and essential in aiding me achieve an A* in religious studies)
These essay plans are focused on: (OCR H573/01)
• Plato (Focusing on both 2 aspects: His theory of Forms and the allegory of the cave) + One over many argument, his general theory of knowledge and the Form of the Good
• Aristotle (Focusing on his theory of causation and Prime Mover), as well as a general essay plan.
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*)
These documents are summarised essay plans for general/specific questions for religious language.
The resources are very useful in achieving high marks, unfortunately, as I did not predict falsification to appear in my exams, I did not produce an essay plan for this, hence reflecting the overall price.
This document provides brief and extensive revision points for preparing and writing high quality A* or 36-40/40 mark essays in examinations. It provides examples of how to tackle highly engaging questions, that may require students to draw up and reflect knowledge from more than one topic. Furthermore, I have provided detailed analysis on essay responses with major AO2 critiques and criticisms (with explanations). This has been done specifically for: Design Argument, verification principle, MBS (Mind, Body and Soul) and Ontological Argument. As majority of these topics did not appear in 2019 papers, it would be excellent preparation in achieving in A* in the philosophy of religion paper.
The content delivered in these documents are structured to meet demands of OCR, but can equally be useful for AQA, other examination boards testing religious studies/philosophy through predominantly essay writing.
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
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 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 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.