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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!
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 3 Knowledge of God’s Existence 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.
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
GSCE AQA English Language Paper 1 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
- The story question - how to do well and an example paragraph
- Write a description… question - planning, what to include and model paragraphs
A Level English Literature (OCR): Paper 1 Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Section B - essay plans and important knowledge for each theme such as love, sexuality, gender, deception, madness…
AO5 - schools of thought such as feminism and marxism, and literary criticism
Model Essays and Essay Plans
I achieved 92% in Paper 1 in 2023 exams using these notes. All you need to do is learn the notes for each scene for any section A close reading of the text analysis question AND each thematic essay plan with AO5 for section B to achieve top grades.
A Level English Literature (OCR): Paper 1 Shakespeare Twelfth Night
Section A - notes for each scene such as characters, narrative, key quotes, context, and AO2
I achieved 92% in Paper 1 in 2023 exams using these notes. All you need to do is learn the notes for each scene for any section A close reading of the text analysis question to achieve top grades.
AQA Physics GSCE Combined Science: Trilogy - Forces (ch8,9,10)
Revision notes on:
Scalar and vector quantities
Contact and non-contact forces
Gravity
Forces and elasticity
Describing motion
Forces, acceleration and Newton’s laws
(Momentum - Higher)
With equations, graphs and diagrams.
I achieved an 8-9 in 2021 using these revision notes.
GSCE AQA Religious Studies (Thematic Studies): Theme C The Existence of God & Revelation
Included are detailed mind-maps on the Design Argument, the First Cause Argument, miracles, evil Suffering and science as arguments against the existence of God, the origins/sources of evil and suffering, special and general revelation and enlightenment, different ideas about the Divine, and the value of revelation and enlightenment.
GSCE AQA Religious Studies (Thematic Studies): Theme D Religion, Peace & Conflict
Included are detailed mind-maps on Christian beliefs towards war and violence, reasons for war, for and against nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction, and disarmament.
EDEXCEL Pearson GSCE Music – Component 3: Appraising (Set Works)
Included in this revision guide is the specification for the course, context, definitions and meanings. Included is analysis of harmony, tonality, texture, tempo, rhythm, melody, structure and instruments for each set work.
I achieved a Grade 7 at GSCE using these revision notes.
Set works:
Instrumental Music 1700–1820
• J S Bach: 3rd Movement from Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D major
• L van Beethoven: 1st Movement from Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor ‘Pathétique’
Vocal Music
• H Purcell: Music for a While
• Queen: Killer Queen (from the album ‘Sheer Heart Attack’)
Music for Stage and Screen
• S Schwartz: Defying Gravity (from the album of the cast recording of Wicked)
• J Williams: Main title/rebel blockade runner (from the soundtrack to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
Fusions
• Afro Celt Sound System: Release (from the album ‘Volume 2: Release’)
• Esperanza Spalding: Samba Em Preludio (from the album ‘Esperanza’)
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.
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.