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 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 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 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 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
Essay Plans for Edexcel Economics A AS and A-level 2015:
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Macro & Micro Essay Plans
Covers all/most topics in the specification
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 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.
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 Death and the Afterlife, heaven, hell, purgatory, limited and unlimited election, along with some detailed critics and supporters, evaluating their views. These set of notes are structured in order for students to write critically concise A* essays. This was an essential guide in enabling me to achieve an A* in my 2019 DCT exam, scoring nearly full marks overall.
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.
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.
This is an exemplar sample essay plan of a religious pluralism and society essay focusing on inter-faith dialogue, with 3 aspects of theology of religions, exclusivism, inclusivism (scriptural reasoning) and pluralism. I memorised this essay plan for my 2019 DCT Exam and scored 40/40 making specific links to the question, allowing me to achieve A* in DCT overall. This essay plan if used correctly, can be used to answer a broad range of questions within the society chapter of Christian Thought (OCR)
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.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, using a general structure to answer questions on Knowledge of God, 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 knowledge of God. These essay plans are applicable to general questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on knowing God through reason, revelation and innately.
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 christian moral principles, 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 moral principles. These essay plans are applicable to general questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on an revelation and the Bible.
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
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.