OCR RS A Level: 40/40 Conscience full essay plans

These notes provide everything you need to get an 40/40 or a high A in Conscience questions. The plans are clear, easy to read and colour-coded so you can see AO1 and AO2. I’ve been tutoring OCR RS A Level for over a decade, and I have a degree in Theology from Cambridge.

These aren’t textbook-style notes explaining the thinkers. Don’t download if you don’t understand the main thinkers already! These notes cut straight to the point and give you 40/40 essays for all possible questions on conscience for the OCR A Level. As with all OCR RS topics, there are a limited number of possible questions from the specification, and this document gives you A Grade essay for all possible question.

These plans use a structure of six shortish paragraphs, with two AO1 and four AO2. You could, instead, have paragraphs that mix AO1 and AO2. Whatever you do, two thirds of your essay should be two thirds AO2 because two thirds of the marks are AO2.

There are many other strengths and weaknesses of these theories, this is just one way of writing 40/40 essays. You may have to adapt a plan to the exact wording of the question set, but in OCR RS there are a small number of possible question themes and these plans cover all those themes, if not the exact wording of every possible question.

Provided are exemplar, detailed plans for:
Question theme 1: Compare Aquinas and Freud on the process of moral decision-making
Question theme 2: Compare Freud and Aquinas’ views on the role of guilt.
Question theme 3: Evaluate the presence or absence of God in moral decision-making
Question theme 4: Is the ‘conscience’ just an umbrella term covering various factors such as culture, environment, genetic predisposition and education? / is conscience linked to, or separate from, the unconscious mind?