I achieved A*AB in respectively OCR Religious Studies, Edexcel Economics and Maths. Graduated 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 at the University of Warwick. My notes are concise and invaluable in helping you attain top grades in your upcoming A level exams!!
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 MBS, with critics from Ryle, Dawkins and wider reading looking at Subjective Idealism from Bishop Berkeley. 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.
Both resources contain condensed, concise knowledge, focusing on AO1 content of via negativa, analogy and symbolic language with relevant supporting scholars/critics. There is also a relevant collection of strengths and weaknesses which are valuable in forming solid, strong analysis and evaluation in your essays to ensure higher marks throughout.
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.
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.
Detailed, analytical notes on Irenaeus, Augustine and Hick with very convincing evaluation of all aspects of their theodicies and extra scholars who disagree or support their argument. This powerpoint also provides key words for problem of evil. The knowledge in this document is sufficient to achieve an A/A* essay, and is only 2 slides, making it easier and quicker to learn and memorise a few weeks/days before your 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.
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 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.
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 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
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 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.
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 a summary of Fletcher’s situation ethics, summarizing his views focusing on all aspects of his ethical theory, with criticisms and strengths of the argument.
The second section contains evaluation and objections, with wider reading critics who disagree with Fletcher and information on whether these approaches/counter-arguments are convincing.
Also contains an essay plan, for a specific question focusing on the concept of agape in a 40 mark essay, as OCR are unsurprisingly setting very specific essay questions.
These critical essay plans helped in me achieving 107/120 (A*) in my ethics paper, averaging 36/40 per question. These are comprehensive, critical essay plans, covering all aspects of topics in religion and ethics. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding any topic in ethics. The essay plans are generally applicable to a wide range of questions as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on an ethical /meta-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 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.
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 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