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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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)

An exemplar essay for OCR Religious Studies, scoring 36/40. Done under exam conditions.

A* exemplar response essay for OCR

A grade exemplar design argument essay which can be integrated into many questions based on the design argument

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

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 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.

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