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 is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, covering many aspects of Freud and Aquinas on conscience, 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 conscience. This essay is applicable to a general question on conscience as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on Freud/Aquinas/Conscience as an umbrella term/theological. 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.
As conscience can be approached in multiple ways when writing an essay, there are 3 plans. A very broad plan, analysing Aquinas, Freud and Alternative religious/biological/sociological approaches to the conscience. Whilst, one essay plan, contrasts and compares the view critically of the conscience existing or either as an umbrella term. The last plan, focuses specifically around whether Freud’s psychological approach is the most helpful (2019 OCR exam Q).
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, covering many aspects of Kant and Utilitarian applications to business ethics, 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 business ethics. These essay plans are applicable to general questions 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, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.
These essay plans focus on OCR Religious Studies: Philosophy of Religion -> Arguments from observation:
Cosmological Argument
Teleological Argument
With a specific applied Q on a priori argument vs a posteriori argument as the most persuasive in proving the existence of God.
(All these plans are critical and comprehensive, and essential in helping me achieve an A* in religious studies)
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.
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 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 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
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.
Through studying A-level Religious Studies, I learnt that it is not important to have thorough detailed notes, but a critical writing style and notes focused to the specification with some wider reading. I’ve made this as concise as possible with evaluative pointers, so it is easier to memorise in time for upcoming examinations.
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.
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 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 utilitarianism notes are split into 3 sections:
Act utilitarianism
Rule utilitarianism
Preference utilitarianism
This supplemented with general strengths and weaknesses. The content of utilitarianism is condensed, with quotes, and detailed AO1 focusing on all aspects of the approaches taken on by utilitarians.
This document is also supplemented with 2 detailed essay plans, one with a comparison of act and rule, and another referring to the nature of utilitarianism as a helpful method of moral-decision-making. (Easier way of remembering notes/content).
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 euthanasia notes are divided into 5 pieces of content for AO1:
Quality of life
Sanctity of life
Personhood
Non-voluntary euthanasia
Voluntary euthanasia
This is also briefly and concisely supplemented with application of Aquinas’ Natural Law and Fletcher’s situation ethics, with arguments of whether these applications are successful. This document provides a sufficient amount of information to attain high scoring marks in essays, very brief and easy to remember and understand.
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 are revision notes of Plato. This contains comprehensive notes on Plato on the Forms along with a summary (Powerpoint), and a scholar notes section, to ensure high marks and essays with breadth in scholars and academic approaches to access level 6 band for AO1 and AO2.
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.
My notes on the ontological argument are brief, easy to understand and very quick to remember. The content in this, I had revised only for the 2018 AS level exam, allowing me to achieve 28/30 in the ontological argument question about Kant’s criticism. There is enough scope to cover any essay question on the ontological argument. It provides a wide range of further scholars with synoptic arguments and detailed evaluative pointers.
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 are revision notes of Religious experiences. This contains comprehensive notes on Conversion, mystical and numinous experiences along with psychological explanations from James, Freud and Feuerbach, to ensure high mark essays with breadth in scholars and academic approaches. It also contains a very high range (20+) of additional scholars, with application arguments from religious language and wider reading.
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 are detailed notes on Aristotle, covering all aspects along with the content (Powerpoint). There are also AO2 questions in the document, which is useful for the 60% of marks in the exam for each 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.
These sexual ethics notes focus on all religious / non-religious aspects of sexual ethics, including, homosexuality, sex and marriage (extra and premarital sex), with all 4 ethical theories applied to all contexts of sexual ethics, which are useful for specific exam questions in sexual ethics.