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!!
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 essay plan on religious experiences is very broad and focuses on 3 important aspects of the topic which is essential to attaining A* in religious experiences essay.
Whether the experience is real
Is there a cause for the experience
Can the experience be verified and/or falsified (year 2 additional aspect)
Experiencing God individually and with other individuals
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.
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)
These essay plans are focused on: (OCR H573/01)
• Soul, Mind and Body
–> General essay plan
–> Category error
–> Descartes Q
–> Materialism vs dualism
(All these plans are critical and comprehensive, and essential in aiding me achieve an A* in religious studies)
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.
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 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, 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.
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.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan on situation ethics, covering many aspects of Fletcher’s explanation, 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 situation ethics. This essay is applicable to a general question on Fletcher’s ethics as a helpful method as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on agape. 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 essays contain very nice broad introductions (AO1), that can be applied to any SE essay and conclusion (AO2), needing to be tailored to specific Q.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan on Sexual ethics, covering many aspects of Natural Law and a Kantian explanation applied to sexual ethics (homosexuality and sex), along with evaluative pointers and wider reading scholars. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding sexual ethics. This essay is applicable to a specific question on Kant or Natural Law as a helpful method in making decisions around sexual ethics as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on religious beliefs having a continuing role in the area of sexual ethics. 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.
This essay contain very nice broad introductions (AO1), which can be applied to any sexual ethics essay.
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.
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 on situation ethics, covering many aspects of Kant’s explanation, 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 kantian ethics. This essay is applicable to a general question on Kant’s ethics as a helpful method as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on duty. 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 essays contain very nice broad introductions (AO1), that can be applied to any KE essay and conclusion (AO2), needing to be tailored to specific Q.
This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan on natural law ethics, covering many aspects of Aquinas’ explanation, 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 natural law ethics. This essay is applicable to a general question on Aquinas’ ethics as a helpful method as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on telos. 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 essays contain very nice broad introductions (AO1), that can be applied to any NML essay and conclusion (AO2), needing to be tailored to specific Q.
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 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 arguments to consider, so it is easier to memorise in time for upcoming examinations and achieve high level 5/6 bands in essay Qs :))
This document contains detailed essay plans on:
Plato - Forms (General, broad essay plan)
Structure:
Plato’s world view on knowledge
Plato on Forms
Plato on Form of the Good (analogy of the cave)
Plato - Allegory of the cave (Structure - Explanation, Strengths and Weaknesses)
Including detailed analysis to provide access to high marks in essays, and can be applied to a variety of questions in Ancient Philosophical Influences.