I have been teaching AQA A Level Sociology for 10 years. I have developed a series of 'EPIC' topic revision guides for students and also a booklet for each of the 3 exams - with comprehensive lists and charts of past questions, predicted questions and practice questions. All of these resources have been tried, tested and developed through my own teaching experience. I now regard them as indispensable tools for ensuring my classes achieve the best grades possible.
I have been teaching AQA A Level Sociology for 10 years. I have developed a series of 'EPIC' topic revision guides for students and also a booklet for each of the 3 exams - with comprehensive lists and charts of past questions, predicted questions and practice questions. All of these resources have been tried, tested and developed through my own teaching experience. I now regard them as indispensable tools for ensuring my classes achieve the best grades possible.
This is a complete revision PPT for the entire Families and Household’s topic for ‘A’ Level Sociology AQA Spec. There are 23 slides of content. The content of these slides is detailed enough to enable students to write a 20-mark essay on any Families and Households essay title that comes up in the final exam and provide suitable material for the 10 markers.
Students could print these slides and use them as separate revision cards or they could be printed as a complete revision booklet. The slides are designed to help the students break their revision up into manageable chunks – and the use of colourful, highlighted text and relevant pictures should help engage visual learners. I also use my EPIC revision PPTs in class – students have the booklet version open in front of them while I am teaching in addition to longer textbooks and other resources.
The slides contain relevant and up to date statistics from the ONS, the 2023 British Social Attitudes Survey and the 2021 Census – material that textbooks written in time for the ‘new’ spec in 2016 do not contain.
Please note EPIC revision PPTs for Crime & Deviance, Beliefs in Society, Methods in Context and Sociological Theory are also available in my TES shop.
Past, Practice + Predicted questions - AQA A Level Sociology Papers 1, 2 & 3
(note - the booklet for Paper 2 relates to options A2 Families & Households & B1 Beliefs in Society only).
Each of these three booklets are written to prepare you for your final AQA ‘A’ Level Sociology exams in 2025.
Each booklet serves the following functions:
Overview - one page reminding you of which questions you will be facing in this specific exam and how many marks each are worth.
Questions from each past paper are listed in chronological order – so you can read and practice ALL the relevant past paper questions without having to look them up.
The themes of the past paper questions are then presented in a chart that relates to the topics in the Napier Press textbooks.
A crystal ball and purple writing indicates which topics have yet to come up.
A list of OTHER relevant questions to practice are then listed. These are sourced from a range of textbooks and there are many I have made up myself. Those in purple text relate to the topics most likely to come up.
By working through these booklets, you should become confident in your knowledge of ALL the past paper questions – from 2024 back to the SPEC paper published in 2016. You will be aware of which topics are yet to come up – which will enable you to give these areas particular focus in your revision (make sure you revise everything though). You then have a range of alternative questions to practice answers to - many have been written especially for this booklet.
By the time you have worked your way through these booklets, applying your knowledge to the questions presented, you should feel very confident that you are well prepared for the 2025 Sociology exam series.
Students find it hard to grasp the nature of the Methods in Context question. They need to understand that they need to take on the role of a Sociological researcher, and consider how the scenario they are given would work in reality - How would the given method work in this particular context? How might it work successfully? What might the drawbacks be?
Because the nature of this question is different to all of the others in the exam, I teach it a different way. What I have found useful over the years is to get students to look at past exam questions ALONGSIDE the relevant section of the examiners report and the mark scheme. For this question the examiners reports are particularly enlightening.
Consequently this EPIC revision PPT is different in style to all the others available in my shop. There are 11 slides in total. Three are introductory, followed by 8 slides - each dedicated to one of the eight past papers ‘Methods in Context’ questions. Laid out on these slides are the Item, the question, a summary of the examiners report for that question, the mark scheme (17-20 mark level descriptor) and a ‘Points to take away’ box - where I show students how to develop points from the Item in a way to get them into the higher mark bracket.
By the time they have worked through these slides/booklet, students will be much more confident about what they are trying to achieve when answering the ‘Methods in Context’ question and consequently are likely to gain higher grades.
I have also written EPIC revision PPTs for Crime & Deviance, Beliefs in Society, Families and househlds and Sociological Theory (AQA). These are available in my TES shop.
This is a revision PPT for the entire Crime and Deviance topic for ‘A’ Level Sociology AQA Spec. Each sub-topic within Crime and Deviance has been reduced down to between 1 and 3 slides (Total - 19 slides of content). The content on these slides should enable students to write a 30 mark essay on any C & D essay title that comes up in the final exam and also provide suitable material for the 10, 6 & 4 marker. Students could print these slides and use them as separate revision cards or as a complete revision booklet. I also use the slides as a teaching tool. The slides are designed to help the students break their revision up into manageable chunks. Please note EPIC revision PPTs for Families & Households,Beliefs in Society, Sociological Theory and Methods in Context are are available in my shop.
Past, Practice + Predicted questions - AQA A Level Sociology - Paper 3
This booklet is one of a series of 3. Each one is written to prepare you for one of the three AQA ‘A’ Level Sociology exams in 2025.
Each one should serve the following functions:
There is one whole page overview reminding you of which questions you will be facing in this specific exam and how many marks each are worth.
Throughout the booklet each of the questions from each past paper are listed in chronological order – so you can read and practice ALL the relevant past paper questions without having to look them up.
The themes of the past paper questions are then presented in a chart that relates to the topics in the Napier Press textbooks.
A crystal ball and purple writing indicates which topics have yet to come up.
A list of OTHER relevant questions to practice are then listed. These are sourced from a range of textbooks and there are many I have made up myself. Those in purple text relate to the topics most likely to come up.
By working through this booklet, you should become confident in your knowledge of ALL the past paper questions – from 2024 back to the SPEC paper published in 2016. You will be aware of which topics are yet to come up – which will enable you to give these areas particular focus in your revision (make sure you revise everything though). You then have a range of alternative questions to practice answers to - many have been written especially for this booklet.
By the time you have worked your way through these booklets, applying your knowledge to the questions presented, you should feel very confident that you are well prepared for the 2025 Sociology exam series.
This is a revision PPT for the entire Beliefs in Society topic for ‘A’ Level Sociology AQA Spec. Each sub-topic within Beliefs in Society has been reduced down to between 1 and 4 slides (Total - 20 slides of content). The content on these slides should enable students to write a 20 mark essay on any Beliefs in Society essay title that comes up in the final exam and also provide suitable material for the 10, markers. Students could print these slides and use them as separate revision cards or as a complete revision booklet. I also use the PPT as a teaching aid in class. The slides are designed to help the students break their revision up into manageable chunks. Please note EPIC revision PPTs are also available for Crime & Deviance, Families & Households, Methods in context and Sociological Theory in my TES shop.
Past, Practice + Predicted questions - AQA A Level Sociology Paper 1
This booklet is one of a series of 3. Each one is written to prepare you for one of the three AQA ‘A’ Level Sociology exams in 2025.
Each one should serve the following functions:
Overview - one page reminding you of which questions you will be facing in this specific exam and how many marks each are worth.
Questions from each past paper are listed in chronological order – so you can read and practice ALL the relevant past paper questions without having to look them up.
The themes of the past paper questions are then presented in a chart that relates to the topics in the Napier Press textbooks.
A crystal ball and purple writing indicates which topics have yet to come up.
A list of OTHER relevant questions to practice are then listed. These are sourced from a range of textbooks and there are many I have made up myself. Those in purple text relate to the topics most likely to come up.
By working through this booklet, you should become confident in your knowledge of ALL the past paper questions – from 2024 back to the SPEC paper published in 2016. You will be aware of which topics are yet to come up – which will enable you to give these areas particular focus in your revision (make sure you revise everything though). You then have a range of alternative questions to practice answers to - many have been written especially for this booklet.
By the time you have worked your way through these booklets, applying your knowledge to the questions presented, you should feel very confident that you are well prepared for the 2025 Sociology exam series.
This is a complete revision PPT for the Sociological Theory topic for ‘A’ Level Sociology AQA Spec. There are 20 slides of content. The content of these slides is detailed enough to enable students to write a 20-mark essay on any Theory essay title that comes up in the final exam (paper 3) and provide suitable material for 10 markers, should they appear in paper 1 or 3.
Students could print these slides and use them as separate revision cards or they could be printed as a complete revision booklet. The slides are designed to help the students break their revision up into manageable chunks – and the use of colourful, highlighted text and relevant pictures should help engage visual learners. I also use my EPIC revision PPTs in class – students have the booklet version open in front of them while I am teaching in addition to longer textbooks and other resources.
Please note EPIC revision PPTs for Crime & Deviance, Beliefs in Society, Families & households and Methods in Context are also available in my TES shop.
Past, Practice + Predicted questions - AQA A Level Sociology - Paper 2 ( A2 + B1)
This booklet is one of a series of 3. Each one is written to prepare you for one of the three AQA ‘A’ Level Sociology exams in 2025.
Each one should serve the following functions:
There is one whole page overview reminding you of which questions you will be facing in this specific exam and how many marks each are worth.
Throughout the booklet each of the questions from each past paper are listed in chronological order – so you can read and practice ALL the relevant past paper questions without having to look them up.
The themes of the past paper questions are then presented in a chart that relates to the topics in the Napier Press textbooks.
A crystal ball and purple writing indicates which topics have yet to come up.
A list of OTHER relevant questions to practice are then listed. These are sourced from a range of textbooks and there are many I have made up myself. Those in purple text relate to the topics most likely to come up.
By working through this booklet, you should become confident in your knowledge of ALL the past paper questions – from 2024 back to the SPEC paper published in 2016. You will be aware of which topics are yet to come up – which will enable you to give these areas particular focus in your revision (make sure you revise everything though). You then have a range of alternative questions to practice answers to - many have been written especially for this booklet.
By the time you have worked your way through these booklets, applying your knowledge to the questions presented, you should feel very confident that you are well prepared for the 2024 Sociology exam series.
This bundle contains three revision PPTs/booklets that cover the entire content for the following AQA ‘A’ Level Sociology topics:
• Beliefs in society
• Crime and Deviance
• Sociological Theory
Each PPT contains 20 slides of content. The content on these slides should enable students to write answers to any 30, 20, 10, 6, 4-mark question they encounter in relation to these topics in their final exams.
The slides are designed to help the students break their revision up into manageable chunks (each slide is ‘chunked’ with text divided into boxes). There are also elements particularly appealing to the visual learner – pictures and coloured text.
Students could print these slides and use them as separate revision cards or as a complete revision booklet. I also use the slides as a teaching tool in the classroom.
Please note EPIC revision PPTs for Families & Households and Methods in Context are available in my shop. I am currently writing one for Education!
This quiz consists of 11 rounds – each round relates to an aspect of Sociological Theory that features in the AQA A Level Sociology specification.
The quiz can be played as a class, with the class divided into small teams – this is made more fun if there are small prizes on offer for the winning team!
Students could also revisit this quiz in their own time as a revision aid – once it has been used in class.
After each round the answers are shown on the next slide.
Swop with another team and mark each other’s answers.
It is recommended that the question slides for rounds 3,4 & 5 are printed in advance for the students to read as there is quite a lot of writing on the slides for these rounds.
Rounds:
Round 1 – Name the Sociologist in each of the 8 photos.
Round 2 – Match the 8 Sociologist’s names to a Sociological perspective.
Round 3 – Who am I? Match the statement to the Sociologist.
Round 4 – Which feminist perspective does each statement belong to? – Liberal, Radical, Marxist or Difference?
Round 5 – Action theories – Which of the following 7 paragraphs represent true Action theories?
Round 6 – Pre-modern, Modern, Post modern? Match the feature to the period.
Round 7 – Match the word, theory, quote or concept to the correct sociologist.
Round 8 – Post modern or Late modern perspective?
Round 9 – Social policy, Social problem or Sociological problem?
Round 10 – Social policy – fill in the missing words.
Round 11 – For or against? Should Sociology be involved in Social Policy research?
