[sarah430]

Before anyone says anything about no universities seeing General Studies as a real subject and it being worthless etc, IT IS INCLUDED IN MY FIRM OFFER SO I WOULD QUITE LIKE TO DO WELL IN IT. Just to get that out of the way

I'm sitting the AQA A Science and Society A2 paper in a few weeks, and I got the pre-release material a while back which says 'three hours of detailed study is required'. But I had a look through it and I'm not sure exactly what I need to be studying... Can anyone help me with what kind of stuff I need to be picking up on from the information in it, and (I know this is a very long shot) possibly what kind of thing they're likely to ask?

Any help here would be much appreciated

[JoshC]

My general studies counts towards my offer too but I'm doing OCR so I don't have what you need

[bluesmurf]

You will need to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the material. Try to bring in extra research on the topic and ensure that your answers directly address the question set. Are you studying specification A or B? Check out the AQA website too.

[AnthonyShock]

Hey I'm doing it too. I've analysed mine pretty much, just extra stuff to do.

I've went through, highlighted any terms or organisations I didn't know and looked up roughly what they were.

What you should do though is to look at the source of the information, most of which are newspapers, find out what stances they have on environmental issues, maybes from what political views they have. A Labour-supporting newspaper might have different ideas as to where taxpayer's money should be going than a Conservative newspaper.

Also you could try and predict what essay topics might come up, so thinkabout points for an against them, and maybe's some modern advances to do with them, for example, specific examples of fuel efficient cars being produced and how the public feel about them.

Then again, I really dunno, cos I don't get a teacher for this so I'm kinda assuming. You could just read each article and put a summary in bullet points at the bottom describing it's stance on the issues blah blah.

[sarah430]

(Original post by AnthonyShock)
Hey I'm doing it too. I've analysed mine pretty much, just extra stuff to do.

I've went through, highlighted any terms or organisations I didn't know and looked up roughly what they were.

What you should do though is to look at the source of the information, most of which are newspapers, find out what stances they have on environmental issues, maybes from what political views they have. A Labour-supporting newspaper might have different ideas as to where taxpayer's money should be going than a Conservative newspaper.

Also you could try and predict what essay topics might come up, so thinkabout points for an against them, and maybe's some modern advances to do with them, for example, specific examples of fuel efficient cars being produced and how the public feel about them.

Then again, I really dunno, cos I don't get a teacher for this so I'm kinda assuming. You could just read each article and put a summary in bullet points at the bottom describing it's stance on the issues blah blah.

Thank you so much, I'll give that a bash tomorrow