AS Sociology Unit 2 Education exam tomorrow

I didn't think this paper was that bad! Looking at all your comments I feel more at ease now, lol.

I liked the short markers (apart from the one about immediate gratification, I did not have a clue what that was so I guessed it to what it sounded like it meant, lol!).
I agree that the term "social groups" threw me off a bit, because social class automatically came into my head, but reading the item where it mentioned gender and ethnicity I decided to put a few points in about that too.

I think research methods is okay for me because I do psychology too, but it is slightly different in sociology but I guess it does put you at a bit of an advantage. I done the one on official statistics and that it provides quantitative data, positivists prefer it, it's secondary etc..
For the second essay question in methods, I wrote about practical issues and ethical issues, and about cover, overt and lab experiments.

I hope I done well, but can only wait until August!

Reply 101

lukex20

Original post by Jessica_94

oh no i think i wrote the first essay on the wrong thing. please say it asked about inside school factors?

i wrote about labelling, self fulfilling prophecy, sub cultures and the A-C ecoomy etc.. i didnt mention anything on outside school factors like material deprivation etc. i didnt even mention ethnicity or gender apart from a critism that these should be considered. SCARED

not that i want to worry you but it was an 'assess' question so you should have definitely included some out of school factors and then write in the conclusion which you think is more important in deciding the achievement of social groups. since you only included inside school factors i think you're going to struggle to get over half marks assuming your in school factors are very detailed :frown:

Reply 102

Jessica_94

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Original post by lukex20

not that i want to worry you but it was an 'assess' question so you should have definitely included some out of school factors and then write in the conclusion which you think is more important in deciding the achievement of social groups. since you only included inside school factors i think you're going to struggle to get over half marks assuming your in school factors are very detailed :frown:

oh ok thanks, genuinly so scared now! F*CK!

Reply 103

akemikat

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Original post by Jessica_94

oh ok thanks, genuinly so scared now! F*CK!

Jessica, don't worry, honestly.. you'll be alright. Don't let other people worry you. You can afford to lose quite a few marks on this and still even get an A..

Reply 104

football124

Could someone clarify something for me? In the social group q i wrote about gender, ethnicity and class? A lot of people just talked about class so who was write?

Reply 105

lukex20

Original post by football124

Could someone clarify something for me? In the social group q i wrote about gender, ethnicity and class? A lot of people just talked about class so who was write?

you did the right thing the item included all 3 and the item is there to help. :smile:

Reply 106

Diamondzed

Hey guys. I think I seriously confused myself today for this exam :frown:

Even though I initially though the term "social group" referred to class. I changed my mind and then wrote about all three (gender, class & ethnicity) in the exam. I think the Item A made me write about certain aspects of all three types.

I'm unsure whether I was correct or not, but the answer did seem to be quite vague....
Can someone please discuss this further and what they thought?

Reply 107

Diamondzed

error correction : *question did seem to be vague for the Section A education section...

Reply 108

lukex20

Original post by Diamondzed

Hey guys. I think I seriously confused myself today for this exam :frown:

Even though I initially though the term "social group" referred to class. I changed my mind and then wrote about all three (gender, class & ethnicity) in the exam. I think the Item A made me write about certain aspects of all three types.

I'm unsure whether I was correct or not, but the answer did seem to be quite vague....
Can someone please discuss this further and what they thought?

if you go to page 5 i did a very big post about everything i included on the essays

(not saying it's completely right but the general idea is there)

Reply 109

football124

Original post by Diamondzed

Hey guys. I think I seriously confused myself today for this exam :frown:

Even though I initially though the term "social group" referred to class. I changed my mind and then wrote about all three (gender, class & ethnicity) in the exam. I think the Item A made me write about certain aspects of all three types.

I'm unsure whether I was correct or not, but the answer did seem to be quite vague....
Can someone please discuss this further and what they thought?

It was very misleading for AQA to use the term 'social groups'. I think you did right but a lot of people on mentioned social class.

Reply 110

Diamondzed

Thanks.. that's very useful.

A lot of my ideas particularly for the Education essay and the 12 mark essay were similar to yours.

Made me feel alot better ... :smile:

Reply 111

King Leonidas

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Original post by akemikat

Jessica, don't worry, honestly.. you'll be alright. Don't let other people worry you. You can afford to lose quite a few marks on this and still even get an A..

And how did you come to that conclusion :holmes:

Bag yourselves as many marks NOW!!, A2 is so much more difficult!!

Reply 112

Diamondzed

@ football124.

I agree, the term "social group" was misleading.
Alot of people did only mention social class but I hope AQA understand that the questions did cause problems in interpretations when allocating grades.

How did you find the education essay?

Reply 113

username779295

I feel so stupid my whole processes and school factors was COMPLETLEY about ethnicity. :/ i said in my conclusion that this could not be isolated as evans said there was an overlap with class and gender :/ any thoughts?I feel so stupid my whole processes and school factors was COMPLETLEY about ethnicity. :/ i said in my conclusion that this could not be isolated as evans said there was an overlap with class and gender :/ any thoughts?

Reply 114

Jessica_94

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Original post by akemikat

Jessica, don't worry, honestly.. you'll be alright. Don't let other people worry you. You can afford to lose quite a few marks on this and still even get an A..

aw thankyou, made me feel better haha! did you do the exam too?

Reply 115

kkate1212

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what did people write for question 03. the one about policies creating marketisation? or whatever the question was.. ?

Reply 116

User633422

Guys I am pretty sure the UMS system - essentially what equals the final grade comes from the averages. (of marks)

Therefore if it seems like the majority have done , mis answering this question
shouldnt have a massive impact :redface:

Reply 117

lukex20

Original post by kkate1212

what did people write for question 03. the one about policies creating marketisation? or whatever the question was.. ?

i did:

introduction of league tables
OFSTED reports
specialist schools enticing parents

there was a better one than my last point but i forgot it

Reply 118

*Hakz*

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To be honest, the exam could not have gone any easier than what was laid down to us today. I was personally delighted as soon as I opened the paper and I saw the questions that were asked. I did no sufficient revision as I was focusing on other important exams.

Luckily enough, I guessed that participant observation and official statistics would come into section 2 which it did, so I had quite a lot to write and included nearly every possible detail linked to participant observation which is quite the easier one of the two. I used James Patrick (Glasgow gang) study as an example of research that conducted participant observation.

The last question was the horrible question about experiements. We did a mock about a week ago on exactly the same question and I could no write a single sentence relating to experiment. My teacher then decided to go through it with the whole class. I still found it difficult to understand but gained quite a few knowledge from it. It was the Practical, Ethical and Theoritical issues that I used to answer the question and I realised that I did know quite a bit after writing a page and a half. I then used Milgram's shock experiment.

All in all, I'm quite pleased with the paper and we should all be. If social policies like the tripatite system e.t.c had came up, no one would be happy to answer a 20 mark question about that.

So, for those who are worrying, you really don't have to. I didn't complete my unit 1 exam in January and ended up getting one mark off an A. So it really isn't as bad as you might all think. The examiners would have some sympathy when marking the 20 'social group' question as it was quite vague :smile:

Reply 119

JustMe2010

Original post by kkate1212

what did people write for question 03. the one about policies creating marketisation? or whatever the question was.. ?