The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Thread
Philosophy, ethics, religious studies and theology discussion, revision, exam and homework help.
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadHey, could you post any useful notes/perfect paragraphs for phil3 but mainly Phil4. I don't really get how to revise them properly -.- anything will be useful. thanks(Original post by hannnaaaaah)
I have done
PHIL1: Reason and Experience and Persons. 100/100 UMS
PHIL2: God and the World and Knowledge of the External World. 87/100 UMS
I have yet to do
PHIL3: Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind
PHIL4: Plato's 'The Republic'.
What I find is the best method for revising is going through all the notes and resources I have and making 'perfect' paragraphs. These are paragraphs that I could use as part of an essay or a short answer question in the exam. Then, when it gets closer to the exam, I condense these paragraphs into bullet points and I learn these bullet points. Because the bullet points were made from the paragraphs remembering them brings back pretty much all of the paragraph.
I think I might still have some of the paragraphs I did for AS and I am in the process of making them for A2. If anyone wants the AS ones I can upload the ones I did. Once I have done the A2 ones I can also upload them if anyone wants to look.
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadHere are my notes for the political ideologies part of Phil 3, if you like them I'll upload the rest of the topics.(Original post by chandlerbong)
Hey, could you post any useful notes/perfect paragraphs for phil3 but mainly Phil4. I don't really get how to revise them properly -.- anything will be useful. thanks
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Thread
Hi. Im doing Philosophy Unit 1 and Unit 2 in the next few weeks for AS Level AQA.
Any predictions/tips for the Unit 1 (Im doing Reason and Experience and Why should I be Governed) and Unit 2 (Im doing Knowledge of the External World and Value of Art -- HATE THAT TOPIC!).
What were the questions for Unit 2 and Unit 1 in January?Last edited by MOSJohn; 07-05-2012 at 21:44. -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadThank you so much for this attachment and the one you put up yesterday. I feel slightly less panicked(Original post by Mill)
I've attached my notes on the Liberty topic. They're certainly not finished, still need the detail, but they're a good place to start.
I used the Lacewing textbook (which is really good by the way) and 'Freedom' by Nigel Warburton (good for details, goes more in depth).
If people like these notes I'll upload the rest, I've got 4/5 of the political philosophy topics done and 2 of the religion ones, as well as 4/5 of the chapters from On Liberty.
Sorry if the delay made me look ungrateful, the internet was down in my area. I'd give rep if I knew how =_=
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Thread
Unit 1: 'Reason and Experience' + 'Morality' (82 UMS)
Unit 2: 'Art' + 'Tolerance' (82 UMS)
Unit 3: 'Philosophy of Mind' + 'Epistemology & Metaphysics'
Unit 4: 'Descartes' Meditations'
PoM seems like an easy enough topic to revise - dualism, material accounts, aspects that materialism fails to account for, the anti-materialist arguments (Jackson, Nagel).
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Thread
Hi - I'm doing AQA Philosophy AS and A2, with Reason & Experience and the Idea of God coming up next week and God and the World and Free Will and Determinism the week after. Then A2 in June with Moral Philosophy & Philosophy of Mind and Descartes' Meditations.
Would love to see/swap any AS plans and essays as I'm out here by myself (A2 can wait!). Likewise I would welcome any advice where else on the net I might find essays, plans and similar; like school sites that are open to others, philosophy forums etc. Pretty green at all this, looking for method & how to argue as much as content. Seeing a few good essays would help.
Are there any thoughts on Conceptual Schemes as a possible 30 point question on R&E???
... and can anyone possibly think of another theme that might just come up for the 30 pointer, apart from the obvious one on Empiricism v Rationalism ?
Thankyou - Thankyou
ps
try http://w1.qehs.net/moodle/file.php/4...1-QP-Jan12.pdf(Original post by MOSJohn)
What were the questions for Unit 2 and Unit 1 in January?
& http://w1.qehs.net/moodle/file.php/4...2-QP-Jan12.pdf -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadThose links say I need to login at the site, and to do that, I need to be a student there, which I am not.(Original post by schönste Jungfrau)
Hi - I'm doing AQA Philosophy AS and A2, with Reason & Experience and the Idea of God coming up next week and God and the World and Free Will and Determinism the week after. Then A2 in June with Moral Philosophy & Philosophy of Mind and Descartes' Meditations.
Would love to see/swap any AS plans and essays as I'm out here by myself (A2 can wait!). Likewise I would welcome any advice where else on the net I might find essays, plans and similar; like school sites that are open to others, philosophy forums etc. Pretty green at all this, looking for method & how to argue as much as content. Seeing a few good essays would help.
Are there any thoughts on Conceptual Schemes as a possible 30 point question on R&E???
... and can anyone possibly think of another theme that might just come up for the 30 pointer, apart from the obvious one on Empiricism v Rationalism ?
Thankyou - Thankyou
ps
try http://w1.qehs.net/moodle/file.php/4...1-QP-Jan12.pdf
& http://w1.qehs.net/moodle/file.php/4...2-QP-Jan12.pdf -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadI think the site is partly locked. But right now I am not having that problem seeing those papers. They just open straight up. I found them by chance via Google after seeing discussion about an infamous R&E question on introspection and tautology but the Google reference now seems to have gone.(Original post by MOSJohn)
Those links say I need to login at the site, and to do that, I need to be a student there, which I am not.
Try clicking the individual links from here http://w1.qehs.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=456
Maybe the school jumped the gun, I'm not sure that AQA has published them yet. Moderator can I copy them here ?????
anyway for the January R&E see the thread AS Philosophy Exam January 2012 -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Thread
My teacher just sent me some useful notes on Moral Phil and Phil of Religion.
I'm also attaching some notes for Reason and Experience, The idea of God, The value of Art, Free will and Determinism and Plato's republic that I've picked up from my teachers and other various places.
I've zipped them and uploaded them since they're bigger than I'm able to attach on TSR:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjwqe691ks...20Revision.zip
Credits go to the original authors.
I've also made some decent predictions for the first paper on monday: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show....php?t=1996044Last edited by divina commedia; 10-05-2012 at 21:46. -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Threadomg, they are great - concise yet specific. I would really appreciate it if you could post the rest when you get the chance(Original post by Mill)
Here are my notes for the political ideologies part of Phil 3, if you like them I'll upload the rest of the topics.
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadI'll post the rest over the weekend when I can tidy them up a bit(Original post by chandlerbong)
omg, they are great - concise yet specific. I would really appreciate it if you could post the rest when you get the chance
I've got the justice and rights topics finished, not started nation states yet. In religious philosophy I've only got reason and faith completed. I've got 80% of my Mill notes done as well if you need those?
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadWhat do you need help with?(Original post by dongonaeatu)
i have my exam monday on reason and experience and personhood can someone help me -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Threadeverything on personhood and reason and experience and how to structure my essays i've done no revision(Original post by sosotalk)
What do you need help with? -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Thread(Original post by divina commedia)
My teacher just sent me some useful notes on Moral Phil and Phil of Religion.
I'm also attaching some notes for Reason and Experience, The idea of God, The value of Art, Free will and Determinism and Plato's republic that I've picked up from my teachers and other various places.
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I've also made some decent predictions for the first paper on monday: http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show....php?t=1996044
Very many thanks !!!!
High scoring essays/answers anyone ?? -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision ThreadIn regards to essay structure I do it something like this....(Original post by dongonaeatu)
everything on personhood and reason and experience and how to structure my essays i've done no revision
Intro (state position)
Argument
Counterargument
Justification
Link back to question
(4-5 paragraphs)
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Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Threadok(Original post by sosotalk)
In regards to essay structure I do it something like this....
Intro (state position)
Argument
Counterargument
Justification
Link back to question
(4-5 paragraphs)
Conclusion... -
Re: The AQA Philosophy AS/A2 Revision Threadah thank youu(Original post by Mill)
I'll post the rest over the weekend when I can tidy them up a bit
I've got the justice and rights topics finished, not started nation states yet. In religious philosophy I've only got reason and faith completed. I've got 80% of my Mill notes done as well if you need those?
and no need for religious philosophy/mills, I'm doing philosophy of the mind and Plato!