AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)- Whether or not the federal bureaucracy is too biog/too hard to control(Original post by unknown123)
what possible question could there be for the cabinet, EXOP or federal Bureaucracy?
- Rivalries between the cabinet & EXOP (why they exist, + the consequences/solutions)
- The significance of the cabinet
That's the main ones they could ask
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)surely none of those are big enough for a 30 marker? I know they are in the bennet text book, but fb is barely mentioned by aqa spec, and the text book caters for edexcel also where they are more important...(Original post by Todd)
- Whether or not the federal bureaucracy is too biog/too hard to control
- Rivalries between the cabinet & EXOP (why they exist, + the consequences/solutions)
- The significance of the cabinet
That's the main ones they could ask
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)Ohh they are(Original post by paddypower)
surely none of those are big enough for a 30 marker? I know they are in the bennet text book, but fb is barely mentioned by aqa spec, and the text book caters for edexcel also where they are more important... I've written decent essays on all of them.
Even when things are barely mentioned by the spec they can still come up (case in point, a few years ago there was an essay Q in the GOV3A paper about split-ticket voting...I'd have CRIED if that came up, nowhere near enough for an essay for definite!!)
For the size/control issues of the fb, you'd do paragraphs on why it has expanded (basically all the same reasons as why federalism expanded - industrialisation etc), then problems like iron triangles and clientelism, then the various reforms that presidents have tried to amke, then the ways in which Congress can successfully check its power. Bam, essay.
For the cabinet/exop rivalries that is more likely as a 10-marker, I imagine, but they can be mean.
For the significance of the cabinet, well you'd look at all the various functons and evaulate them - team-building (stops being important after the first few), policy debate (hard becase of all the specialists), advisory fucntions (the president has EXOP for that) etc. -
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)How did I miss this thread?! I even tried looking for it :/
Anyway, so...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
so much content, I don't know how to go over it all!
Any tips for last minute revision?
Any predictions?
30 mark?? Isn't it 15mark question and 45 mark questions?(Original post by paddypower)
surely none of those are big enough for a 30 marker? I know they are in the bennet text book, but fb is barely mentioned by aqa spec, and the text book caters for edexcel also where they are more important...Last edited by Tpos; 13-06-2012 at 21:33. -
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)LOL u sure it won't come up?(Original post by paddypower)
surely none of those are big enough for a 30 marker? I know they are in the bennet text book, but fb is barely mentioned by aqa spec, and the text book caters for edexcel also where they are more important... -
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)Breaathhee :P it's way too late for revision now, best thing you can do is go to bed and get a good night's rest(Original post by Tpos)
How did I miss this thread?! I even tried looking for it :/
Anyway, so...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
so much content, I don't know how to go over it all!
Any tips for last minute revision?
Any predictions? any cramming now is unlikely to help, sadly. Just relax, try and do your best - remember to evauluate and analyse things when you write the essays, structure them well, and you're halfway there good luck!
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)I think you're on a different exam board, AQA is 10 mark, 30 mark(Original post by Tpos)
30 mark?? Isn't it 15mark question and 45 mark questions?
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)Didn't bureaucracy come up last year?(Original post by Todd)
- Whether or not the federal bureaucracy is too biog/too hard to control
- Rivalries between the cabinet & EXOP (why they exist, + the consequences/solutions)
- The significance of the cabinet
That's the main ones they could ask
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)Aah, in my desperation I failed to see AQA in the title of the thread, haha! So I was right earlier, there is no thread for Edexcel US politics, all the other people seem to be taking the EU option.
I've had 4 exams already this week, cramming has been a must unfortunately(Original post by Todd)
Breaathhee :P it's way too late for revision now, best thing you can do is go to bed and get a good night's rest any cramming now is unlikely to help, sadly. Just relax, try and do your best - remember to evauluate and analyse things when you write the essays, structure them well, and you're halfway there good luck!
but yeah, I do need my sleep too!
Good luck to you too!
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)May ahve come up as a 10-marker, hasn't come up as a 30-marker yet though. The only past paper Q's I've seen (i.e. all of them that are on the website) have been on the president's power.(Original post by Jakeeyy)
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)I hope so, it was persuasion next year. There has not been an explicit, is the President unlimited question yet. Hoping on it.(Original post by paddypower)
does anyone reckon limitations power/ extent of imperial presidency might come up?
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)Im with you on this one. What powers could they ask us? If it is commander in chief or pardon, or anything like that i will be like :|(Original post by MAPW)
Praying EXOP or federal bereucracy doesn't come up
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)Really don't understand how they'd ask a 30 mark question on Federal Bureaucracy, I swear I could only think of enough for a 10 mark question? Wouldn't mind the Cabinet though if it's not one on The President!
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)For cabinet would you literally list everything like what it does, the make up of it, where they get people from cabinet from and how it can be bad due to iron triangles?(Original post by blondie :))
Really don't understand how they'd ask a 30 mark question on Federal Bureaucracy, I swear I could only think of enough for a 10 mark question? Wouldn't mind the Cabinet though if it's not one on The President! -
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)I have a hunch it will be the 10 marker.(Original post by don_lad_)
I would bet everything i own on Federalism coming up for constitution. just putting it out there. -
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)what you reckon for the 30 then? it won't be separation of powers cause it was that last time and surely they won't do amendment/suitability for the 21st century again.(Original post by Jakeeyy)
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Re: AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)Yep it will. Or basically even though it is rigid, it is flexible discuss. Amendment Process, Judicial review and conventions. Essay done. Haha.(Original post by don_lad_)
what you reckon for the 30 then? it won't be separation of powers cause it was that last time and surely they won't do amendment/suitability for the 21st century again.
