Critical Thinking

angietash

In your opinions is this respected as an AS, and is it a lot of work? I've looked at a past paper and it looks quite easy, I'm pretty good at argument construction/analysis/logic, so I'm wondering whether it would be worth taking through distance learning? (on top of the standard 4 + general studies)
Any thoughts?

I did it without a teacher..all you need is a good text book to study and the rest is really easy....

Reply 3

GO FOR IT!

I'm only in year 11, i do critical thinking through distance learning a year early. It can be boring, but i do find it useful, especially as i would like to be a lawyer, and the new laws tests are based around it.
We have just done a mock for it, and i got a c! which you have to admit is quite good considering i'm only a gcse student, so i'm sure you could do really really good, and although i should not rub it in, i am not one to do that much work in the subject, as i have other things to attend to.
We have a big folder with 26 units in, you just have to look at validity etc, and a book.i've forgot what it is though because i don't read it! :rolleyes:

Go for it, it s quite a useful subject and complements skills in other subjects, such as history etc

Reply 4

Renaissance_boy

i dont think it is too respected though

Reply 5

amrou

i dont think it is too respected though

It is the best possible subject to study if you want to enter law..many of the entrance questions are based upon the skills in CT...

Reply 6

Renaissance_boy

oh ya - i think it is good for law, but dunno doesnt soumd right

Reply 7

I would say it is fairly respected..put it this way, i am on the gifted and talented list, and our school was funded with some money for any g&t people. Before ct i did AS science for public understanding, what i am getting at is i'm sure our school (especially as it is quite poor :rolleyes:

) would not waste valuable money funding g&t students to do an AS level a year early which is not respected...(it costs £500 per student to do this and there is something like 10 students!) That is like saying lets fund our students to jump up and down on bouncy castles. Also in the GCSE year they would rather us concentrate on gcse's than an invaluable as level (if that were the case)
Also, our teacher is a philosophy professor or something like that :confused:

, and so surely there is some respectability in it. Especially if Law tests are based around it..Law is an hard subject.

In saying all this there are probably FLAWS in my argument :rolleyes:

hehe

Reply 8

LH

zazy

It is the best possible subject to study if you want to enter law..many of the entrance questions are based upon the skills in CT...

Oxbridge don't actually look at CT too favourably - they are rather indifferent to it - they are concerned that it teaches you to think in one way only.

Reply 9

Umm i never thought of it like that....what exactly is OXbridge looking for then>?? :confused:

From my experience of ct, i'm not sure if it does make you think in one way?? Umm maybe it does.

Reply 10

Lord Huntroyde

Oxbridge don't actually look at CT too favourably - they are rather indifferent to it - they are concerned that it teaches you to think in one way only.

yes, but it also teaches you how to read an article properly and question its validity based upon your analytical skills...

Reply 11

LH

zazy

yes, but it also teaches you how to read an article properly and question its validity based upon your analytical skills...

Well this is what Oxbridge professors said at the Conference, it wouldn't disadvantage you, but it wouldn't advantage you in their eyes.

Reply 12

vicky600

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Two of my friends do crit thinking. went and sat in their lesson the other day.. they do absolutely no work watsoever!,, apparently its always like it there!

Reply 13

Adhsur

It is very respected I think, and also very difficult...I did the critical thinking exam last year and got a C! (my first C ever!). Admittedy I did no work for it so I'm retaking it. My Cambridge entrance exam had questions that were very critical thinking paper-style. So by no means is it mickey mouse!

Reply 14

That is strange, because considering their own LAW tests are based around Critical thinking (more or less), isn't it a bit contradictory of them to say oh well it doesn't make you have advantages to have studied a subject that is based around our own law tests?

Mind you that is the same scenario as the "don't study as law" when you want to be a lawyer?? :confused:

all very baflfing ot me! :tongue:

Reply 15

Adhsur

Lord Huntroyde

Oxbridge don't actually look at CT too favourably - they are rather indifferent to it - they are concerned that it teaches you to think in one way only.

That is not true.

Reply 16

LH

Adhsur

That is not true.

That's what we were told concerning Law.

Reply 17

gemma.....

That is strange, because considering their own LAW tests are based around Critical thinking (more or less), isn't it a bit contradictory of them to say oh well it doesn't make you have advantages to have studied a subject that is based around our own law tests?

Mind you that is the same scenario as the "don't study as law" when you want to be a lawyer?? :confused:

all very baflfing ot me! :tongue:

Yes, you are right. but i also heard the opposite before now and how they value it significantly.......
Anyway the skills you learn from it come into use in your everyday life..

Reply 18

Adhsur