Politics Unit 3c and 4c paper June 2014

awww soorry, I must have proper scared you! Are you aiming for an A*? Any tips? Okay that's a relaxing thought

Yeah I am aiming for an A*, umm i think the only tips are knowing as many examples as possible for each point

You guys seem to know what you're doing so could someone help me or please? Last year I got 153/200 UMS marks combined (76/100 in unit 1 and 77/100 in unit 2) so overall I got a B. Can someone tell me 1) how high or low this B is? 2) how many points I was off an A and 3) how many raw marks I need to get to achieve an A overall. Thank you so much in advance

I hope you achieve it do you think I could leave out one of the topics and just revise three rather than four? I sort of underestimated the content and became a bit complacent but really need the A*.

I hope you achieve it do you think I could leave out one of the topics and just revise three rather than four? I sort of underestimated the content and became a bit complacent but really need the A*.

I think it sounds risky but If you have good knowledge of American politics in general though I'd recommend to leave out political parties
have you only just started studying? :O

Thanks you too ! don't leave out any topics, i'll say the one you dont like do it briefly but dont leave it out of your revision completely

definitely needed 160 for an A and 140 for a B at AS so you were nearer an A than a C
you need 320 ums overall AS/A2 to get an A overall so you'd need to get mid/high As in both papers which would be like at least 66/90 in both

Yeah literally I'm really risking missing out on the grade, I can get the A because I have high UMS at AS, but I don't know if I've left it too late
I'm hoping for a 45 marker on Race, I need to brush up with American politics as well by watching some videos and reading articles, what are you using to revise?

mainly the textbook, and anything that's not in the textbook that's in the spec I'm just researching on the internet, although there's one or two things I still don't know but if they come up I'll just answer the other questions

still super scared though!

good luck anyway :-)

Political parties really aren't that difficult, the topic is probably one of the only ones where you can ignore the textbook. That's because the parties topic requires you to be reading or watching the news constantly and being up to date with everything thats going on in Washington between the Republicans and the Democrats. So, if you wanna do well in the parties unit make sure you're reading the news. I have a lot of stuff on parties on my blog if you need more help:

Here's the news page which I update daily and add new stories to (most recent are at the bottom) with plenty of stuff to do with parties:
http://ussmokefilledroom.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-news.html

Moderate conservatism in the GOP:
http://ussmokefilledroom.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/is-moderate-conservatism-in-decline.html

Fiscal conservatism in the GOP:
http://ussmokefilledroom.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/to-what-extent-do-fiscal-conservatives.html

Divisions within both the Democrats and Republicans:
http://ussmokefilledroom.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/divisions-within-democratic-and.html

Hope that helps.

This blog is amazing!! Well done on putting it together. You know the notes section for each topic do they cover the whole specification or are they only revision notes? If that makes sense.

They're mainly just revision notes lol, don't necessarily cover the whole spec since I've spaced out the rest of the spec across various other posts.

Which textbook? I have that mini Edexcel guide. I guess I'll try do a topic a day and some exam practice Sunday :/ thank you and you too!

Okay thanks, it's still a great bank of examples and articles which are up to date, I'll use my notes then and add examples from here I've got the advice of a few people on here which I really appreciate, would you recommend leaving out a topic and learning 3 rather than all 4? If so, which topic?

mainly the textbook, and anything that's not in the textbook that's in the spec I'm just researching on the internet, although there's one or two things I still don't know but if they come up I'll just answer the other questions

still super scared though!

good luck anyway :-)

- Would this question: Why did the Republicans win the 2014 mid-term elections? Be about the 2015 mid term rather than the 2014 elections
- Why did Obama win in 2012? - Unlikely to come up?
- What factors have contributed to the results of recent presidential and congressional elections in 2008 and 2012? - These years likely to come up or another year?

Thanks

There isn't a 2015 midterm. Midterms take place two years into the presidents four year term so the next one won't be until 2018. So, yes you would definitely need to talk about 2014.
This sort of question could be fairly likely considering the paper was likely written just after the midterms, perhaps also consider 'To what extent were the 2014 elections a referendum on Obama'

How would u answer tht q on to what extent midterm 2014 a referendum on Obama?? HeLP plz