AQA Religious Experience Unit 12

It will depend on what faith you have covered for the last two years. I studied Islam so I'm expecting questions relating to Muhammad's revelations and Sufi mysticism.

There are three topics to choose from, and you will have to do two of them. We've studies all three topics so I guess we have the advantage of choice. I'm a bit cloudy on NDEs, so I'll be brushing up on them as some of the past questions have been relatively straight-forward on that topic (i.e. describe the characteristics of a near death experience).

None of these questions ask you to give example from one specific faith, so if you know about religious authority within Christianity and Islam, you could draw from examples of both (which is what I'll be doing).

Good luck!

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purplejellosg1

Are you talking about the synoptic module? We have been told to basically revise all the modukes we have studied in basic detail as well as Life Death and Beyond according to the Old and New Testament! I hope this is of some help!

Yeah its the synoptic module, i just don't really want to revise all of my AS stuff for it aswell as some the A2 stuff i got.

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Saxon

Looking at the past papers it seems a bit optimistic to simply revise all your past units (well, most of the units we have done are completely useless for synoptic). We had no help from our teacher either, I'm thinking of doing Religious Experience as we did that at AS, but I'm a bit worried about questions asking for the effect religious experience has had on religions/founding of religions as we've never really looked at it from that perspective.

Has anyone had any help for the synoptic?

Tom

There are three topics to choose from, and you will have to do two of them.

Are you sure? From what I've seen of the papers, there are 3 topics, with 2 questions in each topic, but you only have to do one question, and only 1 topic.

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Saxon

Has anyone had any help for the synoptic?

Are you sure? From what I've seen of the papers, there are 3 topics, with 2 questions in each topic, but you only have to do one question, and only 1 topic.

;yes; I think you only have to choose one question from your chosen section, e.g I have chosen religious authority and will have the choice between 2 questions in that religous authority section.
I have checked out some of the past papers and I think that's right. :smile:

;no; we haven't had much help at all. Our teachers gave us examples of the past papers, ad basically told us to research stuff and get out our AS notes. Meh.

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eXis

I gonna do authority. Easiest! and common sense

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sunnie157

Well if you're doing RS12 then you've either done experience, authority or life after death. We've done life after death but it's a load of self teaching really...Just do a religion u know most about!God, Philosophy was abit :eek:

or teacher just sits there talking. She spent 3 months talking about the Book of Job and nobody knew why.

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Saxon

Has anyone had any help for the synoptic?

Yup we spent half a term on life death and beyond with our teacher. It kind of surprises me the amount of people on here that have barely been taught about it. It is synoptic but there is still some stuff you need to know for the exam!

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I'm doing life after death and there is a lot to learn: spirituality, religious beliefs about the afterlife, the importance of life now, symbols of life and death, eschatology :frown:

. Oh well looks like I'm gonna have to do a bit of 'selective revision' and hope that the topics I revise come up :rolleyes:

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shortysally

I am scaaaared!
Our lovely teacher has made us a revision booklet (we're doing experience) and on the front of it, it says:
Specification: The typology of religious experience, the influence of religious experience as a source of faith, religious practise and moral behaviour, experience as the foundation for religious movements, validity and verification of religious experience.

at the bottom: This is a very flexible unit. You should use a range of information and ideas from the areas we have studied over the course. You will have to answer one question on the exam paper from a choice of two. The exam will last for 1 hour 30 mins, it is equivalent to 20% of the whole A level and so is very important.

Eek.

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