Edexcel A-level Politics Paper 1 (9PL0 01) - 23rd May 2023 [Exam Chat]

Socialism notes ( not sure how good they are as they’re from last year lol)

no i love socialism - my liberalism lessons consisted of us sitting on logs in the woods and the class collectively writing one guys personal statement last summer tho

Socialism notes ( not sure how good they are as they’re from last year lol)

I'm thinking liberalism will come up too. I hope so - it's my best ideology! But do you think that they might do two of the same ideology - since there is two options? They've never done that before, but it still might be a possibility.

I think they always use two different ideologies

For ideology qs do you guys link them to modern day examples in uk politics - is this a requirement? like are we meant to make synoptic links to other component 1 topics like political parties? It doesn't mention it in the spec and I don't normally do this but yeah I hope its not a requirement...

I think they always use two different ideologies

what on earth😭

im currently trying to grasp socialism rn its been like two days and its just long, same goes for conservatism how do u even understand it

the act made voter ID compulsory and it would fit in well for an essay on democracy and participation as it limits the idea of free elections as some groups are less likely to have ID

idk if this is a dumb question but are we allowed to argue that the lib dems are not a major party? like ik the spec says they sill are but

The view that opinion polls do undermine the legitimacy of elections:

- One key reason why is that opinion polls that is provided by the newspaper company may have a political bias towards a party, or a decision that favours them, and thus go to a safe seat within the UK which guarantee a result that would benefit them. For example, the Sun news and Daily Mail have a political bias towards the Conservative party, and may collect their sample for the opinion poll from a Conservative safe seat to deter votes their way. For example, the Sun may collect their data from Hitchin and Harpenden Constituency, which has been a safe seat for the Conservative party for a long time.
Counter Arguments: Opinion Polls are also done by the BBC, who are under legal authority to act as unbiased and impartial when talking about political matters and issues most of the time, due to them having a large influence and audience. If they were not in any circumstance - could be penalised.
- Another key reason: Higher consumption of media from unreliable sources, corrupts the view of a voter. Due to the rise of use of social media, and the slow decline of use of newspapers and TV, there has also been a rise of unrealiable newsoutlets which can corrupt, lie to the reader or even deter the view of an individual to a higher extent and change or even corrupt their political views to extremism in rare cases. This of which has research to back up. Thus, the high pressure from certified newsoutlets and even some Governments applying pressure to large social media platforms such as the new META team who own Facebook and Instagram as well as Twitter to ensure they put Fact checkers to ensure the consumers do not get confused or lied to.
Counter Arguments: The Echo Chamber theory, only allows an individual to see whatever he wants, and is able to verify what they should and should not believe when going through social media.

The view that opinion polls do not undermine the legitimacy of elections:
- A key reason why opinion polls do not undermine elections is due to the fact that opinion polls a lot of the time, especiialy in recent history have not always gone as planned. This can be seen in referendum's more particularly than in elections, but it thus shows the idea that opoinion polls do not undermine the legitimacy of elections since they are both democratic means of making a decision. Thus, the best example of opinion polls not undermining legitimacy is the 2016 BREXIT Referendum, if we are looking for an election, we can use the 2010 General Election, which led to a coalition gov. between Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, and David Cameron's Conservatives.
Counter Argument: It's more consistent to be inaccurate within referenda's than elections due to differences between direct and representative democracies, and the First Past the Post system being unproportional to the actual vote.
This is what I made from the top of my head, let me know if that's good couldn't be bothered to write a conclusion and introduction.

(IF YOU ARE USING A SOURCE QUESTION DO NOT USE THIS SINCE FOR SOURCE QUESTION ALL YOUR POINTS HAVE TO COME FROM THE SOURCE OF THE QUESTION AND THEN YOU ELABORATE ON WHY IT IS IMPORTANT)

Someone told me that I should look at political parties, specifically a debate question about parties drifting from original values, but I cant find any questions or examples of what this sort of question could be like.

Also, any predictions for the 30 marker non source? I find sources fine as they pretty much give you the points already and liberalism... well... my teacher didn't teach us any of the ideologies so I had to do it all self-taught and gave up lmao

I really hate how in this subject they expect you to just give 6 evaluations on random topics that you get taught in about 5 minutes and on half a page of a textbook... idk if im doing something wrong because it feels like im missing something

How accurate are teacher predictions usually, in terms of correctly predicting the topics that are likely to be asked?