AQA A-Level Politics Paper 3 - 7152/3 16 June 2023 [Exam chat]

Thank you for these - 9 markers for the non-core ideology can’t come up can they? Also, just to clarify - I’m sure you know but you definitely don’t need synoptic links in a 9 marker. Keep them to the 25s!

Out of interest, why are you anticipating liberalism? Socialism hasn’t been assessed for longer.

I was wondering this too however socialism came up in the sample specimen paper meaning socialism as a 25 marker has come up on a paper twice while liberalism has just come up once.

Also besides that, can anyone help me categorise these socialist thinkers into what type of thinker they are?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Rosa Luxemburg
Beatrice Webb
Anthony Crosland
Anthony Giddens

All I know is that Marx and Engels are revolutionary socialist thinkers.

I was wondering this too however socialism came up in the sample specimen paper meaning socialism as a 25 marker has come up on a paper twice while liberalism has just come up once.

Also besides that, can anyone help me categorise these socialist thinkers into what type of thinker they are?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Rosa Luxemburg
Beatrice Webb
Anthony Crosland
Anthony Giddens

All I know is that Marx and Engels are revolutionary socialist thinkers.

Thank you for these - 9 markers for the non-core ideology can’t come up can they? Also, just to clarify - I’m sure you know but you definitely don’t need synoptic links in a 9 marker. Keep them to the 25s!

Out of interest, why are you anticipating liberalism? Socialism hasn’t been assessed for longer.

I was wondering this too however socialism came up in the sample specimen paper meaning socialism as a 25 marker has come up on a paper twice while liberalism has just come up once.

Also besides that, can anyone help me categorise these socialist thinkers into what type of thinker they are?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Rosa Luxemburg
Beatrice Webb
Anthony Crosland
Anthony Giddens

All I know is that Marx and Engels are revolutionary socialist thinkers.

Thank you for these - 9 markers for the non-core ideology can’t come up can they? Also, just to clarify - I’m sure you know but you definitely don’t need synoptic links in a 9 marker. Keep them to the 25s!

Out of interest, why are you anticipating liberalism? Socialism hasn’t been assessed for longer.

Hi! Does anybody have any general tips for this paper as my teachers taught it to us in about a month so not very confident. Mostly confused about the use of examples and structure of the extract q. Thanks

The examples are essentially the views of the thinker, which is kind of what makes this paper easier because theres not as much to remember unlike paper 1 and 2. For example, if we are discussing human nature and socialist thinkers your example would be: 'Marx had the view that...' and analysis would be comparing it to another thinker's view. The extract questions are the same as paper 1 and 2: highlighting the arguments in the source, comparing and contrasting the views in the source to other key thinkers we study but only develop arguments that are in the source. Don't worry too much about provenance as often it is just directly from the works of the thinker. If thats the case, make the provenance about the context of the thinker, why they are writing what they have written, the motivations and the overall context of the time period they're in. I hope this helps

The examples are essentially the views of the thinker, which is kind of what makes this paper easier because theres not as much to remember unlike paper 1 and 2. For example, if we are discussing human nature and socialist thinkers your example would be: 'Marx had the view that...' and analysis would be comparing it to another thinker's view. The extract questions are the same as paper 1 and 2: highlighting the arguments in the source, comparing and contrasting the views in the source to other key thinkers we study but only develop arguments that are in the source. Don't worry too much about provenance as often it is just directly from the works of the thinker. If thats the case, make the provenance about the context of the thinker, why they are writing what they have written, the motivations and the overall context of the time period they're in. I hope this helps

for the 9 markers is there a requirement of comparing specific thinkers view on what the question is stating?
e.g a socialism 9 marker on the role of the state, can I pick out 3 random thinkers or would there be more preferred 3 thinkers to choose from.

There isn't specific thinkers to compare it to, you can compare it to whoever. However, it does look impressive if you were to compare thinkers in the same branch of the ideology. For example, comparing Luxemburg and Marx would look good as it shows that you're aware that even though they're both revolutionary socialists, they have differing views on certain concepts.

i am confused on how to categorise the conservative thinkers as what type of thinker they are:
Thomas Hobbes (political philosopher)
Edmund Burke (conservative thinker)
Michael Oakeshott (conservative philosopher)
Ayn Rand (philosopher and novelist)
Robert Nozick (political philosopher)


is this correct or is there a better phrase of wording what kind of thinker each are?

By “type of thinker”, it means which branch of conservatism they belong to, rather than the provenance of their ideas.

For example, Hobbes and Burke are both traditionalist conservatives; Oakeshott is a one nation conservative; Rand and Nozick are New Right thinkers.