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Official Government & Politics UNIT 2 Thread - June 3rd (new spec)

OP

Yeah... January paper people??

And do you think it's safe for me to revise 3?? Opinions please!

And what topics will come up together?
Constitution with parliament?

and Executive with judiciary?

Reply 61

ArchedEdge

15

Should be safe to revise 3

There was no Jan paper for it

There's only the specimen paper available for Unit 2

Reply 62

laurag23

no one took the jan paper for edexcel for this unit..

Reply 63

jaz_jaz

Is anybody else struggling with examples??!!?

Reply 64

Lightfantastic

Yes, although there seems be to be less emphasis on them than in Unit 1. Do we need to know about whether we should have a British Bill of Rights?

Reply 65

jaz_jaz

Yeah, I've found the examples I know, seem to apply to a number of different topics too.
I think we need to know about codification but isn't our 'version' of the bill of rights our HRA?

Reply 66

Lightfantastic

Yeah but apparently Cameron thinks we should scrap the HRA we have now and come up with our own...

Reply 67

daisyy

OP

Yeah we need to know for and against a bill of rights in the UK

Reply 68

daisyy

OP

And examples aren't as important as they were in Unit 1 ...

Reply 69

laurag23

daisyy

And examples aren't as important as they were in Unit 1 ...

they kind of are for the C questions, like the 25 and 40 markers.

Reply 70

gunners r us

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ArchedEdge

Lucky for you I literally just finished them :yep:

I've put them all up again just to save people having to flick back and forth.

Those notes are great, thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply 71

daisyy

OP

OHH MY GOD :frown:

Ok i thought I was alright, I know 3 topics quite well - judiciary, parliament and the constitution...
There's me getting rather happy... Ok i'll attempt some past papers now :o:

then I look at the question.. I CAN'T ANSWER THEM :woo:

I go through my notes... do not know what section the answer is in? I just can't answer the questions.. I have the knowledge, but have trouble applying it. :woo:

Obviously I can do 5 and 10 markers... but anything over :frown:

Especially the 40markers, it's just the way the questions are bloody worded!
Anybody else have this problem?

Reply 72

jaz_jaz

Hmmm, i've gone throught the entire Edexcel textbook and there isn't really a section on comparison of Bill of rights.
In fact there isn't even much on Bill of rights at all.

Reply 73

daisyy

OP

What textbook have you got?
There is a section on Bill of rights in the Andrew heywood one

Reply 74

jaz_jaz

daisyy

What textbook have you got?
There is a section on Bill of rights in the Andrew heywood one

I have the white Edexcel book written by Neil McNaughton :smile:

Reply 75

ArchedEdge

15

jaz_jaz

Hmmm, i've gone throught the entire Edexcel textbook and there isn't really a section on comparison of Bill of rights.
In fact there isn't even much on Bill of rights at all.

Is there anything on the adv/disad of both parliamentary and presidential government?

Reply 76

Darkest Knight

12

Ahh I still haven't started yet.. I'm going to focus on learning some history today as I've barely started that too....

Is it definitely okay to just learn three topics? I think I'd miss out the judiciary

Also, for examples, how do you go about finding them? I have good general political knowledge but I couldn't quote specific dates of when events have hapepned etc..

Reply 77

jaz_jaz

ArchedEdge

Is there anything on the adv/disad of both parliamentary and presidential government?

well theres a mssive emphasis on presidential and I have a feeling it may be the 40 marker (at least I hope) so yeah because the question would be 'should the uk or is the uk a presidential government?' you'd include dis/ad of the systems.

Reply 78

jaz_jaz

Darkest Knight

Ahh I still haven't started yet.. I'm going to focus on learning some history today as I've barely started that too....

Is it definitely okay to just learn three topics? I think I'd miss out the judiciary

Also, for examples, how do you go about finding them? I have good general political knowledge but I couldn't quote specific dates of when events have hapepned etc..

trust me; from someone who finds politics hard; judiciary is very short and pretty easy! I think I'm gonna miss constitution or parliament.

Reply 79

Lightfantastic

I'm missing out Parliament...but then I've just looked through the judiciary questions in the textbook and they're actually pretty hard!

Wasn't the presidential gov question in the spec though?

Official Government & Politics UNIT 2 Thread - June 3rd (new spec)

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