Group for those who do OCR A2 Philosophy & Ethics [Post Exam Discussion]

But if it was culturally relative, wouldn't this make it non-cognitive?

And what about other ethical words, sorry, still not clear on how he is arguing that ethical language as a whole is meaningful.

EDIT: is it that he is saying we can know it through reason in a similar way to Kant? i.e. our duties are absolute?

Think I'm pretty much just thinking aloud now lmao.

I reckon there will be one religious language question, one nature of God question, one life after death question, and then it will be either religious experience OR miracles.

really ? are you sure you don't mean that awful blue one by ocr ? i'm meaning the really thick orange and turquoise one for philosophy by matthew taylor and then the ethics is a purpley book, by jill oliphant. was lead to believe they were good so used them both last year and managed to get a high a. which is why i'm so wary of switching to another book.. if that makes sense ! :P

ahh bowie yeahh i've heard of him ! hmm.. so you don't think it's bad to be solely using this 2nd edition, advanced religious studies ? it's really, really good and seems to have everything in it, + additional quotes to boost your grade.

ahh yeahh that sounds good damnn literally one and a bit days left and i'm only just questioning what resources to use ! ohh dearr i'm soo not looking forward to monday ! what grade are you hoping of getting by the way ?

I reckon there will be one religious language question, one nature of God question, one life after death question, and then it will be either religious experience OR miracles.

You sound very stressed! I've never heard of the materials you're using, but they sound fine by me. Yeah, I was referring to the "awful blue one", which is a fairly good summary of that book!

To be honest, there's no way you'll be able to get any other textbooks or revision guides for this subject in the next 36 hours, so don't fret about it. Keep revising however you revise now and I'm sure you'll be OK. Are you working on a few specific topics, or trying to revise every single unit?

I'm hoping for an A in this exam - I mean, really, really hoping, since my offer is AABb and whilst the other grades are pretty secure, I'm something like .5 UMS into the A in RS at AS, so I absolutely need the A this year. And yourself?

yeahh, i am extremely stressed ! :P i must sounds like such a geek, hahahaa :P hahaa yeahh that book really is awful, i know people who have spent ages during their study leave making notes from that and i was a bit like yeahh it's a good summary but i doubt you'd get over a c solely using that ! i've also managed to rip the cover off mine, which i don't think my teacher will be too pleased about. she's head of r.s. and is constantly commenting on our 'treatment' of the books, due to the whole thing about cuts from the government.. knowing her she'll make me pay for it.. fml !

hahaa yeahh very true.. this is exam is just soo stressful it's hard not to panic ! and the fact you have to sit both on the same day, it's just soo unfair

no i'm missing topics out ! i'm just mainly revising life after death and religious language for philosophy and then may go over religious experience if i have time, but definitely not doing any revelation of scripture or attributes of God !

for ethics i'm hoping for meta ethics and free will and determinism, but i'm going to revise sexual ethics just to be safe ! and i've also made business ethics but not sure if i'll have enough time to go over them :/

what about you ? are you revising them all, or leaving some out ?

ohh well i'm sure you'll get it i was also looking at the grade boundaries from as i think it was just 70% or a bit over to get the a, so it's doable ! i'm hoping, rather ambitiously, to get an a* ! i'm actually well into the a* band for as, only dropped 4 ums marks last summer.. don't ask me how ! so my parents are really keen for me to keep it ! which is why i'm so darn stressed ! hahaa :P

You do realise that you've only made 1 prediction there: religious experience and miracle won't be both on the paper :P

Hi - Was wondering who else was doing:

- A2 Philosophy: Monday 13th June (AM)
- A2 Ethics: Monday 13th June (AM)

Was thinking we could discuss topics/share exam/study techniques etc.

I know, and by doing so I predicted that the other topics would be! Were you on the Oxford thread a few months back btw?

Are there any scholars which argue the libertarian (non-compatibalist) approach to free will? I only have Kant in my notes... it seems like such a weak theory

Is this with the OCR board? I've recently completed my AS levels in them and we had Philosophy and Ethics in one 3 hour sitting so I'm intrigued as to why they're separate. Maybe because it's A2?

Alright, sorry if this is a long list. Just going through the syllabus and seeing stuff I don't understand. Any help on any of it is very welcome



Thanks for any help! - Looks liek I'll be struggling on philosophy more than ethics.

yeahh, i am extremely stressed ! :P i must sounds like such a geek, hahahaa :P hahaa yeahh that book really is awful, i know people who have spent ages during their study leave making notes from that and i was a bit like yeahh it's a good summary but i doubt you'd get over a c solely using that !

It's more like: you can guarantee that revelation probably won't come up as well as other subtopics such as analogy and perhaps boethius (/omniscience generally) also life and death in relation to suffering is relatively unlikely.

Having said that, they may all come up on Monday and I may have to eat my words. Difficult game to play but I'm sure we'll all be fine anyway. A levels aren't the end of the world... if we fail we can just sell our bodies or find other legitimate ways of earning a living.

I disagree with the bold alot, i'm a retaker but my friend who is at uni now, did exactly the above and got an B in A2 Philosophy and a A in A2 Ethics, making her grade an A overall. This was the case for plenty of people who achieved grades above C aswell..

She even said herself that she was expecting a low - mid B grade (she wasn't overly confident but I knew she worked hard). She did however revise for roughly 2-3 weeks.

Surely its down to technique and ability to analyse arguments etc along with bringing knowledge from other topics and knowledge in general rather than solely content?

Not trying to debate at all, I acknowledge the blue book isn't the best, but at the same time as you've said.. its a great summary..agreed to an extent.

I reckon there will be one religious language question, one nature of God question, one life after death question, and then it will be either religious experience OR miracles.

You can't get an a* at AS. To get an a* you have to have a minimum of 90%=180 UMS at A2 and a minimum of 160 UMS at AS.