Competition - post a photo you've taken of nature >>

AQA A2 US Politics thread (Units 3A 11th and 4A 14th)

Scroll to see replies

what possible question could there be for the cabinet, EXOP or federal Bureaucracy?

- Whether or not the federal bureaucracy is too biog/too hard to control
- Rivalries between the cabinet & EXOP (why they exist, + the consequences/solutions)
- The significance of the cabinet

That's the main ones they could ask :smile:

Reply 201

paddypower

Original post by Todd

surely none of those are big enough for a 30 marker? I know they are in the bennet text book, but fb is barely mentioned by aqa spec, and the text book caters for edexcel also where they are more important...

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 202

Todd

Original post by paddypower

Ohh they are :smile:

I've written decent essays on all of them.
Even when things are barely mentioned by the spec they can still come up (case in point, a few years ago there was an essay Q in the GOV3A paper about split-ticket voting...I'd have CRIED if that came up, nowhere near enough for an essay for definite!!)

For the size/control issues of the fb, you'd do paragraphs on why it has expanded (basically all the same reasons as why federalism expanded - industrialisation etc), then problems like iron triangles and clientelism, then the various reforms that presidents have tried to amke, then the ways in which Congress can successfully check its power. Bam, essay.

For the cabinet/exop rivalries that is more likely as a 10-marker, I imagine, but they can be mean.

For the significance of the cabinet, well you'd look at all the various functons and evaulate them - team-building (stops being important after the first few), policy debate (hard becase of all the specialists), advisory fucntions (the president has EXOP for that) etc.

Reply 203

Tpos

How did I miss this thread?! I even tried looking for it :/

Anyway, so...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

so much content, I don't know how to go over it all!

Any tips for last minute revision?

Any predictions?

Original post by paddypower

30 mark?? Isn't it 15mark question and 45 mark questions?

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 204

unknown123

Original post by paddypower

LOL u sure it won't come up?

Reply 205

Todd

Original post by Tpos

Breaathhee :P it's way too late for revision now, best thing you can do is go to bed and get a good night's rest :smile:

any cramming now is unlikely to help, sadly. Just relax, try and do your best - remember to evauluate and analyse things when you write the essays, structure them well, and you're halfway there :smile:

good luck!

Reply 206

Todd

Original post by Tpos

30 mark?? Isn't it 15mark question and 45 mark questions?

I think you're on a different exam board, AQA is 10 mark, 30 mark :s-smilie:

Reply 207

Jakeeyy

Original post by Todd

Didn't bureaucracy come up last year?

Reply 208

Tpos

Original post by Todd

I think you're on a different exam board, AQA is 10 mark, 30 mark :s-smilie:

Aah, in my desperation I failed to see AQA in the title of the thread, haha! So I was right earlier, there is no thread for Edexcel US politics, all the other people seem to be taking the EU option. :frown:

Original post by Todd

Breaathhee :P it's way too late for revision now, best thing you can do is go to bed and get a good night's rest :smile:

good luck!

I've had 4 exams already this week, cramming has been a must unfortunately :frown:

but yeah, I do need my sleep too!

Good luck to you too! :smile:

Reply 209

Todd

Original post by Jakeeyy

Didn't bureaucracy come up last year?

May ahve come up as a 10-marker, hasn't come up as a 30-marker yet though. The only past paper Q's I've seen (i.e. all of them that are on the website) have been on the president's power.

Reply 210

paddypower

does anyone reckon limitations power/ extent of imperial presidency might come up?

Reply 211

Jakeeyy

Original post by paddypower

does anyone reckon limitations power/ extent of imperial presidency might come up?

I hope so, it was persuasion next year. There has not been an explicit, is the President unlimited question yet. Hoping on it.

Terrified for tomorrow. Need 75 for my A =/

Reply 212

MAPW

Praying EXOP or federal bereucracy doesn't come up

This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

Reply 213

Jakeeyy

Original post by MAPW

Praying EXOP or federal bereucracy doesn't come up

This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

Im with you on this one. What powers could they ask us? If it is commander in chief or pardon, or anything like that i will be like :|

Reply 214

blondie :)

Really don't understand how they'd ask a 30 mark question on Federal Bureaucracy, I swear I could only think of enough for a 10 mark question? Wouldn't mind the Cabinet though if it's not one on The President!

Reply 215

Jakeeyy

Original post by blondie :)

For cabinet would you literally list everything like what it does, the make up of it, where they get people from cabinet from and how it can be bad due to iron triangles?

Reply 216

don_lad_

I would bet everything i own on Federalism coming up for constitution. just putting it out there.

Reply 217

Jakeeyy

Original post by don_lad_

I would bet everything i own on Federalism coming up for constitution. just putting it out there.

I have a hunch it will be the 10 marker.

Reply 218

don_lad_

Original post by Jakeeyy

I have a hunch it will be the 10 marker.

what you reckon for the 30 then? it won't be separation of powers cause it was that last time and surely they won't do amendment/suitability for the 21st century again.

Reply 219

Jakeeyy

Original post by don_lad_

what you reckon for the 30 then? it won't be separation of powers cause it was that last time and surely they won't do amendment/suitability for the 21st century again.