OCR A2 Religious Studies - Thursday 6th June 2013

Is "Revelation and Holy Scripture" an actual sub-topic? It's in my textbook (the one written by Matthew Taylor) but it's not down on the specification?

It's part of religious experience, so yes it is.
Main stuff is special and general revelation, propositional and non-propositional revelation and then literalism, conservatives and liberals...

My teachers also think propositional revelation (urgh), symbols (yay) and verification (yay) are pretty good bets!

I've been predicted:
The Word of God
Symbols
Verification/Falsiciation
Boethius (very likely I think)
And a possible name on life after death, e.g. Hick and Plato

I'd love a question on Plato or Aristotle!

I need help, my RS teacher insists that you must have a solid argument throughout and use judgemental sentences the whole way through; he really emphasises that we need to talk about OUR opinion - which therefore, the way he's telling us, jepodises putting in A01 massively. But he has also given us past answers that have been done in the past, which have recieved top marks, but I can see no own judgement in. HELP ME, how do you tackle it!?

Hi could you guys help me on how to write a conclusion for these essays, as my teacher says never to add new things in your conclusion but I feel like I'm just repeating the things I'm talking about in the essay. Please help

I need help, my RS teacher insists that you must have a solid argument throughout and use judgemental sentences the whole way through; he really emphasises that we need to talk about OUR opinion - which therefore, the way he's telling us, jepodises putting in A01 massively. But he has also given us past answers that have been done in the past, which have recieved top marks, but I can see no own judgement in. HELP ME, how do you tackle it!?

I've been predicted:
The Word of God
Symbols
Verification/Falsiciation
Boethius (very likely I think)
And a possible name on life after death, e.g. Hick and Plato

Next week I'm also doing the ethics A2 exam. I need to get an A in this exam to get an A over all because i've gotten all high B's, so I need about 85 ums marks. any tips?

Also, does anyone have any predictions of whats gonna come up in that exam??

These are a few prediction i've been told:
virtue ethics and the environment
utilitarianism and sexual ethics - particularly contraception/homosexuality
'God knows what ethical decisions we will make' Discuss
Something to do with determinism and moral responsibility
Also, meta ethics was suggested but i'm not revising the topic so didn't write it down.

What id say is always support or challenge what you say and justify it. E.g. Utilitarianism is perhaps the best approach to have when considering sexual issues such as contraception as it's consequentialist view aims to do what is best for the majority of people. (why?).. This would mean that contraception would be accepted as it would prevent the spreading of HIV and Aids in less developed countries.

Nevertheless, some would argue that natural law is a better approach because...... One issue with natural law however is its lack of consideration to individual circumstances which is needed for moral issues as such.

I hope you get what i'm trying to put across, keep balancing your argument but try and always keep your overall opinion relatively clear.