Edexcel A2 6GP03 June 2015 Topic B: Introducing Political Ideologies

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Can any of you guys help with the 15 markers, exam technique?

How do you tackle the question?

The way I've been taught is 2 large paragraphs or 3 medium paragraphs. 5 content marks and 7 analysis marks then you get the other 3 marks for style, I make 5 factual points and analyse all of them, some with more analysis than others to score the higher marks.

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Becky1456

I'm using the Heywood book, very simple if you ask me, the way it's wrote out you can practically write essays from it. I'm revising Liberalism, Conservatism and Anarchism/Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Feminism. Super shocked to see people not learning Liberalism as a lot of cross overs are made from the other ideologies to Liberalism and it's the easiest way of scoring synoptic links.

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xxvine

Original post by Becky1456

I am revising from the Heywood book and I am finding it so hard...plus there is so much to learn?

Are you reading/learning everything like the origin of the ideology etc...or are you skipping bits out?

Reply 123

Becky1456

I'm not reading the origins and development I think it's just background knowledge and pointless, but I'm writing notes on each sections, making tables for each thinker and their quotes and ideas, writing synoptic links based on the tables of different ideologies views.

Reply 124

atxya

anyone know whats happening to the study group we're planning on?

Reply 125

Becky1456

Original post by atxya

anyone know whats happening to the study group we're planning on?

I'm up for a study group, we could meet on Skype tomorrow if you guys are free?

Reply 126

A_katherine

Original post by atxya

how are you revising for unit 3 and 4?

I started revising in January and I wrote up the whole book (this helps me a lot) and i'm concentrating a lot on exam questions so I would almost do a 'plan' on how I would answer it. Currently I'm just embedding everything by doing a topic a day then finishing off with 15 markers which I send to my teacher :smile:

(This may seem like a lot of work but we had one teacher who just reads through the book and classifies it as teaching!)

Reply 127

atxya

Original post by A_katherine

(This may seem like a lot of work but we had one teacher who just reads through the book and classifies it as teaching!)

ooh right thanks :smile:

you're so lucky you have a teacher that is actually bothered to mark essays. (my teacher says we have to mark it ourselves because she doesn't have time apparently)

Reply 128

A_katherine

Original post by atxya

ooh right thanks :smile:

you're so lucky you have a teacher that is actually bothered to mark essays. (my teacher says we have to mark it ourselves because she doesn't have time apparently)

That's really quite bad! Although I'm not sure if my teacher marks them completely accurately, but at least I know I'm getting the key points down.
Hope you do well, maybe you should talk to them and make sure they mark them due to how close the exam is now?

Reply 129

arshiashamimi

has anyone had an in-depth look at the exam paper for political ideologies and realised you can get away with only revising two topics? Is it me that's just seeing this??

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lizmoo0721

Original post by arshiashamimi

has anyone had an in-depth look at the exam paper for political ideologies and realised you can get away with only revising two topics? Is it me that's just seeing this??

I was thinking this, so only learn Conservatism and Liberalism but what about the 45 markers and they don't come up???

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Shaqk

Original post by lizmoo0721

I was thinking this, so only learn Conservatism and Liberalism but what about the 45 markers and they don't come up???

If you two want to take that chance and potentially get a higher grade, go for it :smile:

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lizmoo0721

Original post by Shaqk

If you two want to take that chance and potentially get a higher grade, go for it :smile:

I do need an A/A*, does anyone think that these won't come up in section B?

Reply 133

xxvine

Original post by lizmoo0721

I was thinking this, so only learn Conservatism and Liberalism but what about the 45 markers and they don't come up???

wait can you learn only two for unit 4?

what about if the two topics you have learned do not come up as 45 markers?

Reply 134

lizmoo0721

Original post by xxvine

wait can you learn only two for unit 4?

what about if the two topics you have learned do not come up as 45 markers?

You potentially can, but that's my worry that the ones I want won't appear in the 45 markers. I think I'm going to learn anarchism, just in case...

Does anybody want to help me with Unit 2 Politics because I have a resit and I don't know anything yet...

Reply 135

arshiashamimi

Actually I was wrong. You can do 3 instead of 4, because you need to answer three section A questions. My bad. I thought I found a way to minimise the workload but I was wrong. You can still drop 1 topic though, so that's good.

Reply 136

lascivious

Original post by arshiashamimi

aye. I'd be surprised if anyone got away with a B grade by learning only two topics. It's especially difficult when there are questions like 'explain the link between ideology A and ideology B.'