Edexcel Government & Politics - Unit 1 06/06/16

71 and 74....
Yourself

I got 72 UMS in Unit 1 and 76 UMS in Unit 2

Strong governments are more likely to effectively put forward their manifesto and uphold promises they made to the electorate. Weak governments (e.g. coalitions arguably) will be less likely to legislate effectively because there is conflict of opinion and other such debates.

Kinda high lol
What you hoping for
What you doing for A2?

Predictions for Democracy and participation.
5 maker outline how devolution affects democracy in the UK never come up but on the syllabus.
10 maker is the UK a liberal democracy ( also never come up. Doubt it but could come up as a 20 maker. lowering voting age arguments against never come up
25 maker advantages and disadvantages of referendums. or does the UK suffer from a participation crisis which has not come up since June 2011

Elections.
5 marker on working of AMS or supplementary vote block votes or if feeling nice FPTP all never come up.
10 marker advantages of PR never come up or possibly could be a question on party system.
25 marker explain how electoral systems in UK produce different outcomes.
Hope this helps and am right.

Which of the four topics (Democracy and Political Participation, Party Policies and Ideas, Elections, Pressure Groups) for Unit 1 are easiest/ most useful to learn? Plan to exclude one from my revision.

Which of the four topics (Democracy and Political Participation, Party Policies and Ideas, Elections, Pressure Groups) for Unit 1 are easiest/ most useful to learn? Plan to exclude one from my revision.

Predictions for Democracy and participation.
5 maker outline how devolution affects democracy in the UK never come up but on the syllabus.
10 maker is the UK a liberal democracy ( also never come up. Doubt it but could come up as a 20 maker. lowering voting age arguments against never come up
25 maker advantages and disadvantages of referendums. or does the UK suffer from a participation crisis which has not come up since June 2011

Elections.
5 marker on working of AMS or supplementary vote block votes or if feeling nice FPTP all never come up.
10 marker advantages of PR never come up or possibly could be a question on party system.
25 marker explain how electoral systems in UK produce different outcomes.
Hope this helps and am right.

Democracy is the easiest unit in the exam by far, then if you can be asked to learn the 6 electoral systems it would be followed by elections- Revise these.
PGs and Parties are the more content heavy ones which require more up to date examples, so it's which one you would find more interesting to learn out of those 2?
IMO- Parties is more interesting, PGs is just dull

don't do party policies and ideas. My dad is a politics teacher and said it is the easiest to get a low mark because very easy to be vague and especially as you need to be up to date it is very hard to know the labour policy as there manifesto is now out of date as Corbyn does not believe in half that stuff. Also parties not interested in policy that much at moment more about Eu referendum as seen by lack of policy in queens speech.

so we all have to write super fast right? do any of you have pen recommendations? i used to use a ball point pen but that made my hand get tired so fast and i really can't have that slowing me down.

I don't think ballpoint pens are the issue... I think it's the type that you are using? Some of them aren't very inky, so consider trying a different manufacturer.