OCR G672 - how did you find it?

I am exactly the same. I spent like... all day studying solidly and when I opened the paper and saw it talking about 'demographic changes' I was just like ?_?

For 1a I just wrote a a compete load of crap about family structures which has nothing to do with the question at all.

After the exam it turned out that not many people had understood it either :/

The rest of the paper was good though.

It was AWFUL! Don't worry, it's not only your centre! Literally everybody came out of our exam hall saying "What the hell are demographic changes?!" As soon as I opened the paper I was just like OH.. GOD. I just baffled about completely the wrong thing.. wrote about families being geographically mobile :\ I actually realised though in the last 2 minutes of the exam that it was about ageing population! But of course it was too late by then 17 marks down the drain, gutted. What did you guys put for the 33 mark on sociological views on family diversity? I wasn't sure if it was asking just for the main theorist's views like functionalism, marxism, new right etc.. or if we could put in studies such as Weeks et al. on sexual diversity and Brannen on beanpole families? :\

Demographic changes are easy. Post WW2 baby boom, increased number of children per family, more teenagers in the late 50s/early 60s. Ageing population, can link in the sandwich generation there. That's what I did anyway.

As for the sociological views on the family, I just put wrote about Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism and Postmodernism, evaluating each one at the end of the paragraph, with lots of studies to back up each perspective and in the evaluation.

Is it bad that I included 29 studies in the whole exam? ;/

Fml, I didn't even think about that. We briefly touched on the ageing population in my defence, so even if I did know what the question was asking I still wouldn't have done too well. I feel so stupid knowing how easy it was though, it's just the word 'demographic' that completely threw me and everyone else at my sixth form. That does sound right, I'm gutted that I've thrown away so many marks. Yeah that's what I did for that 33 marker too. Erm, well as long as you weren't just name dropping them and you were actually explaining their relevance, it should be fine.

Yeah seems most people didn't understand demographic. To be honest, the only reason I understood it straight away was because we learnt that word at the beginning of the year. Once you get the meaning, the question becomes so easy.

Yeah I named the sociologist and explained the study briefly, linking it to the relevant perspectives, so I'm hoping it should be fine.

Did anybody do Q8? I found it so easy! For 8A, Youth is socially constructed due to the media and prosperous economy, plus explanation. Then for 8B it's just explain pupils' experience of school by class, then for evaluation talk about pupils' experience of school by gender and ethnicity, then a short conclusion. Easy.

Yeah exactly, the only people I know from my centre who got the question were those who do Geography - they do all that sort of stuff in their lessons. Yeah you should be fine then. Nope, we only got taught the Family section (which is kinda annoying now, we were supposed to do Religion but we didn't have enough time. If we had enough time, I wouldn't have had to answer 1a!)

Yeah seems most people didn't understand demographic. To be honest, the only reason I understood it straight away was because we learnt that word at the beginning of the year. Once you get the meaning, the question becomes so easy.

Yeah I named the sociologist and explained the study briefly, linking it to the relevant perspectives, so I'm hoping it should be fine.

Did anybody do Q8? I found it so easy! For 8A, Youth is socially constructed due to the media and prosperous economy, plus explanation. Then for 8B it's just explain pupils' experience of school by class, then for evaluation talk about pupils' experience of school by gender and ethnicity, then a short conclusion. Easy.

Out of curiosity, what were the questions in this paper? I heard about the demography question.

Just family for the whole year? We got taught family and youth, so we could have extra options for the exam. So I answered questions 1 and 8. I was really pleased with the questions actually, I'm hoping for a good grade come August.

Hope it all went well for everyone!

I cannot believe how simple the question was, argh. The word 'demographic' just completely threw me, I didn't even think of that. Yeah same, literally no one wrote anything for a good few minutes because we were all in the exam hall thinking what the hell is this. I'm gutted too, I wanted an A in that paper but I won't get it now, and I doubt I'm going to get my A overall which has really upset me. I spoke about New Right, New Labour, Postmodernism, a little on Functionalism and Feminism, Smart et al and possibly some other stuff. Yeah we could put that sort of stuff in as long as we referred it back to family diversity, I asked my teacher.

Aw bless you! I feel the same, execpt I did religion, which is so hard