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Edexcel Government and Politics Unit 4 Exam 13/06/2014

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Original post by Reluire
Most people in my class used the Heywood book, but I didn't like it. Too much text presented in a very plain and boring way. :tongue:

The Hodder Education book splits things up really nicely, has lots of detail, is colourful and has nice pictures. I know how low-intelligence that must make me sound. :tongue:

I find the Hodder book too detailed and the Heywood book seems more closely aligned with our exams (despite the Hodder book being the Edexcel approved one...).

Original post by j3pmorgan
Can someone confirm if (Ecologism) Dark greens are Anthropocentric or Ecocentric? I'm finding some contradiction in the books I'm using.

Cheers

Dark greens are deep ecologists - ecocentric.
Reply 61
Any predictions for the Nationalism 45marker?
Reply 62
last minute revision if you want 'em
Original post by Reluire
Most people in my class used the Heywood book, but I didn't like it. Too much text presented in a very plain and boring way. :tongue:

The Hodder Education book splits things up really nicely, has lots of detail, is colourful and has nice pictures. I know how low-intelligence that must make me sound. :tongue:

Loool no it doesn't, I know what you mean, but for me, the cover makes up for it :tongue:
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Original post by Reluire
At first I thought you wrote this out yourself and was very impressed. Now I've just read through my textbook and seen you copied it word for word. :rolleyes:


I wrote it out for the people that don't have the Neil Mcnaughton textbook as it could be beneficial for them and I've noticed a lot of people mention they have the Andrew Heywood one

I've got both and I think the Neil McNaughton one sums everything up clearly and concisely
The andrew hey wood one just confuses me there's too much on a page
Reply 65
Do we have to include Key thinkers to get top marks? If so, could somebody let me know one or two key thinkers for each Ideology, thanks
Original post by BillyVI
Do we have to include Key thinkers to get top marks? If so, could somebody let me know one or two key thinkers for each Ideology, thanks


Nationalism:

Guiseppe Mazzini = Self-Determination
Charles de Gaulle = Self-Interest / National Independance / French President
Alfred Rosenburg = Nazi / Racialist / Lebensraum
Julius Nyerere = Anti-Colonial / Socialist

Feminism:

Mary Wollstonecraft = Self-Determination / First Wave
Betty Friedan = Second Wave / Equal political & legal rights / Challenged Freud


Ecologism:

Arne Naess = Deep Ecology / Earth = Biosphere / Ecosophy
James Lovelock = GAIA / Earth = Self-regulating
Fritjof Capra = Holism / Ecocentrism
Original post by BillyVI
Do we have to include Key thinkers to get top marks? If so, could somebody let me know one or two key thinkers for each Ideology, thanks

You might not technically need to, but it helps, it demonstrates proper understanding and gives the examiner a good vibe

Feminism - Kate Millet (politics exists wherever power-structured relationships exist, etc); Germaine Greer (the Female Eunuch, sexual revolution); Simone de Beauvoir (women are made, they are not born); Juliet Mitchell (socialist feminist).

Multiculturalism - Will Kymlicka (minority rights); Charles Taylor (link of identity and culture); Edward Said (Eurocentrism, degrading stereotypes cause disadvantage); Amyarta Sen (liberal; "miniturisation of humanity")

Ecologism - Arne Naess (Deep Ecology); Murray Bookchin (social ecology); James Lovelock (Gaia hypothesis); Kenneth Boulding ("spaceship Earth", not "cowboy economy")

That's some important one's, don't know about nationalism. There are obviously loads more but yeah..
Thank you, typing this out was actually good revision :tongue:
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Original post by j3pmorgan
Nationalism:

Guiseppe Mazzini = Self-Determination
Charles de Gaulle = Self-Interest / National Independance / French President
Alfred Rosenburg = Nazi / Racialist / Lebensraum
Julius Nyerere = Anti-Colonial / Socialist

Feminism:

Mary Wollstonecraft = Self-Determination / First Wave
Betty Friedan = Second Wave / Equal political & legal rights / Challenged Freud


Ecologism:

Arne Naess = Deep Ecology / Earth = Biosphere / Ecosophy
James Lovelock = GAIA / Earth = Self-regulating
Fritjof Capra = Holism / Ecocentrism


Original post by bananaminion
You might not technically need to, but it helps, it demonstrates proper understanding and gives the examiner a good vibe

Feminism - Kate Millet (politics exists wherever power-structured relationships exist, etc); Germaine Greer (the Female Eunuch, sexual revolution); Simone de Beauvoir (women are made, they are not born); Juliet Mitchell (socialist feminist).

Multiculturalism - Will Kymlicka (minority rights); Charles Taylor (link of identity and culture); Edward Said (Eurocentrism, degrading stereotypes cause disadvantage); Amyarta Sen (liberal; "miniturisation of humanity")

Ecologism - Arne Naess (Deep Ecology); Murray Bookchin (social ecology); James Lovelock (Gaia hypothesis); Kenneth Boulding ("spaceship Earth", not "cowboy economy")

That's some important one's, don't know about nationalism. There are obviously loads more but yeah..
Thank you, typing this out was actually good revision :tongue:


Thankyou!
How did you all find it?

I did the Ecologism, Feminism and Nationalism 15-markers and the Ecologism 45-marker as I had prepared for it yesterday. I didn't expect to see a Feminism 45-marker.

I think it was pretty good on the whole though. :smile:
Oh my life.

I have failed.
Original post by AboveTheLine
Oh my life.

I have failed.


Awh I'm sure you haven't! What happened?
Original post by Reluire
How did you all find it?

I did the Ecologism, Feminism and Nationalism 15-markers and the Ecologism 45-marker as I had prepared for it yesterday. I didn't expect to see a Feminism 45-marker.

I think it was pretty good on the whole though. :smile:

I did a Multiculturalism, and the Feminism and Ecologism 15's, and the Feminism essay - I was close to choosing the Ecologism one though, I planned them both out but decided on Feminism - in class for the last few weeks we've gone through the 45-ers one by one and planned them out, and what I did in the exam was pretty much the same so I'm feeling quite confident :smile:
I thought it was a really fair exam, was quite surprised that a few of the [clever] people came out of it upset...
we shall know in 2 months and a day though anyway :wink:
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does anyone know what the grade boundaries are? or rather what where they last year.... haha
Original post by Ryfy
does anyone know what the grade boundaries are? or rather what where they last year.... haha

For an A* in unit 4 you usually need around 67/90 but it has varied from 61-68/90 since 2010. For unit 3 it tends to be a bit higher - around 70/90.
Original post by Ryfy
does anyone know what the grade boundaries are? or rather what where they last year.... haha

http://www.edexcel.com/iwantto/Documents/GCE%20Composite%201306%20v4.pdf
Reply 76
I did the Radical Feminist, Conservative & Multiculturalism and eco-anarchist short questions and then the feminism essay. Quite happy with the amount I wrote for the essay seeing as my revision hadn't gone too well - I compared feminism to Anarchism, Socialism (for and against), conservative (against compatibility), Liberalism and ecologism - 2.5 pages. Short questions were a load of waffle from me - so meh :biggrin:

Good luck guys!
Reply 77
what was the nationalism 15 marker? i forgot how it was worded
Original post by bananaminion
I did a Multiculturalism, and the Feminism and Ecologism 15's, and the Feminism essay - I was close to choosing the Ecologism one though, I planned them both out but decided on Feminism - in class for the last few weeks we've gone through the 45-ers one by one and planned them out, and what I did in the exam was pretty much the same so I'm feeling quite confident :smile:
I thought it was a really fair exam, was quite surprised that a few of the [clever] people came out of it upset...
we shall know in 2 months and a day though anyway :wink:


I was close to doing the Feminism one and was sat there for a good minute or so trying to work out which one to do. :tongue: Sounds like you probably got your essay pretty spot on then.
I only spoke to two people after the exam and they thought it was okay. Both did the Feminism 45 marker, as I expected. I think most people will have picked it.

I think there will be some people who avoided the Ecologism question because they didn't know what 'conventional moral thinking' meant. I thought it was a very nice question as it was basically just a contrast between deep and shallow ideas. :h:

Original post by Law-Hopeful
For an A* in unit 4 you usually need around 67/90 but it has varied from 61-68/90 since 2010. For unit 3 it tends to be a bit higher - around 70/90.


That's pretty decent I'd say. :smile:

Original post by Lizy
what was the nationalism 15 marker? i forgot how it was worded


I think it was literally just 'Distinguish between nationalism and racialism.'
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Reply 79
Original post by Reluire
I was close to doing the Feminism one and was sat there for a good minute or so trying to work out which one to do. :tongue: Sounds like you probably got your essay pretty spot on then.
I only spoke to two people after the exam and they thought it was okay. Both did the Feminism 45 marker, as I expected. I think most people will have picked it.

I think there will be some people who avoided the Ecologism question because they didn't know what 'conventional moral thinking' meant. I thought it was a very nice question as it was basically just a contrast between deep and shallow ideas. :h:



That's pretty decent I'd say. :smile:



I think it was literally just 'Distinguish between nationalism and racialism.'



Thank you for answering....there's been bit of confusion as to whether it required us to show differences or similarities ...........

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