Hi I'm doing the SCLY 1 OLD spec tomorrow on Families and Households. Does anyone have any last minute predictions for what they think will come up? Trying to rule out some stuff
So I've tried to do a rough time breakdown based on the specimen paper:
1st question: 2 marks - 5 minutes 2nd question: 2 marks - 5 minutes 3rd question: 6 marks - 10 minutes 4th question: 10 marks - 15 minutes 5th question: 20 marks - 25 minutes 6th question: 20 marks - 25 minutes
5 minutes spare. (to check over paper, remember to breathe, plan, etc.)
Does this sound silly? Do you think the time allocation is balanced?
5 minutes for a 2 marker? That's ridiculous - don't waste your time. 2 markers will literally be about 2 lines long (3-4 if you waffle) and should take you about 30 seconds, provided you have revised.
Your timing for Q3+4 is good, but allocate more time for your essay questions. Spend a good 2-3 minutes per essay to thoroughly plan, you get marks for ensuring your essay is coherently written meaning that it must follow a logical structure and include only RELEVANT information - don't fall into the trap of not making a plan and then waffling pointless information that isn't needed. Also remember to write in paragraphs so it flows better
5 minutes for a 2 marker? That's ridiculous - don't waste your time. 2 markers will literally be about 2 lines long (3-4 if you waffle) and should take you about 30 seconds, provided you have revised.
Your timing for Q3+4 is good, but allocate more time for your essay questions. Spend a good 2-3 minutes per essay to thoroughly plan, you get marks for ensuring your essay is coherently written meaning that it must follow a logical structure and include only RELEVANT information - don't fall into the trap of not making a plan and then waffling pointless information that isn't needed. Also remember to write in paragraphs so it flows better
So maybe if I shave off 2-3 mins from the first two, and use them to plan for the essay questions?
5 minutes for a 2 marker? That's ridiculous - don't waste your time. 2 markers will literally be about 2 lines long (3-4 if you waffle) and should take you about 30 seconds, provided you have revised.
Your timing for Q3+4 is good, but allocate more time for your essay questions. Spend a good 2-3 minutes per essay to thoroughly plan, you get marks for ensuring your essay is coherently written meaning that it must follow a logical structure and include only RELEVANT information - don't fall into the trap of not making a plan and then waffling pointless information that isn't needed. Also remember to write in paragraphs so it flows better
Spent 30 mins in each section, this way you can have 5 mins to plan the 20 mark essays :P
The two specimen papers' 20 markers were on ethnicity and achievement and internal factors affecting achievement - so are educational policy and the role of education in society most likely to be the 20 markers? (I may be alone in saying this but I hope so!)
Different perspectives on the role of education in society - e.g. functionalism, New Right, Marxism (feminism doesn't have an opinion on its role, it just focuses on gender inequality within the school).
The new spec is education with methods in context?
What do you mean? I told starshine909 that the only 4 marker in the new spec appears in paper 2, but as they're doing the old spec then there is a 4 marker in tomorrow's paper - either way, the structure of the 4 and 6 markers are the same.
For the sociologists? Not unless you want to evaluate it, e.g. to criticise it for being outdated and not applicable to postmodern society (e.g. Durkheim and Parsons' theories). You need to know the dates of important policies though, both for education and family.