GCSE OCR Religious Studies - Christianity and Islam Papers

Barzakh is a good point but I don’t think there is a lot to write about

yeah, i was definitely struggling. bashed out something about hajj not being as useful as understanding the quran on a deeper and more spirtual level so that when the angels would test you during barzakh, you had more of a chance of getting it right and reaching al-jannah.

the khutba one threw my class off majorly ngl, we all left looking like variations of ?????

Aha same that was the one question I just gave up on lmao. I said hajj was important because allah states that to get into heaven you have to go on obligatory pilgrimage and then as my other point I spoke about the importance of sawm and the effects on believers

aha around 12/18 people in my class wrote about qibla instead (me included), 4 didn't even answer the question and as far as i'm aware, two got it on the dot? but good luck, you seem to have answered it really well!! hopefully we've all done better than we think (: (also praying for low grade boundaries)

Hey,

Who else took the Christianity and Islam Papers from OCR today? I found one of the questions impossible as I've never heard of the word before.

have u done the islam and christianity paper for gcse today for ocr eduqas?

I found the exam okay but I feel like I didn’t do great?? Like as you guys already said the questions on the Islam paper were worded really weirdly. The first 15 marker on Allah being understood as fair and just I found a bit weird to be a 15 marker and the Hajj one was also a bit weird but I’m not sure if I did it right. I think Christianity was definitely easier than islam for sure. I just hope next weeks exam isn’t too hard...

I found the exam okay but I feel like I didn’t do great?? Like as you guys already said the questions on the Islam paper were worded really weirdly. The first 15 marker on Allah being understood as fair and just I found a bit weird to be a 15 marker and the Hajj one was also a bit weird but I’m not sure if I did it right. I think Christianity was definitely easier than islam for sure. I just hope next weeks exam isn’t too hard...

Me too! I'm just grateful there weren't many questions which involved keywords. That would have ruined me lmao

I 100% agree with you there. I definitely did a lot better in the Christianity Paper compared to the Islam one. I did not understand the question about Allah being understood as fair and didn't write enough because of it. I'm just praying to get as close to full marks on everything else but I know that isn't going to happen

Me too! I'm just grateful there weren't many questions which involved keywords. That would have ruined me lmao

I mean the grade boundaries last year were quite low so even if they increase they still won’t be extremely high

That's very true. But also with it being the second year with the new 9-1 GCSE's my teacher said that the grade boundaries might go up. I guess we'll just have to hope!

OMG if there were keywords I didn’t know I would’ve died!! I was on quizlet on Sunday night just trying to cram in as many keywords as I could so I’m glad they didn’t come up

Ahaha same! By the sound of it everyone struggled with the 15 marker so i wouldn't be to concerned with it. some papers are harder than others and the grade boundaries will reflect that. Good luck with the ethics exam; hopefully it'll be a bit better!

I think i did better in Christianity than islam
Yeah I agree the questions for parts e of Islam confused me
Also i’m worried that I didn’t include sources of wisdom and stuff like that

yeah, i was definitely struggling. bashed out something about hajj not being as useful as understanding the quran on a deeper and more spirtual level so that when the angels would test you during barzakh, you had more of a chance of getting it right and reaching al-jannah.

the khutba one threw my class off majorly ngl, we all left looking like variations of ?????

Did you do themes paper today anyone I can't seem to find anythjng on the student room about it and I wanna find out how people find it