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Hi everyone, I really hoping someone can help me as I'm not sure what way to revise for Religious Studies as i am memorising pages but that isn't exactly helping. Can someone PLEASE HELP!!!
Original post by Louise!!
Hi everyone, I really hoping someone can help me as I'm not sure what way to revise for Religious Studies as i am memorising pages but that isn't exactly helping. Can someone PLEASE HELP!!!


Hi there, I’m year 13 now so a while since I’ve done RE but I always did pretty well in assessments (normally like 58/60) so this was how I went about it:

we got given some revision guide our teachers put together and I went through the topics that were in the exam and highlighted in one colour beliefs and in another quotes/ evidence.

I made a flashcard for each belief and quote and just kept going through them until I knew every single one.

It’s time consuming but works.

Then you just have to be clever about your style of writing. From what I remember it was very to the point like PEE paragraphs and have at least one quote in each.

For like 12/15 markers just do as many different points of view as possible. Different denominations, old and New Testament, different religion, an atheists opinion and just fill it with as much evidence as possible.

The quotes that I would learn would also be a bit different and obscure compared to the usual “love thy neighbour” quotes- just shows a bit of extra thought.

Hope this helps.
I found videos on BBC Teach (youtube link 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4KN50fal7f45fx2DqG7ttg') quite helpful as seeing people doing it and explaining their views rlly helped me. Also MrmcmillanREvis was also a great help ('https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMcMillanREvis'). For RE its also good to focus on what the examiner wants by looking at commentaries of past exams and their comments on how questions were answered
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Original post by Student01234
Hi there, I’m year 13 now so a while since I’ve done RE but I always did pretty well in assessments (normally like 58/60) so this was how I went about it:

we got given some revision guide our teachers put together and I went through the topics that were in the exam and highlighted in one colour beliefs and in another quotes/ evidence.

I made a flashcard for each belief and quote and just kept going through them until I knew every single one.

It’s time consuming but works.

Then you just have to be clever about your style of writing. From what I remember it was very to the point like PEE paragraphs and have at least one quote in each.

For like 12/15 markers just do as many different points of view as possible. Different denominations, old and New Testament, different religion, an atheists opinion and just fill it with as much evidence as possible.

The quotes that I would learn would also be a bit different and obscure compared to the usual “love thy neighbour” quotes- just shows a bit of extra thought.

Hope this helps.

Thank you! My exam board is CCEA and we have to do Christianity so we don't really get given a lot of information when we are in Year 11 and COVID hasn't helped the situation. Also if you are doing passages which is what we do a lot does flashcards help with that as well? Sorry for the long message!

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Original post by Frozetman
I found videos on BBC Teach (youtube link 'https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4KN50fal7f45fx2DqG7ttg') quite helpful as seeing people doing it and explaining their views rlly helped me. Also MrmcmillanREvis was also a great help ('https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMcMillanREvis'). For RE its also good to focus on what the examiner wants by looking at commentaries of past exams and their comments on how questions were answered

Thank you!! I am definitely going to check this out!!

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