Likelihood of an applied ethics essay (AQA a level philosophy)?

Honestly, i would just get a general idea on what each ethical theory states about each bit of applied, but the likelihood of a full 25 marker coming up on it is very low, so I would spend that time doing an essay plan for other bits like direct and indirect realism (seems more likely to show)

Honestly, i would just get a general idea on what each ethical theory states about each bit of applied, but the likelihood of a full 25 marker coming up on it is very low, so I would spend that time doing an essay plan for other bits like direct and indirect realism (seems more likely to show)

my ex teacher is the head of the british philosophy teachers association and said that it could easily come up, prepare for it

this is good to know, how would you go about planning it?

Use this website
https://alevelphilosophyandreligion.com/philosophy/moral-philosophy/notes-essay-applied-ethics/

thank you x

saying this I have emailed Christian feest (the guy who runs the alevelphilosophy.com website and the yellow textbook How to get an A in A level philosophy) he said this:
I don't have any special information, but I don't think you would get an applied ethics 25 mark question this year.
The reason I think this is that it becomes too broad a question. Say they were to ask "Is eating animals morally acceptable? (25 marks)". This might seem like a reasonable question at first, but in order to answer it you'd first need to say which ethical theory is correct. For example let's say Kant and Aristotle say eating animals is morally acceptable but utiltiarianism says it isn't. In order to say eating animals is wrong you'd have to argue utilitarianism is correct and against Aristotle and Kant are incorrect. So any applied ethics question basically becomes "assess every ethical theory (25 marks)" if that makes sense.
I might be wrong, though. But I think there's a reason there's never been a 25 mark applied ethics question before. Applied ethics topics make much more sense as 12 mark questions where you just have to explain (i.e. AO1), not evaluate (i.e. AO2), what an ethical theory says about a particular issue.

thank you so much! so is it best to just revise it as a 12 marker then as normal?

id say revise it briefly so if it comes ur not shocked in an exam, because technically they can and a lot of teachers have differing opinions on this

this would finish me off if it came up. im hoping and praying its utilitarianism since that hasnt come up since 2019, but aqa are evil so u never know ..