Rs & computer science help

Hi, I used the AQA exam board and this guidance will be based on AQA.The main thing about AQA RS is that there Exam paper follows the EXACT same format, so you already know what the questions involve (influences, quotes, evaluation, beliefs), so just nail those aspects for every point, and you will be prepared for any paper. A good channel for revising is BEN WARDLE.
OVERVIEW OF THE 2 PAPERS
To revise for both papers you should use the AQA specification: ' https://www.mmhs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/GCSE-Religious-Studies-AQA-Spec.pdf '. This lists EVERY single topic you need to know.

BELIEFS & TEACHINGS SECTION: The exam questions in this part are on: BELIEFS, QUOTES, INFLUENCES (of the belief).Thus to revise you just look into the AQA spec and for every topic make REVISION NOTES with: The BELIEFS on it, 2 ways it INFLUENCES believers & QUOTES.
PRACTICES: The exam questions in this part are on: HOW the practice is done, DIFFERENT ways the PRACTICE is DONE & QUOTES. So you would use the AQA spec to make REVISION NOTES for these.For example, in christianity, the first point in the specifiation is 'God as omnipotent'. Thus you would make revision notes like:
GOD AS OMNIPOTENT
1) Created humans & the world with such perfect design“In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth” GENESIS
2) He resurrected Jesus (so is all-powerful)
3) He is in control/has authority over everything as he answers to prayers and performs miracles/visions
INFLUENCE: 1) Worship god as he is worthy of it and to thank him for creating the universe
2) They will have trust/pray to him - he has power to answer prayers
As you can these notes prepare you for EVERY question on GODS OMNIPOTENCE. DO this for every topic and then MEMORISE THEM (see below how to memorise). Use BEN WARDLE's youtube channel to aid you. Then you will be prepared for EVERY question they throw.

Paper 2 is nice and straightforward. The spec just lists a bunch of issues like 'peace, justice, forgiveness, reconciliation' (from theme D). For each issue you just need to learn 2 Similar religious beliefs on it & 2 different religious beliefs (if there are different beliefs on it) as well as some Quotes.
TO MEMORISE: Either print out the revision notes (I HIGHLY ADVISE writing them online) and read through CONSTANTLY. OR you can use a flashcard app like ANKI to memorise the points (which is what I did).
If you don't want to MAKE notes, you can get them from a website called stuvia. I would highly recommend notes made by 'CSandRS' for AQA RS. Just type in 'CSandRS' in the stuvia search bar. They have made such high quality notes containing every spec point in which I used and I owe my grade 9 to. I made flashcards with it on ANKI.
I hope this helps. Feel free to ask anymore questions. 🙂

THANK YOU THANK YOU This was so helpful especially since I wasn't sure what I was meant to revise/memorise but now I can just follow the structures you gave me for my notes And I didn't even know there were youtube channels on GCSE Rs 😅

Hi everyone, I took early entry for:
+ AQA Religious Studies
+ OCR Computer Science
I got a 9 in both.
As I had to learn everything myself, I searched through all the revision resources there are available. Feel free to ask for help on any topic or if you need any grade 9 revision resources for these subjects.

Hi, For OCR COMPUTER SCIENCE there are 2 main aspects to get solid at: THEORY & PROGRAMMING (PYTHON). You need to revise for these 2 parts differently. Paper 1 is full theory, paper 2 is mix with theory & programming.

To master the theory section (all of paper 1 & some of paper 2) you need to know what to revise. This is listed out in the OCR Computer Science SPECIFICATION: ' https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/558027-specification-gcse-computer-science-j277.pdf ' (The specification starts from page 8). This will tell you the exact content that you need to revise and could be in the exam, Nothing more & Nothing less.
Now you now what you need to learn, you need first UNDERSTAND the content, make SIMPLE NOTES, then MEMORISE the key points so you can recall easily recall in the exam:
1) UNDERSTANDING: To understand the content the best channel to use is craig'n'dave videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Up7DIPkTzo&list=PLCiOXwirraUAEhj4TUjMxYm4593B2dUPF&index=1 ). They explain very concisely and cover the full specification.
2) REVISION NOTES: Then, once you UNDERSTAND the content you have to make a SUMMARY of the the key points. To do this you could use the OCR SPECIFICATION to make your own revision notes for every topic covering all the key points you need to memorise or you could use revision notes made by 'CSandRS' on stuvia (a website with revision notes). They have high quality revision notes for OCR CS paper 1, paper 2 & a coding guide for python. Just search 'CSandRS' on stuvia. I personally used these and I owe my grade 9 to it.
3) MEMORISE: Once you have the notes with all the key info that you want to memorise, there is no use till you memorise 'em. To do this you could either constantly read through them or (I would suggest) make flashcards of the notes using ANKI (a flashcard making app) by copy pasting them.
Once you have done these 3 steps for all the theory you just need to do practice papers and you will be set for the exam.
To put this into perspective, here is an example if you are revising Network topologies:
1) Find the video in craigndave and then focus on UNDERSTANDING the key concepts (eg learning the star & mesh networks and how they both have advantages and disadvantages)
2) Then you look in the specification to see what you need to MEMORISE about them, it says 'Advantages and disadvantages of the Star and Mesh topologies', so you would then make notes about 2/3 adv & dis for both topologies (or use the stuvia notes).
3) Then you MEMROISE these notes till you can easily recall them in the exam
4) Now in the exam if you get a question about them your brain will straight away recall the adv/dis's then you can apply it to the question and bag those marks!

The second aspect of Computer science is programming using the language your school teaches (I used PYTHON).
The only thing you can really dofor this is practice, practice, practice, prac......................... Some resources are:
So yeah, that's the exact blueprint I used to get a 9 and I hope it helps you to. Just remember to use the specificationa nd understand & memorise the stuff and you'll be good.
I hope this helps, if you need any other resources/help, feel free to ask 🙂