AQA A Level Politics revision tips

Heya,

I was wondering how anyone who's currently in Year 13 studying AQA Politics is revising for the exams?

If you're in Year 13 right now, how are you structuring your revision—are you focusing on essay plans, past papers, or something else? Do you have any tips for tackling the 25-mark and extract questions?

Also, for those who have already done the exams and achieved an A/A*, what worked best for you? Did you use particular resources, and how did you make sure you were hitting the top marks in essays? Any advice would be massively appreciated! 😊

For context, neither of my teachers have been useful per say in teaching, so I don't really know the content. I know I should probably be making essay plans and stuff right now as that's the best method with less than 2 months left but when I sit down to make them, I have to use the textbook/ other people's plans on Quizlet to help me make mine. I also have a politics evidence bank with my friends that we try to update as often as we can

Reply 1

shobssss

@Evil Homer is this in the right thread or could you please move it somewhere else that's relevant/ where I might get an answer quicker?

(edited 1 month ago)

Reply 2

Rebecca_dragon

YES! I've got the answer!
I went from being a predicted C student, to getting an A* in my mock last week, best in the whole year. I purchased 'Politics Explained Tutoring' Essay plans for AQA Politics. They give you every possible question that could ever come up, bullet point structured answers, and all the real life examples you could ever need. In the mock, all the questions were the same or variations of what I had seen.

Hope this helps,

Rebecca

Reply 3

shobssss

Original post by Rebecca_dragon

Heya, tysm for your reply!

I checked out the website you mentioned but I could only find essay plans for Edexcel Politics, not AQA? Am I looking in the wrong place? Would you mind sending me a link to the AQA ones?

Reply 4

spiderman911

Original post by shobssss

Heya, tysm for your reply!
I checked out the website you mentioned but I could only find essay plans for Edexcel Politics, not AQA? Am I looking in the wrong place? Would you mind sending me a link to the AQA ones?

Hey im also in the same boat as you im terrified for the summer as there is almost no AQA tailored resources but I found this from politics explained for AQA

https://www.politicsexplained.co.uk/12-detailed-uk-politics-essay-plans-12-000-words-a-level-politics

but the rest is edexcel, but tbf from what i can tell my friends that go to other schools and do edexcel learn basically the same content the only thing that different is the structure so you could just by the edexcel ones for the content and then just adapt it to the structure for AQA so for example adapt the 12 marker essay plans for our 9 marker questions.

Idk if that helps but Im completely on the same boat as you AQA politics feels like a nightmare but if you find anything else let me know and ill do so to.

Reply 5

shobssss

Original post by spiderman911

Hey im also in the same boat as you im terrified for the summer as there is almost no AQA tailored resources but I found this from politics explained for AQA
https://www.politicsexplained.co.uk/12-detailed-uk-politics-essay-plans-12-000-words-a-level-politics
but the rest is edexcel, but tbf from what i can tell my friends that go to other schools and do edexcel learn basically the same content the only thing that different is the structure so you could just by the edexcel ones for the content and then just adapt it to the structure for AQA so for example adapt the 12 marker essay plans for our 9 marker questions.
Idk if that helps but Im completely on the same boat as you AQA politics feels like a nightmare but if you find anything else let me know and ill do so to.

yeah- I was thinking of buying those ones.

My teacher recommended making essay plans for past paper questions, as well as from the textbook and then go over the specification and for each topic where it has the students should be able to analyse and evaluate bit make up a 9 marker and 25 markers and make essay plans for that asw.

I don't know if you'd be willing but I've made an evidence bank with my school friends and an essay plan bank too. I'll add the links to this post and if you want to look at them/ add to them feel free to :smile:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JAbkXrdRHJ4kkUjcZou5EcxI7991NoRkMKxE-JxWZ48/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Ar4H279dVHC8uShAlGO4FhBuNIHUnBbIDgbSQijHNw/edit?usp=sharing

Reply 6

UCLan_Sophia

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Original post by shobssss

Heya,
I was wondering how anyone who's currently in Year 13 studying AQA Politics is revising for the exams?
If you're in Year 13 right now, how are you structuring your revision—are you focusing on essay plans, past papers, or something else? Do you have any tips for tackling the 25-mark and extract questions?
Also, for those who have already done the exams and achieved an A/A*, what worked best for you? Did you use particular resources, and how did you make sure you were hitting the top marks in essays? Any advice would be massively appreciated! 😊
For context, neither of my teachers have been useful per say in teaching, so I don't really know the content. I know I should probably be making essay plans and stuff right now as that's the best method with less than 2 months left but when I sit down to make them, I have to use the textbook/ other people's plans on Quizlet to help me make mine. I also have a politics evidence bank with my friends that we try to update as often as we can

Hi @shobssss ,

It's great to see you are preparing for your exams! I'd love to give some tips as I also studied AQA A-level politics. 😊

1) Practice Papers - I found this essential for preparing for this exam. It allows you to see the type of answer the examiner is looking for when marking your own work, while also learning how to structure your answers. Most importantly, you can work on your pace as there is a lot of information to try and cram in. Through practice you may find as you improve upon your structure to allow clear and conscience answers, you will improve your pace.
2) Revision Cards - This was my favourite way to revise information for my politics exams as I could differentiate which topics I was stronger or weaker with. It's important your revision technique works for you, therefore I recommend researching into visual, auditory and kinaesthetic revision methods. Using these, you can identify what revision technique may be optimal for you.
3) Examples - Reading the news is very important when studying politics as it provides you with the most up to date examples. Additionally you can see if any legislation has been changed or role changes before the exam.

When it comes to the 25 markers, I recommend reading through some example answers and breaking down common features throughout, like their structure, depth, number of points/examples and more. 📑

I hope this helps, please feel free to ask me any questions,
-Sopha (University of Central Lancashire)

(edited 3 weeks ago)

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