OCR A-level Religious Studies Paper 1 - 10th June 2025 [Exam Chat]

Reply 80

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by misanthrope07

anyone did the falsification question? how was it? I mentioned flew, hare and mitchell and evaluated them and mentioed the verification principle as a better alternative to judge whether or not religious language has factual truth/reality

I also mentioned the verification principle as comparison but then said how they were both too extreme so brought in language games. Basically just reused my mock essay on the verification principle but made it more focused on falsification.

Reply 81

t3rminator

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by irllyhateucas

i focused on anselm and the criticisms he faced, what did you write about?

same i also mentioned the teleological argument as a better alternative and mentioned F.R. Tennant, Aquinas and Hume's criticisms

Reply 82

t3rminator

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by FranceZO

I also mentioned the verification principle as comparison but then said how they were both too extreme so brought in language games. Basically just reused my mock essay on the verification principle but made it more focused on falsification.

I did something similar!

Reply 83

t3rminator

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Overall I felt this paper was quite tough guys what did everyone else think?

Reply 84

mv7

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thought the paper itself was good shame I didn't really revise the topics on it smh wasn't expecting half of them but we move. some of the wording deffo threw people of I answered the first 3 I was lucky I did the first question yesterday or well similar-categorical error question so felt most confident on that question but I guess most people are in the same boat seen some horror stories on TikTok so can't complain to much come back on paper 2 and 3

Reply 85

Heeledskjs

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Please tell me someone else didn’t speak about Plato, Descartes, or Aristotle for materialism q!!

Reply 86

mv7

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I found the paper itself good but obviously hard since assume like me many didn't actually focus and expect those questions to come up again. I think the wording deffo threw people off as well I was lucky since I reused my souls essay for this exam but overall yeh could've been better but at the same time greatful since it could've been way worse no one should feel discouraged seen many people worry so by the looks of it grade boundaries should hopefully be lower I answered the first 3 questions

(edited 5 months ago)

Reply 87

loveleema

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by Heeledskjs

Please tell me someone else didn’t speak about Plato, Descartes, or Aristotle for materialism q!!

I used Plato just as my alternative soul view, dualist perspective. You said you mentioned behaviourism too which is fine I did the same 😭 as long as you mentioned an alternative

Reply 88

loveleema

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Just curious how many pages did everyone write? I used two extra booklets, did 6 pages for materialism, 6 pages for ontological and 6-7 pages for religious experience

Reply 89

JoeRosek06

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by loveleema

Just curious how many pages did everyone write? I used two extra booklets, did 6 pages for materialism, 6 pages for ontological and 6-7 pages for religious experience

How many words is that?

Reply 90

madsrv

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hey guys! how did it go?

Reply 91

saryah

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by madsrv

hey guys! how did it go?

i thought it was good! flopped the faslification question a bit tbh lol but the smb and ontological i predicted so i feel really good about those! how did it go for you?

Reply 92

madsrv

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by saryah

i thought it was good! flopped the faslification question a bit tbh lol but the smb and ontological i predicted so i feel really good about those! how did it go for you?

i adore the ontological argument, wrote 3 pages in 20 minutes but flopped the rest🤣🤣 i wrote about hare and flew for the falsification but couldn’t really remember what it was i was so stressed, and for the religious exp one i wrote about james, st paul, theresa of avila, conversion and i panicked and wrote about freud and the psychological explanations for it🥀🥀

Reply 93

FranceZO

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by t3rminator

I did something similar!

Ah I'm so glad! Just realised I forgot to mention the parable of the gardener and the weeds but oh well. Was running out of things to say for Flew as barely revised falsification/verification but my evaluation was probably strongest on this essay (I'm hoping!)

Reply 94

FranceZO

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by loveleema

Just curious how many pages did everyone write? I used two extra booklets, did 6 pages for materialism, 6 pages for ontological and 6-7 pages for religious experience

I used two booklets and they felt so short! Had to condense my conclusion for falsification as I didn't wanna ask for a third booklet in the last five minutes like I asked for a second last minute in history 😭

Reply 95

madsrv

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by francezo

i used two booklets and they felt so short! Had to condense my conclusion for falsification as i didn't wanna ask for a third booklet in the last five minutes like i asked for a second last minute in history 😭

what i only used one booklet oml

Reply 96

loveleema

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by FranceZO

I used two booklets and they felt so short! Had to condense my conclusion for falsification as I didn't wanna ask for a third booklet in the last five minutes like I asked for a second last minute in history 😭

Omg right! They were only 4 pages long I was thinking what is the point of that 😭 I basically used the booklets for my last essay though religious experience

Reply 97

FranceZO

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by madsrv

what i only used one booklet oml

I mean so did everyone else in my exam besides one other I think so that’s fine dw. My handwriting was larger than usual tbh as well

Reply 98

uhjiopzsgr

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by FranceZO

Ah I'm so glad! Just realised I forgot to mention the parable of the gardener and the weeds but oh well. Was running out of things to say for Flew as barely revised falsification/verification but my evaluation was probably strongest on this essay (I'm hoping!)

man the parable of the gardner is the only thing i mentioned for that 😭

Reply 99

Froggy__16

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I used 5… booklets, I don’t even know how 🥲

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