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These sites may be useful as you prepare your revision notes and look forward to the exams. Make sure that you visit the OCR site to see the exact Syllabus specifications, and check the "Notes for Guidance" to see the Examiner's advice on approaching the topics in the course!. Click here to go to OCR's website. Note that all these resources, along with the notes that you can download from the A Level page, should be used to supplement your own reading and note-making. Don't rely on these resources alone! It is important to remind students that coursework and essays that they submit should be their own work - the Essay databases listed below should be used only to give you an starting point for your own essay! Revision and Essay Writing Advice These revision notes look useful. They cover the basics in a convenient way, and will help you to develop a better understanding of the topics. Don't neglect your own reading of the books and class notes at your disposal, though! Click Here Download "How Students Fail" by Jon Mayled. He's a Chief Examiner for Religious Studies, so this is required reading if you want to do well in your exams! Click Here Revision Notes I'm not sure who has written these notes, but they appear to be a very useful resource for the OCR Course. They feature on a website published by an anonymous teacher which offers revision support for the OCR course (click here to visit the whole site, though you may find that our School Filter misbehaves!) and click on the link below to download a .doc file of the revision notes. Use them to supplement the Revision Guides you can get from your RPE Teacher! Click here |
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For Revision advice, click here, or visit the University of Sunderland for some advice on writing an essay! Another page of Essay Advice is offered by the University of Queensland. Professor R. L. Franklin also offers excellent advice on Philosophy essay writing: click here to see what he has to say. These sites offer examples of Philosophy essays sent in by students - useful if you want to see what an essay might look like, but don't be tempted to hand one in. Project A Level There's nothing on RPE on this site yet, but they promise that there will be a larger database soon! Student Central Student Central offer a huge database of essays - visit their Philosophy list to see whether there is anything that will help you. Please note that any work that you hand in, either as a class essay or for Course work, must be your own work. These sites can be useful as part of your revision. BBC AS Guru Visit the AS Guru website for study support - no RPE yet, but look at the General Studies section for excellent essay writing advice! AS Level Specimen Questions OCR have provided some specimen questions for students to work on as they prepare for their exams this summer. The "Mark Schemes" would be used by examiners to guide them when they mark the exam papers - the schemes suggest possible content in an answer, rather than gove the answer to the question. You shouldn't use the mark schemes as "model answers", though! You'll need an "Adobe Acrobat Reader" to view the files - click here to download a free copy! |
