WJEC/Eduqas RS for A2/Yr2: Religion and Ethics (DRAFT)

WJEC / Eduqas Religious Studies for A Level Year 2 and A2 Religion and Ethics

AO1 Developing skills It is now important to consider the information that has been covered in this section; however, the information in its raw form is too extensive and so has to be processed in order to meet the requirements of the examination. This can be done by practising more advanced skills associated with AO1. The exercises that run throughout this book will help you to do this and prepare you for the examination. For assessment objective 1 (AO1), which involves demonstrating ‘knowledge’ and ‘understanding’ skills, we are going to focus on different ways in which the skills can be demonstrated effectively, and also refer to how the performance of these skills is measured (see generic band descriptors for A2 [WJEC] AO1 or A Level [Eduqas] AO1). Your task is this: Look back at page XXX to the list off the five points in which Calvinists expressed Calvin’s Doctrine of Election at the Synod of Dort in 1619 . It is 300 words long. Discuss what you think are the two main points from each of the five doctrines, explaining why you have selected those points.

Key skills Theme 4 This theme has tasks that deal with the basics of AO1 in terms of prioritising and selecting the key relevant information, presenting this in a personalised way (as in Theme 1) and then using evidence and examples to support and expand upon this (as in Theme 2).

Now write the five points into your own summary (as in Theme 1 Developing skills) trying to make the summary more personal to your style of writing. 1.

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3. DRAFT 4. 5.

Key skills Knowledge involves:

Selection of a range of (thorough) accurate and relevant information that is directly related to the speci c demands of the question. This means: ■ Selecting relevant material for the question set ■ Being focused in explaining and examining the material selected. demonstrating depth and/or breadth with excellent use of evidence and examples including (where appropriate) thorough and accurate supporting use of sacred texts, sources of wisdom and specialist language. This means: ■ Effective use of examples and supporting evidence to establish the quality of your understanding that expresses personal knowledge and understanding and NOT just reproducing a chunk of text from a book that you have rehearsed and memorised. Understanding involves: Explanation that is extensive, ■ Ownership of your explanation

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