Course overview

AQA Religious Studies Specification A

Two written exam papers covering 8 topics.

Each paper is 1 hour 45 minutes

50% Religious Beliefs and Practices (Christianity and Islam)

50% Themes – Relationships &families / Religion and life/ Peace and Conflict / Crime & Punishment

Key revision resources

The CGP revision guide is a useful tool to help you with homework as well as revision.

The BBC Bitesize pages cover aspects of beliefs and teachings and practices and the app can be downloaded from iTunes and the Google Play store

MrMcMillianREvise is a good YouTube channel with lots of RE specific clips to help you revise, as well as videos on different revision techniques you may want to try. 

How best to revise

It can be useful to see revision as a process made up by stages where you do several of the  activities above in order, e.g.

• Read notes
• Make new notes
• Read and highlight your new notes
• Test (either yourself, or a friend, family member or online)

It can be a good idea to make sure that you revise each topic at least three times. The revision checklist has three columns beside each topic that you can tick or colour in. You could number the columns 1,2 and 3 and tick a topic each time you revise it, or you could colour code the topic red-amber-green as you become more confident.

The activities above are, of course, just suggestions.  Revise for every assessment and mock exam like it’s the real thing. It will make it easier when you come to sit the real exams in the summer.

Additional information

Being curious about the world around you and being intrigued by what motives people will help you in developing and applying the skills needed for success in RE. It will also open up the door (and career paths!) to other subjects such as sociology, political science, anthropology, law, classical studies and history.