Normally I would agree on this, but did you SEE the SOR1 paper?! I don't even do the subject, but the question seemed ridiculously worded. I have a few friends doing it, really intelligent, and even they were baffled. I mean, they did eventually answer the question, but only in some obscure, ambiguous way that seemed irrelevant to their core knowledge..!
What you have said is very true, the wording was horrible
I do/did SOR1, of which, the religions I studied were Christianity and Judaism.
The stimulus quote used in Q3 for Judaism was one that was studied (in brief) in year 11, which was probably what threw most students. The Christianity Stimulus Quote was one i had never seen before...
The problem that kids would have is this:
Past questions have been structured in a similar style to these:
"Analyse the significance of Sat/Sun worship to Christian adherents"
"Assess the extent to which a significant person or school of thought, other than Abraham or Moses, has challenged and/or upheld Jewish tradition." (2008)
"Assess the extent to which a significant person or school of thought, other than Abraham or Moses, has challenged and/or upheld Jewish tradition." (2007)
I ask you, why bother making the past exams avaliable to students online if the exam they are going to sit is going to be so left-field? Doing past papers is a very popular study technique for students.
The advantage I had, I guess, is that whilst studying, I got frustrated with the number of "awaiting copyrights" that I didn't look at RE past papers, instead I just summarised and learnt each topic, and I was also able to twist the christianity question into a Sat/Sun Service response. (Which i hope is what they wanted!)
I Didnt mind the AOS question with the one related text... My first thought upon reading the question was "bugger, there's half an essay gone", and it meant i couldn't have any "dip in" texts to show a broader undserstanding of the subject content,
and I had a harder time linking my ideas to my prescibed text because I had an idea of the flow I wanted.
But hey, on the plus, I only had to remember half as many quotes
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