Ideally you should be practicing past paper questions as much as possible, both inside and outside of school.
To begin with you should just concentrate on your exam technique, thinking about questions such as: "What is the emphasis in this question?", "What is think question asking me to discuss/respond to", "What information is relevant for this question?". Eventually you should begin to implement all of the above ideas into your essay under timed conditions, that is around 45 minutes for both a part A and part B response.
Below you will find links to a number of past paper questions and mark schemes, these are all the past papers that are available via the OCR website. You should be able to answer all of the questions by the end of the course, though (of course) some questions will be harder than others. TIP: When looking at the past paper questions you should ideally be identifying questions that you would be unsure of answering if they were to come up in your actual exam. You should then brainstorm (plan) what you would have put in to your answer and only then should you check the mark scheme to compare what the examiners expects in such an answer. It is really important that you first exhaust your ideas rather than just jumping straight to the mark scheme, as in the actual exam you will only have your ideas and you may discover that your original ideas were correct and it was just a lack of confidence which caused you to feel unsure.
Feel free to attempt the past paper questions and give them to your teacher for marking.
To begin with you should just concentrate on your exam technique, thinking about questions such as: "What is the emphasis in this question?", "What is think question asking me to discuss/respond to", "What information is relevant for this question?". Eventually you should begin to implement all of the above ideas into your essay under timed conditions, that is around 45 minutes for both a part A and part B response.
Below you will find links to a number of past paper questions and mark schemes, these are all the past papers that are available via the OCR website. You should be able to answer all of the questions by the end of the course, though (of course) some questions will be harder than others. TIP: When looking at the past paper questions you should ideally be identifying questions that you would be unsure of answering if they were to come up in your actual exam. You should then brainstorm (plan) what you would have put in to your answer and only then should you check the mark scheme to compare what the examiners expects in such an answer. It is really important that you first exhaust your ideas rather than just jumping straight to the mark scheme, as in the actual exam you will only have your ideas and you may discover that your original ideas were correct and it was just a lack of confidence which caused you to feel unsure.
Feel free to attempt the past paper questions and give them to your teacher for marking.