Know your Religious Studies keywords
This week’s post is another one from our Religious Studies expert writer Sam Read.
It’s vital that you learn keywords before you sit your GCSE Religious Studies exam. Quite often students know answers to important questions but because they fail to recognise their key words they will answer out of context. For example, do you know what religious pluralism is? If not, then it’s going to be hard to answer a question on it.
Common words which you need to learn for your Religious Studies exam are: Atheism, Agnosticism, Theism, Prejudice, Discrimination, Racism, Sexism, Poverty, Co-habitation, Nuclear Family, Reconstituted Family, Extended Family, Annulment, Deterrence, Retribution, Reform, Judgement, Forgiveness, Punishment, Abortion, Euthanasia, Sanctity of Life, Numinous, Free Will, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Pacifism, Just War, Moral Evil, Natural Evil and Conversion.
There are many more keywords which will be more specific to your exam board. Check the exam board you study and go to their website. The exam board will probably have produced a list of key terms they expect you to learn for the exam. You should make a list of five or six keywords for each topic you have studied.
Find out the definitions of these words and learn them. You’ll find them very useful for your GCSE Religious Studies exam.
The best way to learn keywords is to test yourself repeatedly. Make flash cards where you have to match up the word to the definition. Ask a family member to give a quick-fire quiz. Stick your keywords onto doors and windows at home. Write them out repeatedly until they are embedded in your brain. It doesn’t matter how you learn them, as long as you do!
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