How to answer a Religious Tradition Depth Study: significant people, ethics and practice, and what markers reward

What this note covers

1. The architecture of the depth studies in the exam
2. The three content strands, and how questions carve them up
3. Significant People and Ideas: separating contribution from impact
4. Ethics: writing about one area properly
5. Significant practices: description, expression of belief, and significance
6. Command words and mark allocations: the sentence economy of Section II
7. Section III: the 20-mark extended response
8. How the depth studies are examined, and what separates a top-band answer

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