Edexcel A-Level Politics Component 1: UK Politics and Core Political Ideas overview quiz quiz

1 hour 30 minutes, 60 marks

3 hours, 100 marks

2 hours 15 minutes, 80 marks

2 hours, 84 marks

Compare the views in the source, examine the view and its alternative, and reach a conclusion

Ignore the source entirely and instead write a broad general essay drawn purely from your own knowledge

Simply summarise the content of the source without offering any analysis or judgement

Answer the question drawing only on the core political ideas studied in Section B

84.6 per cent

59.4 per cent

72 per cent

67.3 per cent

First-past-the-post (FPTP)

Additional Member System (AMS)

Single Transferable Vote (STV)

Supplementary Vote (SV)

The clear strengthening of traditional class-based voting patterns over time

The gradual rise and spread of compulsory voting laws across the UK

The formal merger of two separate political parties into one

The weakening of voters' long-term identification with a party

Edmund Burke

Ayn Rand

Thomas Hobbes

Robert Nozick

Between supporting violent revolution and instead backing peaceful gradual evolution as the proper route to progress

Between negative freedom and a minimal state (classical) and positive freedom and an enabling state (modern)

Between respect for established tradition and a flexible practical pragmatism

Between defending natural hierarchy and pursuing full social equality

Karl Marx

Rosa Luxemburg

Beatrice Webb

Anthony Giddens

Because the reigning monarch personally chooses which of the political parties is allowed to stand for election each time

Because all of the major UK parties formally merged together back in 2010

Because there are always exactly two parties competing in every single election

Because it is multi-party in votes and the devolved nations but two-party in Westminster seats and government

24 marks, and it must apply the required thinkers

30 marks, with no named thinkers needed anywhere in it

12 marks, and it must take a fully comparative approach

60 marks, and it must be based closely on a source

Reaching a clear and well-supported overall judgement in the conclusion at the end of the essay

Treating the participation crisis as a settled fact rather than arguing both sides

Using named and specific examples to support the points

Comparing different turnout figures across several elections