Active citizenship - AQA GCSE Citizenship Studies quiz

Taking part in the community and society to bring about positive change

Only knowing in theory how government and the legal system actually work

Simply voting once every five years and doing nothing else

Deliberately avoiding any kind of involvement in public life

A particular type of extended written exam question that students have to answer in the test

The practical work citizens do to tackle an issue, such as campaigning or volunteering

A formal law that has been debated and passed by Parliament

A compulsory tax charged on the income people earn

Organising a large community sports event for all the local residents to enjoy together

Paying the taxes that you legally owe to the government on time

Speaking or acting on behalf of yourself or others to influence decision-makers

Casting your vote in a local or general election

Writing a formal letter to your local MP

Asking an established charity to lobby on your behalf

Signing an online petition someone else set up

Organising a community clean-up project yourself

Choose and research the issue

Hold the final celebration event

Write up the full final evaluation

Ignore all of the evidence you find

It is left deliberately vague so that the campaign can never really be said to fail

It is clear, specific and realistic so you can tell whether it was achieved

It is kept completely secret from the rest of the campaign team

It is impossible to measure or check in any way

So that you can avoid having to contact anyone in a position of authority at all about the issue

Because only the general public can ever change anything that matters

So the campaign can be aimed at the right decision-maker and is more likely to succeed

Because decision-makers never respond to any campaign whatsoever

Deliberately refusing to gather any evidence at all

Keeping the whole campaign completely secret

Simply ignoring the issue you care about

A petition or a meeting with a decision-maker

Judging how successful the action was, using evidence

Simply listing all the separate activities that you did

Repeating exactly the same action again without any changes

Carefully avoiding any feedback from other people

Counting up how many people you managed to annoy along the way

Comparing the outcome with the aims you set at the start

Forgetting the original plan that you started with

Only ever listing the successes you achieved

Nothing more than your own personal opinion on its own

Rough guesses about what might have happened

Survey results and responses from decision-makers

Choosing to ignore all of the feedback you receive

It only ever mentions the parts of the campaign that went really well

It blames other people entirely for any problems that came up along the way

It carefully avoids using any kind of supporting evidence

It recognises both achievements and weaknesses and what could be improved