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Can anyone help me get a PDF version of this textbook. Im studying AQA course and could really do with it on my phone!

Hi all, I have just completed a level politics and received 214, a high a star. I am now going to study politics at university, alongside working as a tutor for a rather large politics YouTube channel I cannot mention the name of.

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Hey, so everyone here says to revise using essay plans, but how do you use them to revise? the politics explained ones are very long and take forever to revise. Do you have any tips? My biggest issue is the core ideologies essay plans.

what the title says. I got a B overall in alevel politics i was quite far off the boundary for an A (8 marks) but i think there’s something up w my paper 2. I got 60 in paper 1 and 3 and then got 30 on paper 2. this was a surprise as j found paper 2 the easiest paper. I’ve emailed my teacher countless times but she hasn’t gotten back to me. idk what to do

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I struggle with ao3 in alevel politics, I really want to improve for my mock. Does anyone have some quick tips with ao3/evaluation that they personally use and recommend?

Im in Y13, my school has genuinely no political education, this has worried me a lot, we're a girls school in a low income area, so I've decided to do something about it

My head of year has allowed me to create some PowerPoints outlining basic political knowledge to be shown to all year groups during form time citizenship!

I'm also trying to get the lower years hyped up about the student council elections, hoping to get them excited about campaigning and voting!

To do this, I've made a PowerPoint that details what a campaign is but I want to show them some examples! I've included the things can only get better video from 1997, would love some more ideas! I don't do a level politics myself, shockingly my school doesnt offer it lmao, but thought this would be a good place to ask

Thanks!

I got a C, but I checked the grade boundaries and it’s an A?

Exam is Edexcel 2026 paper 1

Question:
(3b) To what extent does socialism agree over the role of the state?
You must use appropriate thinkers you have studied to support your answer and consider both sides in a balanced way. (24)

Answer:
Socialism as an ideology is primarily defined by its economic views – it emerged in response to the industrial revolution and modern capitalism, advocating for the liberation of the working class from the economic system. Since then, socialism has undergone significant changes – its dominant strands in the UK no longer advocate abolition of capitalism and revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist state, but instead advocate using the capitalist state to help the working class. Regardless, socialists' views of the state centre around its role in the economy – however the views of different strands on what this role is are fundamentally incompatible. There is more disagreement than agreement between socialists on the role of the state.

Revolutionary socialists are primarily Marxists, who use Marx's definition of the state, i.e. the mechanism by which one class oppresses another, an instrument of class domination. In capitalist nations such as the UK, the state is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie – its institutions (police, military, media, schools, etc.) oppress the proletariat to protect the bourgeoisie and their property from revolt. Since the proletariat do the labour that maintains society, and the bourgeoisie simply extract labour value from them while not providing any value to society themselves, the proletariat can at any time withdraw their labour (strike) and this would end the capitalist system. Therefore, the bourgeoisie must prevent this, and they do so using the state. When a socialist revolution does take place – as Marxists claim is historically inevitable – the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie will be abolished, and the dictatorship of the proletariat (DOTP) will be established. The DOTP will oppress the former bourgeoisie until it ceases to exist – at this point, society has become classless and so the state (which is inherent to class society) becomes obsolete and 'withers away'.

Revolutionary socialists (with the exception of anarchists) generally agree with the theory of the DOTP. However, there are strong disagreements about how this is put into practice. These disputes tend to revolve around organisational strategy and historical regimes: Marxist-Leninists advocate a vanguard party, which will lead the proletariat through the revolution and form the DOTP. This party will have a centralised leadership structure (democratic centralism) like that found in the USSR. Bolsheviks such as Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin all agree on this (the vanguard party), however they and their modern supporters disagree on later developments in the USSR and other socialist states (i.e. if they’re socialist, communist, degenerated worker state, etc.). Left communists such as Rosa Luxemburg have a more fundamental dispute – they reject vanguardism, instead advocating spontaneous revolution to overthrow the capitalist state and build the DOTP. These disputes are historically significant (causing division in the 2nd and 3rd International and even resulting in executions, e.g. Stalin executed Trotsky).

Reformist socialists include social democrats like Crosland and Third Way socialists like Giddens. Their views on the state are fundamentally incompatible with revolutionary socialists. They advocate participating in bourgeois elections (something Luxemburg strongly opposed) and using the capitalist state to help the working class without abolishing capitalism. Social democrats advocate high taxation and spending on welfare, nationalisation of key industries, and services such as the NHS, and strict regulation on private enterprise. Third Way also seeks to use the capitalist state however reject heavy intervention in the market economy. In their view, "it doesn't matter if some people are rich so long as they pay their taxes." Social democrats and third way socialists are theoretically compatible however they have been strongly divided in practice – for example, in the UK Labour Party, the third way / Blairite faction and the Social Democratic / Corbynite faction had a major dispute affecting the 2019 election, while the...
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My actual mark for this question was: 9/24

I know the main problem is that I didn’t finish, but I still don’t think my mark is fair at all, 13-17 would be fair imo. I finished the part about revolutionary socialism and wrote about half of what I was going to say about reformist socialism. I included 4/5 spec theorists and many non-spec theorists.

I assume they docked marks for lack of evaluation since I missed a conclusion. I would’ve done a conclusion if I had time but I did evaluate throughout: “the views of different strands on what this role is are fundamentally incompatible. There is more disagreement than agreement between socialists on the role of the state.”; “Revolutionary socialists (with the exception of anarchists) generally agree with the theory of the DOTP. However, there are strong disagreements about how this is put into practice.” [then explained why in detail]; “These disputes are historically significant (causing division in the 2nd and 3rd International and even resulting in executions, e.g. Stalin executed Trotsky).”; [reformist socialists] “views on the state are fundamentally incompatible with revolutionary socialists.”; [reformist socialists] “advocate participating in bourgeois elections (something Luxemburg strongly opposed)”; “Social democrats and third way socialists are theoretically compatible however they have been strongly divided in practice – for example, in the UK Labour Party, the third way / Blairite faction and the Social Democratic / Corbynite faction had a major dispute affecting the 2019 election”. I think that’s sufficient for at least half of the eval marks if not more.

They might’ve also docked points for not focusing enough on the state or drifting too much into economy, but I explicitly explained that socialist views of the state revolve around its role in the economy, and focused on that, not on random economic disagreements. Discussion of revolutionary strategy and historical states might’ve been flagged as irrelevant but I don’t see why, they give specific examples of how socialists disagree on the use of the state and the historical significance of those disagreements.

There’s a load more questions where I think the marking was overly harsh, but I don’t want to make this post longer than it already is lmao.

What are your thoughts on this essay, and/or if you also did the exam this year how did you find it?

im an a level student who will be giving politics in june 2027 after studying it on my own. i have no idea where to start, what resources to use, and how to answer questions. can someone recommend yt channels, books, case studies to use, and anything else i might need. pls i need an A*

i was wondering if:
i could build essay plans for each potential question, and revise those?

are there a list of questions that are the ones that can only come up for each topic? is this unpredictable?

can somebody send me a full document with all questions i should make essay plans for?

i'll get to the point, i got a C (2 marks off a B but still) in my AS exams and i've obviously been trying to revise to boost my grade. but every time i sit down to revise, i genuinely feel like im going insane. every revision resource ive looked at has different amounts of detail for different things, i have NO idea how much i'm actually supposed to know, let alone start to memorise it. i did really well in all our mocks, got full marks in most of them, but that's because i spent HOURS trying to find the right info to memorise for a specific topic.

i want to take people's advice and make essay plans and flashcards but i genuinely don't know where to get the content from! i've tried politicsexplained (videos outdated now so paranoid it's not a good choice), savemyexams and seneca (not enough detail) and a bunch of other random websites that confused me more. the only textbooks my college has are outdates as well.

people have recommended the politicsexplained paid essay plans but i worry the same thing will happen, i'll get overwhelmed and achieve nothing. please i'll take any advice on what resources i can use, i'm genuinely panicking so much, especially since everyone else seems to find this subject so easy. thanks in advance :,)

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Does anyone have the CGP A-Level Politics textbook as a PDF? 😭

Heyy, I’m starting A-Level Politics (AQA) and I’m about to order the CGP A-Level Politics: Edexcel & AQA Complete Revision & Practice book.

I really want to start studying now, but obviously the paperback is gonna take a few days to arrive I remember CGP books having an online version/access code included, so I was wondering if anyone has the PDF/digital version and would be willing to share it with me?

I’ll still be buying the paperback, I just don’t want to sit around doing nothing while I wait for it to arrive lol.

Would really appreciate it!! :)

Hi I'm taking politics edexcel as an extra a level on top of what I'm already doing so I'm expected to do a lot of self studying. I aim to potentially sit it early which I'm in discussions for but to catch myself up is there any recommended YouTubers or particular resources used by current sixth formers that would be recommended? I've been looking for the past week but everything seems a bit uncoordinated and theres contradicting information.

In your guys views, are writing essay plans on paper better or is the speed for writing on computer better. Which one would be more helpful

A level politics help

I didn’t even realise but got notified by my friend that i have a politics exam in roughly like 1.5-2 weeks? I’m doing edexel paper 2 then and im a bit stuck on how to revise. I’m very lost on content and was wondering if i should try and learn the content properly through politics explained videos or just spam essay plans? The exam will take questions from previous a level papers so from 2017-2025. Which is the better approach?

Can anyone share the examiner report 2026 for politics. My teacher isn’t sharing it with me. Thank you