April 2024 Religious Studies subject update

2024 Exam Timetables

Help your students feel as prepared as possible for the upcoming exam season.

In addition to all the support you provide, both Ofqual, JCQ and Pearson have a range of information to help inform and guide your students during this busy time. Please take a look at the information we’ve summarised below and pass it on to your students.

Support from Ofqual

The Ofqual Student Guide 2024 provides students with information about this year’s arrangements for GCSE, AS and A level qualifications, and explains what support is in place when taking exams and assessments.

Read the Ofqual Student Guide 2024 below:

Support from JCQ

The JCQ has a range of information and support for students – from coursework and onscreen exams to written exams, along with a checklist for exam day.

Take a look at all the support JCQ have to offer for students - see link below

Support from Pearson

As the revision season is now fully under way and students begin to turn their focus towards the summer exam series, we’d like to share our Getting ready for exams guide that includes some top tips and advice including:

- preparing for exams
- what happens on exam day
- where to find further support
- what happens once exams are over.

Take a look at the guide below and please pass it on to your students 

These additional SPaG marks are still only available on questions which assess ‘Beliefs and teachings’, and ‘Practices’/’Living the religious life’ sections of the exam (across all papers).

To further reassure and support teachers in understanding the requirement for the additional SPaG marks available, we wanted to share some exemplars to show how SPaG marks are awarded and what this looks like across the mark range. We hope you find them useful!

The International GCSE Religious Studies team at Pearson Edexcel would like to hear your views about our current International GCSE Religious Studies qualification.

As part of our improvements work, we will be meeting with a series of stakeholders to understand their views on the current specification and assessment.  

If you'd like to have your voice heard and would be willing to have a short 15-minute Teams to discuss your views, please complete the following form:

Please note that as part of this research, we will not collecting any personal information. We will only use the information you provide in connection to this piece of research, and we will not publish or share this information with any third party.

Video: Differences in AO2 questions at A level

A guidance video is now available which explores the differences in questions which assess AO2 at A level Religious Studies.  

Webinar for Teachers: Why do we suffer?

Windows into Buddhism are running a webinar for teachers looking at the question 'Why do we suffer?'

Thursday 2nd May (16:00-17:00) GMT+1