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Introduction 1  \n2. What’s changed? 2  \n2.1 What are the changes to the GCSE qualification? 2  \nChanges to GCSE Religious Studies content requirements 2  \nChanges to Assessment Objectives 2  \nTimeline and league table points 3  \n2.2 Changes to the Edexcel specification 4  \nTwo different GCSE Religious Studies specifications 4  \nSpecified religions 4  \nGCSE Religious Studies Specification B Full Course overview 4  \nConstructing a coherent course 5  \nChanges to specification content 5  \n3. Planning 7  \n3.1 Planning and delivering a linear course 7  \n3.2 Delivery models for the full course 7  \n4. Assessment guidance 12  \n4.1 Assessment overview 12  \n4.2. Part (a) questions 13  \nPart (a)‘Outline’ questions 13  \nPart (a)‘State’ questions 14  \n4.3 Part (b) questions 14  \nPart (b)‘Explain’ questions 14  \nPart (b)‘Describe’ questions 15  \n4.4 Part (c) questions 17  \n‘Explain’ for part (c) questions 17  \n4.5 Part (d) questions 19  \nEvaluate part (d) questions 19  \n4.6 Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar 23  \n5. 9–1 grading 24  \n1. Introduction  \n1. Introduction  \nThis Getting Started guide provides an overview of the new GCSE Religious Studies B Beliefs in Action specification, to help you get to grips with the changes to content and assessment and to help you understand what these mean for you and your students.  \nWe will be providing a package of support to help you plan and implement the new specification .  \n● Planning: In addition to the section in this guide, we are providing course planners and schemes of work that you can adapt to suit your department  \n● Additional specimen papers for some of the religions and options so that you can have extra papers to use with students in preparing for the exams  \n● Student exemplar answers with examiner commentary.  \nThese support documents will be available on the GCSE 2016 Religious Studies Specification B page of the Pearson qualifications website.  \n2. What’s changed?  \n2. What’s changed?  \n2.1 What are the changes to the GCSE qualification?  \nGCSE Religious Studies specifications are changing for first assessment 2018: these changes therefore apply to all two-year courses from 2016 and three-year courses from 2015.  \n● There will be a new 9-1 grading system, with 9 being the top level (see page 23) .  \n● There will be no coursework or controlled assessment components: all assessment, as now, will be through external examinations.  \n● There will be a fully linear structure, with all exams sat at the end of the course .  \n● GCSE Religious Studies qualifications will be untiered. There will be tiers in only a small number of subjects, such as Maths.  \nChanges to GCSE Religious Studies content requirements  \nThe content requirements for GCSE Religious Studies have been revised by the DfE. All awarding organisations’ specifications for GCSE Religious Studies must meet these criteria .  \nThe key points from the content requirements are:  \n● Students must now study two religions from a choice of Buddhism, Christianity or Catholic Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism or Sikhism; previously schools could follow a single faith route .  \n● The subject criteria now contain more content and details of Areas of Study for each religion .  \n● Specific philosophical, ethical and religious themes have been introduced.  \n● The subject criteria have been split into two parts (A & B) to allow specifications to be designed with two different approaches  \no One allows a 75/25 split between 2 religions  \no One allows a 50/50 split between 2 religions  \nThis Getting Started guide is for Specification B which has the 50%/50% split. (For details of Specification A which has the 75%/25% split, please see the separate Getting Started Guide for Specification A.)  \nChanges to Assessment Objectives  \nThe GCSE Religious Studies Assessment Objectives ","cbCaifQYzuyiWr96","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifQYzuyiWr96","pdf",840230,24,"English","# Introduction\n# What’s changed?\n## Changes to the GCSE qualification\n## Changes to Assessment Objectives\n## Timeline and league table points\n## Changes to the Edexcel specification\n### Two different GCSE Religious Studies specifications\n### Specified religions\n### GCSE Religious Studies Specification B full course overview\n# Planning\n## Planning and delivering a linear course\n## Delivery models for the full course\n# Assessment guidance\n## Assessment overview\n## Part (a) questions\n## Part (b) questions\n## Part (c) questions\n## Part (d) questions\n## Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar\n# 9–1 grading","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this Getting Started guide?\",\"answer\":\"It provides an overview of the new GCSE Religious Studies B Beliefs in Action specification to help teachers understand changes to content and assessment. 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