* Religion * Predictions, discussion and aftermath (1 thread please)

Platinum2010 wrote: »

you have that book with like 3 page 25's dont you?!

I think that's the only LC religion book. :P Unfortunately.

Oh yeah, I forgot there were different books for the different sections :rolleyes:, shows how prepared I am for religion! I think it's the Christianity one that's divided in loads of sections with the same page numbers - what a joke.

Sunshine! wrote: »

Hey guys, back when I did the LC Religion wasn't an exam, just a waste of time. What do you actually learn for it?

How to waffle.
Seriously - philosophy, "the search for meaning", christianity (worst part), morality, gender roles, stuff like that. Some parts are a real headache, some are interesting and some are just ridiculous. The exam itself is also atrocious.

Sunshine! wrote: »

Hey guys, back when I did the LC Religion wasn't an exam, just a waste of time. What do you actually learn for it?

Philosophy (Ancient Greek/ Medieval/ Enlightenment/ Existentialism), Mythology, Ancient/ Primal Religion, Cosmologies, Humanism/ Atheism/ Agnosticism/ Reductionism etc, Religious and Secular Values, World Religions= Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Baha'i Faith, Sikhism, African Traditional Religions, Taoism, Confucianism, NRMs etc. (don't do all, get some choice), Morality (Ancient Civilisations/ World Religions), Celtic Ireland (religion, practices, burial sites etc.), Religion In Ireland (development: christianisation, reformation, ecumenism etc.), religion and science etc. etc. etc.
A very broad course but with various options/ choices:)

Really hope human rights come up. Christology is a must but if it comes up it will only be 40 marks. Kingdom of god as preached by jesus better not show hate doing it.

Hopefully I get my A1, religion is a sybject that really depends on the teacher regarding the outcome of your result in it.

I'd say for this year you could completely leave out what came up last year, if that even barely skims the course down!:D Because of the lack of choice in the paper they have never repeated the same topic 2 years in a row ( although I only have about 6 papers to go on! )
So if you feel learning everything is impossible I'd leave out:
Section A: All Chap 1 (Search for Meaning in Music/Literature, Factors Blocking Search), Aristotle, Evidence of Religious Behaviour in Ancient Society
Section B: Early Christian Communities (Corinth/ Philippi/ Thessalonica), Jesus coming into Conflict with Authority
Section C: Inter-Faith Dialogue, Distribution of Religion
Section D: Influences on Development of Moral Maturity, Jesus' Law of Love
I'm not sure about the options, the same thing really comes up a lot in the them!

I'd say focus on (I know it's a lot but...):
Section A:Plato, Sophists, (maybe Socrates), One key moment in development of philosophy, One key myth about meaning of life, Spirituality in Contemporary Culture, "Proofs" of God (:rolleyes:), Divine Revelation, Non-Religious Responses to Search for Meaning and Cosmologies!
Section B:Kingdom of God (characteristics + Jewish understanding at time), "Evidence" (:rolleyes:) for Jesus, Key Moment in Return to Origins (e.g. Reformation), Christology, Jesus in Film or Art, Christian Unity/ work towards ecumenism (against sectarianism) and Effect of Resurrection
Section C:Contemporary Experience of a World Religion (Judaism/Islam etc.), Primal Religion (characteristics + influence on one contemp. religion), Other Religion or NRM (depending on what one you studied- go Baha'i!:D), religious festival or rite of initiation/ passage in World Religion (maybe compare Jewish festival with Islamic one), vision of salvation in diff. religions and structure of community of believers in 2 religions!
Section I: Everything! (sorry but usually very broad 80m Qs!) However it is worth noting that pre-Christian Ireland didn't come up in the longest!

ahh i've totally neglected religion, i've only got my notes on section a done may start soon, i've still got accounting too.

i have a set of papers and for sec a anselm and newton and the "proofs" haven't come up since the fisrt year religion was an exam subject. to be honest its the hardest subject to predict cos its so broad and new

does anyone elses teacher give them notes and extra things like personal responses and all every 5 minutes so much learning

oh and the syllabus is here
http://www.curriculumonline.ie/uploadedfiles/PDF/lc_religion_sy.pdf

religion is so hard to know with, our class do
Sec A, B, C and I
but in the mocks one of my friends answered Sec D even though we've never done it before and got higher marks in that than anything else

when answering questions try make links between sections because they seemingly love that, and also my teacher said that if you've time write down anything that you think may be relevant to the question because they won't mark you down it willl only bring up your grade.
he said repeat the question in each paragraph too to try convince the examiner you are answering the question.
I'm lucky i had a brilliant teacher who wrote books on religion and all but he never once gave us tests not even for christmas so do you think we studied it at all?

canto464 wrote: »

What are the characteristics for the kingdom of God? I dont really remember that part

its all like peace as an alternative to violence, sharing goods as an alternative to wealth, a god of the powerless as opposed to one of the powerful and inclusion as an alternative to the emergence of the elites

Duda17 wrote: »

I am so screwed! I dunno wat any of ye on this thread are talking about. If only I knew how hard religion for the leaving cert was.

You must have done nothing in the last two years so. It's so easy when you put the work in it's a walk in the park.

I don't know about anyone else but the journal work which many think helps them, might drag me down a grade (Down to A2 or B1)

Don't bother looking at the curriculum just take out your notes and use postets to break down every topic and ofcourse:

Expand, Expand, Expand,Expand,Expand,Expand!

I can't decide whether or not to study what's come up in the last few years or not. I've got a lot to do so need to prioritise. Do you think it's likely they'd repeat questions when the course is still so new?