December Exam Topics and Schedule

1. Progression Exams • Year 12 • W/c 11th December

2. Maths – 90 minutes • Core • Stats • Topics on the December mock are for Pure: • Index Laws • Surds • Solving and sketching quadratics • Discriminant • Linear Coordinate Geometry • Circular Coordinate Geometry • Factor/Remainder Theorem. • Binomial Expansions • Please Note Some familiarity with the Large Data Set may be required • Histograms • Outliers • Probability • Sampling techniques including advantages/disadvantages • Scatter graphs –Correlation/ Regression Lines & interpreting them • Standard Deviation

3. Business • Costs, Revenue and Profits • Shareholders and Shares • Business Environment • Managers • Leadership • Decision making

4. Art – 2 Hours • 2 hours exam conditions on a piece for portfolio • No Revision required

5. RE • Ethics – Natural Law. Situation Ethics, Application of Ethics case study – Euthanasia. • Philosophy -  Ancient Greek influences, Aristotle and Plato’s views  in relation to understanding reality and causation.

6. History (British)

7. The establishment of Absolutism at home, 1661–1685 Louis XIV and Divine Right: personality and aims; the restoration of order; the centralisation of royal authority; the role of Versailles Louis XIV and patronage of art, culture and science: the Academie Francaise; the Academy of Sciences; the role of Colbert History (European) • The Regency, 1643–1661 • The French monarchy in 1643: the legacy of Richelieu and Louis XIII; the establishment of the Regency • The Minority of Louis XIV: the roles of Anne of Austria and Mazarin; the Parlement of Paris, unrest and opposition; the Frondes • France and Europe: the rise of French power at the expense of the Habsburgs; the treaties of Westphalia and the Pyrenees • The condition of France at the accession of Louis XIV in 1661: politics, economy and society

8. Psychology • Approaches, • Biopsychology, • Social Influence, • Memory

9. Sociology • Families and Houesholds, • Education

10. Health and Social Care • Human Lifespan Development

11. English Language • Language under the microscope (context, lexis, semantics, grammar- including syntax and morphology, phonology, discourse structure, pragmatics) • Language and power – writing about a topical language issue