Sociology CAPE Paper 2 Essay

0:00 hey everyone welcome back to my YouTube channel yes I'm happy to have you mastering sociology paper two is what we'll be discussing today and I hope you guys are well prepared right so we're going into the exam and we want to ensure that we know what we're doing and we want to ensure that we are well prepared now the first thing you need to do to master your essays your sociology essays is to know your Sy your syllabus your syllabus is the key to mastering your sociology essays know what is it cxe requires a few I always tell my students CXC tells you exactly what they're marking for CXC shows you how to get your grade one but

0:48 you have to pay attention you have to pay attention now in your syllabus there is a mark scheme and what you need study the mark scheme that CXC gave to you so your syllabus has a mark scheme that clearly outlines what is it that they are marking for so it's not an unfair game it is there and they have showed it to you but you need to pay attention now I just want you to run go and get your syllabus or just pop it up on your screen right now and go go through it with me very important this is the mark

1:36 scheme that Cape uses to grade you for your sociology Cape essay paper it is right there in your syllabus right now this is the holistic Mark scheme and there's a another slide that I'll show you with some other clarity you're graded from three categories and three Fair categories knowledge and understanding interpretation and application analysis and evaluation now for knowledge on understanding it's eight marks interpretation and application 10 marks

2:23 analysis and evaluation seven marks you must have five factual understanding of the question that the examiner is asking you to write about you cannot enter the exam with beer knowledge or what you learned in social studies CC CC you have to ensure that you read your cape textbooks and you follow through with your syllabus ensure that you understand basic concepts and you're able to Define basic terms the question might not ask you to define a term but it does not mean that you're not asked to give a

3:08 definition your understanding of what the examiner is asking you is going to be very important when they are marking you I tell my students that when you get your paper read the instruction but more importantly read the question several times you are expected to organize your essays in such a way that it shows that you have understanding of what the question is asking and then we move on to application and interpretation after you interpret such question you must be able

3:56 to apply you must be able to apply all your sociological theories make reference to what you would have learned in class make reference to what you would have read making reference and applying them will show The Examiner that you paid attention in class you understand what they're asking you to write about you have interpret properly and you are ready to basically show off your knowledge all right so you're showing off your knowledge here apply necessary theories do not apply what does not um apply what does not um relate to what you're writing here it

4:41 must be relevant and be clear in your application study at least three points of each Theory sociological Theory or theor theoretical perspective that you would have studied and even though you have studied the theory there are also parts of the theory there are also parts of the theory that might be contradicting so um even though you're saying that um Marxist theory stated this and this and this you can also say um even though this was stated you know I disagree or um there is a uh an eror or I found the the the the

5:28 theory to lack such and such right now analysis and evaluation right so analysis and evaluation again you need to give sociological reference now this is where you are going to look at the question and say even though Marxist put forward these in today's society there are social actions that contradict this theory for example so it's like you are you have given the point but now you're saying that we can oppose this point no that's a good way of analyzing analysis also comes in your

6:16 conclusion analysis is your ability to properly put together and conclude the essay that you're writing by summarizing your main points and then you can now state that this is what the theories put forward this is what the question is asking you to detail all right now there is another breakdown into this and we're going to look at it again cannot say it enough study your mark so the Your Mark scheme it is going to help you to get a good grade made on your sociology K paper two

7:04 the essay paper now this is a further breakdown explanation of the qualities to be assessed or the criteria to be assessed we're going to read through them together and so you can get a better understanding if at the end of this video this is not clear enough type in the comment section can you do um a more in-depth video on how I can um structure my essay to get good grades for each criteria on the mark scheme of course there's going to be a part two again for knowledge and understanding the maximum marks is 8 marks the extent to which the response shows evidence that the candidate knows

7:51 recalls or understand information consider aspects such as accuracy of factual information definition of important sociological terms familiarity with essential Concepts and the use of the language J jargon of the discipline we know that sociology have its own language and it's the language that we study that makes it so different from other disciplines you have to delve into the content of sociology and then put forward whatever you recall or whatever you know right here all right and then we have interpretation and application maximum marks 10 marks um the extent to which

8:38 the response shows evidence that the candidate accurately interprets and elaborates on the information as well as displays the sociological imagination consider also how the candidate supports explanations with relevance and appropriate examples research in information references to the Caribbean context and this has to do with data information that you would have studed so it's not just theor Theory it has to do with data comparison of data of different Caribbean countries and so on and so forth and with references to authorities in the discipline so you make reference to all the theories that would have contributed to the discipline

9:24 um also the extent to which the candidate shows the relevance of sociological ideas theories perspective and research findings to the Caribbean situation so that is interpretation and application and if you're if you if I'm reading too fast just slow down or rewatch the video analysis and evaluation maximum seven marks and we said that 8 10 7 at the end of the day your essay will be graded out of 25 and that's 25 marks for each essay okay let's go the extent to which the candidate provides clear relevant and appropriate explanations and Analysis consider the

10:11 overall coherence of the response consider the following does the candidate clearly State conclusions are the conclusions logical does the candidate support conclusions with relevant information and facts references to appropriate authorities logical argument argument or stating your point expressing yourself is also very important when writing your essay I hope this video was very helpful to you um if you like what I explained here please like share subscribe and also click the notification button so whenever I post you will know um the

10:58 next video the next video will be part two how to structure a sociologic essay we want to look at the different parts of an essay and how you structure it um for now this is what I have to present to you as I said like share subscribe click your notification share with a friend and grow the channel see you next time