No. Components 03 to 07 are Developments in Religious Thought through one religion: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism. Your school picks one.

All five are in the guide because schools pick differently. Work the one you are taught and skip the other four. They are separate topics with their own pages.

Component 01, Philosophy of Religion, and Component 02, Religion and Ethics. Every student sits both. The third component is the one that varies by religion.

Yes, and it is where most marks are lost. An argument attributed to nobody, or attributed to the wrong person, is credited less than the same argument attributed correctly. The guide asks for the scholar, the argument and the standard objection separately.

A 40-mark essay is built from things you either have or do not have: a definition, a named argument, a counter-argument, a scholar, an example. The guide gets those into memory. Structuring them into an essay and doing it three times in two hours is what past papers train.

About twenty minutes for one subtopic, all three steps. Topics here are 205 to 250 questions each, so work by subtopic.

Write. Religious Studies is marked on precise statement of arguments, and step 2 is where your loose version gets replaced by the printed one. The method page sets out the evidence.

H573 is linear, so all three papers are sat at the end of Year 13. Philosophy and Ethics are usually taught from the start and are compulsory, which makes them the sensible first passes.

Yes. Three 40-mark essays in two hours is a timing problem as much as a knowledge one. OCR publishes past papers free.

A PDF, emailed on purchase. The questions for a topic print together and the answers follow directly after them.

A PDF of 1,584 exam-style questions covering the whole of OCR A-Level Religious Studies, with the answers printed after each topic.

An essay is assembled from recalled parts: a definition, a named scholar, an argument, an objection. Students who write weak essays usually have weak parts rather than weak structure. This fixes the parts, and past papers fix the structure.

Yes. The third component is taken through one religion of five, chosen by the school. All five are in the guide because schools choose differently.

There should be handwritten answers on paper and three passes over the same questions, and two scores per session to compare.

£8.00 for the whole specification including all five religions. An endorsed A-Level Religious Studies textbook is usually £25 to £35 and covers one component.

89 subtopics at roughly twenty minutes each is about 30 hours for everything, and closer to 20 once the four unused religions are skipped.

Past papers, which OCR publishes free, and their own notes for anything not yet taught.

With Philosophy of Religion, then Religion and Ethics. Both are compulsory, they are two thirds of the grade between them, and neither depends on which religion the school chose.