No. Component 01 has a Section B chosen from Families and Relationships, Youth Subcultures and Media. Component 03 has a Section B chosen from Crime and Deviance, Education, and Religion, Belief and Faith.

All six are in the guide because schools pick different pairs. Work the two you are taught and skip the other four. They are separate topics with their own pages.

Introducing Socialisation, Culture and Identity on Component 01, and the whole of Component 02, which is Research Methods and Researching Social Inequalities plus Understanding Social Inequalities. Globalisation and the Digital Social World is compulsory on Component 03.

Yes, and it is the most common place marks are lost. A point attributed to nobody is worth less than the same point attributed correctly. The guide asks for the name and the finding rather than the general idea.

Component 02 is 35 per cent of the A-Level and its first section is research methods applied to the study of social inequalities. It is 103 questions in the guide covering methods, sampling, reliability and validity, ethics, and the practical constraints on real research.

About twenty minutes for one subtopic, all three steps. Topics here run from 52 to 108 questions.

Write. Sociology marks turn on the exact concept and the exact attribution, and step 2 is where the difference between your version and the printed one gets fixed. The method page sets out the evidence.

H580 is linear, so all three papers are sat at the end of Year 13. Component 01 is taught first and is the shortest paper, which makes it a sensible first full pass.

Yes. The method puts the theorists, studies and concepts into memory. Past papers train the essay structure and the clock across three papers of different lengths. OCR publishes them free.

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

A PDF of 859 exam-style questions covering the whole of OCR A-Level Sociology, with the answers printed after each topic.

That is correct. Two of the three papers have an optional section chosen by the school from three. All six options are in the guide because schools choose differently, and the four they do not sit are simply skipped.

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

Sociology essays are marked on named theorists, named studies and applied concepts rather than on fluency. A student who cannot attribute a point writes around it, which reads well and scores less.

£8.00 for the whole specification including all six options. An endorsed A-Level Sociology textbook is usually £30 to £40 and covers one year.

81 subtopics at roughly twenty minutes each is about 27 hours for everything, and closer to 20 once the four unused options are skipped.

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

With Component 02, which is compulsory in full and worth 35 per cent. Nothing on it can be dropped, so time spent there is never wasted.