QCAA Study of Religion study plan

Define the terms sacred text, myth, and story, and distinguish between them in writing with three original examples from any tradition you have studied.

Classify at least six sacred texts or story collections by genre (narrative, law, poetry, prophecy, wisdom) and record the classification in a comparison table.

Explain how a community's worldview shapes which stories it treats as authoritative, using two contrasting traditions.

Build a glossary of 20 key terms from Domains 1 and 3 with one-sentence definitions in your own words.

Trace the historical development of one sacred text tradition from oral transmission to written canon, listing at least four stages with approximate dates.

Analyse how translation and copying changed the meaning or status of a text in one tradition.

Compare two traditions' processes of canon formation, identifying one similarity and one difference.

Construct a timeline linking textual development to at least three wider social or political events.

Describe the structure of a rite of passage in one tradition and label its stages using an established framework.

Explain how a specific ritual enacts or reinforces a belief you identified in Week 1.

Compare two rituals from different traditions, stating one function they share and one they do not.

Evaluate the claim that rituals lose meaning when beliefs weaken, giving two arguments for and one against.

Identify three contemporary adaptations of religious practice (for example online worship, changed dietary practice, or new music) and describe each accurately.

Assess how one community justifies or resists ritual change, using evidence from public statements or reporting.

Apply an ethical reasoning framework to one contested ritual practice, stating the framework's assumptions.

Draft exam-style short answers on ritual and ethics under timed conditions.

Map the relationships among beliefs, values, and ethical norms in one tradition, showing at least three causal links.

Explain how a tradition's worldview generates a position on one contemporary issue (for example bioethics, environment, or migration).

Compare two traditions' ethical reasoning on the same issue, identifying where their premises diverge.

Construct and rebut one counterargument to a religious ethical position without caricaturing it.

Trace how one social change (urbanisation, secularisation, migration, or digital media) reshaped a tradition's institutions or authority structures.

Explain the difference between internal renewal movements and external social pressures, with one example of each.

Evaluate how a tradition has responded to a contemporary ethical controversy in a public forum, citing specific developments.

Synthesise all five domains around one tradition, showing how text, ritual, belief, history, and ethics interlock.

Write full-length practice responses to one question per domain under timed conditions.

Mark your own responses against the syllabus-style criteria and list your three weakest skills.

Rehearse accurate use of technical vocabulary without notes.

Re-teach your three weakest skills from Week 7 using fresh examples you have not previously used.

Integrate historical context into ethics answers to raise the depth of analysis.

Complete a full mock examination covering all five domains within time limits.

Review errors from the mock and write corrected model sentences for each.