Mark Scheme (Results) Summer 2022 Pearson Edexcel GCSE In Religious Studies A (1RA0) Paper 3: Area of Study 3 – Philosophy and Ethics Option 3A: Catholic Christianity Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications

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Mark Scheme (Results) Summer 2022 Pearson Edexcel GCSE In Religious Studies A (1RA0) Paper 3: Area of Study 3 – Philosophy and Ethics Option 3A: Catholic Christianity Edexcel and BTEC Qualific... ations Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and specific programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the details on our contact us page at www.edexcel.com/contactus. Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of people, wherever they are in the world. We’ve been involved in education for over 150 years, and by working across 70 countries, in 100 languages, we have built an international reputation for our commitment to high standards and raising achievement through innovation in education. Find out more about how we can help you and your students at: www.pearson.com/uk Summer 2022 Question Paper Log Number P71244A Publications Code 1RA0_3A_2206_MS All the material in this publication is copyright © Pearson Education Ltd 2022 General Marking Guidance • All candidates must receive the same treatment. Examiners must mark the first candidate in exactly the same way as they mark the last. • Mark schemes should be applied positively. Candidates must be rewarded for what they have shown they can do rather than penalised for omissions. • Examiners should mark according to the mark scheme not according to their perception of where the grade boundaries may lie. • There is no ceiling on achievement. All marks on the mark scheme should be used appropriately. • All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit according to the mark scheme. • Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification may be limited. • When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark scheme to a candidate’s response, the team leader must be consulted. • Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate has replaced it with an alternative response. Paper 3: Philosophy and Ethics 3A – Catholic Christianity Mark Scheme – 2022 Question number Answer Reject Mark 1(a) AO1 3 marks Award one mark for each point identified up to a maximum of three. • Everything has a cause (1) • The universe must have a cause (1) • The only being powerful enough to cause a universe is God (1) • There must be a first cause (1) • Aquinas said there is an unmoved mover (1). Accept any other valid response. • Lists (maximum of one mark) (3) Question number Answer Reject Mark 1(b) AO1 4 marks Award one mark for providing a characteristic. Award a second mark for development of the characteristic. Up to a maximum of four. • The design argument shows the loving nature of God (1) he designed the world with everything humans needed to live (1) • The design argument is proof of God’s involvement in the world, (1) it shows that only God is powerful enough to design it • The design argument proves that God is all knowing (1) because the universe could only have been designed by a being that knows the purpose of the universe (1). Accept any other valid response. • Repeated characteristic /development • Development that does not relate both to the characteristic given and to the question. (4) Question number Answer Reject Mark 1(c) AO1 5 marks Award one mark for each way. Award further marks for each development of the way up to a maximum of four marks. Award one further mark for any relevant source of wisdom or authority. • A miracle breaks the laws of science (1) as only God has the power to perform miracles (1) the Catechism states that miracles ‘invite belief in Jesus’ (548) (1) • Miracles can lead people to believe in God as only God has the power to defy the laws of nature (1). Jesus healed the royal official’s son (John 4:43- 54) (1) as a result both the official and his household believed in Jesus as a result of the miracle (1) • Miracles show that God in the Holy Spirit is active in the world (1); for example healings recorded by the Church at Lourdes, (1) St Paul taught healings are a gift of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:9-10) (1). Accept any other valid response. • Repeated way/ development • Development that does not relate both to the way and to the question • Reference to a source of wisdom that does not relate to the way given. (5) Question number Indicative content Mark 1(d) AO2 12 marks, SPaG 3 marks Candidates must underpin their analysis and evaluation with knowledge and understanding. Candidates will be required to demonstrate thorough knowledge and understanding as well as accuracy of religion and belief when responding to the question and in meeting AO2 descriptors. AO2 Arguments for the statement: • Some non-religious people would agree as a vision is seeing or hearing someone or something holy as fake as they reject the idea of God; God cannot communicate anything real as he doesn’t exist, therefore they must be in the imagination of that person • People who have mental illness, stress or on medication can experience hallucinations very similar to the visions had by the saints; there is a similarity between people’s reports of seeing or hearing something today that are thought to be hallucinations by medical science • The vision only exists in the mind of the person who experiences the visions, many people have had visions of Mary, they see her as white, despite her being from the Middle East so therefore they may be just hallucinations. Arguments against the statement: • Catholics accept that people can have visions and they are a real religious experience, as with St Joan, as the Church investigated her claim the vision must have been genuine • Visions are real religious experiences as some visions are given in detail and occur a number of times, such as with St Bernadette; this makes people believe that they must be real • The messages in the visions from God in biblical visions have become a reality, as when God spoke to Abraham and promised him an heir and later Isaac was born; the promise came true so was not an hallucination. Accept any other valid response. (15) Candidates who do not consider different viewpoints within the religious tradition or non-religious viewpoints (as instructed in the question) cannot achieve marks beyond Level 2. Level Mark Descriptor 0 No rewardable response. Level 1 1–3 • Information/issues are identified and make superficial connections among a limited range of elements in the question, underpinned by isolated elements of understanding of religion and belief. • Judgements are supported by generic arguments to produce a conclusion that is not fully justified. Level 2 4–6 • Superficial connections [Show More]

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