If you are studying for AQA sociology, whether you are doing AS or A-level exams this summer, you will have to answer 10-mark questions. These appear on all three A-level papers and on both AS papers too. On the A-level papers you have to complete no fewer than eight of them, so this type of question accounts for one third of the total marks across all exams: 80 out of 240.
The demands of 10-mark questions can be difficult to get to grips with. They don’t require a very short answer like a 2-, 4- or 6-mark question, nor are they an essay as such, but something in between. Whatever the paper, you are effectively given about 15 minutes to answer each of these questions. As a result you need to be realistic about what you can try to achieve within that timescale, and avoid going much over a quarter of an hour and eating into your time for other answers.
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