Book excerpt: Exam Board: Edexcel Level: GCSE Subject: Religious Studies First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 Endorsed for Edexcel Trust Victor Watton to maximise every student's potential with his trademark mix of well-paced, focused content coverage and confidence-boosting exam support tailored to the 2016 Edexcel requirements. - Progressively builds students' subject knowledge through accessible explanations of religious and thematic concepts, topics and terms - Helps students learn, retain and revise the key content by following a clear and consistent structure that maps every topic against the specification - Offers a complete solution to assessment preparation with practice questions and expert guidance on how students can improve their responses - Enhances students' interest and understanding using a variety of engaging visual sources, textual extracts and activities to illustrate different practices, perspectives and teachings Edexcel GCSE RS Spec A: Faith and Practice in the 21st Century Content covered: - Area of study 1: Study of religion - Catholic Christianity - Area of study 2: Study of second religion -Islam and Judaism - Area of study 3: Philosophy and ethics - Covers the short course content for Catholic Christianity and Islam or Judaism