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Hello, I'm Miss Kendrick, and welcome to this lesson on how we interpret different evaluate or discuss questions in our examinations.

So we're going to be as inclusive of exam boards as possible, and we're going to complete some of these different types of questions together.

Now one of the things I often find when looking at these longer answer questions is that students sometimes struggle to know what sort of information they need to include.

Or they might know what information's relevant, but they might struggle to apply it to your question.

So that's what you're going to be looking at in this lesson.

So you're going to need a pen or pencil, you're going to need some paper, and a different coloured pen, as well.

I'm going to be taking some questions from the Islam units there'll be some practises, and the Christianity ones, as well.

So if you've not recently revised these, I will be giving you some hints and things like that on what you could be including in your answer.

But it's probably best that you do do this lesson when you have a revised base units, because that's when it's going to be just most useful to you.

You do need to be willing to write answers, as well, because this is the whole point of this lesson, that we're practising attempting those questions and writing answers.

So just to give you a bit of detail on discuss or evaluate questions.

These are usually the longer questions usually worth 12 or 15 marks.

And will either have the command word to evaluate or discuss.

To evaluate something means to weigh up its strengths and weaknesses.

You want to talk about what might be good, and what might be bad about it.

And discuss is going to be very similar in that sense, in that you're essentially having a discussion.

You're going to have two sides of an argument.

And you need to make sure you know which exam board you're sitting, so you know how many marks this question's going to be worth for you.

And so that you can have some guidance from your teacher about how to answer those questions based on your specific exam board.

So please do have that conversation with your teacher.

And in OCR, Eduqas and WJEC, this type of question will be worth 15 marks.

And in AQA and Edexcel it will be worth 12 marks.

But how they are answered will be similar, and they're going to be touching on similar subject knowledge as well.

This is still going to be useful for you, no matter what exam board you're with.

So we're going to start by looking at some questions.

And we're going to think about what they're sort of aiming at.

What sort of skills do they want you to do, and what sort of subject knowledge is going to be relevant? All the questions here have a similarity in how you would need to answer the question.

So let's have a look at them.

These are all from Christianity.

The best way for Christians to reach an understanding of God is by praying.

The most important religious festival for Christians is Christmas.

And the stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

Have a little think, what do you think is going to be similar in how you approach these questions? You can pause the video for a moment and have a think.

Well these questions, they're all similar in that they all refer to one topic.

However, to give a full answer, you need to refer to other beliefs and practises.

So for example, the one about prayer, you're not only going to talk about Christians praying, you're going to bring in other acts of worship, as well, like reading the Bible, or listening to sermons.

Because all of those things are going to help Christians understand God.

When you're looking at the festivals question, you're likely going to compare Christmas to Easter, and you might argue that actually Easter's more important, because it celebrates Jesus' resurrection.

Or the last one, the stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

You could just say that they do or they don't, but an even better answer is going to talk about anything else in Jesus' life, or death or resurrection, that might be better proof that Jesus was the Son of God.

So that's the question we're going to look at in a little bit more detail.

And just as a side note, as we start doing this, it is really important that we read questions carefully, and we make sure we are answering a specific question.

Because if we deviate from the question and start writing about similar subject knowledge, but something different, essentially, then it can cap your marks.

So you're going to be limited in how many marks you get for that question, even if you've written a really good answer.

If you've written an answer to a different question that's not been asked, then you're not going to get the marks.

It's really easy to do this by accident.

I did it myself, and I did it at university, and actually had quite a bit consequences for that exam, which was worth quite a lot.

I wrote a great answer about something else completely, because I didn't read the question carefully enough.

And so I'm talking from personal experience here.

No matter how confident you are in your exam technique, or anything like that, always read the question really, really carefully, and regularly check whilst you're writing that you are answering the specific question.

So that's my word of warning, and the reason why we're doing this.

So we'll look at this question in a bit more detail.

Firstly, you can see I've underlined some key words in this questions.

The stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

So we've got incarnation as a key word, so that's going to include the nativity story about Jesus' birth.

But it's also going to include some aspect of Jesus' life and teaching, as well.

Also, this is where we really do need to make sure we know our key words.

So incarnation means God become flesh, the idea that Jesus was God.

And we've got the word prove.

Prove is a very strong word.

Sometimes I tell my students of using the word prove, because you have to be really careful how you use it.

And when a question says prove, I want a little warning signs go off in your head, and think well, is it going to be fully proved? Or could we say that it's got really, really strong evidence, but we might not say something's proven, or you might think something is.

So you just watch out for that word prove, it's a very, very strong word, that Jesus is the Son of God.

So again, Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

They believe that he is fully God, and part of the trinity, which we're going to talk about a little bit more in a moment.

So here's some questions for us to start thinking through how we would answer this question.

And if you're doing this for practise, you've got lots of time to mind map around the question, jot down some ideas, jot down some quotations that you think are relevant.

I fully encourage you to do that.

In an actual examination, you'll have very limited time.

So I wouldn't advise anyone spending more than a minute doing that.

But hopefully by the time it comes for your examination, you have done so many practise questions that you can do them backwards.

So firstly, how do the stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus' birth or life provide evidence that Jesus is the Son of God? So don't just list things that happened in the nativity story, or Jesus's life, how do they show that Jesus was the Son of God? And my second question is this proof? Is that going to convince everybody that Jesus is the Son of God? And is everyone going to become Christians because of it? Or might some people argue that it could be strong evidence, but it's not proof.

Do any other stories give better proof, like the crucifixion or the resurrection? And could you argue that it is all of the stories together that prove that he was the Son of God.

You could say that you can't look at the incarnation alone, and that you've got to look at Jesus' whole life.

Now this is what I referred to earlier.

If you want to be really fancy, and I definitely encourage you being fancy in your answers, because examiners would have read hundreds and hundreds of answers.

And they'll be very happy to come across any fancy.

You could argue that the stories show that Jesus is God.

Because the title Son of God is used in Christianity.

But sometimes this can be misleading to people, because they forget that Christians traditionally believe that Jesus is fully God.

And also, the question says, that Jesus was the Son of God.

Christians today believe Jesus is the Son of the God, that he is God, Christians today believe the Jesus is alive now in heaven.

And that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead.

So Christians actually don't see Jesus as someone in the past who once existed, they see Jesus as someone existing now.

So if you're feeling fancy and you're confident with the subject knowledge, then 100% take that approach.

But just make sure you are tailoring it to the question, and not just inventing your own question.

It has to be done delicately, not with a hammer, or anything like that.

So in a moment we're going to pause, so you can think a little bit more about what you might include.

But I will give you a couple more hints and ideas beforehand, just in case you've not revised this topic for a little while.

So you might want to jot some of my ideas.

Okay, I want to be clear that this is not full subject knowledge, in that you would need to explain all of these things in more detail.

But I'm giving you a bit of a list of things that you could include to answer this question.

So to prove that Jesus is the Son of God by looking at the incarnation stories, let's look at the column under incarnation.

You could say that Jesus' birth was a miracle, and that could be evidence that he's the Son of God.

You could talk about Mary being a virgin, and the biblical account saying that the Holy Spirit came upon her and made her pregnant.

There's the idea fulfilment of prophecy.

Christians believe that there are prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament, and this shows how special he was that he was the Son of God.

The wise men who worshipped Jesus when they visited him and gave him frankincense that was used in temple worship.

Now newborn babies, as adorable as they are, people don't usually go down on their knees and worship them, because they're human.

But in the nativity story we have got Jesus being worshipped as if he is God.

We've got Jesus' miracles showing that he has similar qualities to God, like being powerful, or having control over nature.

So any specific examples of miracles would be really helpful here.

Don't just say, "Jesus did miracles," talk about a particular miracle, like feeding of the 5,000.

And at Jesus' baptism there's a voice of God saying, "This is my Son." So many Christians would say, "Well that's also evidence that Jesus was God's son, or is God's son, like I was saying.

Other events that might better prove that Jesus was the Son of God, or is the Son of God, the crucifixion.

So there's the story in the gospel account of the curtain in the temple that separated God from humans being torn in two.

And if Jesus was just an ordinary human who died, then why would this barrier between God and humans be destroyed? How could the death of a man, just a normal human, account for the sins of all humanity? So the belief that Jesus is God is really, really important when it comes to beliefs in salvation.

When Jesus dies a Centurion says, "Truly this was the Son of God." Again, evidence that Jesus was God's son.

And we've got two other events, the resurrection and the ascension, many Christians would say that if Jesus just lived and taught people how to live, and did his miracles and died, and that was the end of the story, they might say that he was just a prophet, or a wise man.

But his resurrection gives Jesus' teachings authority.

When he says to people, "Oh, if you believe in me, then you will have eternal life." That doesn't really mean anything if he just dies.

But then if he resurrects, well that shows power over death.

And Christians will say only God can defeat death, so the resurrection shows that Jesus is God.

And finally, we've got the ascension.

After the resurrection Jesus appears to his disciples for 40 days, and then rises up to heaven.

And Christians today believe that that is where Jesus is, seated at the right hand of the Father.

Again, not a position of any old human, but the position of the Son of God.

So these are lots of ideas you could include.

You want to pause the video now and you're going to see if you can get some of these ideas down.

So before you have a go at writing your own answer, I wanted to show you a couple of paragraphs that have something wrong with them.

And this is hopefully going to help us to understand better how we can answer this specific question.

So I'll remind you the question is, the stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

And I want you to think about what's wrong with this answer, I'll read it out to you.

Christians believe that the incarnation is when God became flesh.

They believe that Jesus was born in a humble stable, and that his birth was a miracle.

Christians also believe that Jesus' teachings have authority, because he was the Son of God.

For example, he taught people to love your neighbour as yourself.

There's nothing factually wrong in there, but there's something not great in terms of how we answer the specific question.

Pause the video for a moment and see if you can figure it out.

I wonder how you got on.

Maybe you found mistakes that I don't have in my mind.

But this is the one I'm focusing on.

It does not apply the knowledge to the question.

So all of the knowledge is correct, and it's all stuff you could include in your question, but it's missing a step essentially.

And the step is applying it to the question.

How do each of these things show that Jesus was the Son of God? So a simple way to do this is to add a sentence on the end, and use the phrasing of the question and say, "This shows that the stories of the incarnation prove Jesus was the Son of God because," and explain why they show that Jesus was the Son of God.

We're going to have another, blah, blah.

We're going to have a look at another paragraph with another error in it.

So some Christians would argue that Jesus was born as a baby like anyone else.

Even though many special things happens at the nativity story, like the visit of the wise men this just shows that Jesus was special, not that he was God.

Therefore, the stories of the incarnation do not prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

Pause the video for a moment, and see if you can figure out what's wrong with that paragraph.

So the problem with this paragraph is it doesn't fit with the majority of Christian belief.

There are some Christians that might not say that Jesus is God, they might agree with the Trinity.

But mainstream Christianity would argue that Jesus is the Son of God.

And this paragraph starts, some Christians would argue, and says that this is a Christian belief that Jesus is not Son of God.

Now this was question where you can talk about humanist beliefs.

Then it would probably be fine, because if you started the question saying, some humanists would argue.

Well, humanists don't think Jesus was the Son of God.

Because number one, usually they don't believe in God.

But when you're talking about Christian beliefs, you need to be authentic to what Christianity teaches.

And Christianity traditionally does teach that Jesus was the Son of God, and that bears evidence for that.

So rather than saying that Christians disagree with this statement in terms of saying that they don't believe Jesus was the Son of God, you want to think about the different things that might show that Jesus is the Son of God.

So this is just where you need to be careful with interpreting the question.

Because sometimes my students will think that a question like that is a clear agree or disagree that Jesus is the Son of God, rather than agree or disagree that the incarnation proves that Jesus was the Son of God.

So that's another thing to watch out for.

So I'm going to give you an opportunity to pause and you can see if you can write your own couple of paragraphs to answer this question.

I've got two example paragraphs and this would, can I just be clear? My sample paragraphs are not the only thing that I would include.

If I was writing a full answer, I'd at least have a third paragraph, as well as one of my conclusions.

So don't think that what I'm showing you here is everything, it's just examples of how you could answer this question.

So you're going to want to read the question, because we should be checking the question wording regularly.

The stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

So many Christians would argue that the stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

See I've used the wording of the question in the answer, because of his miraculous birth.

For example, Mary was a virgin, and it was prophesied in the Old Testament that the virgin would conceive.

Also, the wise men brought Jesus frankincense which was used in temple worship, and they worshipped Jesus.

Finally, the miracle stories from Jesus' life show that he had power over life and death, such as raising Lazarus from the dead.

Only God has this power.

Therefore, the stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

So here I've bookended my paragraph with a question, and I've actually got three pieces of evidence in there, which you could call a chain of reasoning.

I've not just said they'll agree, because of one reason, and stopped there.

I've gone they're going to agree because of this, and because of this, and because of this.

Because Christians would say there's lots of evidence for a question like this.

So here we can see that the knowledge is applied to the question.

And that is helped by the fact that I've repeated the wording of the question.

Obviously don't overkill on using the wording of the question, because otherwise examiners just going to get your printed out question, there's loads of times not any content.

But it's especially useful at the end of paragraphs, just to make sure you are making those links between what you've written and the question itself.

I want you to pause the video now, and I want you to have a look at your own answer.

You can pinch some of my evidence if you want and include it in yours to make sure you've got lots and lots, and have a look at the wording of the question and see if you used that as well.

Let's look at our against paragraph.

So many Christians would argue that actually the story of the resurrection proves that Jesus was the Son of God.

This is because Jesus conquered death, and not only, oh sorry.

This is because Jesus conquered death and only God has power over death.

If Jesus had not resurrected, Christians today would likely just see him as a moral teacher.

The resurrection is a core part of the Christian claim that they can be saved from sin.

Something that only God could save humans from.

Therefore, it is the stories of the resurrection rather than the incarnation that proves Jesus was the Son of God.

As by themselves the stories of the incarnation can only support the idea that Jesus was a prophet.

So here, in the final part of my answer, I've explained not only why my points support this view, but I've explained why they're better than the previous paragraph.

And this is evaluation.

It's saying that well, the incarnation stories at most by themselves can only prove that Jesus is a prophet, but with the resurrection as well, then it would prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

So it's weighing up the previous paragraph next to this one, which is evaluation.

So pause the video for a moment, and get down some notes from this paragraph.

And actually on here as well, is that it fits with the key claims of Christianity.

One of the biggest claims from Christianity is Jesus is alive.

And many Christians would argue that that's at the core of the claim of the gospel of the good news.

The Crucifixion's a really important part of that, as well, because that's the belief that Jesus made salvation possible, that the resurrection is evidence that the crucifixion can do that.

It fits very well with the key claims of Christianity.

So we'll have a look at conclusions now.

And I've just got an example conclusion which has something wrong with it.

Now in your conclusions you need to make sure that you are giving reasons for and against the answer.

But we'll have a look at what I've written here, and you see if you can figure out what's wrong with this one.

In conclusion, some Christians would say, that it is the stories of the incarnation that prove that Jesus was the Son of God, as only God could perform miracles that Jesus, perform the miracles that Jesus did.

Other Christians would argue that it's the stories of the resurrection that prove Jesus was the Son of God, as only God could defeat death.

I want you to pause the video for a moment, and see if you decide what is wrong with the conclusion.

So the main problem with this conclusion is that it doesn't give a judgement.

Well the content in there is absolutely fine, but you've just, well the person me, 'cause I wrote this, I just summarised each side of the argument, haven't I? Some Christians would say this, some Christians would say that, but that's not a judgement.

What you need in your conclusion is a clear and explanation of what side of the argument is strongest.

And if you argue that both sides are really important, you can do that, but you still need to make it clear that you're not just summarising the different views, that you're saying that both are necessary.

So I'm going to show you a model conclusion, that's a better conclusion than this one.

And then you're going to have an option to try your own.

So the stories of the incarnation prove that Jesus is the Son of God.

In conclusion many Christians would argue that it's both stories of the incarnation and the resurrection, along with other events such as the ascension, that prove that Jesus not only was, but is the Son of God.

This is because Christians believe that God is revealed through Jesus' whole life, and that if you only focus on one aspect of his life, you do not get a complete picture of who Jesus was and what he came to do.

So this one does give a clear judgement and it's gone reason as well.

So I'm going to give you an opportunity to pause and write your own conclusion.

Okay, I hope you got on okay with that conclusion, I've got another one here, as well.

Slightly different from the one I did before, just to show you some variety.

So in conclusion, many Christians would argue that actually the stories of the resurrection prove that Jesus was the Son of God.

This is because Jesus conquered death and only God has power over death.

If Jesus had not resurrected, Christians today would likely just see him as a moral teacher.

The resurrection is a core part of the Christian claim that they can be saved from sin, something that only God could save humans from.

Now, that so far is basically the same as the conclusion I showed you before your task, which wasn't a very good one.

But here I've added on a really important thing which is underlined at the end.

Therefore, it is the stories of the resurrection rather than the incarnation that prove Jesus was the Son of God.

As by themselves the stories of the incarnation can only support the idea that Jesus was a prophet.

So I've added a clear judgement onto the end of that.

So if you're writing a conclusion and you realise, oh, I think I've just summarised each view, just put a sentence on the end and make a clear judgement that will be fine.

So now we've had a look at answering a question on Christianity.

We're going to do the same process again for Islam.

And I'll try and draw out some slightly different challenges when it comes to evaluate questions.

So again I've got three questions.

And I want you to think about what is the similarity each of these questions have in how you answer the question.

So you've got for Muslims, following Muhammad's example is more important than following the teachings of the Qur'an.

Greater Jihad is more important than lesser Jihad.

And the most important pillar of Islam is the Shahadah.

So pause for a moment and see if you can figure out what is the similarity all of these questions have? So in all of these questions you need to explain why something is important.

And you need to talk about maybe something being more important than the other.

And the challenge that I often find with these questions is that students, let's look at the pillar one, student's might go, "Ah, this is the Shahadah, and I'll write about it." And they'll go, "Oh, this is Zakah," and they'll write about it, and Haj and they'll write about it.

And what they'll miss is the part that says, this is the most important pillar because.

They sometimes struggle to explain why it's important.

So this is what we're going to be focusing on in this question.

So we're going to look at Greater Jihad, is more important than Lesser Jihad.

And some of the key things we're going to think about what is Greater Jihad, what does it involve, and why are these things important? Maybe you've revised this recently, maybe you haven't.

I'll give you a recap.

Greater Jihad is the personal struggle for a Muslim to follow Allah and submit to him.

So that's going to involve following the five pillars for example, so putting putting Allah before anything else.

And for some it's going to be the struggle to fast during daylight hours in Ramadan.

So each pillar involves a struggle.

They're not easy to do.

While some Muslims may say they're easy or joyful to do, but especially when it comes to fasting in Ramadan, especially in the summer when it's long, and hot and many Muslims would say no, it's not easy.

So there's struggle involved, the personal struggle to overcome those challenges, and submit to Allah.

Lesser Jihad, now Lesser Jihad is the struggle to build a good Islamic society.

So that might be doing things like providing funding for parks, for children's play, or for good schools, healthcare, and things like that.

But it could also include warfare when the Islamic community is under threat, as well.

So don't think Jihad is only about warfare, that's a common mistake.

Lesser Jihad also involves other ways in which a good strong society may be built up.

And think about why are these things important? So we're going to be thinking about caring for the Ummah, for example.

And also, last question here, is it possible to follow one without the other? As a Muslim, could someone go, "Oh I'm just going to follow Greater Jihad, 'cause that's the most important." Or "I'm just going to follow Lesser Jihad because that's the most important." Or actually, would Muslims be more likely to say, you need to have both together? So have a think about this question.

And like I just said here, you could argue they're both equally important as they are connected.

So we've going to pause the video now.

You've got an opportunity to jot down some answers about Greater Jihad and Lesser Jihad.

So I want you to bullet point some ideas, what sort of evidence would you include, quotations, examples, things like that? I hope you've got down lots of ideas.

And we've going to start with a answer that's got a problem with it.

Again, question is, Greater Jihad is more important than Lesser Jihad.

So Greater Jihad is the personal struggle of each Muslim to submit to Allah.

For example, Sawm, fasting, is a struggle, as it's very difficult to go without food and water during daylight hours, especially in the summer on long, hot days.

Pause the video for a moment, I want you to think about what's wrong with this answer.

Like I've said before, there's nothing factually wrong in terms of subject knowledge, but there is something wrong in terms of answering the specific question.

So the problem here is that it doesn't apply the knowledge to the question.

Why is it important to submit to Allah? The importance is going to mean that Greater Jihad, is more important than Lesser Jihad.

So for this paragraph you could have this paragraph, but you just need to add something to it.

And say, this is important because, so this is more important than Lesser Jihad, because.

Set the paragraph with the problem with it.

So Lesser Jihad is more important than Greater Jihad, as it shows love to the Ummah.

Lesser Jihad is the struggle to build a good Muslim society.

This could include caring for the environment, or even going to war in self defence.

This is important because it helps other Muslims. So again, pause and think about what's the problem with this answer in terms of answering this specific question? So the problem here is it does say why Lesser Jihad is important, but it doesn't say why it's more important than Greater Jihad.

It just gives a reason why it's important.

So it's better actually than the last one 'cause it is talking about importance.

But we still need to go another step further why is it more important than Greater Jihad? So we're going to pause now so you've got an opportunity to see if you can write a couple of your own answers.

Well done for writing your answer.

Let's see how it compares with my model paragraph.

So some Muslims would argue that Greater Jihad is more important than Lesser Jihad.

So straight away I've used the wording of the question to keep me on track.

As you must succeed in the struggle to submit your own life to Allah before you can help others.

For example, giving Zakah cleanses your money from greed.

And this means that a Muslim would be more willing to generously give money to support the Ummah, as they already see their money as belonging to, and submitted to Allah and his will.

Therefore, the Greater Jihad is more important than Lesser Jihad as submitting to Allah leads to helping other Muslims. So here again, I've bookended my paragraph with the question to keep me on track.

I've made it really clear why each is important, but why Greater Jihad might be more important than Lesser, 'cause many Muslims would say, well, Greater Jihad is going to lead to Lesser Jihad.

So pause the video now and see if you can improve your own answer based on this paragraph.

So next thing we're going to practise is writing a conclusion to this question.

So have a think about what you've got so far, which side of the argument you think is going to be strongest and write your conclusion.

So I'm starting with a conclusion that's got a problem with it, what is wrong with this conclusion? In conclusion, Greater Jihad is more important than Lesser Jihad.

Maybe this one was more obvious, this conclusion is far too brief.

You need to give some reasons for your conclusion.

Now what I do often say to my students is if they are seriously running out of time in their examination, and they've written most of their answer, and they're looking at the clock, and they've got one minute left, write a conclusion like this.

Because what happens in some examples is if you don't have a clear judgement , then it will cap how many marks you can get.

But if you throw in a quick judgement at the end it will release that cap, so you will do better than you would without it.

But it's still not a full enough conclusion for you to get top band marks.

So I would only say my students can write a conclusion like this if they are desperately running out of time.

If you've got time you need more in your conclusion.

So let's look at a better example.

In conclusion, many Muslims would argue that the struggle to submit their own lives to Allah, the Greater Jihad is more important than Lesser Jihad because it needs to come first.

This doesn't mean that they think helping build a Muslim community isn't important, but that it would not be possible to build a true Muslim community if people were not submitting their lives to Allah first.

Additionally, following the five pillars is part of Greater Jihad, leads to building a good Muslim community anyway.

As Sawm, Salah and Zakah in particular build the bonds in the Ummah.

So in this answer what I would have ideally seen in the rest of the answer to the question, is an explanation as to how Sawm, or Salah or Zakah builds the Islamic community.

So for example, Salah, you know Muslims praying at the same time every single day, meeting together to pray for Jummah on Friday.

And doing the together and those actions, saying the same words together, it builds a sense of community.

And that Zakah builds community, because it's giving money to those people who are in need.

And Sawm builds a sense of solidarity and community 'cause Muslims are fasting together, going through that challenge of submitting their lives to Allah together.

And so all of those pillars build the Islamic community doing the Greater Jihad the personal struggle to follow Allah builds Islamic community.

So you could argue that actually a huge part of Lesser Jihad is achieved by some of the actions that are carried out in the pillars, as well.

I think that would be a fairly authentic approach in terms of having that sort of hierarchy and saying Greater Jihad is going to come first.

Lesser Jihad they would say is really important.

It doesn't mean that it's not important, but they'd say that Lesser Jihad is going to be better carried out by a Muslim who is achieving that struggle to submit their lives to Allah.

I hope you find this helpful.

Do practise answering questions as much as you can.

And get your teachers to mark them.

Your teachers might not thank me so much for asking you to do that, but year after year I see the students who are most successful in their exams are the ones who practise those examination questions the most, and those who respond to feedback, as well.

It's a challenging thing to do.

It's not the most enjoyable way to prepare for a examination but it is most effective.

So well done for all of your hard work in this lesson.

Remember, always read those questions more than once to make sure that you've not misinterpreted it.

Always use the wording of the question in your answer to make sure you've not deviated from it as well.

You can now end the video and do the exit quiz.