Core textbook
OCR A Level Religious Studies: Religion and Ethics (2020, ISBN 9781510479951)
An OCR-focused course textbook for securing the specification foundations of the Ethics paper.
Paper 2 · curated reading
Ethics reading list
Three different jobs: establish the course, consolidate it efficiently, then extend the debate for a more distinctive AO2 argument.
Use the title and ISBN to identify the edition through your school or library. Each recommendation includes guidance on what it adds to your revision.
Revision guide
My Revision Notes: OCR Religion and Ethics (ISBN 9781510418059)
A concise companion for consolidating terminology, theories and exam-focused recall.
Stretch reading
Christopher Bennett, What Is This Thing Called Ethics? 2nd ed. (ISBN 9780415832335)
Accessible academic reading that adds conceptual depth and sharper material for AO2.
Turn reading into marks
Use a three-pass method
- Locate the claim.Write the author's conclusion in one precise sentence.
- Reconstruct the reason.Identify the evidence or premise that is supposed to make the conclusion credible.
- Test it.Set the argument beside its strongest objection and state the criterion behind your judgement.
Topic-specific sources
Continue into annotated reading
Every topic guide contains primary-text context, named scholars and further reading chosen for that debate.