S16 E1: The One about GCSE AQA Paper 1

Welcome back to a new school year and a new season of the RE Podcast.  Over the summer, I have recorded a series of episodes to support GCSE RE - specifically AQA Islam and Christianity.  If you are a student of GCSE RE, or a teacher of GCSE RE who is new to teaching GCSE, or new to AQA, or you are a teacher from another subject teaching GCSE for the first time, then I hope these episodes are really helpful to you to consolidate learning, or prepare for exams if you are a student, or to help you feel more confident if you are a teacher.

This episode offers an overview of Paper 1 - Religious Beliefs and practices, looking at the structure of the exam, how to do the different exam questions as well as some top tips for the exam. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A COPY OF A NEW STYLE EXAM PAPER TO HAND

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/religious-studies/gcse/religious-studies-8062/assessment-resources?secondaryResourceType=Question+papers%3BMark+schemes%3BAnswers+and+commentaries&limit=50&q=2026

Each episode after that will offer an overview of the main content and apply them to some key exam questions.

Copies of the exam questions used in the episode are below.

Give one Muslim belief about angels.  [1 mark]

Answer 1

Muslims believe that the angel Jibril revealed the Qur’an to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) on the night of power. 

Answer 2

They are made of light.  

Explain two ways in which the problem of evil and suffering influences Christians today. [4 marks]

Answer 1

One way is by trying to reduce as much evil and suffering through being good people.  This is because they believe evil and suffering is caused by humans. Another way is by being hopeful of an afterlife. This is because they believe that in heaven there will be no more evil and suffering.  

Explain two different ways in which Christians work for reconciliation 

Explain two different ways pilgrimage is experienced in Iona 

Explain two different religious practices Muslims could perform during Ashura 

Explain two different ways in which Muslims may perform Salah 

Explain two Christian beliefs about sin. Refer to sacred writings or another source of Christian belief and teaching in your answer 

[6 marks]

Answer 1: 3/6

Christians believe sin is bad for us. It affects people negatively. 

Christians believe original sin was the first time God was disobeyed. Adam and Eve ate from the tree. ‘The Lord God sent him out the Garden of Eden.  

Answer 2: 6/6

One belief is that sin damages the relationship between God and humans. By disobeying God, Christians get further away from God because sin separates God and humans. In the Bible it says; ‘The Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden’.  This shows the separation between God and Adam caused by his sin.

Another belief is Adam and Eve committed the original sin – eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil from which God had told them not to eat.  All Christians are now born with original sin. 

Explain two Muslim beliefs about prophets. Refer to sacred writings or another source of Muslim belief and teaching in your answer

Transcript

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Welcome to the RE Podcast, the first dedicated RE podcast for students and teachers. My name is Louisa Jane Smith, and this is the R.E. Podcast. The podcast for those of you who think RE is boring, which it is, and I'll prove it to you. Now, what I wanted to do is create a series of episodes to help students revise for their GCSE RE exam. This could be used with year 10 or year 11 to revise topics, prepare for mocks, or support revision for the final exams. It might even be helpful for teachers who are new to teaching GCSERE or just need a bit of a refresher to give them an overview of the main concepts and exam skills. I'm going to focus on AQA, Islam and Christianity, because I think this is the one that most people follow, but it also happens to be the spec that I know best. And in this episode, I'm going to focus on paper one, and I will bring in paper two in a second series. So I'm going to start with this overview of paper one. It would be really helpful if you had a copy of some actual exam papers in front of you, one for each religion you are studying. If you are a teacher and you are asking your students to use this podcast, could you please provide them with this? If you are a student, ask your teacher for some exam papers or alternatively, if you go to the AQA website and look for GCSE Religious Studies Assessment Resources 8062. I've attached two to the blog on my website and there are links to these in the show notes. Please, please, please make sure that you choose the right papers. So you need to choose papers based on the new style of questions for exams 2026 only. So if you open the paper and there is a two-mark or a five mark question, then this is an old paper, don't use that. You need to find one with a six-mark question in it. In this episode, we will start by covering the top tips that you will need to get the maximum mark possible. And we'll look at different question styles that you will encounter in your exam to help give you the confidence to know what you need to do in the real paper. Just as a reminder, paper one is testing your knowledge and understanding of beliefs and practices of the two religions that you have been taught. This will be Christian beliefs and Christian practices, along with the beliefs and practices from one other religion. In this episode, I'm going to focus on Islam as the second religion. On the day of your exam, you will be given two separate booklets, one for each religion. You'll be able to tell which one is which by looking at the front of the paper. So if you've got a paper in front of you, make sure you can locate the name of the religion and make sure that you've got one for each of the religions that you're studying. It doesn't matter which of the papers you do first. You can choose in the exam which one you want to do first. In total, you will have one hour and 45 minutes to complete both papers. This means you have 50 minutes for each paper, so 50 minutes for each religion, and then there's five minutes left over to check you've done everything. This is also written on the front of your paper. So just if you've got one in front of you, just check you can see that. So it is recommended that you spend 50 minutes in total on each paper, which will give you 50 minutes for Christianity and 50 minutes for your second religion, plus five minutes at the end to go back and check. Each of the two papers is further separated into two sections. One section is beliefs, and the second section is practices. So each of these sections should take you 25 minutes and therefore take you 50 minutes in total before you then move on to the second paper. Each section has five questions in it. This means you have 25 minutes to do all five questions in the first section, and 25 minutes to do all five questions in the second section. So in each section, these five questions will be a one mark multiple choice question, a one mark short answer question, a four mark question, a six mark question, and a twelve mark question. So if you add all of that up, it's 24 mark, so that's roughly a mark a minute. But I would try and do questions one to four in 10 minutes and then leave at least 15 minutes for your 12 marker. When you open your exam paper, and if you have one in front of you, do this now, you will see that the first couple of pages will have questions one to four on it. So your multiple choice, your one marker, four marker, and six marker. Question five, which is your 12 marker, is over the page. For paper one, the questions and answers are combined in the booklet. So underneath each question there is a space for you to write your answer to them. So the first question will always be a multiple choice question and it will always have four possible answers. To complete this question, simply place a tick in the box that you believe to be the correct answer. If you tick the wrong one, cross it out clearly and tick the correct one. If more than one box is ticked, then you won't get the marks. All other questions will require written responses, and the lines underneath give you an idea of how long your answer should be. You can ask for more paper, but be mindful that these lines are there to give you an indication of how much you should be writing. So be careful not to overwrite because you will need that time to spend on your 12-mark question. The second question on the paper is the first one that requires a written response. The question requires you to give one simple point. This means you do not need to write in detail or explain your answers with quotes or examples, but you do need to try and be specific. So try not to be vague and make sure you're answering the question directly. Try not to write too much. You don't even need to answer in a full sentence. The question should take you less than 30 seconds to answer so that you can spend that additional time on your 12-mark question. Let's consider two different answers from different students for the same question. The question is, give one Muslim belief about angels. The first student wrote, Muslims believe that the angel Jibril revealed the Quran to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, on the night of power. The second student wrote, They are made of light. Both students achieved full marks, but you can see that the second student has answered much more concisely and therefore has saved time for them to spend answering the longer questions on the paper. The first student could have simply written Jibril revealed the Quran and still got the mark. Let's move on to four mark questions. These questions will ask you to explain two points in detail. Developing the explanation is key to getting full marks. An easy way to remember this is to use the acronym PEPE. Point explain, point explain. So for each of the two points, we should have a clear point and a detailed explanation. In the belief section of your paper, which is always the first four marker question that you will get, these are often influence questions. So it will be asking you to explain two ways a religious belief influences religious people. In order to get four marks for this question, you need to give a really clear influence. Don't just describe the belief on its own because that will not be enough to get you the mark. You need to show the influence or impact this belief has on the believer. For example, in what way might it change their behavior or actions? How does this belief make someone feel their emotions? Let me show you what this looks like in practice. The four mark influence question could be explain two ways in which the problem of evil and suffering influences Christians today. A student has written, one way is by trying to reduce evil and suffering through being good people. This is because they believe evil and suffering is caused by humans. Another way is being hopeful of an afterlife. This is because they believe that in heaven there will be no more evil and suffering. So you can see two clear influences. The first one is an action to be a good person to limit suffering. The second influence is an emotion, to feel hopeful of an afterlife. That is the really clear influence that the examiner will be looking for in an influence style question. Please note, and this is really important, that naming the influence on its own won't get you a mark. You have to make a point. So if you just said be good, it won't get you the mark. You have to say be good in order to lessen suffering for your first mark and then explain it further for your second mark, using the phrase, this is because. When completing an influence question, be sure to read the question very carefully. The question we have used is asking about the influence of the problem of evil and suffering for Christians. So you can't say that Christians may lose faith when they see all the evil, and as a result, they might stop believing in God. Because that's not a Christian response. It's an atheist response. Also, if you just named a belief about evil and suffering, for example, that Christians believe that this is the devil's work and that evil is not God punishing the world, but it's the devil, you would get one mark for naming a correct belief, but no second mark because there is no influence. So we need to make sure we're talking about Christian responses to the problem of evil and suffering, and that we are clearly stating an influence, an action or an emotion. The other type of four mark question that you get is in the practices section of your paper, so in the second half of each paper. This one won't ask you about influences. It will ask you to explain the way in which something might be practiced. You can use the same structure, P E P E, as it's still a four mark question, but you don't need to explain the influence. Let me show you what some of those might look like. Explain two different ways in which Christians work for reconciliation. Or explain two different ways pilgrimage is experienced in Iona. Or explain two different religious practices Muslims could perform during Ashura. Or explain two different ways in which Muslims may perform Sullah. These are some really good questions for you to take away and practice. So as part of your revision at home, set a four minute timer and see if you can answer those questions. So as I've said, in each of these questions you don't have to name an influence because it's the practice side of the paper. You have to explain the way in which something might be practiced or carried out by a religious person. I'll explain what this means using an example in a minute. Something else I just want to point out is when you see the word different here, you need to make sure that your two points are clearly different. If your two points are similar, you will only get two out of four as a maximum mark. So as Waze Christians work for reconciliation, and reconciliation is the process by which you bring people together again after conflict, that's a word that often students forget. You could use Coventry Cathedral, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, whichever one your teacher has taught you, or you could even use evangelism as a way of reconciling humans with God. For the Salah question, you could compare how Sunnis pray and then how differently Shias pray. I will demonstrate these in more detail in the relevant episodes coming up. The six mark questions require the same level of explanation and the development as with your four markers, but you get the additional fifth mark in this question by including a relevant quote, and this is really important. Note that you have to source your quote, i.e. you have to say where the quote comes from, so the Bible or the Quran. And for the sixth mark, you have to apply the quote to the question. So just explain what the quote means. You could use the acronym PEPESA. So point explain, point explain, source apply. Or PESA P E. Point explain, source apply, point explain. Or even SAPEPE. So you put your source and your application first. It doesn't matter where you add the quote and application. So let's have a look at an example question. Explain two Christian beliefs about sin. Refer to sacred writings or another source of Christian belief and teaching in your answer. Let's imagine this answer. Christians believe sin is bad for us, it affects people negatively. Christians believe original sin was the first time God was disobeyed. Adam and Eve ate from the tree. The Lord God sent him out to the Garden of Eden. This answer would get three out of six. The first point Christians believe sin is bad for us, it affects people negatively, is a simple explanation, so we'd get one mark. It is not developed, so it would drop a mark there. The second point is a developed explanation. Christians believe original sin was the first time God was disobeyed. First point, Adam and Eve ate from the tree. Second point. While they have put a quote, the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, they haven't put the source of the quote, so they will not get their fifth mark. And they haven't then applied the quote to the question, so they won't get the sixth mark. Now let's have a look at a six out of six answer to the same question. So explain two Christian beliefs about sin, refer to sacred writings or another source of Christian belief and teaching in your answer. One belief is that sin damages the relationship between God and humans. By disobeying God, Christians get further away from God because sin separates God and humans. In the Bible it says the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden. This shows the separation between God and Adam caused by sin. Another belief is that Adam and Eve committed the original sin, eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil from which God had told them not to eat. All Christians are now born with original sin. So we can see the student has fully developed the first point, so this would get two marks. There is a relevant quote with a source, and the quote is applied to the question. The second point is fully developed, so this would also get a further two marks. So this would get the final two marks. So remember, whenever you're doing a six-mark question, develop each point, make sure you include a quote, make sure you tell us where the quote comes from, and then apply the quote to the question. You only need one quote in your whole answer. Also, if you can't remember the exact words of the quote, don't worry, you can paraphrase it and still get the marks. Just don't put it in quote marks. Because if you put it into quote marks, you are telling the examiner that this quote is directly from the Bible. If you are summarising it in your own words, it's not a direct quote, but it can still be credited if you don't put it in quote marks, as long as the source is there. Let's look at an example from Islam. Explain two Muslim beliefs about prophets. Refer to sacred writings or another source of Muslim belief and teaching in your answer. The first answer we'll look at is this. The prophets are special people given a message from Allah to spread. Another belief is that Muhammad is the final prophet, he was given the Quran, which is the word of Allah and the final book sent. The Quran says Allah is one. The first point is accurate but undeveloped, so it would get one mark. So the prophets are special people given a message from Allah to spread. The second paragraph is a developed point with a quote sourced from the Qur'an, but it won't get credited because the quote does not relate to the question. The question is about prophets and the quote is about Allah. So another belief is that Muhammad is the final prophet, he was given the Quran which is the word of Allah, and the final book sent, that's your two marks, a developed point. The Quran says Allah is one, so the quote does not link to the question about prophets. This would therefore get three out of six. Let's look at a six out of six answer. One belief is that Allah sends prophets to deliver his message. All prophets share the same message of believing in one God, Tawhid. Another belief is that Muhammad is the final prophet. He was given the Qur'an, which is the word of Allah for Muslims. The Quran says Muhammad is the seal of the prophets. This means there are no more prophets needed as Muslims now have the Quran. Maybe you could have a go at the following six marker. Explain two Muslim beliefs about the Quran. Refer to sacred writings or another source of Muslim belief and teaching in your answer. In the practices section, the six mark question focuses on the importance of something. So we can use the same acronym of P-E-P-E-S-A or P-E-S-A-P-E or S A P E P E, whichever order you're doing, but the focus of the question is going to be the importance of a practice or carrying out a certain action within a religion. So obviously it doesn't matter where you put your quote, your quote can be in either of your two points, whichever makes more sense to you, as long as you name the source of the quote and you apply it to the question. Let's have a look at some questions that could be asked. Explain two reasons why the Lord's Prayer is important to Christians, refer to sacred writings, etc. Explain two reasons why celebrating Christmas is important to Christians. Explain two reasons why the five pillars of Islam are important to Muslims. Explain two reasons why the Knight of Power is important to Muslims. And obviously each of those will end with refer to sacred writings or another source of Muslim belief and teaching in your answer. You can see in each of these questions you are being asked to explain two reasons why either a festival or specific religious practice is important. What you're looking for here are two different reasons, and for one of those points you will need to include and apply a quote as evidence to support. I think it's a really good idea to have two or three set reasons which you can use for any question. So in Islam, you could use that it shows submission to Allah, it strengthens the community of Muslims, the Ummah, or it develops self-discipline. So these are three reasons why any action that a Muslim does is important. For Christianity, you could say it reflects an important belief, it brings the Christian closer to God, or it supports the church, the community of Christians. Finally, the last and biggest question in each section of your exam is a 12-mark question. So these make up 50% of your GCSE RE. Here, the examiners are testing your ability to create an argument, so we are no longer just demonstrating our knowledge and understanding or our ability to explain religious beliefs or practices. What we have to do here is make arguments in support and arguments against a statement, and then formulate a conclusion with a clear judgment at the end. Is no one perfect way to answer 12 mark questions that can guarantee you 12 out of 12. But you could aim for around five paragraphs, two develop points with evidence to support the statement, and two develop points with evidence to disagree with the statement. Then your conclusion needs to come to a justified judgment, not just another opinion. The order that you do these are up to you. For example, you could do two agrees followed by two disagrees, or you could start with two disagrees followed by two agree points. Whatever order makes sense to you to help you form a logical argument. You also need to remember that this is a religious studies exam, and if you don't include religious teachings to support your argument, you will only get a maximum of six marks. That could be a belief, that could be a practice. Making sure that you've got lots of religious evidence and examples is going to help build up those marks. And remember that you are writing to persuade, so you need to use argumentative language. Don't just explain the different reasons for and against. At the end, you need to end your answer with a clear judgment. You need to have a think about which argument is the strongest or the most reasonable. You must say which argument you think is stronger, or justify why they are equally strong or equally weak. Read the question very carefully, look at what it's asking, and make sure that every point that you write directly answers the specific aspect of the question. An effective way of doing this is to use the wording of the question in your answer. And this is why we want to spend a little bit more time on our 12 markers and not waste too much time on the shorter answers. A really helpful thing to do in your 12 mark questions is to break down the statement by doing what we call bug the question. So the B stands for box. So the first thing you need to do is box the command word, which in 12-mark questions will always be evaluate. They are always going to ask you to evaluate a statement. This means that you have to decide how true a statement is by weighing up the evidence. The U is for underline, so you want to underline the key elements in the statement. And G is for go back and check. So let's take an actual 12 marker to demonstrate this. Belief in the afterlife is the most important Christian belief. Evaluate this statement. So we are going to box evaluate, as this is our command word. Then we need to underline the key parts of the statement. So the main topic is afterlife, so we're going to underline that. But the other topics it mentions are Christian beliefs, so you need to underline that. And finally, you will also underline most important, as this is what you are being asked to evaluate. So you are going to compare belief in the afterlife with other Christian beliefs, maybe about God or the Trinity or Jesus or salvation. Just do not write about practices. It does not talk about practices in the question. And remember to come to a judgment about which, if any, is the most important belief. As you write your answer, you will need to go back to the question and check you are answering it. You can use the bug method in your other subjects too. The other method is to turn the statement into a question. So the statement belief in the afterlife is the most important Christian belief becomes the question, is belief in the afterlife the most important Christian belief? Note it does not ask why belief in the afterlife is important. This would be a 5-mark question. But whether it is the most important. So your answer needs to argue why this belief is the most important, or why other beliefs are more important, or maybe that all beliefs are equally important. So let's take a 12-mark question from Christian practices. The most important duty for Christians is to grow the church. Evaluate this statement. If you are able to stop the episode, write down the statement and start to break down the question using the bug method. So the statement again is the most important duty for Christians is to grow the church. Evaluate this statement. If you're not able to stop the episode and do this yourself right now, we're going to do it together. If you are able to stop and complete this independently first, then you can compare what you did to what I do. So we are going to box the word evaluate. This is our command word. We are then going to underline grow the church, duty, and most important. So we need to talk about different ways of growing the church, so mission and evangelism. We can link that to the teachings of the Great Commission, love your neighbour and salvation. And we can use that to say why this is the most important duty for Christians. But then we need to contrast that with other duties that Christians have. So we could think about prayer and worship, or going on pilgrimage, or celebrating festivals, or sacraments, or reconciliation. Don't mention all of these, just choose one or two duties that you feel the most confident in, so you have lots and lots of examples and evidence to draw on. Remember, what we want to do is make sure that we're weighing up evidence properly and not just writing about two different duties and why they're important. We need to focus on the topic of the question, which is the most important. Let's look at a question with a slightly different focus. There are more similarities than differences between Sunni and Shia beliefs. Evaluate this statement. So let's bug the question. So box the word evaluate, underline key ideas, so similarities and differences, Sunni and Shia beliefs. As such, we know it is a beliefs question. So we cannot start writing about the five pillars or the ten obligatory acts or festivals. We are writing specifically about Muslim beliefs. So we will be thinking about things like the six articles of faith in Sunni Islam and the Five Roots of the Suladin in Shia Islam. These are definitely two things that students often don't feel very confident in. If this is you, go away and have a quick look at them. Or if you are a teacher, make sure you teach these explicitly. Recall them regularly and revise them thoroughly with your students. The question is whether there are more similarities than differences between Sunni and Shia beliefs. So we need to be weighing up how important the similarities are, how significant the differences are, if there are differences, not just listing the similarities and differences. Another question you could bug and then have a go at answering could be this. For Muslims, the best way to worship Allah is through Psalm fasting. Evaluate this statement. Write this statement down, pause the episode if you can, bug it, and even have a go at writing it. So the statement again, for Muslims, the best way to worship Allah is through Sorm fasting. Evaluate this statement. So we need to weigh up the best way to worship Allah. We're looking at practices here. So we could write about different pillars or obligatory acts and explain why each of those are the best ways to worship. But every time we use an example, we need to make sure we are deciding whether or not this is the best way. Every paragraph should be thinking, is this the best way to worship Allah? Are the examples that I've given really showing this? And it's really important that you come to a conclusion. In the conclusion, you have to make a well-justified judgment. I tend to use the sale method in order to evaluate statements. So each letter in the word sale stands for something you could use to judge how convincing an argument is. S stands for supported by most people. A stands for authority, which argument is supported by religious authorities like holy books or key religious people. L stands for logical, which argument makes the most sense. And E stands for evidence, which argument is supported by the most evidence, or it can stand for ethical, which argument might lead to the most ethical actions. I would suggest using language like it is clear to see that. It is the strongest argument, or it could be concluded that this argument is. So somewhere in that conclusion you have to make a clear judgment and explain why. You can't just give a simple sentence and expect that to be enough. If you are aiming for the top mark, a great technique is to do what we call questioning the question. For example, if we look at the Islam practices question, the best way to worship Allah is through fasting, a great response to that could be to say that there is no best way. Questioning the question, challenging the idea that there is only one best way to worship Allah. What you could say is that there is no best way, and that there are many ways to worship Allah, and often this could be very personal to an individual in terms of building their own individual relationship with Allah and feeling closer and more connected to Him. And that might look different for different Muslims. That would be an excellent judgment that you could make at the end of your answer. Let's look at an example of a conclusion that does that. So the question is: belief in Jesus is all Christians need to be saved from sin. Evaluate the statement. So let's imagine that the student has written a couple of paragraphs explaining why belief in Jesus is all Christians need to be safe from sin and explain why this is the best way to be safe from sin. And then the student has looked at other ways that you could be safe from sin and explain why that is most needed. Then they have come to this conclusion. To summarize, though many agree that Jesus is all that is needed in order to be freed from sin, it is not the only way. The arguments that other factors contribute is just as convincing. While belief in Jesus frees you from the consequence of sin, the evidence suggests Christians need good works to help free their mind from sin. So you need them both together. To say both are equally important is the strongest argument as it comes from a source of authority. It is what Jesus taught through the parable of the sheep and the goats and what Paul taught, faith without works, is dead. It is the strongest argument because it makes logical sense, as anyone can say they believe, but you need to demonstrate your belief in your actions. Therefore, in conclusion, belief in Jesus is not all you need to be freed from sin. Throughout your essay, probably at the end of each paragraph, try to make a value statement. So rather than saying this is a strong argument because, or this is a weak argument because, you could use sentences that will link your paragraphs together and use some evaluative language to persuade the examiner a little bit more. For example, you could say, this overshadows the previous argument because, or this outweighs my previous argument because, or this is a more logical or reasonable argument. Explaining things in a way that weighs up an argument rather than just saying everything is either a strong or a weak argument helps move away from comparing two different points of view and much more towards that evaluation. These kinds of paragraphs with this kind of language is far more likely to get you those higher marks. So next time you sit down to practice a 12-mark question, see if you can use some of those sentences. Or you could go back over some 12-marker answers you've already written and see if you can improve them by including some more evaluative language as a revision task. Finally, to summarize everything I've said, be responsible and disciplined on timing, keep an eye on the clock and manage moving from one paper to the next after 50 minutes. Use the lines as a guide for how much you should write, especially on one, four, and six mark questions. Write concisely for these questions so that you can save more time to spend on the 12 mark questions. Read the question carefully. This will be true of all your exams, and you'll be surprised at how many people in the stress of an exam misread questions. Read the question carefully, particularly those 12-mark questions, really focusing on what it's asking you to do. Remember to use either direct quotes or paraphrasing quotes if you can't remember them exactly, but don't forget to mention the source, where does that teaching come from, and apply it to the question. Finally, remember to give more than one reason for a conclusion to weigh up and form a nice judgment in your 12 markers. I hope this has given you a good overview of paper one, what the paper will look like, the structure, the timing, and how to answer the different styles of questions. Next episode, we will be doing a deeper dive into some of the core content you need for paper one, as well as how to answer specific questions on that topic. My name is Louisa Jane Smith, and this has been the RE Podcast. The podcast for those of you who think RE is boring, which it might be. But it's a great subject to get a GCSE in, as it's useful for law, for medicine, for sales, advertising, media, in fact you name it. It also teaches critical thinking, and this is a necessary skill to take you to college, to university, and into any career. But thank you so much for listening to me or the life out of you.