2025 RI Y5 GP End-of-Year Essay Assignment

Raffles Institution 2024 Year 5 End-of Year Essay Assignment General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Higher 1 GENERAL PAPER Paper 1 8881/01 1 hour 30 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your index number, CT group and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Answer one question. Note that up to 20 marks out of 50 will be awarded for your use of language. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This document consists of 2 printed pages. IMPORTANT As a learning community, we value intellectual integrity. We trust that you will make full use of your learning experiences through diligent, honest effort in your academic work. Appropriate credit and acknowledgement must be given where it is due. Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct where a person presents a piece of work as one’s own, but which has been copied in whole or part from other sources without appropriate acknowledgement or permission from the author or source. In submitting your work, you decl are that the piece of work is your own and that you have not co lluded with any other student in completing it. Where there are reasonable grounds for believing that plagiarism has occurred, disciplinary consequences as outlined in the Student Handbook will be instituted.

2 Answer one question. Answers should be between 500 and 800 words in length. Submit your HANDWRITTEN essay to your GP tutor at the start of the first GP lesson (13-17 Jan 2025). 1 To what extent is gender inequality a significant issue in the world of science? 2 ‘In today’s society, people are slaves to technology.’ What is your view? 3 Consider the importance of physical appearance in today’s world. 4 ‘There is no value in believing in something unless it can be scientifically proven.’ How far is this true? 5 ‘Formal education is less valuable today than it was in the past.’ What is your view? 6 ‘Traditional beliefs have little value in the modern world.’ Discuss. 7 Is it fair to say that investment in space exploration is a total waste of resources? 8 ‘There is little to look forward to in one’s old age.’ To what extent is this true of your society?