The limits of knowledge. One lesson at a time: listen to the episode, play the three games until the streak holds, then write to a real past-paper question in the time the exam gives you.
Specimen to 2026, by tariff. A dash means that year's question at that tariff was on another unit of the same section.
| Year | 3 marks | 5 marks | 5 marks | 12 marks | 25 marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specimen | Q01What is philosophical scepticism? | — | — | — | — |
| 2019 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | Q04Outline philosophical scepticism and explain how reliabilism responds to it. | — |
| 2021 | — | — | Q03Explain Descartes' third 'wave of doubt'. | — | — |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — | Q05Are the claims of philosophical scepticism true? |
| 2024 | — | — | Q03Explain how Bertrand Russell responds to scepticism by arguing that the external world is the 'best hypothesis'. | — | — |
| 2025 | — | — | Q03Explain how local scepticism and global scepticism are similar and how they are different. | — | — |
| 2026 | — | — | Q03Explain the role/function of philosophical scepticism within epistemology. | — | — |
Read your answer as the examiner will. Which of these would they write beside it?