A Level Simulators: immerse yourself in your studies

A short scenario or policy statement is presented (a proposed law, a political speech, a real event) and you pick which Core Political Ideas thinker (liberal, conservative, socialist, and their sub-strands) would most approve or most object, then sees a breakdown of why other thinkers landed differently on the same case.

You drag a set of policy positions onto a spectrum and are then shown how classical liberals, modern liberals, One Nation and New Right conservatives, and different socialist strands would actually place them, surfacing the internal disagreements within each ideology rather than treating them as blocs.

Given a set of fictional general election results, you form a government (coalition, confidence-and-supply, or minority) and see the consequences for legislative power, mandate, and stability, tying directly into UK Government content on the electoral system and executive-legislative relations.

A fictional case is presented (a minister’s decision, a piece of delegated legislation) and you need to decide whether it’s open to judicial review and on what grounds (illegality, irrationality, procedural impropriety), then see how a court would likely rule and why, reinforcing rule of law and separation of powers content.

The same constitutional flashpoint (an executive overreach, a rights dispute) is run through both systems in parallel: codified vs uncodified, entrenched vs sovereign, judicial review powers. You’ll see structurally why the two systems produce different outcomes from the same starting scenario.

You are given a state’s resources and options in an international dispute and must classify and deploy hard, soft, and smart power, then see how other actors respond, building intuition for the Global Politics content on power and the state.