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Thinking Skills (9694)
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Free Thinking Skills (9694) revision notes for Cambridge International A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Understanding and using information
Understand information in a variety of forms
Identify and select relevant information
Organise the calculation(s) needed to solve a problem
Apply a simple model
Make simple deductions
Identify necessary and sufficient conditions (2027 syllabus)
Searching, scheduling and optimising
Search for solutions in simple situations
Search for solutions in more complicated situations
Identify cases that satisfy given criteria (2027 syllabus)
Create schedules
Find optimal solutions
Analysing information and data
Identify logical relationships, patterns and features in data
Apply a complex model
Make complex deductions
Transform data (2027 syllabus)
Explain trends in data (2027 syllabus)
Adapt a method of solution in response to a change in the situation
Develop a model (2027 syllabus)
Communicating reasoning in problem solving
Explain reasoning
Justify the solution to a problem with logical reasoning
State assumptions made within reasoning
Show and label working clearly
Evaluating evidence
Assess credibility of evidence
Assess the representativeness of a sample
Evaluate the presentation of data
Identify and compare perspectives presented in evidence
Assess explanations for evidence
Suggest explanations for evidence
Using evidence
Assess the significance of evidence
Assess inferences made from evidence
Suggest inference from evidence
Assess challenges to inferences made from evidence
Suggest challenge to inference from evidence
Develop, articulate and justify a judgment based on multiple sources
Analysing and evaluating reasoning
Recognise an argument
Identify key elements of an argument and explain their function
Identify unstated assumptions in an argument
Recognise and evaluate informal fallacies
Invalid deduction: affirming the consequent and denying the antecedent (2027 syllabus)
Recognise and assess the impact of weaknesses in reasoning
Identify and evaluate rhetorical devices
Constructing arguments
Articulate a conclusion
Provide reasons in support of a conclusion
Develop strands of reasoning
Structure reasoning using intermediate conclusions
Strengthen reasoning by the use of appropriate elements
Extended problem analysis and applied reasoning (Papers 3 and 4)
Combine problem solving skills across an extended scenario
Model a real-world situation and refine the solution in stages
Analyse the structure of the reasoning in a document
Evaluate the reasoning in a document
Evaluate inferential reasoning from evidence across documents
Construct a substantial reasoned argument from multiple documents
Respond to significant counter-positions
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