Analyse the main reasons for deforestation in a tropical rainforest. [6 marks]
AO1 (published assessment objective): Identify and interpret explicit and implicit information and ideas; select and synthesise evidence from different texts (English Language). For Literature: read, understand and respond to texts, maintaining a critical style, developing an informed personal response, and using textual references including quotations to support and illustrate interpretations. For Geography: demonstrate knowledge of locations, places, processes, environments and different scales. For History: demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the periods studied.
AO2 (published assessment objective): Explain, comment on and analyse how writers use language and structure to achieve effects and influence readers, using relevant subject terminology to support their views (English). For Geography: demonstrate geographical understanding of concepts and how they are used in relation to places, environments and processes, and the interrelationships between places, environments and processes. For History: explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second-order historical concepts.
Assessed against AO1, AO2 using Revision Robin's own level descriptors below. These are not the exam board's mark scheme. Every quotation in the feedback is checked against your answer before you see it, and a teacher's mark overrides ours.
| Level 3 · 5 to 6 | Detailed and accurate analysis of a range of main reasons for deforestation, showing clear understanding of their relative importance and/or interconnectedness. Uses precise geographical terminology and specific place-specific detail to support points. |
| Level 2 · 3 to 4 | Clear analysis of some reasons for deforestation. Makes some links between different causes. Uses some geographical terminology and includes some place-specific detail. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 2 | Basic description of one or two causes of deforestation. Lacks analysis or links between causes. Limited geographical terminology and lacks place-specific detail. |