Explain how urban change has created challenges in a UK city you have studied. [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 knowledge and understanding of how urban change creates challenges. Explanations are well-developed, clear, and logically structured, showing strong geographical understanding. Strong application to the named case study with specific and accurate examples/details. Sophisticated use of geographical terminology. |
| Level 2 · 3 to 4 | Sound knowledge and understanding of how urban change creates challenges. Explanations are clear but may lack some depth or detail. Some application to the named case study with some specific examples. Good use of geographical terminology. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 2 | Limited knowledge and understanding of how urban change creates challenges. Explanations are basic, generalised, or lacking clarity. Little or no specific reference to a named case study. Limited or inappropriate use of geographical terminology. |