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GCSE Geography · AQA style · Paper 1 Living with the physical environment
Effectiveness of Tectonic Hazard Management in HICs (6 marks)
AO1AO2AO36 marks · about 7 minutes

Assess the effectiveness of strategies used to reduce the risk from tectonic hazards in a High Income Country (HIC). [6 marks]

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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.

AO3 (published assessment objective): Compare writers' ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed, across two or more texts (English Language). For Literature: show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written. For Geography: apply knowledge and understanding to interpret, analyse and evaluate geographical information and issues to make judgements. For History: analyse, evaluate and use sources (contemporary to the period) to make substantiated judgements.

Assessed against AO1, AO2, AO3 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 6Detailed and accurate assessment of the effectiveness of strategies. Clear and consistent evaluation of successes and limitations. Well-developed and coherent. Good use of geographical terminology. Strong evidence from a named HIC case study.
Level 2 · 3 to 4Clear assessment of the effectiveness of strategies. Some evaluation of successes and limitations. Structured. Some use of geographical terminology. Some evidence from a named HIC case study.
Level 1 · 1 to 2Basic assessment of strategies. Limited or generic evaluation. Simple. Limited use of geographical terminology. Limited or generic evidence.