To what extent do large-scale water transfer schemes provide a sustainable solution to water supply challenges? [9 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.
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 · 7 to 9 | Detailed and comprehensive evaluation of the extent to which large-scale water transfer schemes are sustainable solutions. Highly effective application of detailed and accurate place-specific information for a named scheme, integrated throughout, addressing both sustainable and unsustainable aspects. Clearly structured, logical and coherent argument, reaching a well-reasoned conclusion. |
| Level 2 · 4 to 6 | Clear evaluation of the sustainability of large-scale water transfer schemes, though may lack depth, balance or a clear conclusion. Effective application of some accurate place-specific information for a named scheme. Generally clear and structured argument, with some logical connections. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 3 | Limited or simplistic description of large-scale water transfer schemes, with little or no focus on sustainability. Limited or generic reference to place-specific information, or no named scheme. Lacks structure and coherence. |