Assess the success of strategies used to make urban living more sustainable in a named UK city. [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 | Shows detailed and accurate knowledge and understanding of strategies for sustainable urban living. Applies knowledge well to address the demands of the question. Provides a well-developed and logical assessment of the success of multiple strategies, supported by specific and well-selected place-specific detail from a named UK city. Sophisticated use of relevant geographical terminology. |
| Level 2 · 4 to 6 | Shows clear knowledge and understanding of some strategies for sustainable urban living. Applies knowledge to address the demands of the question. Provides some assessment of the success of strategies, supported by some place-specific detail from a named UK city. Clear use of relevant geographical terminology. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 3 | Shows limited knowledge and understanding of strategies for sustainable urban living. Attempts to address the demands of the question but lacks focus. Provides simple statements with generic or limited place-specific detail. Basic or limited use of geographical terminology. |