Examine the social and environmental challenges resulting from rapid urban growth in an LIC or NEE city you have studied. [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 accurate knowledge and comprehensive understanding of urban issues in an LIC/NEE city. Sustained analysis and/or evaluation, making clear judgements which are well-supported by specific, place-based evidence and specialist terminology. The response shows a strong ability to link ideas and fully address the demands of the question. |
| Level 2 · 4 to 6 | Clear knowledge and sound understanding of urban issues in an LIC/NEE city. Shows some analysis and/or evaluation, with an attempt at making judgements, supported by some place-based evidence and specialist terminology. The response addresses the question but may lack depth or full coherence. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 3 | Basic or limited knowledge and superficial understanding of urban issues. The response is mainly descriptive, with limited or generic place-based evidence and an absence of analysis/evaluation or clear judgements. May only partially address the demands of the question. |