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GCSE Geography · AQA style · Paper 2 Challenges in the human environment
Water Insecurity Impacts (9 marks)
AO1AO2AO39 marks · about 12 minutes

Assess the social and economic impacts of water insecurity in a named country or region. [9 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 · 7 to 9Detailed and comprehensive assessment of social and economic impacts of water insecurity. Highly effective application of detailed and accurate place-specific information for a named country/region, integrated throughout. Clearly structured, logical and coherent argument.
Level 2 · 4 to 6Clear assessment of social and economic impacts of water insecurity, though may lack depth or balance. Effective application of some accurate place-specific information for a named country/region. Generally clear and structured argument, with some logical connections.
Level 1 · 1 to 3Limited or simplistic description of social and/or economic impacts of water insecurity. Limited or generic reference to place-specific information, or no named country/region. Lacks structure and coherence.