With reference to a physical geographical investigation you have undertaken, assess the reliability of your conclusions and suggest ways to improve the validity of your findings. [8 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 8 | Demonstrates thorough and accurate knowledge and understanding of a specific physical geographical investigation. Applies knowledge and understanding consistently to assess the reliability of conclusions and suggest valid improvements. Provides a well-developed, logical, and sustained argument, clearly linking suggestions to improved validity. Judgements are clear, well-supported, and justified. Geographical terminology is used accurately and appropriately throughout. |
| Level 2 · 4 to 6 | Demonstrates some accurate knowledge and understanding of a specific physical geographical investigation. Applies knowledge and understanding with some consistency to assess the reliability of conclusions and suggest improvements. Provides a developed, logical, and clear argument, with some links between suggestions and validity. Judgements are supported with some justification. Geographical terminology is used appropriately. |
| Level 1 · 1 to 3 | Demonstrates limited knowledge and understanding of a physical geographical investigation. Applies knowledge and understanding with limited consistency to make basic statements about reliability or improvements. Provides a simple description rather than an assessment. Judgements are basic or implicit. Geographical terminology is used occasionally and may be inaccurate. |