Planning and teaching the new GCSE (Eduqas A at my school) has highlighted the importance of the AO3 objective: ‘apply knowledge and understanding to interpret, analyse and evaluate geographical information and issues and to make judgements’. My Year 10 students have been developing their AO3 skills but many have struggled to include everything required in […]
Read moreI have received a few questions recently about the synoptic aspect of the A2 papers and thought I would pass on my views! SYNOPTICITY The synoptic criteria has been dropped from the mark scheme. It is essentially equivalent to IDA. ISSUES, DEBATES AND APPROACHES (IDA) The AO2 mark scheme includes a criterion regarding IDA. IDA […]
Read moreAs you are probably aware, there’s always been a debate concerning whether or not psychology is a science – indeed this has been a topic on second year essay papers for years – but a while back the QCA messed up everyone’s chances of getting any discussion points on that question, by making a declaration that […]
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