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Just to let you know the exemplar student work for the controlled assessment, marked and with moderator comments, is now available for secure download from Geography A pages. You'll need your Edexcel username and password to access them. You can get username and password from your Exams Officer, by calling 0844 576 0024 or by emailing me at…
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All three areas in this unit are compulsory.
Section A – Geographical Skills
This section focuses on skills linked to responding to stimulus material. Students will be expected to respond to questions based on an OS map of 1:50000 scale and a key of conventional signs will be provided. Other stimulus material might be diagrams, maps, photographs or graphs.
Questions may be either human or physical, and will be based on the skills section of the specification.
Section B – Challenges for the Planet
This section comprises two topics – The causes, effects and responses to climate change and Sustainable development for the planet. Students will be asked to demonstrate knowledge, understanding, skills and the ability to apply these through a series of carefully structured questions. There are no specified case studies, so you have a free choice of examples to use.
3 discussions
Students study two topics, one chosen from Section A – The Physical World and one from Section B – Environmental Issues.
Section A optional topics
Topic 1 – Coastal Landscapes
Topic 2 – River Landscapes
Topic 3 – Glaciated Landscapes
Topic 4 – Tectonic Landscapes
Section B optional topics
Topic 5 – A Wasteful World
Topic 6 – A Watery World
3 discussions
Students study two topics, one chosen from Section A – The Human World and one from Section B – People Issues.
Section A optional topics
Topic 1 – Economic Change
Topic 2 – Farming and the Countryside
Topic 3 – Settlement Change
Topic 4 – Population Change
Section B optional topics
Topic 5 – A Moving World
Topic 6 – A Tourist’s World
2 discussions
Controlled assessment
You should be able to continue using your present fieldwork with very little adaptation year
to year. Although the Edexcel-set tasks will change each year, the eight themes will remain the
same. This allows you to be consistent with the theme chosen or to be more dynamic in your
approach to assessment.
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