November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / Art & DesignInformation about the assessment
Assessment will be an official marking of your coursework to date. You will need to hand in all work on the deadline (2md November)
Topic / Content
Marks will be awarded across the 4 Assessment Objectives (see your pack for details) / You need to look at the more detailed list in your pack for what will be expected. In brief:
- All drawing & Photography
- Further experimentation (drawing / photos)
- 3 Artists developed fully (Research, Image Analysis, Responses)
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Use your time wisely and attend boosters on a Thursday after school (3:30 – 5:30) for advice and resources.
November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / BiologyInformation about the assessment
How long?1.5hrs
How many questions?
Style of question? Mixture of short answer and extended response
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification?
3.4.2ATP
3.4.3
Photosynthesis
3.4.4 Respiration
3.4.5 Energy transfer
3.4.7 Succession / Specific details of what needs to be revised – please be explicit
The synthesis of ATP
The light independent and light dependent reactions, all chemical reactions involved and molecules formed. Limiting factors.
All chemical reactions involved in all stages of respiration, aerobic and anaerobic. Location and products of all reactions.
Efficiency of energy transfers in an ecosystem. Food production. Evaluating the economic and environmental issues.
The stages of succession. Conservation management and its links to succession.
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
e.g. websites / revision booklets / past papers etc
Revision guides (letters to purchase these have been given out)
Completing example past paper questions available on the AQA website.
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Subject / Business StudiesInformation about the assessment
No formal assessment but must have completed the following tasks on the Unit 8 Business Planning project
1-5
An overall grade will be given for this
Topic / Content
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Subject / CACHEInformation about the assessment
How long? 30mins – 1 hour
How many questions? 15 (5 for each teacher that is relevant to the topic currently being taught)
Style of question? Mainly short answer questions. Some questions may include case studies.
Topic / Content
Unit 3 – Providing safe environments for children
Unit 6 – Understanding children’s additional needs
Unit 7 – Observation, assessment and planning /
- Understand what safeguarding, child protection and welfare is.
- Knowing what the health and safety procedures are in order to keep children safe.
- Understand what ‘inclusive practice’ is
- Understand the difference between biological and environmental factors and how they affect development
- Be aware of current legislations and educational frameworks
- Understand what equality, diversity, inclusion and discrimination mean
- Understand the role of an observer and the benefits of observing
- Understand the observation cycle
- Know what ‘child centred planning’ means and the different observation methods
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Folder notes
CACHE Child Care and Education text book
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Subject / CHEMSITRYInformation about the assessment
How long? 1.5 hours
How many questions? 8 questions with sub sections
Style of question? Short and long answer questions
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification? / SEE CHECKN LIST ATTACHED
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
e.g. websites / revision booklets / past papers etc
Website – Chemguide
Website – Alevel chemistry.com
Book – AQA Oxford University press textbook, CPG revision guide
Exam papers from AQA website
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Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / A2 EconomicsInformation about the assessment
How long? 75 mins
How many questions? A choice of two questions, with one selected and answered.
Style of question? Within each question, there is one 15 mark analysis and one 20 mark discussion.
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification? / Specific details of what needs to be revised – please be explicit.
- Define economies and diseconomies of scale
- Apply and analyse how economies of scale could apply to different transport markets
- Comment on the extent to which growth leads to economies or diseconomies of scale
- State and explain the different objectives that firms have
- Analyse the objectives using a diagram
- Evaluate the extent to which firms will engage in profit maximisation
- Define the different efficiencies and apply to 3 market structures
- Explain the impact of competition / concentration on efficiencies
- Draw each of the market structures diagrammatically
- Explain each market structure diagram analytically
- Evaluate the impact that more or less competition will have on a market in terms of efficiency
- List the features of a perfectly contestable market
- Analyse the diagram
- Link the market structure to relative efficiencies
- Evaluate the extent to which contestability is beneficial to consumers and producers
- Draw the natural monopoly diagram
- Explain why the natural monopoly argument is applicable to transport markets
- Link the natural monopoly argument to the provision of government subsidies
- Know what privatisation is
- Apply to the rail industry
- Know what deregulation is
- Apply to the bus and air travel markets
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
e.g. websites / revision booklets / past papers etc
- Revision handouts from class (especially 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12)
- Market structures CH6 (OCR hand out)
- CGP
- OCR F584 past papers (section B)
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Subject / English LiteratureInformation about the assessment
How long?2.5 hours (to be spread across two double lessons).
How many questions?Two questions
Style of question?Essay response.
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification?
This is the end of year exam, as sat by a previous year group. The format is exactly the same as the one you will sit at the end of this year. / Specific details of what needs to be revised – please be explicit
In the exam you will have to analyse unseen poetry, prose and drama texts and compare these, along with your wider reading on the theme of Love Through the Ages.
You will be marked on the following A.O.s:
AO1: Articulate creative, informed and relevant responses to literary texts, using appropriate terminology and concepts, and coherent, accurate written expression
AO2: Demonstrate detailed critical understanding in analysing the ways in which structure, form and language shape meanings in literary texts.
AO3: Explore connections and comparisons between different literary texts, informed by interpretations of other readers.
AO4: Demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received.
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
e.g. websites / revision booklets / past papers etc
- Read widely and ensure your wider reading notes and timelines are up-to-date.
- Practice annotating unseen extracts.
- Attend all sessions leading up the exam, which will focus on exam skills.
- Ensure you feel confident with all four A.O.s (as above).
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Subject / EthicsInformation about the assessment
How long? 55 minutes
How many questions?1 Question – part a) only worth 45 marks
Style of question?Essay question testing subject knowledge
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification? / Specific details of what needs to be revised – please be explicit
AQA Unit RST4C
Religious Influences on Moral Decision making
- Divine command theory
- Biblical laws
- Religious ideas of conscience
- Natural Law
- Situation Ethics
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
e.g. websites / revision booklets / past papers etc
Past papers available on AQA website.
Encyclopaedia of Philosophy -
November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / FrenchInformation about the assessment
How long? 2 exams 1 oral exam 15 minutes 1 written exam 1hour 30 minutes
How many questions? Oral exam – defence of stance and discussion Written paper: 1 30 minute translation and 1 hour discursive esssay
Style of question? As above.
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification?
Oral exam: unit 3
Written paper: unit 4 /
- Oral exam: prepare stance and arguments to back it according to the guidance given by your teacher.
- Written paper: 30 minute translation and 1 hour discursive essay from a topic covered this year.
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
- Oral exam: learn your stance by heart and prepare answers to the first set of questions given by your teacher.
- Written paper: translation. Revise all AS grammar and A2 grammar from this term ( green grammar book)
- Written paper: discursive essay. Revise discursive terminology( how to write the perfect discursive essay’ sheet and vocab from topics covered so far in module 1 this term.
- For past UNIT 4 discursive essays go to:
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Subject / Further MathsInformation about the assessment
75 minute paper, exam questions done under formal exam conditions in classroom.
Module / Content
FP2 Ch 1, 2, 3, 4,
M2 Ch 1, 2, 3 / Complex Numbers, Roots of Polynomials, Summation of Finite Series, De Moivre.
Moments and Equilibrium, Centres of Mass, Energy.
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Course textbooks
Class notes
Class handouts
Homework exercises – rework, revisit
You can find explanations of topics on YouTube and Khan Academy
Past papers on school website:
Subjects > Mathematics > Revision Material > AS/A Level
Revise actively by doing questions/working on problems.
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Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / GeographyInformation about the assessment
1 hour and 30 minutes
A combination of shorter questions ranging from 7 – 12 marks
One 40 mark essay
Topic / Content
Plate Tectonics
World Cities / Earth structure, plate tectonics theory
Destructive, constructive and conservative plate margins. Processes: seismicity and vulcanicity. Associated landforms: young fold mountains, rift valleys, ocean ridges, deep sea trenches and island arcs.
The global pattern: millionaire cities, mega cities and world cities.
Contemporary urbanisation processes – urbanisation, suburbanisation, counter-urbanisation and re-urbanisation
Decentralisation of retail and other serviced
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Attendance to booster sessions
CGP revision guide
Use of further reading booklet
Checking of group emails
Revision pack
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Subject / History ‘The Triumph of Elizabeth’Information about the assessment
- How long? 45 minutes
- How many questions? A choice of 1 of 2
- Style of question? Essay style questions, various possible stems including ‘statement ‘How far do you agree? To what extent…
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification? / Specification Reference: Topic 1 ‘The Mid Tudor Crisis’.
1. Legacy of Henry VIII; Religion (Pilgrimage of Grace, 6 articles, 10 articles), Foreign policy (War with France and Scotland), Finance (debasement of the coinage) and his will.
2. Somerset’s rise to Power: regency council, the overturning of the will.
3. Somerset’s social, political, foreign and economic policy.
4. Somerset’s attempt at a religious revolution.
5. Western and Kett rebellion and 1549 year of Commotion.
6. The Rise of Northumberland and the downfall of Somerset.
7. The religious policy under Northumberland: 2nd Act of Uniformity, 1552 Prayer book, iconoclasm.
8. Foreign, social and financial policy.
10. The succession crisis: the devise and death of Edward VI.
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
- Past paper exam titles list.
- Reading pack
- Revision guide for Somerset/Northumberland available from Miss Law/ Miss Graham.
November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / ICTInformation about the assessment
1.5 Hours
12 questions ranging from standard answers and will include at least 1 essay question
Topic / Content
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3 / Topic 1 surrounds networks, types and benefits, topologies, security, and remote management of networks
Topic 2 surrounds HCI including aspects of design that will lead to a more user friendly system as well as the influence of the audience on design
Topic 3 surrounds the Internet, infrastructure of the WWW, ethic, social and moral aspects of the use of the WWW
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Revision via the course book, revision booklets made by Mr Hudson and past exam papers.
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Subject / LawInformation about the assessment
How long? 90 minutes
How many questions? 2
Style of question? 1 essay, 1 scenario
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification?
Liability for Omissions
Offences Against the Person and consent / Specific details of what needs to be revised – please be explicit
All work covered on Liability for Omissions (definitions, cases, issues) – revision sheets will be provided
All work covered on Offences Against the Person and Consent (definitions and cases) – revision
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
e.g. websites / revision booklets / past papers etc
Revision sheets, folders (detailed notes), OCR website
November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / English Language and LiteratureInformation about the assessment
How long? One hour
How many questions? One
Style of question? Analysis of text (A transcript of spontaneous speech) – relationship between context, purpose and audience and the ways in which speakers’ attitudes and values are conveyed
Topic / Content
What and Where is this on the specification? / Specific details of what needs to be revised – please be explicit
AO1 Select and apply relevant concepts and approaches from integrated linguistic and literary study, using appropriate terminology and accurate, coherent written expression
You need to revise the linguistic frameworks you have been studying in class. Use your linguistic terminology to explore lexis, semantics, grammar, pragmatics, discourse, mode, representation and conversation analysis.
AO2 Demonstrate detailed critical understanding in analysing the ways in which structure, form and language shape meanings in a range of spoken and written texts
You must be ready to analyse structure, form and language and the effect of these on the participants in the conversation.
AO3 Use integrated approaches to explore relationships between texts, analysing and evaluating the significance of contextual factors in their production and reception
You need to be clear about the factors that effect that context of a spontaneous conversation (where, when, who, why etc). Be able to say how the context effects the language used by the participants.
Learn the following subheadings, as these are the areas that will be assessed:
Identifying the features of talk in life
The relationship between context, purpose and
The ways in which speakers. attitudes and values are conveyed
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Re-read all class notes, mark schemes and essay structure guides.
Practice essay questions on transcripts that you have in your folder.
November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / MathsInformation about the assessment
75 minute paper, exam questions done under formal exam conditions in classroom.
Module / Content
PC3 Ch 1, 2, 7,
10 (Mid-ordinate Rule & Simpson’s Rule)
PC3 Ch 3, 4, 5, 6
PC4 Ch 1, 2 / Functions, Transformations of Graphs, Modulus Function, Numerical Solutions of Equations & Iterative Methods, Mid-ordinate Rule & Simpson’s Rule (these were all studied in in the Summer term 2015).
Inverse Trig Functions, Reciprocal Trig Functions (sec, cosec & cot), e and Calculus, Derivatives of sin x and cos x, Chain Rule, Product Rule, Quotient Rule.
Binomial Series, Rational Functions and Polynomial Division, Factor Theorem & Remainder Theorem for Divisors of Form (ax+b).
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Class notes
Class handouts
Homework exercises – rework, revisit
You can find explanations of topics on YouTube and Khan Academy
Past papers on school website:
Subjects > Mathematics > Revision Material > AS/A Level
Revise actively by doing questions/working on problems.
November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / Media StudiesInformation about the assessment
How long?1 hour
How many questions?1
Style of question?Essay style question which will feature in Section B of the paper (60%) Identities in the Media
Topic / Content
Section B: Critical Perspectives. Identities in the Media. (48 marks) / Students must revise their own identity case study. It is important that you practice using the PEAT structure (point, evidence, analysis, theory) to ensure you include relevant terminology.
You are marked on how well you apply theory to your case study examples, therefore you should be revising theories from Foucault, E. Said, Giddens, Butler etc. You should also revise the concept of postmodernism, fragmented identities and other debates which we have explored in our lessons.
You should arrive to the exam ready to discuss your 4 key identity examples in relation to the question/ statement that you are given.
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
e.g. websites / revision booklets / past papers etc
November Internal Assessments
Subject information sheets for A2
Subject / A2 PEInformation about the assessment
How long? 2hrs 30mins
How many questions? Varied by unit
Style of question? Short and long answer as per standardized examinations.
Topics / Content
What and Where is this on the specification?
History of Sport – Popular Recreation (TIN)
Psychology – (LYN)
Anatomy & Physiology – (MOD) / Specific details of what needs to be revised – please be explicit
Popular Recreation Activities
Characteristics of popular recreation
Socio-cultural factors that affected sports
The 5 case studies – football, cricket, pedestrianism, tennis, swimming
Personality
Attitudes in Sport
Achievement and Motivation
Groups and Teams
Ergogenic Aids
Energy Systems
Recovery
Recommended revision Strategies and resources
Lesson notes & PowerPoints
Revision Books – you should all have one.
OCR website – past papers available.
Textbooks available for loan from 0.12.
Newspaper article x 2 (MOD)