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What’s assessed…

• Urban issues and challenges – Rio de Janeiro & Bristol
• The changing economic world – UK and Brazil
• The challenge of resource management – Global food supply.

How it’s assessed

• Written exam: 1 hour 30 minutes
• 35% of GCSE

What’s assessed…

• Issue evaluation – This is where we study pre-release resources booklet 12 weeks before Paper 3 exam.  The topic for this changes each year.
• Fieldwork –  Students need to undertake two geographical enquiries (physical & human)
• Geographical skills
• Students are required to develop and demonstrate a range of geographical skills.

How it’s assessed

• Written exam: 1 hour 15 minutes
• 30% of GCSE

• The situation on Elizabeth’s accession
• The ‘settlement’ of religion
• Challenge to the religious settlement
• The problem of Mary, Queen of Scots
• Plots and revolts at home
• Relations with Spain
• Outbreak of war with Spain, 1585–88
• The Armada
• Education and leisure
• The problem of the poor
• Exploration and voyages of discovery
• Raleigh and Virginia

How it’s assessed

• Paper 2 written exam 1 hour 45 mins
• Students take this exam at the same time as the American West topic)
• 40% of total marks
• Edexcel set and marked

• The creation of the “Permanent Indian Frontier”
•  The Plains Indians; their beliefs and way of life
•  Migration and early settlement; The Donner Party and Mormons
•  Conflict and tension. The California Gold Rush, law and order and The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851
•  The Homestead Act 1862 and the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862
• The growth of the cattle industry; cowboys and ranchers
•  Impact upon Native American Indians and the Indian wars
• The end of the cattle industry
• Exodusters and the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893
• Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp
•  Destruction of the way of life of the Native Americans and extermination of the buffalo
• The end of the Indian Frontier

How it’s assessed

• Paper 2 written exam 1 hour 45 mins.  Students take this exam at the same time as the Early Elizabethan England topic).
• 40% of total marks
• Edexcel set and marked

• The setting up of the Weimar Republic.
• Spartacists, Freikorps, the Kapp Putsch.
• The challenges of 1923: hyperinflation; the French occupation of the Ruhr.
• The work of Stresemann.
• Changes in society and culture, 1924–29
• The Munich Putsch, 1923
• How Hitler became Chancellor, 1932–33
• The Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act and the banning of other parties and trade unions.
• The Night of the Long Knives
• The Gestapo, the SS, the SD and concentration camps.
• Nazi policies towards the Churches
• Goebbels and the Nazi use of Propaganda
• Opposition to the Nazis
• Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39
• Nazi policies towards women and the young
• Employment and living standards
• Nazi racial beliefs and the treatment of minorities
• The persecution of the Jews

How it’s assessed

• Paper32 written exam 1 hour 20 mins.
• 40% of total marks.
• Edexcel set and marked

What’s assessed…

• Topic 6: Criminal psychology – Why do people become criminals?
• Topic 9: Sleep and dreaming – Why do you need to sleep and dream?
• Topic 11: Research methods – How do you carry out psychological research?

How it’s assessed

• Written exam: 1 hour 20 minutes
• 45% of GCSE

What’s assessed…

• Theme A – Relationships and families
• Theme B – Religion and Life
• Theme E – Religion Crime and Punishment
• Theme F – Human Rights

How it’s assessed

• Written exam: 1 hour 45 minutes
• 50% of GCSE