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GCSE Geography: how each board marks it

AQA · Pearson Edexcel — a separate book for each

The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically whichever board you teach. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. Each book quotes its own board's specification word for word, and opens at its first fifteen pages here.

The assessment objectives

  1. AO1 Knowledge
  2. AO2 Understanding
  3. AO3 Application
  4. AO4 Skills

Read off the GCSE Geography specification. The weightings, the mark scheme levels and what separates a middle answer from a top one are set out board by board inside each book.

2 books, one per board

GCSE · 28 pages each · first 15 pages open

Cover of GCSE Geography — AQA

Geography · GCSE · AQA £4.99

GCSE Geography — AQA

AQA only — AQA GCSE Geography (8035). A working manual for a GCSE geography department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

  1. AO1 Knowledge
  2. AO2 Understanding
  3. AO3 Application
  4. AO4 Skills

AQA GCSE Geography (8035) · 28 pages, 23 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Preview — first 15 pages

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Cover of GCSE Geography — Pearson Edexcel

Geography · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

GCSE Geography — Pearson Edexcel

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Geography A (1GA0). A working manual for a GCSE geography department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

  1. AO1 Knowledge
  2. AO2 Understanding
  3. AO3 Application
  4. AO4 Skills

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Geography A (1GA0) · 28 pages, 23 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

Preview — first 15 pages

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