GCSE · Geography

GCSE Geography: how each board marks it

AQA · Pearson Edexcel · OCR. 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 the first 8 pages of each are open to read here.

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The assessment objectives

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Understanding
AO3 Application
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.

3 books, one per board

GCSE · 28–30 pages each · the first 8 pages open

Geography · GCSE · AQA £4.99

AQA GCSE Geography Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

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 is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Understanding
AO3 Application
AO4 Skills

AQA GCSE Geography (8035) · 28 pages, 22 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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Geography · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

Pearson Edexcel GCSE Geography Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

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 is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Understanding
AO3 Application
AO4 Skills

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Geography A (1GA0) · 28 pages, 22 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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Geography · GCSE · OCR £4.99

OCR GCSE Geography A Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

OCR only. Geography A (Geographical Themes), J383, read from Version 2.0 of the specification. A working manual for a GCSE geography department, and the one book in this series whose Part One runs two pages longer: on J383 the Geographical Skills component is 40% of the qualification and contains no AO1 at all, which is a teaching problem the other specifications do not set. Everything after Part One is subject pedagogy that is true whichever board you teach.

AO1 Knowledge
AO2 Understanding
AO3 Application
AO4 Skills

Cambridge OCR GCSE (9–1) Geography A (Geographical Themes), J383, Version 2.0 · 30 pages, 24 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT. Not a student revision guide

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