A Level Assessment
This page details all of the assessments we will be running as part of the changes to the 2021 Summer examination season due to Covid-19.
Subjects:
Art
Date of Assessment | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Portfolio evidence to be completed by 30th April | N/A | N/A | A3 sketchbooks; final pieces and research essay. | A80 workshops |
Biology
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where Can I find this information? |
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Friday 30th April | 3 | 40 minutes | Communication and homeostasis Hormonal communication Plant and animal responses | Text book pages 10-17, 64-73, 80-107 Revision guide pages 132, 140-147, 158-171 arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/plant-and-animal-responses arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/hormonal-communication arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/communication-and-homeostasis |
Tuesday 4th May | 2 | 40 minutes | Biodiversity (AS) Ecosystems Populations and sustainability | Text book pages AS book 254-271 Text book pages A book 270-301 Revision guide pages 110- 117, 238-254 |
Thursday 13th May | 1 | 40 minutes | Cellular control Manipulating genomes Cloning and biotechnology | Text book pages 162-169, 178-209, 216-263 |
Friday 14th May | 3 | 25 minutes | Respiration | Text book pages 136-153 Revision guide pages 184-192 arnewood.fireflycloud.net/science/a-level-biology/respiration |
Business Studies
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Thursday 1st April | 1 | 40 | Value and limitations of Ratio Analysis / Overall Performance / Share Price Financial Ratios - Gearing, Current Ratio, ROCE CSR & Business Ethics | Ratio analysis value / limitations - Text book pages 342-363 Overall Performance -Text book pages 364-384 Share price - Text book pages 16-29 Calculations - Gearing / Current Ratio / ROCE - Text book pages 342-363 CSR / Business Ethics - Text book pages 437-460 Porters 5 Forces Model - Text book pages 461-467 General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes |
Friday 23rd April | 3 | 40 | Ansoffs Matrix Competitive Advantage Bowmans Clock Price Skimming Confidence Levels | Ansoffs Matrix - Text book pages 487-494 General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes |
Thursday 29th April | 1 | 40 | International Markets Intrapreneurship Greiners Growth Curve Horizontal / vertical integration Productivity Capacity Utilisation | International Markets - video 1 / notes / video 2 / Model - Text book pages 535-550 Intrapreneurship - Text book pages 529-531 Greiners Growth Curve - Text book pages 508-522 Horizontal / vertical integration- Text book pages 508-522 Productivity - - Text book pages 265-275 Capacity Utilisation - Text book pages 164-173 General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes |
Thursday 6th May | 1 | 40 | Economic Environment - Fiscal / Monetary policy - Interest Rates / Profits and costs Quality / Labour Productivity Mass Customsation Market Growth Rate Income / Price Elasticity of Demand Stock Control Charts | Economic Environment - Fiscal / Monetary policy - Interest Rates / Profits and costs video / notes - Text book pages 1-15 / 205-228 / 342-363 / 410-436 Quality - intro / assurance / control / Labour Productivity - Text book pages 174-178 / 265-275 Mass Customsation - - Text book pages 180 Market Growth Rate - Text book pages 90-105 Income (YED) video / notes / Price Elasticity of Demand - video - Text book pages 90-105 Stock Control Charts - video / notes - Text book pages 179-188 General - Firefly Business Pages / Teacher handouts / notes |
Chemistry
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Thursday 29th April | 4 | 40 | Module 3: Periodic table and energy
| OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/
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Thursday 6th May | 4 | 40 | Module 4: Core organic chemistry
| OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/
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Thursday 13th May | 4 | 40 | Module 5: Physical chemistry and transition elements
| OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/
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Friday 14th May | 4 | 40 | Module 6: Organic chemistry and analysis
| OCR website - https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/chemistry-a-h032-h432-from-2015/
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Computer Science
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Friday 23rd April | 2 | 50 | Written exam - Turing machines - Data structures (graphs, trees, BST, stacks, queues, pointers) - Algorithms (searching, sorting, Dijkstra) - Vectors - Data representation: - Images - Sound - Characters (ASCII, extended ASCII) - Fixed/Floating-point decimals | Theory of computation - Firefly page AQA A-Level Crag & Dave videos From the Hodder book: |
Friday 30th April | 2 | 50 | On-screen exam - Programming tasks (not related to Hex Baron) | Programming concepts - Firefly page |
Wednesday 5th May | 1 | 40 | Written exam - Networking (topologies, TCP/IP, asynchronous transmission) - Computer systems (hardware, software, operating systems, translators, logic gates, Boolean algebra) - Computer architecture (von Neumann vs Harvard, CPU, CPU performance and FDE cycle, instruction sets, assembly language - External devices (peripherals and secondary storage) | AQA A-Level Crag & Dave videos
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Friday 14th May | 2 | 40 | Written exam - Computational complexity (time/space complexity) | Networks - Databases - Functional Programming and Regular expressions - Firefly page AQA A-Level Crag & Dave videos
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Drama
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where Can I find this information? |
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Friday 23rd April | 3 | 40 | Component 3: Section A - Live theatre evaluation based on The National Theatre adaptation of Frankenstein. | National Theatre website. Students have a log on in order to watch the performance again. Students also have several marked essays with detailed feedback that they are welcome to work on for further guidance. |
Thursday 6th May | 1 | 40 | Component 3: Section C - Woyzeck: Interpreting one complete performance text, in light of one practitioner for a contemporary audience. | Students have been given a Woyzeck and Brecht revision booklet to help guide them. They will be focussing on Woyzeck's mental deterioration throughout the play. |
Thursday 13th May | 1 | 30 | Component 2: Group practical performance of Tissue by Caryl Churchill | Student have the script of Tissue and will need to focus on learning their lines |
English Language
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessement be on? | Where can I findthis information? |
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Tuesday 27th April | 4 | 45 | English Language Paper 1 - Individual Variation -
analysis and comparison of how personal/social identity is conveyed across two
pieces of linked data. 30 marks | Student notes in exercise
books, plus revision material handed out before Christmas which includes
practice questions and information on linguistic theory. Textbooks are also
available on request. |
Friday 7th May | 5 | 45 | English Language Paper 2 - Child Language - analysis
of children's writing across a set of unseen data. 45 marks | Material on Firefly - https://arnewood.fireflycloud.net/english-and-media-studies/a-level-english-language/cla-child-language-acquisition-resources Typed notes and paper copies of revision materials also handed out in class. Students have been offered revision guides. |
Tuesday 11th May | 4 | 45 | English Language Paper 1 - Variation over Time -
analysis and comparison of how language has changed over time across two pieces
of linked data across different time periods. | Student
notes in exercise books, plus revision material handed out before Christmas
which includes practice questions and information on linguistic theory.
Textbooks are also available on request. Additional information can be found
here: https://www.bl.uk/englishtimeline |
English Literature
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Tuesday 20th April | 1 | 50 | Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams | Annotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. |
Wednesday 28th April | 1 | 50 | Othello - William Shakespeare | Annotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. Content has been reduced to remove critical response (AO5). Essay will be focused on characters of Iago and Othello and the themes of race and gender. Revision on Othello |
Tuesday 4th May | 1 | 50 | Modern Poetry | Annotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. Content has been reduced to focus on 8 key poems which have been shared with the students. Revision materials on modern poetry |
Wednesday 12th May | 1 | 50 | The Romantic Poets - William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley and John Keats | Annotations completed in class in students' own copy of the book. Notes taken in class. Content has been reduced to cover only three of the five poets. The essay question will focus on the themes of nature and mortality. Revision materials on The Romantics |
French
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Friday 23rd April | 4 | 40 | The Independent Research Project oral exam - 10 mins each | Students have an IRP booklet for guidance. They have the information collected from their own research, organised under headings ready to be discussed. |
Wednesday 28th April | 4 | 40 | Listening element on topics of voluntary work, politics and heritage. | Year 1 textbook chapters 3 and 4 and Year 2 textbook chapter 4. Blue revision sheet. Livret de révisions voluntary work, politics and heritage sections as practice materials. |
Friday 7th May | 4 | 40 | Reading element on topics of refugees, poverty, cinema | Year 2 textbook chapter 6, chapter 2, Year 1 textbook chapter 6. Blue revision sheet. Livret de révisions refugees, poverty and cinema sections as practice materials. |
Wednesday 12th May | 4 | 40 | Writing and translation element on the topic of the digital world and a more general topic area to test grammatical knowledge. | Year 1 textbook chapter 2. Blue revision sheet. Grammar and Translation workbook, especially pages 23 to 30 and pages 57 to 82. Livret de révisions translation tasks on the digital world in particular but all topics could be useful. |
Geography
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Thursday 1st April | 4 | 50 | The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity; Storm hydrographs, water insecurity and challenges posed to changes in the water cycle.
The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security; Mitigating planetary warming, challenges posed by changes to the water and carbon cycles. | Oxford Textbook Chapter 1 & Chapter 2. |
Friday 23rd April | 4 | 50 | Superpowers; what they are, factors influencing superpowers, impacts of resource consumption on environment, role of TNC's in superpowers. | Oxford Textbook Chapter 3 & Chapter 4. |
Friday 30th April | 4 | 50 | Fieldwork Questions; recap of methods used to collect data during your Year 12 fieldtrip. Focus on pros and cons of different data presentation methods, interpreting transects, what a null hypothesis is, critical values in Spearman's Rank tables, evaluation of different fieldwork methods carried out. | Notes from fieldwork. Oxford textbook pages 297 & 305. |
Friday 14th May | 4 | 50 | Synoptic Paper; recap of synoptic themes from across the course. Specific focus on factors affecting development of countries and status of superpower countries. | Oxford textbook Chapter 7. |
Government and Politics
Date to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Tuesday 30th March | 2 | 40 | US Government & Politics Pressure Groups Congress One exam question One extract based essay question | US Government & Politics textbook US Government & Politics Revision guide Crash course US Government and Politics |
Wednesday 5th May | 2 | 40 | Political Ideas | Political Ideas textbook Political Ideas Revision guide |
Monday 17th May | 1 | 40 | US Government and Politics & Comparative Politics | US Government & Politics textbook US Government & Politics Revision guide UK Government & Politics textbook UK Government & Politics Revision guide |
History (Option C)
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessement be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Thursday 1st April | 2 | 40 | Civil Rights Interpretation question on African Americans and Black Power | Civil Rights textbook Civil Rights Revision guide |
Tuesday 27th April | 3 | 40 | Civil Rights Thematic essay question Choice between Women and Trade Unions | Civil Rights textbook Civil Rights Revision guide |
Tuesday 11th May | 3 | 40 | Source based essay question on the Mid Tudor crisis - Mary and Religion | Early Tudors textbook Early Tudors Revision guide |
History (Option D)
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Wednesday 31st March | 1 | 40 | Civil Rights Interpretation question on African Americans and Black Power | Civil Rights textbook Civil Rights revision guide |
Wednesday 28th April | 1 | 40 | Civil Rights Thematic essay question Choice between women and Trade Unions | Civil Rights textbook Civil Rights revision guide |
Wednesday 12th May | 1 | 40 | Source based essay question on the Mid-Tudor crisis - Mary and religion | Early Tudors textbook Early Tudors revision guide |
Law
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Friday 23rd April | 5 | 40 | Criminal Law Murder Voluntary Manslaughter: Loss of Control Sentencing of the Crown Court in relation to Murder and Manslaughter | Year 2 text book https://arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/law/year-2-law/criminal-law-/2-murder
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Friday 30th April | 5 | 40 | English Legal System
Influence on parliamentary law making Law commission | arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/law/year-1-law-/the-nature-of-law-and-the-english-legal-system--1
Notes in folders and revision from lessons |
Tuesday 4th May | 4 | 40 | Human Rights
Article 11 Public Order Act Protection form harassment HRA S6-8 | Text book year 2 Students have work books and and class notes/ revision in their folders |
Tuesday 11th May | 4 | 40 | Concepts of Law Law and Morality | Students have work books and and class notes in their folders Text book year 2 |
Maths
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Wednesday 28th April | 3 | 40 | Statistics Venn Diagrams | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Wednesday 5th May | 3 | 40 | Pure 1 Radian calculations Exponentials and logs Differentiation Integration Binomial Expansion Trigonometry | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Wednesday 12th May | 3 | 40 | Mechanics Variable acceleration | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Wednesday 19th May | 3 | 40 | Pure 2 Radian calculations Exponentials and logs Differentiation Integration Binomial Expansion Trigonometry | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Further Maths
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Monday 26th April | 4 | 40 | Further Statistics | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Friday 7th May | 4 | 40 | Further Decision | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Monday 10th May | 4 | 40 | Core Pure 1 Complex numbers | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Monday 17th May | 4 | 40 | Core Pure 2 Matrices Hyperbolic integration 2nd order differential equations Polar curves | All exam questions have been carefully selected and students have exam past paper booklets. These are to be worked on while in class and at home. |
Media Studies
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Wednesday 21st April | 3 | 40 | Paper 1 Section A- Questions 1-3 Unseen text; Close-study products; Common's 'Letter to the Free'; The Specials' 'Ghost Town' | Firefly revision pages Class handouts AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing) |
Thursday 22nd April | 2 | 30 | Paper 1 Section A- Question 4 Media language and representation Close study products; Maybelline 'That Boss Life'; 1960s Score advert | Firefly revision pages Class handouts AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing) |
Wednesday 5th May | 3 | 50 | Paper 1 Section B Audiences and Industries Close-study products; Film- 'Chicken'; BBC radio- 'Life Hacks'; Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' 1938 Radio Broadcast | Firefly revision pages Class handouts AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing) |
Thursday 13th May | 2 | 35 | Paper 2 Question 2 Synoptic Question Close-study products: Men's Health Oh Comely | Firefly revision pages Class handouts AQA Media Studies textbook (Illuminate Publishing) |
Religious Studies
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Tuesday 27th April | 5 | 24 | Religious concepts and religious life (AS) The Community of Believers | AS Text book: P.76-83 and P. 84-91 AS Revision Guide: P.48-59 |
Thursday 29th April | 3 | 24 | Teleological Ethics (AS) | Revision notes and materials provided in class. |
Thursday 6th May | 3 | 36 | Deontological Ethics (A2) | Revision notes and materials provided in class. Natural Law pages on Firefly. |
Monday 10th May | 4 | 36 | Developments in religious thought (A2) Attitudes toward wealth A02 Question | A2 Text Book: P.50-61 A2 Revision Guide: P.28-33 |
Monday 17th May | 4 | 36 | Religious Language (A2) | Revision notes and materials provided in class. Religious Language pages on Firefly. |
Photography
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Portfolio evidence to be completed by Monday 26th April | N/A | N/A | To consist of unit 1 portfolio; final piece and research essay and journal. | Resources in Photography studio |
PE
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Wednesday 28th April | 1 | 30 | H555-01 - Heat
& the Cardio-Vascular system; Flexibility; Energy
Systems; Recovery; Joints, movements
and muscles; Functional roles of muscles and types of
contraction; Analysis of movement; Skeletal muscle contraction | Everlearner |
Friday 7th May | 2 | 40 | H555-02 - Classifications
– definitions with e.g; Self
confidence; Learning
theories Cognitive; Memory; Leadership; Stress
management; Attribution - Weiner’s model; Guidance; Groups; Stages of Learning; Motivation; Transfer; Practice types; Feedback. | Everlearner |
Wednesday 12th May | 1 | 30 | H555 - 01 - Biomechanics – Projectile motion; Injury prevention and rehabilitation from injury; Respiratory System | Everlearner |
Friday 14th May | 2 | 40 | H555- 03 - Global sporting events; Routes to sporting excellence in the UK; 21st Century – Emergence and evolution of sport; Ethics and deviance in sport. | Everlearner |
Physics
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Thursday 22nd April | 3 | 40 | Particles and Waves Constituents of the Atom; Alpha and Beta Decay | Revision guide p2-19 |
Thursday 29th April | 3 | 30 | Mechanics and Further Mechanics Scalars and Vectors, inclined plane; Moments; Motion along a straight line; | Revision Guide p42-69 p98-103 |
Thursday 6th May | 3 | 40 | Gravitational, Electric and Magnetic Fields Circular Motion; Newton’s Law of Gravitation; Gravitational Field Strength; | Revision Guide p98-99 P120-124 P126-127 P140-143 P147 |
Friday 14th May | 1 | 40 | Nuclear and Thermal Thermal Energy Transfer; Ideal Gas laws; Brownian Motion; Rutherford Scattering; Radioactive Decay; Nuclear Radius; Thermal Nuclear Reactor. | Revision Guide p108-112 p117 p144-145 p162,162 p156,157 p166,167 |
Psychology
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Tuesday 20th April | 5 | 40 | Applied Psychology | Year 2 text book class notes and revision in students folders |
Friday 30th April | 1 | 40 | Research Methods Section B Experiments | Year 1 text book class notes and revision in students folders
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Wednesday 5th May | 4 | 40 | Areas, issues and debates Core studies:
Bandura Freud Kohlberg Debates: Reductionism v Holism
Usefulness
Psychodynamic Behaviourism Area: Individual differences | arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/psychology/year-1-psychology/psychological-themes-through-core-studies-02
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Friday 7th May | 1 | 30 | Applied psychology Mental health Characteristics of mental disorders | Year 2 text book Fire fly (link below) Notes in students folders from class and revision notes from class arnewood.fireflycloud.net/humanities/psychology/year-2-psychology/applied-psychology/issues-in-mental-health/1-the-historical-context-of-mental-health |
Product Design
Dates to be assessed | Period | Length | What will the assessment be on? | Where can I find this information? |
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Monday 26th April | 1 | 40 | Designing and making Section A - Product Analysis |
AQA Product Design text book |
Monday 10th May | 1 | 40 | Designing and making Section B - Commercial Manufacture |
AQA Product Design text book |