Here are the AQA changes in full as issued by QCA yesterday
AQA Business Studies
AQA Unit 1 - A 1 hr data response paper assessing module 1.
Units 2 and 3 will be based on a common pre- release case study combining the content from module 2 and module 3. Unit 2 will be a 1 hr paper assessing the content of module 2 and unit 3 will be a 1 hr paper assessing the content of module 3.
Units 1, 2 and 3 will be timetabled together.
AQA Economics
Units 1 and 2 will be reduced from 1 hr 30 mins each to 1 hr each.
Each Unit will contain an objective test as Part 1 but it will be reduced
to 15 compulsory items in 15 mins and, as Part 2, in 45 mins, two
reduced data- response questions carrying 25 marks each (one to be
answered).
Unit 3 will remain at 1 hr - and the choice of one from three data- response questions will remain, but each question will be reduced to 40 marks and will contain less data. Units 1, 2 and 3 will be timetabled together in a single session.
A revised specimen paper for Units 1, 2 and 3
will be issued.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Jones [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wed 10/07/2002 15:51
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Subject: AQA AS changes
Has anybody recieved official notification from AQA that there is to be
a change in the exam structure ? Apart from the brief article in the teacher
supplement to the Business Review, and comments on this site, I have seen
nothing that indicates we need to reconsider our course material, let alone
consider changing our teaching. All my institution's guidance literature
for potential full-time and evening class students has been sent out weeks
ago, and is now innaccurate.
The printed 2003 specification booklet and the AQA website clearly state
that unit two will be stimulus response and unit three a case study in the
exam paper. If anyone has not seen the ( commercially produced ) magazine
supplement or made use of this site,how will they know about the imminent
changes ? There seems to me to be a strong chance that there will be a lot
of students misinformed about the exam requirements, and complaints in the
press.
Do the exam boards have no obligation to stick to the exam specifications
that they have published ?
Alan Jones
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