Information on AQA's support meetings for the Autumn (where explanation of
the changes required by QCA will be covered) is now published on the
website: http://www.aqa.org.uk/support/meet.html. The composite support
booklet runs to 54 pages. Both Business Studies & Economics GCE's are
included.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: AQA AS changes
I've just been looking at the specification booklet for 2004. It says unit
one will be the same as now "Two compulsory stimulus response questions"
but only one hour.
In section 7.1 it states unit 2 "comprises two stimulus response questions
based on the case study", but for unit 3 it states "this unit requires
candidates
to answer a number of compulsory questions based on the case study ". Would
anyone care to speculate on what this difference in wording will mean in
practice ?
section 7.2 shows a re-allocation of the marks for analysis and for
evaluation,
which changes the relative weightings of the units despite them each being
for one hour. I'm not looking forward to explaing that to students !
Alan Jones
ps I've still not seen the flyer from the exam board about the 2003 exams.
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:21:40 +0100
>Reply-To: For teachers and lecturers interested in curriculum issues
> affecting the te <[log in to unmask]>
>From: CBRO <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: AQA AS changes
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>We have and there are a range of support meetings around the country which
>we have been notified of during September and the beginning of October.
Contact
>AQA Teacher Support Team (01483) 477860.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Jones [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 10 July 2002 15:52
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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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