Candidates are still
naming and analysing their team members’ solutions, which was a requirement
from the previous syllabus.
There is a lack
of evaluation and synthesis of sources. Candidates need to show how and why the
sources they use are valid. They should then take it a step further by
comparing or contrasting two sources that talk about the same thing to back up
their argument.
Some candidates
struggle to demonstrate an awareness of audience; this limits them to lower
marks for criterion AO3c. Most candidates greet the audience but go no further
to include them in the presentation. Many candidates use an essay style format
to deliver the ideas, rather than engaging in a first-person communication that
connects with the audience. To be awarded more than one mark for this
criterion, candidates need to use language to draw the audience in. An easy way
to achieve this is interacting with the data on visual aids, or discussing
specific information on graphs, tables, photographs etc, to support an
argument, and saying things such as, ‘let us look at’ or ‘as you can see here’,
to engage the audience with the research and findings.