Taking citizenship action - Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Studies quiz

Memorising the whole specification and writing it out from memory under exam conditions to earn marks

Sitting an extra written exam paper set by the board purely to test your factual recall of the topic

A planned course of informed action to address a citizenship issue and deliver a benefit or change

Avoiding any involvement in your local community and leaving every issue for other people to deal with

One

At least ten

The whole class only

At least two

Information that already exists, such as reports, statistics, news and websites

Brand new information that you collect yourself directly from people in your community

Guessing the answer without using any evidence

Only the interviews that you carry out yourself

Reading existing reports and official statistics that other people have already published online

Information you collect yourself, such as a survey, interview or observation

Copying facts straight from a textbook without checking or questioning any of the sources used

Using only government websites that someone else has already written up for a different purpose

It is not important, because only your own opinion really counts when you take action

It wastes valuable time that you could instead spend writing up your final evaluation report

It makes the action fairer and more persuasive and helps anticipate objections

It only matters in the exam and has no real bearing on how the action itself is carried out

Ignoring the aims and just doing whatever feels easiest on the day

Acting straight away without any plan, timeline or agreed roles at all

Refusing to work as a team and instead doing every single part on your own

Setting goals and success criteria and allocating roles

A meeting, event or campaign to argue the case and persuade an audience

A community project that quietly provides a practical service without trying to change minds

A way of avoiding the issue altogether by handing the problem over to someone else to solve

A type of exam question that asks you to describe a campaign you have read about in a case study

Only writing a long report about a problem without ever doing anything about it

Community action that creates a practical benefit for others

A way to avoid taking action by simply talking about an issue rather than tackling it

A type of court case in which a community sues a council over a local decision it dislikes

Only memorising long lists of facts and definitions

Avoiding teamwork and refusing to share any of the tasks

Collaboration, negotiation and influence

Ignoring the audience and not bothering to persuade anyone

By guessing whether it probably went well without gathering any evidence at all

By ignoring the aims you set and instead judging it on how enjoyable it felt

Only by how long the whole project took from start to finish, ignoring the outcome

Against the goals and success criteria set at the planning stage, using evidence

Judging whether and why it achieved its aims, assessing the method and reflecting on learning

Only describing what you did step by step, without ever judging whether it actually worked

Claiming total success with no evidence and refusing to admit anything could have gone better

Ignoring any mistakes and leaving out anything at all that did not go the way you had hoped it would

The student automatically fails the whole citizenship action no matter what else they do

The student is not penalised, provided they evaluate the action honestly

The action must be repeated from scratch in the exam hall under timed conditions for marks

The whole GCSE is lost and the student has to resit every single paper the following year