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How is SQA Advanced Higher Geography structured and assessed?

The shape of Advanced Higher Geography: a skills-based course built on map interpretation, gathering and processing techniques and geographical data handling, assessed by a 50-mark question paper and a 100-mark project-folio.
How SQA Advanced Higher Geography is built and assessed: the three skill areas of map interpretation, gathering and processing techniques and geographical data handling, plus the 50-mark question paper and the 100-mark project-folio (geographical study and geographical issue).
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What is the Advanced Higher Geography project-folio and what are its two parts?

The 100-mark project-folio overview: two independently produced parts, the geographical study (60 marks) and the geographical issue (40 marks), externally marked by SQA.
An overview of the SQA Advanced Higher Geography project-folio: the 100-mark independent coursework made of the geographical study (60 marks, a fieldwork investigation) and the geographical issue (40 marks, a critical evaluation), produced over time and externally marked by SQA.
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What is the structure of the Advanced Higher Geography question paper and how are the marks split?

The 50-mark question paper: a 2 hour 30 minute exam split between map interpretation (20 marks), gathering and processing techniques (10 marks) and geographical data handling (20 marks), using a 1:25,000 OS map, supplementary items and an atlas.
The shape of the SQA Advanced Higher Geography question paper: 50 marks in 2 hours 30 minutes, split 20 marks for map interpretation, 10 for gathering and processing techniques and 20 for geographical data handling, sat with a 1:25,000 OS Explorer map, supplementary items and a general atlas.
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What SCQF level is Advanced Higher Geography and how is it graded?

The SCQF level and grading: Advanced Higher Geography is SCQF level 7, worth 32 SCQF credit points, graded A to D out of 150 marks across two externally marked components.
What SCQF level 7 means for SQA Advanced Higher Geography, its 32 SCQF credit points, the A to D grading out of 150 marks, and how the qualification builds on Higher Geography and bridges to degree-level study.
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