Sociology

Assessment

The A-level specification is designed to be taken over two years with all assessments taken at the end of the course. Students must provide extended responses that draw upon the Integral elements and Core themes as threads throughout all written assessments for Sociology. Students are expected to draw links between these threads and subject content, and also between elements of subject content, in order to demonstrate the skills of application, analysis and evaluation. There are three exam papers which each have a duration of two hours. Each exam paper has a total of 80 marks and is worth 33.3% of the overall qualification.