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Evaluating your NEA

When you write up your individual investigation you must critically evaluate your method and results. What exactly does that mean?

In all geography NEAs you are expected to reflect on the accuracy and reliability of your conclusions in a critical evaluation. This can be a challenging part of the investigation but is an opportunity to demonstrate really high-quality work.

It is important to bear in mind the particular requirements of your exam board. Each board has its own mark scheme for the NEA which you need to be aware of. The statements used by the different exam boards are similar (they comes from a common document produced in 2014). Table 1 gives some extracts of evaluation criteria for two exam boards. Note that a term which comes up often is critical — your ability to assess the significance of factors that may affect the quality of your findings.

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