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All rights reserved. 9 of 38  \nUnderstanding the Ofqual guidance  \nThe key aspect of AO2 is the requirement to apply knowledge and understanding (third bullet point in the right-hand column) . That means that students must use their knowledge of the subject content (including working scientifically, maths and practical skills) to explain something in order to give meaning to it.  \nThe further detail to this bullet point requires that application must:  \n• Relate to unfamiliar contexts (‘novel situations that are not clearly indicated in the specification’) .  \n• Expect students to take an idea from the specification and develop or further it beyond the knowledge in the specification.  \n• expect students to make links between different areas of knowledge to answer a question. For example, there may be a question about the effect of air pollution on the health of animals and/or plants in a particular environment, where they would need to understand what air pollutants there are (from one part of the specfication) and link that to the effect of these on (eg) photosynthesis, respiration, etc) to give a full account.  \n• The links should be made by the student in their answer – we don’t tell them in the question to make the specific links: that little extra phrase ‘which are not signalled in the specification’ says it all.  \n• Expect students to look at data or information and make sense of connections and links within it .  \nThere are two strands for AO2 . It’s separated into ideas and enquiry, techniques and procedures. Again, the right-hand column gives more detail on what is meant here.  \n• Ideas assess subject content, which remember includes working scientifically, practical and maths skills. So it will include theories, models, methods and how they develop over time, as well as use of mathematical formulae and units  \n• enquiry, techniques and procedures mostly means practical skills, but also includes some of the technical maths skills such as drawing lines of best fit. Note that it says here ‘is broader than’ knowledge of the core practical activities. This means that we’ll be assessing application of practical skills in contexts we’ll give to students, other than just those in the required practicals – further pushing the relation of this assessment objective to unfamiliar contexts. It’ll also cover the range of ideas featured in WS2 (Experimental skills and strategies)  \n• For some of the mathematical skills, the context in which the skill is applied will determine whether it is Strand 1 or Strand 2: there is a lot more to this assessment objective than you might think.  \nCoverage of strands: The guidance says that we have to cover both strands fully across the assessments for a specification but not in every assessment. We do our best to give a balance, but it’s never exactly 50:50 and never exactly the same in any two assessments.  \nIn all of these, you can see that students are applying skills and knowledge they have gained either through learning the content of the specification or through doing practical work.","cbCaidBVMEIk1gxv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidBVMEIk1gxv","pdf",7165084,38,"English","# Example 1\n## Understanding the Ofqual guidance\n# Ofqual guidance for AO2\n## Key aspect of AO2: application\n## Two strands for AO2\n## Coverage of strands\n# Resources and links\n## Virtual communities resources on the website","[{\"question\":\"What is the key requirement of AO2 in this guidance?\",\"answer\":\"AO2 requires applying knowledge and understanding, so students must use subject knowledge (including working scientifically, maths and practical skills) to explain meaning.\"},{\"question\":\"What counts as an “unfamiliar context” for AO2?\",\"answer\":\"The guidance refers to novel situations not clearly indicated in the specification, where students develop an idea beyond the specified knowledge.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the two AO2 strands defined and covered?\",\"answer\":\"AO2 is split into ideas and enquiry, and techniques and procedures. 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