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Topic 6: MYP eAssessment topics (examples)
- What is the structure of the I&S on-screen eAssessment?
- A 2-hour on-screen exam with three source-based tasks: Investigating (criteria A and B, 26 marks); Communicating (A and C, 18 marks); Thinking critically (A, C and D, 36 marks, ending in extended writing). Total 80.
- Name example topics for the I&S on-screen examinations
- Demographics and human movements; economic agents, measurements and trends; industrialization and technology; rights and social protest; settlement and urban morphology; superpowers, empires and alliances; trade, aid and exchange; warfare and peacekeeping.
- GDP versus GDP per capita versus GNI
- GDP: total output produced within a country. GDP per capita: output per person. GNI: GDP plus income residents earn abroad minus income sent abroad. The HDI uses GNI per capita.
- How do you calculate the natural increase rate and doubling time?
- NIR (%) = (crude birth rate − crude death rate) ÷ 10, with both rates per 1,000. Doubling time ≈ 70 ÷ NIR. Example: CBR 30, CDR 10 → NIR 2% → about 35 years.
- First versus second industrial revolution
- First (c. 1760–1840): textiles, coal, iron and steam. Second (c. 1870–1914): steel, electricity, chemicals and oil.
- Newcomen versus Watt
- Newcomen built the first practical steam engine (1712). Watt made it far more efficient (1769 patent).
- What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)?
- Adopted by the UN General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (48 for, 0 against, 8 abstentions), drafted by a commission chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt; 30 articles. A declaration, not a binding treaty; the binding ICCPR and ICESCR followed in 1966.
- Superpower versus empire
- A superpower is judged by reach and influence (economic, military, political, cultural). An empire is judged by rule over other peoples. A superpower need not hold colonies.
- Suffragist versus suffragette
- Suffragists campaigned lawfully for women's votes (NUWSS). Suffragettes used militant direct action (WSPU).
- Tariff, quota and subsidy
- Tariff: a tax on imports. Quota: a limit on the quantity imported. Subsidy: a payment to domestic producers. All are forms of protectionism.