Geography SRP

yayaitsme

Can anyone explain what an srp is to me? My daughter is struggling to get the concept and I have no idea what it is
Thanks

spurious

It stands for Significant Relevant Point.

Basically, it means a fact that an Examiner can give a mark (or marks) to.
The Department gives these examples:

• a statistic and additional relevant information
  
• a geographical term and a brief explanation
  
• a development of a point
  
• additional annotation or information on a diagram / map / chart / illustration etc.

Background information could also be treated as maybe 1 or 2 SRSs, say, if a student were discussing colonialism as a background to an answer on global inequality today.

For example, in last year's HL Geogrpahy exam, there was a question on Volcanoes. This is how the marking scheme suggested it be marked.

1C. Volcanoes Discuss the positive impacts of volcanoes. [30m]

Positive impacts identified 2m + 2m Discussion 13 x SRP’s
 Credit a third positive impact identified for 1 x SRP from discussion. All other positive impacts require discussion.
 Credit one named volcano / volcanic area from discussion for 1 x SRP.
 Credit relevant labelled diagram for 1 x SRP. Diagram without labelling 0 marks.
 Credit additional relevant information on a labelled diagram for 2 x SRP’s. This must be information not already awarded in the written account.
 Information awarded on a diagram if presented must be valid and relevant to the set question.
 If only negative impacts are discussed 0 marks.

There are some outlined examples of SRPs and where the marks were allocated here: http://agti.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AGTI-MODEL-ANSWERS-BOOK-ENDA-WHELTON.pdf (.pdf file)

I hope that helps.

yayaitsme

Thanks Spurious that makes loads of sense