BTEC International Level 3 Land Based Studies

Unit 19: Unit 19 — assessment criteria

BTEC International Level 3 Unit 19 (Unit 19) — 60 Guided Learning Hours.

Internal / Optional60 GLH12 criteria

Assessment criteria

Reproduced verbatim from the Pearson specification — the same grid the assignment brief carries. A unit grade is the highest band where all criteria in that band (and every band below it) are met.

Pass

6 criteria
A.P1Explain the key production requirements of combinable crops, including legal requirements.
A.P2Explain the role of variety choices and techniques in establishing combinable crops.
B.P3Explain the processing requirements of common combinable crops.
B.P4Explain the key marketing requirements of common combinable crops.
C.P5Competently demonstrate husbandry techniques to prepare sites for combinable crop production.
C.P6Competently demonstrate cultivation methods to prepare sites for combinable crop production.

Merit

4 criteria
A.M1Assess the impact of production requirements, on combinable crop production.
A.M2Assess the significance of variety choices and techniques in establishing combinable crops.
B.M3Assess the quality specifications to be met in processing and marketing combinable crops.
C.M4Efficiently demonstrate husbandry techniques and cultivation methods to prepare sites for combinable crop production.

Distinction

2 criteria
A.D1Evaluate the importance of production requirements, variety choices, techniques and legal requirements in establishing combinable crops.
C.D3Demonstrate, with a high degree of accuracy, husbandry techniques and cultivation methods to prepare sites for combinable crop production.

Command verbs in this unit

The verb decides the depth expected — that is what separates Pass from Merit and Distinction work on the same learning aim.

ExplainCompetentlyAssessEfficientlyEvaluateDemonstrate
Pearson's ladder runs Identify → Describe → Explain → Compare / Analyse → Evaluate / Justify / Assess. A Merit or Distinction criterion on the same aim always implies the Pass beneath it: an “evaluate” answer that never first “explains” fails, however polished it reads. Hover a verb for what it demands.

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