Future exam questions on Coronavirus

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"Discuss the role of the media especially social media in the panic buying of toilet paper. You might like to reference images"

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What had the greater economic impact on the U.K. economy? Brexit or Coronavirus?

Sociology - a school has to close. Name 3 possible impacts on this

Economics - what is the impact of a good welfare system on public health?

Politics - Is it better to live in a dictatorship or a free society when it comes to limiting the spread of a disease?

English - you are self isolating. Write a diary of your time.

Geography - annotate this map to show the spread of the coronavirus from source.

RE - how does Coronavirus link to the imperfect triad and the problem of evil with reference to the existence of God?

Science - label this diagram of the Coronavirus Vaccine.

We hope!!!!

Maths - draw a graph showing the daily increase in diagnosis and use it to predict the number of cases in the UK in a month's time.

Ethics - how justifiable is it for mainstream media to publish headline describing coronavirus as a 'menace'? What are the potential social consequences?

Biology - How many rolls of toilet paper does the average family of 4 really need for a week?

History - Compare the response to Coronavirus in the 21st Century to the response to the Great Plague of London in the 17th Century.

Cooking - plan 2 weeks of recipes.

C.D.T. - Design a protective face mask suitable for repelling Coronavirus and create a prototype.

History - what percentage of the human population was wiped out by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic?

Design and Technology - imagine all the toilet roll in the world has already been bought up in a pandemic panic. Design a substitute using any materials you may already have around the home.

Psychology - Discuss, using examples, the mental effect of the Coronavirus pandemic on individuals with underlying anxiety conditions.

French - Write a letter of condolence to a French pen friend whose loved ones have died of Coronavirus.

Health and Social care - what impact did the UK care system have on people who needed daily care calls?

Economics - Coronavirus was the turning point in society's view of SAHP, their economic inactivity and their value to society. Discuss.

Information Technology - Write a forecasting program to predict the spread of Coronavirus allowing for multiple variables.

Politics (Turkish schools only): Explain how our wonderful Prime Minister ensured there were no cases of Covid 19 in Turkey while the rest of the world showed its weakness and succumbed.

Compare the profiteering of WW2 to the profiteering methods of the Coronavirus.

Maths.

Cases of Covid-19 in the UK following the onset of community spread can be modelled by the function C = 115 x 1.3^t where t is the amount of days since 6.3.20.

i) How many cases were there on 6.3.20? (2)
ii) According to the model, how many cases were there by 1.4.20. Give your answer to 3sf (3)
iii) Explain why it would be unrealistic to use this model to predict the number of cases by 6.3.21 (1)

Mark Scheme:
i) t=0 seen for 6.3.20 (1)
C = 115 (1)

ii) Correct substitution shown (1)
105,493.33... seen awrt 105,493 (1)
Correct rounding of 105,000 (1)

iii) Answer would be larger than the total number of people in the UK/world. Accept equivalent reasoning. (1)

Maths:

How many people would need to be infected and die to get a reasonable probablity of the death rate?

Explain why the published infection rate may be much lower than the actual infection rate?

Psychology: Is it better to say 98% survival or 2% mortality?

Questions need to be more specific and cite which coronavirus. There are many coronavirus strains already circulating the globe at any given time, four of which most commonly affect people.

Common human coronaviruses:
229E (alpha coronavirus)
NL63 (alpha coronavirus)
OC43 (beta coronavirus)
HKU1 (beta coronavirus)

Then you have more uncommon coronaviruses.

Other human coronaviruses:
MERS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS)
SARS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS)
SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19)

Or adjust your marking boundaries.

Here is a flint and tinder. Make fire.
Your homestead is attacked by cannibals. You fire six arrows, killing two. How many more cannibals can you kill with your remaining five arrows?
Here is a burnt stick.Paint a picture of the artefact known as 'toylett rowl'.

RE - was Coronavirus a sign of god’s displeasure?

Philosophy - was Coronavirus a good thing or a bad thing?

Psychology - discuss mass delusions and fear using examples from the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020

Economic - is the stock market given more respect as an economic marker than it deserves? Discuss in relation to the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020.

Economics: Did No Deal Brexit planning help with planning for Coronavirus?

French - Write a letter of condolence to a French pen friend whose loved ones have died of Coronavirus.

I expect I’m going straight to hell but this made me laugh and took me back 30 years to GCSE French