Ms Goh's GP blog

11 'The polarisation of the young and the old has never been so marked as it is today.' Is this reflective of the situation in your country?

Define 'polarisation' - show understanding of division into two opposites.
Merely discuss how polarisation is present in Singapore between the young and the old without explicitly showing how it has become more or less distinct today.
Discussion of the spheres in which polarisation is seen may be vague and limited.
Discussion of how the polarisation may have come about is limited.


Explicit discussion of how the degree of polarisation has become more or less distinct today.
Some discussion of possible convergence between the young and the old.
Clear discussion of what had led to the increasing or decreasing markedness of polarisation.
A range of examples.

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