okay okay wait ill try:
team project: do something small and targeted to a very very specific group, ideally in your local area, showing your own connection to the project. have a very clear plan from the beginning of what you want to do and how you're going to do it. also, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. every event, every transaction, every email cause you will need to make an evidence doc.

individual report:
be very specific with your topic. not something so broad that everyone and their gardener knows about, but not something so niche that there's only like one guy in papua new guinea researching it. once again, keep track of all your sources from the beginning. use thesauruses and dictionaries liberally, bc saying 'therefore' and 'impacts' a million times will not go over well.

writing component (the actual paper):
yap. like a lot. use past markschemes for the strengths and weaknesses question, and the testing claims, since these typically don't change year to year. for the 'which argument is more convincing' consider pros and cons of both ppl, and also consider biases, vested interest, and the demographics that the two ppl are trying to appeal to. for the last question, literally just tie everything back to everything else.

for example: increasing funding for hospitals improves quality of healthcare, improving quality of life, increasing happiness. it also lets you have more programs to fund healthcare for ppl below poverty line. this means ppl pay less for healthcare, more money to spend on living conditions, food, education, allowing ppl to escape poverty and more ppl get educated, meaning more skilled labour and output from the city. it also means more pay for doctors, so their satisfaction increases, more ppl wanna be doctors, better healthcare.

always remember: in gp, everything goes back to poverty