AQA GCSE Geography Unit 1 24/05/16

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Reply 20

soccerdude007

I thought the 8 marker for weather and climate was badly worded

Reply 21

Polagra

What did people put for the fold mountain question cause i didnt mention geosynclines and all that

Reply 22

Izzytempleheald

On ice on the land were we supposed to use a case study for the Avalanche question? Very confused as it didn't specifically state and had a previous 4 marker on the case study

Reply 23

harun_farah

Original post by Polagra

Discussion:
How did everyone find that exam?
Grade boundaries?
Questions (especially descriptive questions)?

I did
Restless Earth
Living world
&a Coastal zone

Restless earn was ridiculously easy finished that in about 20 mins
The living world was casual as expected some difficult word question and for the 8 marker had to include 2 case studies.
For the coastal zone found it a bit uneasy some weird question but all in all i found it very well as the question were mostly on geographic knowledge and a couple of aplliance questions but we're very easy.
I Think the grade boundaries will stay the same or fluctuate down because some people found it very difficult.

I think it really depended on what you revise e.g I revised dessert and fold mountain case studies in lesson and those were both 8 markers but the third was harder.

Wonder how the human papers gonna be need to do more revision for that

Reply 24

Meg9797

Original post by Polagra

What did people put in Restless Earth on the first question what was name of volcano????????? I got St Helens

Me too

Reply 25

Polagra

Original post by Izzytempleheald

On ice on the land were we supposed to use a case study for the Avalanche question? Very confused as it didn't specifically state and had a previous 4 marker on the case study

NO i think we only use a case study if they ask for one

Reply 26

Meg9797

Original post by irfugigfea

I did weather and climate, living world and water on the land, and thought I got really lucky on the questions, apart from the weather and climate 8 marker, which I thought was a bit weird...

I found the weather and climate 8 marker weird too! What did you write for it because a lot of people I've spoken to think they have done it wrong

Reply 27

Izzytempleheald

Original post by polagra

no i think we only use a case study if they ask for one

thank god

Reply 28

abbigm1

Original post by Polagra

Also.... for fold mountains question:

I put that they occur at destructive and collision. Collision due to the two continental plates colliding and material in-between to form fold mountains bilaterally. And at destructive plat boundary unilaterally due to continental being crumpled

What did everyone else put??????

I put exactly that, sure it is correct.

Reply 29

glowanti

Original post by Polagra

What did people put for the fold mountain question cause i didnt mention geosynclines and all that

I said sediment builds up in the geosynclines in the land, then that two continental plates because they have a similar density collide and one doesn't subduct under the other so they crumple up, crumpling up the sediment with anticlines and synclines which produces fold mountains, then I gave an example of The Andes

Original post by Izzytempleheald

On ice on the land were we supposed to use a case study for the Avalanche question? Very confused as it didn't specifically state and had a previous 4 marker on the case study

abondance, charmonix, galtur, something like that, I did galtur
edit: oops didn't read ur Q properly, pretty sure you do, it was 'describe the effects of an avalanche' so it'd be in your best instincts to include a case study to replicate the effects, however if you didn't use one you could still get like 6/8 marks, you just can't achieve level 3 because you've not used any specific data which is what they ask for in the mark scheme. Unless it's a question on processes or something where you just need to use a figure (although you should use a case study with a figure) then you should always use a case study

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 30

Izzytempleheald

Oh no, I just pray it wasn't essential

Reply 31

Polagra

Hope grade boundaries are lowwwwwwwwwwwww af

Reply 32

izak

Original post by Izzytempleheald

On ice on the land were we supposed to use a case study for the Avalanche question? Very confused as it didn't specifically state and had a previous 4 marker on the case study