AH English or Geography

I have to decide by Monday so any help is much appreciated :biggrin:

I can either do AH English and Geography next year. I reckon I'd enjoy Englsih more but at my school we do the Textual Analysis option so only 30% would be decided before the exam. However, Geography would have 70% pre-decided. I'm likely to get a AAA at AH conditional so I'm leaning towards Geo. I do enjoy the field work just not so much the exams we do at the moment.

Advice?

Reply 1

JoshCurran

Just do whichever one you feel more comfortable doing.

IMO geography might be an easier A, but it really depends on yourself.

Reply 2

Alias Grace

Geography has been good and the fieldwork is just a bonus. :biggrin:

It's completely different from higher, in terms of the course work choices and the exam.

Reply 3

Lucy_93

OP

Alias Grace

Geography has been good and the fieldwork is just a bonus. :biggrin:

It's completely different from higher, in terms of the course work choices and the exam.

Could you tell me in what way it's different? My teacher's being rather vague about it.

Reply 4

rosie9391

15

In higher you learn a lot of information whereas AH you're pulling it together and applying it to the tasks in a more practical way. The structure of higher is set and you don't have much choice over what you learn but with advanced you've got more scope to pick what interests you more, especially if you prefer physical over human or vice versa.

AH consists of 70% coursework with a Geographical Study being the main project. Here, you will go out and do fieldwork on an area of your choice and provide a report on said findings - great fun to do! There is also an Issues essay - you usually select a topic from paper 2 of higher ie. malaria, river basin management etc. You select sources and evaluate opinions and ideas of biased, non-biased and neutral articles.

The exam is again, completely different from that of higher. There is a mapping interpreting section where you usually have to select a suitable area and weigh out the advantages/disadvantages of the site ie. for a wind farm development. There's also a section of statistical analyisis of data, the same techniques you would have used in the feild study. And finally a 10 mark Geographical Methods and Techniques section.

Edit: Sorry, felt like jumping in since having done the course. :o:

Reply 5

Lucy_93

OP

rosie9391

In higher you learn a lot of information whereas AH you're pulling it together and applying it to the tasks in a more practical way. The structure of higher is set and you don't have much choice over what you learn but with advanced you've got more scope to pick what interests you more, especially if you prefer physical over human or vice versa.

AH consists of 70% coursework with a Geographical Study being the main project. Here, you will go out and do fieldwork on an area of your choice and provide a report on said findings - great fun to do! There is also an Issues essay - you usually select a topic from paper 2 of higher ie. malaria, river basin management etc. You select sources and evaluate opinions and ideas of biased, non-biased and neutral articles.

The exam is again, completely different from that of higher. There is a mapping interpreting section where you usually have to select a suitable area and weigh out the advantages/disadvantages of the site ie. for a wind farm development. There's also a section of statistical analyisis of data, the same techniques you would have used in the feild study. And finally a 10 mark Geographical Methods and Techniques section.

Edit: Sorry, felt like jumping in since having done the course. :o:

Thanks, that was really helpful :smile:

Would you say that, if you put in the work, it's easy or difficult to get an A?

Reply 6

rosie9391

15

Lucy_93

Thanks, that was really helpful :smile:

Would you say that, if you put in the work, it's easy or difficult to get an A?

If you put the work in for any subject you're more likely to get an A. I can only comment on myself but I've an interest in geography so was motivated to work and had no problems with the course, whereas others in my class did and struggled to get even C's. Put the work in from the start and you'll be rewarded at the end. :smile:

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