A2 aqa geography june 2011 official thread

I know it is only Feb but I thought it would be a good idea to get the ball rolling and solve any issues about this exam.

We can discuss; exam technique, revision, topics etc.
All in the run up to June

Hii im sitting AQA Unit 3 on June 14th and am doing Ecosystems , World Cities and Plate Tectonics. I need to get 90/120 so a B to get an A overall for the A level so am going to start revising next week sad i know but i wanna make my firm choice lol quote me

Hopefully someone will be able to give me a bit of advice....

Im currently studying AQA AS Geography but I'm seriously considering sitting both the A2 modules this summer. In the January Unit 1 exam I scored 107/140 UMS marks and have consistently scored 48/60 UMS marks on Unit 2 mock exams.

At this point in time I have done no revision for the Unit 3 and 4 exams, however the Unit 4(fieldwork option) paper looks very similar to Unit 2. Considering all of these factors do you think it would be realistically achieveable for me to obtain a B grade overall (280/400 UMS), if I were to start learning and revising the Unit 3 and 4 modules next week, in order to sit the exams on the 14th and 17th of June.

Your opinions will be appreciated greatly as you have experienced the difficulty of learning these modules throughout the year,thanks for any and all responses.

Hopefully someone will be able to give me a bit of advice....

Im currently studying AQA AS Geography but I'm seriously considering sitting both the A2 modules this summer. In the January Unit 1 exam I scored 107/140 UMS marks and have consistently scored 48/60 UMS marks on Unit 2 mock exams.

At this point in time I have done no revision for the Unit 3 and 4 exams, however the Unit 4(fieldwork option) paper looks very similar to Unit 2. Considering all of these factors do you think it would be realistically achieveable for me to obtain a B grade overall (280/400 UMS), if I were to start learning and revising the Unit 3 and 4 modules next week, in order to sit the exams on the 14th and 17th of June.

Your opinions will be appreciated greatly as you have experienced the difficulty of learning these modules throughout the year,thanks for any and all responses.

Don't underestimate that Unit 4 paper! Lol.

I personally found the statistical element of the geography specification difficult but if you are good at maths you should be fine. I sat Unit 4 in Jan 2011 and got 50 UMS which was a C.

Unit 4A is very different from Unit 2 in my opinion. You have to relate everything back to your fieldwork and its much harder and they are all long answer questions (5-12 marks).

I havent yet started revising for unit 3, so it is probably realistic if you have a good unit 2 and 4a paper.

I'm doing this exam too

I need 72/120 to get an A overall or 106 to get an A* so I'm aiming for anything above 72

I've studied (and still studying) Tectonics, Ecosystems, World Cities and Conflicts.

Im thinking of doing my essay on Conflicts if its on international/local conflicts or plate tectonics. Meaning I'd be doing shorter answers on Ecosystems and Plate Tectonics or Ecosystems and Conflicts/World Cities.

I think ^

Not looking forward to the essay though.

Hi just to let u know u carnt do the short answer questions on both ecosystems and plate tectonics because there both physical topics , in the exam u have to do short answers on 1 phhysical topic ie ecosystems and 1 human topic ie world cities and then the essay on a topic u havnt answered yet ie tectonics or conflicts

Hopefully someone will be able to give me a bit of advice....

Im currently studying AQA AS Geography but I'm seriously considering sitting both the A2 modules this summer. In the January Unit 1 exam I scored 107/140 UMS marks and have consistently scored 48/60 UMS marks on Unit 2 mock exams.

At this point in time I have done no revision for the Unit 3 and 4 exams, however the Unit 4(fieldwork option) paper looks very similar to Unit 2. Considering all of these factors do you think it would be realistically achieveable for me to obtain a B grade overall (280/400 UMS), if I were to start learning and revising the Unit 3 and 4 modules next week, in order to sit the exams on the 14th and 17th of June.

Your opinions will be appreciated greatly as you have experienced the difficulty of learning these modules throughout the year,thanks for any and all responses.

Hey guys, I'm doing this exam. Doing the World cities, Conflict, (Human Geog) Weather and Climate, Plate tectonics (Physical). Just wondering what case studies everybody is using if they're doing any of these.

Also, anyone know where or have some good summaries on the Weather and Climate topic? I think I get most of it, but that probably means I don't know it well enough.