[toofaforu]

(Original post by jacky_12)
I did the world cities and ecosystems sq's and the tectonics essay.

World Cities wasn't too bad but wasn't great. The map was a bit vague on the 7 marker and was really hard to say where you were talking about without place names or reference points. I think I talked about prestige developments and regenerations a bit for reasons. The 8 marker was pretty straight forward but after reading posts on here I think I've missed a few key things out, talked about Liverpool. 10 marker wasn't great, I used Hulme City Challenge as we'd just gone over it, couldn't really remember many facts though. Also, people talking about CMDC and such I'm not sure if it is right, is that technically a partnership?

Ecosystems First question was strange but was fairly straight forward, talked about privacy, attractiveness, pollution levels, noise pollution, leisure etc. 8 marker was pretty straight forward again, my answer was maybe a little vague though, but not too difficult to blag. 10 marker I thought the way the question was worded was strange, the distinctiveness, not 100% sure what that meant but talked about roads, railway lines and canals and how they are distinctive to an extent but depends how they are managed.

Tectonics essay Was really happy when I saw the title but then it wasn't too easy to write. There are so many points to make but they all take quite a bit of explaining. I used the Loma Prieta and Haiti earthquakes and the Japan earthquake/tsunami to say human factors don't always have any influence. Reading on here there are loads more points I could have talked about but oh well, it's done now.

Hope everyone does well

a lot of people have talked about reasons - was this part of the question? i thought it was 'using fig 4a and 4b describe the trends shown in EDI. comment on the extent to which EDI has changed' or something to that effect

[Helen18]

I really hope grade boundaries are low or I'm ****ed! But everyone on here seems to have written the stuff I should have

[Helpful_Charlie]

(Original post by Abby :))
It's just something i had trouble remembering and didnt spend much time revising. In the end i think ive done okay, just spoke about the different layers (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere) and the differences in each, and also the gases that make up the atmosphere. Dont think i went into enough detail but ohwell.

It was just the structure - so the 4 layers, the 3 pauses, the characteristics (with specific temperature figures) and that's it. Add in a lovely diagram, akin to that of Art attack on crack, and you've done well.

[makingamemory]

did anyone do the ecosystems essay? Not sure I've answered it correctly and would love to see what someone else had written!

the weather SQ :/ It was the only section I hadn't revised thinking it wouldn't come up. If I had known that the first few lessons would be the only thing to be covered I wouldn't have gone to the rest of the lessons! haha Messed up the diagram for the atmosphere I knew the general shape of it but I guessed the different altitudes and hoped the knowledge (whatever I could remember, not much) would cover the ****ty diagram.

I thought the TNC one was all right but I rushed it to make sure I had enough time for the essay. So I'm not sure whether I had given enough detail. Especially as I had wasted so much time wondering what the hell the answer for the 10mark weather qu was!


PLEASE BE LOW GRADE BOUNDARIES!!! Or else I'm not going to uni


Anyone doing Geog4B on Friday?
I'm screwed for that.

[ameliajane92]

(Original post by kittyminkyx)
was it ok to talk about laganside for regeneration? i didnt revise this at alll and all i could remember was the jan pre released ha

Hey i talked about laganside too and i very much hope that it was right, it was all i could remember from doing the pre-release booklet :P

[sfriday]

(Original post by makingamemory)
did anyone do the ecosystems essay? Not sure I've answered it correctly and would love to see what someone else had written!

the weather SQ :/ It was the only section I hadn't revised thinking it wouldn't come up. If I had known that the first few lessons would be the only thing to be covered I wouldn't have gone to the rest of the lessons! haha Messed up the diagram for the atmosphere I knew the general shape of it but I guessed the different altitudes and hoped the knowledge (whatever I could remember, not much) would cover the ****ty diagram.

I thought the TNC one was all right but I rushed it to make sure I had enough time for the essay. So I'm not sure whether I had given enough detail. Especially as I had wasted so much time wondering what the hell the answer for the 10mark weather qu was!


PLEASE BE LOW GRADE BOUNDARIES!!! Or else I'm not going to uni


Anyone doing Geog4B on Friday?
I'm screwed for that.

im doing 4B. dont know what i can do except read that booklet? my teacher made us all do a chi squared on the table 'just in case'....er..?!?

[wulfyrokujuyon_64]

(Original post by makingamemory)
did anyone do the ecosystems essay? Not sure I've answered it correctly and would love to see what someone else had written!

the weather SQ :/ It was the only section I hadn't revised thinking it wouldn't come up. If I had known that the first few lessons would be the only thing to be covered I wouldn't have gone to the rest of the lessons! haha Messed up the diagram for the atmosphere I knew the general shape of it but I guessed the different altitudes and hoped the knowledge (whatever I could remember, not much) would cover the ****ty diagram.

I thought the TNC one was all right but I rushed it to make sure I had enough time for the essay. So I'm not sure whether I had given enough detail. Especially as I had wasted so much time wondering what the hell the answer for the 10mark weather qu was!


PLEASE BE LOW GRADE BOUNDARIES!!! Or else I'm not going to uni


Anyone doing Geog4B on Friday?
I'm screwed for that.

I did that question instead of tectonics because for the life of me I couldn't answer the short answer ecosystems question. I wrote about the Jau NP in the Amazon and how they preserved biodiversity (e.g. the population that lives there is small and so there will be no overexploitation and so any damage done will regenerate and so biodiversity will be preserved). Then went onto management of the park and how that is sustainable and sustains biodiversity. I then went onto Malaysia which was in the back of my head as a less sucessful case study to balance it. Then overall I said that biodiversity and quality of life aren't impossible, but much more needs to be done outside the biome (e.g. cancellation of debt) to achieve it.

Also I'm doing GEOG4A, which I'm also screwed on >.< Retaking it and it will not be fun. The questions are so vague I don't know what to write....

[amy_daisy]

(Original post by Helen18)
I really hope grade boundaries are low or I'm ****ed! But everyone on here seems to have written the stuff I should have

yup me too! felt like i couldnt definitely find marks when i was double checking my answers.

[Lucy05]

(Original post by sfriday)
im doing 4B. dont know what i can do except read that booklet? my teacher made us all do a chi squared on the table 'just in case'....er..?!?

Just make sure you've looked at the website cos last year they didna big question on a website they mentioned

[makingamemory]

(Original post by sfriday)
im doing 4B. dont know what i can do except read that booklet? my teacher made us all do a chi squared on the table 'just in case'....er..?!?

I hate the whole point of this exam. We did so much preperation for the January one, yet anything we had researched was irrelevant. Top it off they asked stupid questions like about the websites you had looked at :/

Plus I couldn't find a lot on the DFID website unless I'm doing it wrong? lol

My teacher isn't even helping, he's too busy (Oh he would have found the time if it were his student going to cambridge though)

[alex :)]

Ok just curious to see how I did
I did the ecosystems and D&G structured and the tectonic essay

Ecosystems:

Q1: I wrote about wildlife or green corridors and how species use them to travel undisturbed as well as separating properties and land barriers. I talked about how there may be farming in the top of the picture (all in more depth obvz but I don't have time here :P) I mentioned gardens and regular maintenance of vegetation thus creating low biodiversity.

Q2: I talked about HOW seeds can colonize and urban niches. I talked about how opportunistic species can colonize through the death of mosses thus creating a more nutrient rich base etc. I mentioned a few species and mentioned time as well as its not often that Wastelands are allowed to reach a climax (xD)

Q3: I mentioned why they are distinctive (I argued for the quote). I said that The Highways Agency is one of the biggest planters in the UK (mentioning motorways) and they plant exotic species which attracts exotic animals etc. I talked about how plats are adapt to different route ways with reference to halophytes growing along motorways and water loving plants on canal route ways.

Development

Q1: basically mentioned patterns on the map, distinguished between R&D plants and maunfacturing as well as saying there were clusters in the EU + NA and S.E Asia. I mentioned that there was a sparse spread in S. America and Africa and used fancy words like 'cluster' :P

Q2: I basically mentioned all of the pull factors that other countries offer and talked a bit about the rise of consumerism and the process of globalization has allowed their growth.

Q3: I talked about dependency and cumulative causation as well as them sparking off the location of other business. I mentioned exploitation of H&Safety rules and I used the Asian Tigers as case studies on how they can benefit economically as well as Mexico City on how they can exploit H&S rules.

Tectonics essay:

I mentioned physical and human factors but I did not define or say the word hazard which I'm kind of worried about now. I definitely mentioned hazards I just didn't use the word, I referred to it more as negative impacts. I talked about the physical stuff like tsunamis being worse (this is all very generalized and poor vocab, my essay was better). I mentioned how the depth and tectonic setting influenced the damage done. I talked about healthcare, education, warning, development levels, infrastructure etc. as human factors. Case study wise I used Japan 2011, Christchurch, NZ, 2011, Haiti 2004, Indonesia 2004, and San-Andreas fault predictions when looking at diff. types of plate margins and how they influence quakes. I concluded that Human factors were the main cause of destruction because of the 0 deaths in NZ compared to the 316,000 in Haiti as a result of the same magnitude quake.

Yeah, if anyone wants to comment it would be much appreciated

This is all generalized stuff though, just what I can remember off the top of my head. It would be interesting to hear what other people did differently =]

[jacky_12]

(Original post by toofaforu)
a lot of people have talked about reasons - was this part of the question? i thought it was 'using fig 4a and 4b describe the trends shown in EDI. comment on the extent to which EDI has changed' or something to that effect

I only put reasons as an attempt to cover the 'comment on' aspect of the question, I didn't really know what else to put. Was a guess really.

[sfriday]

(Original post by makingamemory)
I hate the whole point of this exam. We did so much preperation for the January one, yet anything we had researched was irrelevant. Top it off they asked stupid questions like about the websites you had looked at :/

Plus I couldn't find a lot on the DFID website unless I'm doing it wrong? lol

My teacher isn't even helping, he's too busy (Oh he would have found the time if it were his student going to cambridge though)

i know. nope we found pretty much nothing on the websites either, it's so weird and pointless like a silly version of the gcse decision paper haha

[maxcartwright]

(Original post by jacky_12)
I only put reasons as an attempt to cover the 'comment on' aspect of the question, I didn't really know what else to put. Was a guess really.

i did that to. i guess if they wanted us to just describe they would have said that
I messed up in plate tec on margins but other than that i did ok.
no more geog for the rest of my life

[Laurynpipe]

(Original post by alex :))
Ok just curious to see how I did
I did the ecosystems and D&G structured and the tectonic essay

Ecosystems:

Q1: I wrote about wildlife or green corridors and how species use them to travel undisturbed as well as separating properties and land barriers. I talked about how there may be farming in the top of the picture (all in more depth obvz but I don't have time here :P) I mentioned gardens and regular maintenance of vegetation thus creating low biodiversity.

Q2: I talked about HOW seeds can colonize and urban niches. I talked about how opportunistic species can colonize through the death of mosses thus creating a more nutrient rich base etc. I mentioned a few species and mentioned time as well as its not often that Wastelands are allowed to reach a climax (xD)

Q3: I mentioned why they are distinctive (I argued for the quote). I said that The Highways Agency is one of the biggest planters in the UK (mentioning motorways) and they plant exotic species which attracts exotic animals etc. I talked about how plats are adapt to different route ways with reference to halophytes growing along motorways and water loving plants on canal route ways.

Development

Q1: basically mentioned patterns on the map, distinguished between R&D plants and maunfacturing as well as saying there were clusters in the EU + NA and S.E Asia. I mentioned that there was a sparse spread in S. America and Africa and used fancy words like 'cluster' :P

Q2: I basically mentioned all of the pull factors that other countries offer and talked a bit about the rise of consumerism and the process of globalization has allowed their growth.

Q3: I talked about dependency and cumulative causation as well as them sparking off the location of other business. I mentioned exploitation of H&Safety rules and I used the Asian Tigers as case studies on how they can benefit economically as well as Mexico City on how they can exploit H&S rules.

Tectonics essay:

I mentioned physical and human factors but I did not define or say the word hazard which I'm kind of worried about now. I definitely mentioned hazards I just didn't use the word, I referred to it more as negative impacts. I talked about the physical stuff like tsunamis being worse (this is all very generalized and poor vocab, my essay was better). I mentioned how the depth and tectonic setting influenced the damage done. I talked about healthcare, education, warning, development levels, infrastructure etc. as human factors. Case study wise I used Japan 2011, Christchurch, NZ, 2011, Haiti 2004, Indonesia 2004, and San-Andreas fault predictions when looking at diff. types of plate margins and how they influence quakes. I concluded that Human factors were the main cause of destruction because of the 0 deaths in NZ compared to the 316,000 in Haiti as a result of the same magnitude quake.

Yeah, if anyone wants to comment it would be much appreciated

This is all generalized stuff though, just what I can remember off the top of my head. It would be interesting to hear what other people did differently =]

Sounds like we pretty much wrote the same. but the first development one was comment on, did you mention the reasons for the clusters and and research and development plants? we had done this question before so we were soooo lucky! xx

[howzat]

(Original post by sfriday)
i know. nope we found pretty much nothing on the websites either, it's so weird and pointless like a silly version of the gcse decision paper haha

Did you read the pre release booklet!? In the back it said you may want to visit these websites!

[sfriday]

(Original post by howzat)
Did you read the pre release booklet!? In the back it said you may want to visit these websites!

yeah..? ha, i did visit the websites, just struggled to find very much on them

[penny08]

Hi guys,
I answered ecosystems short answer, world cities short answer and tectonics essay.
This is briefly what I talked about for world cities, would love some feedback! want to get an idea of how I did

World Cities : 8 mark
- talked about how loss of job opportunities can influence urban decline and used london docklands as an example, talking about how the docklands moved out to tilbury so there was a loss of manufacturing and industry. I then talked about how increasing population can affect urban decline and used sao paulo as an example. talked about how much of the population live on sqautter settlements, not enough land to accomadate everyone so there is overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. then talked about how physical factors can influence urban decline (squatter settlements built on low lying land in calcutta- prone to flooding - as in LEDC they cannot afford to rebuild homes after flood etc..)
- 10 mark talked about leicester city challenge. adv.. created many jobs, reclaimed many hectares of land by cearing derelict sites blah blah blah.. disadv: high sconomic cost, some projects have to be delayed because of lack of funding.

Would love to know what people wrote about for tectonics essay!

[makingamemory]

(Original post by sfriday)
yeah..? ha, i did visit the websites, just struggled to find very much on them

Same I found like the case study stuff. But this part: http://projects.dfid.gov.uk/project.aspx?Project=114175
It's like wtf do you want us to do with it?

The website being a rich source, my arse!

(Original post by wulfyrokujuyon_64)
I did that question instead of tectonics because for the life of me I couldn't answer the short answer ecosystems question. I wrote about the Jau NP in the Amazon and how they preserved biodiversity (e.g. the population that lives there is small and so there will be no overexploitation and so any damage done will regenerate and so biodiversity will be preserved). Then went onto management of the park and how that is sustainable and sustains biodiversity. I then went onto Malaysia which was in the back of my head as a less sucessful case study to balance it. Then overall I said that biodiversity and quality of life aren't impossible, but much more needs to be done outside the biome (e.g. cancellation of debt) to achieve it.

Also I'm doing GEOG4A, which I'm also screwed on &gt;.&lt; Retaking it and it will not be fun. The questions are so vague I don't know what to write....

Ahh crap I kinda did that although I guess the part I think is wrong could show why maintaining biodiversity could be impossible....I hope the examiner sees it as that way. Oh well I can't change it, not like I would have been able to answer the conflict essay without going in circles.

Same, 4B is as vague and by giving you the prerelease I think they believe it will give you some hope in understanding what they want from you. >.< Stupid AQA, die AQA die!

[alex :)]

(Original post by Laurynpipe)
Sounds like we pretty much wrote the same. but the first development one was comment on, did you mention the reasons for the clusters and and research and development plants? we had done this question before so we were soooo lucky! xx

I didn't mention reasons why I thought you weren't meant to for 'comment on'. I just checked a mark scheme with the same question for urbanization and it didn't say anything about explaining just recognizing patterns. x