Geography or History
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Re: Geography or HistoryDepends on what you are studying, topics wise.(Original post by Josh_Dey)
YOUR opinion on these subjects and why you would choose them...
Women's suffrage >>>>>>>>>> Soil science
Urban geography >>>>>>>>>> Lead up to WWII
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Re: Geography or HistoryI do both... Physical geography, two thumbs up. The rest, however, is a big fat bore (imo anyway)!
Which brings me to history: No word of a lie, it's the only lesson which I actually fully 100% focus in(no phone,no nothing lol)... It's so damn interesting! Once something captivates your interest, you don't mind writing an essay about it nor does it take you ages to revise the concepts! So yeah, I'd say history
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Re: Geography or HistoryPhysical geography is the most boring part of geography!! Human geography is the bomb(Original post by WizardOfOz#1)
I do both... Physical geography, two thumbs up. The rest, however, is a big fat bore (imo anyway)! Sometimes I couldn't care less about soil or rivers or limestone pavements or wave-cut platforms or vegetation succession........ the list goes on.
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Re: Geography or History(Original post by chr1stopher11)
Physical geography is the most boring part of geography!! Human geography is the bomb Sometimes I couldn't care less about soil or rivers or limestone pavements or wave-cut platforms or vegetation succession........ the list goes on.
! This is the sad bit, I haven't learnt any of the things that you have listed! Two of our units are based on human geography (urbanisation and tourism) and only one is based (natural hazards: wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes and tropical storms) on physical geog 
I'm not even commenting on the bit in bold, it's just shocking LOL! It's ten times better to learn about the earth than how tourism is forever fluctuating in different parts of the world I mean crikey :/ lol!
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Re: Geography or HistoryI study history at A-level although I didn't take it at GCSE (should have done really, chose French instead) because I wanted to understand more about British history and the world wars, plus I'm much better at writing essays than short technical answers. I took Geography at GCSE but hated the coursework and human geography really really bores me.
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Re: Geography or HistoryI love Geography as in the geography of the world, where things are, countries, capital cities etc. Unfortunately that was not what I encountered in school, being forced to do **** like the economy of Italy and other crap I'm not nearly interested in. For this reason I chose History in school, which I also love but again never really got to learn about the things that interest me which is why at Uni I now do Classics.
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Re: Geography or HistoryDon't get me wrong, I do still enjoy physical geography, it is just soil science that makes me want to cry. Urbanisation and tourism are interesting, don't diss!(Original post by WizardOfOz#1)
! This is the sad bit, I haven't learnt any of the things that you have listed! Two of our units are based on human geography (urbanisation and tourism) and only one is based (natural hazards: wildfires, earthquakes, volcanoes and tropical storms) on physical geog I'm not even commenting on the bit in bold, it's just shocking LOL! It's ten times better to learn about the earth than how tourism is forever fluctuating in different parts of the world I mean crikey :/ lol!
Have you taken it for a level?
No I do Scottish Highers instead of A Levels but I think they are similar in content. But I am going to do geography (BA, so more human than physical) at university
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Re: Geography or HistoryEveryone that i know that did geography finds it so much harder because of the case studies...I did history for gcse and it was so good, all you have to do is write essays and do a bit of coursework its really fun i'd say history
I'm not even commenting on the bit in bold, it's just shocking LOL! It's ten times better to learn about the earth than how tourism is forever fluctuating in different parts of the world I mean crikey :/ lol!
