AS Geography Unit 1 AQA - 17th May 2011

I don't know, I'm not sure how other teachers teach, but I have to say our geography department have absolutely incredible teachers anyway. It's all normal teaching until the end of the subtopic, then we get a week of lessons giving the really formulaic "jumping through hoops" sessions.

For these exams, there are actually 4 brilliant booklets they gave us titled "How to answer [Glaciers/Rivers/Popn./Health] Perfectly", which says a lot and was invaluable for how to structure each question and get it all done easily within the half hour - there are certain buzzwords which get you quick marks. Plus, there's peer pressure to do really well in my school, so before we went into the exam, I don't think there was a single area I couldn't write a 15 marker about.




No, I mean raw marks. I don't know how the UMS works at all for Geography

I don't know, I'm not sure how other teachers teach, but I have to say our geography department have absolutely incredible teachers anyway. It's all normal teaching until the end of the subtopic, then we get a week of lessons giving the really formulaic "jumping through hoops" sessions.

For these exams, there are actually 4 brilliant booklets they gave us titled "How to answer [Glaciers/Rivers/Popn./Health] Perfectly", which says a lot and was invaluable for how to structure each question and get it all done easily within the half hour - there are certain buzzwords which get you quick marks. Plus, there's peer pressure to do really well in my school, so before we went into the exam, I don't think there was a single area I couldn't write a 15 marker about.




No, I mean raw marks. I don't know how the UMS works at all for Geography

first of all, :O
secondly, could you post the booklets? i think everyone would benefit and stuff.
and the buzzword technique thingy, i completely forgot!! and 112/180 WTF!

oh and ums, (the only thing i know that you don't know so yay!)
erm basically in geography, there's a cap for full ums. so you can lose a few marks but they're still converted to full ums. with other subjects the cap is usually less than 5, but with geography it's around 35. so 85 raw marks + will get you full ums, and below that the grade boundaries vary but are usually between 50 and 60 for A.
again, wow!!

Oh nice, thanks for explaining
I'd have to locate them and scan them all in, but sure, I'll get on that soon
Firstly I need to revise for the Skills paper though! I've been letting it sit on the back burner what with all the other exams, but crap! It's on tuesday!

Oh nice, thanks for explaining
I'd have to locate them and scan them all in, but sure, I'll get on that soon
Firstly I need to revise for the Skills paper though! I've been letting it sit on the back burner what with all the other exams, but crap! It's on tuesday!

how are you revising for the skills paper?

How are you revising for skills? I've put it off as well I have 4 exams this week and skills is the one I've hardly looked at and after how paper 1 went I really ought to learn it!

We went to Switzerland for a week in October for fieldwork so I need to learn word-for-word model answers that we wrote while we were there in our fieldwork packs...

Also do the practice papers for the 1st section that I can manage, and look through the skills section of my folder.

We went to Switzerland for a week in October for fieldwork so I need to learn word-for-word model answers that we wrote while we were there in our fieldwork packs...

Also do the practice papers for the 1st section that I can manage, and look through the skills section of my folder.

Oh nice, thanks for explaining
I'd have to locate them and scan them all in, but sure, I'll get on that soon
Firstly I need to revise for the Skills paper though! I've been letting it sit on the back burner what with all the other exams, but crap! It's on tuesday!

omg!! as if you went to switzerland for a week for your fieldwork! and aww you have model answers! we have nothing like that!

and i cannot do the 1st section of the skills paper, any tips on that?

You went to Switzerland?! Wow! Your school must really take Geography seriously! We went to the Holderness coast which was odd in paper 1 since I recognised the photo of Mappleton as I'd been there myself. Shame I couldn't remember anything about it! Yeah I think I'm just going to memorise the whole thing starting now!

thanks alot
and make sure to do the same next year
erm, yeah skills, crap, im gunna die. unlike you though, i haven't revised for any exams, but yeah, need to start revising. forgot everything.

lucky ****ers, switzerland! we went to ****ty place in stupid yorkshire. i mean it was nice for a day out, but i wanna go to switzerland.
skills, i need to write my model answers. crap. i hate geography, should have revised. defo guna revise for next year, sounds interesting.
good luck everyone.
plus rep to bright lights

Is there a particular part of the first section you can't do, like Spearmann's rank, or a type of graph you don't understand?




Yeah, it was awesome Well, we did glaciers, and there aren't any of those in the UK so we went to see the Aletschgletscher and spent the second half of the week in a village doing population fieldwork to get it out of the way I wish we had done rivers fieldwork though its so much easier to explain than ours.



Woo, thank you! Would you be even more jealous if I said we are going to Iceland next year for the tectonics topic? :P Don't neg rep me yet it's not confirmed, we still need permission and funding from school, but they went last year, so fingers crossed...

I know how you feel I'm looking through my folder today, like "crap, what's that? And that? Huh???" At least we're having that feeling now though, and not in the actual exam

What did people who did health put for the question about contrasting healthcare approaches?

I compared Cuba's socialised system with USA's pluralistic system, saying that Cuba's is state-run with physicians being employed by the state whereas USA's is largely private with physicians as solo entrepreneurs but also as part of larger associations. Also talked about Cuba's system being efficient (maintained funding during the USSR break-up which paid off) whereas USA's system is sometimes criticised for its lack of safety and quality despite the high costs (but has the advantage of the taxpayer not having to contribute to each individual's health insurance).

Did I answer that completely wrong or would I get some marks?

Is there a particular part of the first section you can't do, like Spearmann's rank, or a type of graph you don't understand?

yeah all of it!! haha but i do really struggle with Spearmann's Rank, and also dispersion graphs (i think its called that!?) Any help?

Really hoping we get a maths-based question for the Skills paper. 'Use the formula (n+1 / 2) to work out the median'

Btw, can someone who knows answer this?:
What did people who did health put for the question about contrasting healthcare approaches?

I compared Cuba's socialised system with USA's pluralistic system, saying that Cuba's is state-run with physicians being employed by the state whereas USA's is largely private with physicians as solo entrepreneurs but also as part of larger associations. Also talked about Cuba's system being efficient (maintained funding during the USSR break-up which paid off) whereas USA's system is sometimes criticised for its lack of safety and quality despite the high costs (but has the advantage of the taxpayer not having to contribute to each individual's health insurance).

Did I answer that completely wrong or would I get some marks?

spearman's rank: basically just order the data in ascending order. then use the rank numbers and differences and substitute into the equation. i need to revise it but its basically as simple as that
it gives a value between -1 and 1. then look up the number in the table and it'll tell you if the data correlation is significant or not. i personally think it's flawed a little, and there are other correlation tests that are better, but whatevs.

dispersion graphs, they basically give you the data in visual form. if you're having trouble with them, it might be better to write out the whole data out (if there aren't too many values). remember, if a number has more than 1 cross, (example the value 35 has 5 crosses) that means there are 5 35's,when you write it out it'll be like 35, 35, 35, 35, 35

hope this helps, i know its confusing but the best way is to practise and figure out what's best for you.
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/maths/bivariate-data/revise-it/correlation?nocache=1
spearman's rank is half way down the page

thanks for your help but omg spearmans rank cannot do it!!! do we have to remember the formula?
are there any other graphs i need to revise?

the other graphs are in the spec
and spearman's rank, they give you the equation but you have to know how to use it
im gunna have a quick nap till about 5, so i'll help you then. on scriblink or sumat. send a pm my way after 5