AQA Environmental Studies

emerlee123

Hey just wondering if anyone did the AQA Environmental Studies Unit 1 paper today and how they found it?

Reply 1

SARA7862010

i did... i thought it was quite hard (maybe because i taught myself it)
how did u find it?

Reply 2

sburgess

Hello, I did unit 1 today too.
I found the paper ok, however I feel as though I should have included more key terms.
I have self taught the subject too, but found most of paper 1 to be common sense.
Hope I didn't drop too many marks :frown:

Reply 3

Ellie_May :)

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Hey i'm so glad i've found someone elso who has taken it too!
I thought it went ok - i also learnt most of it myself :/
Hated the question about landscape enhancement as i couldn't remember a thing! i blabbed on about biological corridors and that lol :P
And the wolverine questions - i didnt even know that animal existed! :L
Could have definately gone better - i spent weeks understanding the simpsons diversity index and lincoln index and leopold matrix and succession etc - like no questions on any of them came up!

Reply 4

James R

aha sameeeeeeee happened to me and was also surprised to see there was nothing on Tropical Rainforests, Coral Reefs and Antartica

Reply 5

Roxas

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Anyone else taking envs2 tomorrow?

Imagine an unprepared person, who is unprepared even for himself! That's basically me right now. Eep.

Reply 6

Ellie_May :)

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Just thought i would wish you all luck for the results in March :smile:

x

Reply 7

James R

Yes Ellie, hope everyone gets the results they need and want as well :smile:

Reply 8

Ellie_May :)

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Hey

How did everyone do?

I got an A! 72 marks :smile:

Reply 9

emerlee123

OP

I got 58 B - Much better than expected so im pleased :smile:

Reply 10

Roxas

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Are we talking UMS or raw marks? I think I got like 105 UMS, an A too!

Well done everyone!!

Reply 11

lilyyyy

Has anyone just done ENVS2 today? :smile:

(and are we allowed to talk about it yet..?)

Reply 12

emerlee123

OP

Original post by lilyyyy

Has anyone just done ENVS2 today? :smile:

(and are we allowed to talk about it yet..?)

I did! I found it awful! How did you find it?

Reply 13

lilyyyy

Original post by emerlee123

I did! I found it awful! How did you find it?

Eughh yeah me too, it was so much worse than all the past papers I've done!!

I even got stuck on the questions about the Earth and Mars, I couldn't really see anything in the table to suggest why, other than CO2... which I put for the first one, haha!

What grade you hoping for? :smile:

Reply 14

emerlee123

OP

Original post by lilyyyy

Eughh yeah me too, it was so much worse than all the past papers I've done!!

I even got stuck on the questions about the Earth and Mars, I couldn't really see anything in the table to suggest why, other than CO2... which I put for the first one, haha!

What grade you hoping for? :smile:

I thought that! I didn;t like how some of the questions were phrased either! I didn;t really understand the last 10 mark question either! what did you put for that?

Well i'm hoping for a C so anything above that is a bonus! what about you?

Reply 15

Ellie_May :)

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Omg i thought that earth and mars question was rediculous but i put it down to CO2 as well!

The 10 marker, i wrote about advantages and disadvantages of using rivers, aquifers, reservoirs and seawater to abstract for public usage, just hope i wrote the right things!

I was dissapointed there wasn't much to do with global warming, the negative feedback mechanism question confused me though because it wanted to relate to co2 levels - all i could think of at the time was increased cloud cover.

Reply 16

lilyyyy

Original post by Ellie_May :)

Omg i thought that earth and mars question was rediculous but i put it down to CO2 as well!

The 10 marker, i wrote about advantages and disadvantages of using rivers, aquifers, reservoirs and seawater to abstract for public usage, just hope i wrote the right things!

I was dissapointed there wasn't much to do with global warming, the negative feedback mechanism question confused me though because it wanted to relate to co2 levels - all i could think of at the time was increased cloud cover.

Yeah! I did that too dw :smile:

I didnt like the way it was worded though!

Im hoping for an A! ugh I dont know if theres any chance of that now though, haha!

Yeah I know... I just explained what negative feedback was and talked about CO2 and plants!

Did you get the question about ploughing affecting the Carbon cycle? I have no idea!

Reply 17

Ellie_May :)

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Original post by lilyyyy

Yeah! I did that too dw :smile:

I didnt like the way it was worded though!

Im hoping for an A! ugh I dont know if theres any chance of that now though, haha!

Yeah I know... I just explained what negative feedback was and talked about CO2 and plants!

Did you get the question about ploughing affecting the Carbon cycle? I have no idea!

Yeah i want an A too!

That question was a little confusing - i think i put it down to soil disturbance by ploughing, which somehow affected the rate of decomposition.

I almost forgot how to work out the percentages of soils! I think i did it right but im not sure! Bloomin maths questions haha :P

Reply 18

lilyyyy

Original post by Ellie_May :)

Yeah i want an A too!

That question was a little confusing - i think i put it down to soil disturbance by ploughing, which somehow affected the rate of decomposition.

I almost forgot how to work out the percentages of soils! I think i did it right but im not sure! Bloomin maths questions haha :P

Yeah! Oh god.. yeah that sounds right haha! Damn I never remember anything about decomposition...

I didnt like that question! I was there for ages just like..how the hell do I work this out! Haha xD Did you do the 80cm3 as 100%? :P

Reply 19

Ellie_May :)

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lol i cant remember, but i did difference divided by the original times 100. No idea what i got but it looked right :smile:

lol yeah science subjects like to confuse us by asking things that arent fully explained in the text books :L
My worst question was the first one about Earth's temperatures - nothing about that in the text book!

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