A2 AQA Geography 3A Summer 2012

I read a model answer the night before which was very similar to today's question.

I think it depends on how u interpret geographical. I thought geographical could mean economic social and political and environmental but your way works as well


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Pretty much what I did -.- (But didn't even mention BRICs, they didn't come to mind)

Bye, A*. Hello, A.

Good luck getting your grades.

Oh no. I wrote about all 6 types (fissure, shield, composite, acid/dome, caldera, ash/cinder), which plate boundaries they are found out, the lava they produce, their shape and real life examples. Loved that question.

Yes I did haha, I thought to myself; no way am I doing that!

How did you find the retail essay?

I've been on track for an A* all year and I actually need it for my uni offer, hello insurance choice (Y)


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Same, what did you include in the weather essay?

I Loved the management question + picture so i hope i didnt lose too many marks

haha, i can never understand the globalisation essays dont understand as to how anyone can do it lol ! (:

retail was really good that was our prediction :P

Have u only got PSYA4 left? because thts my last exam so im dedicating my life to psychology for 5 days then im free

Relatively easy paper, high grade boundaries expected I think unfortunately.

Weather:

a) Photo of anticyclonic conditions - mentioned wind speeds with relation to hot air balloons, cloud types cirrus/cirrostratus, relation to sinking air, mentioned haze, advection/radiation fog

b) Depressions - easy question. Didn't mention how they ended though because it only wanted you to outline their formation and movement over the British Isles.

c) Great Storm 1987 - pretty easy just mentioned all the impacts and responses

Tectonics Essay:

Harder than expected but very similar to the mock, tweaked it for the distribution. Mentioned Wegener, continental fit, palaeomagnetism, convection currents, sea floor spreading, and relation to the types of margin and earthquakes and volcanoes formed at each. Evaluation - the fact that tectonic theory does not explain intra-plate earthquakes and to some extent hot spots. Conclusion - theory does help to explain understanding all we need to do is explain intra-plate EQ and then we'll have a perfect understanding, useful for the next generation of geography students

World Cities:

a) Comment question on the text of Freiburg - relatively easy just picked out the bits about how it was a sustainable city and bits about how it wasn't and what it could do to improve

b) Waste management - wrote this down easy, the waste management hierarchy (although did not mention the pros and cons as this was not required)

c) Partnership schemes in Hulme City - mentioned what Challenge Partnerships are, put in Hulme, then evaluated the scheme with positives and negatives.

Overall relatively straight forward although the tectonics essay was harder than usual imo

Same, but I still get into my firm. The gap between me getting an A or A* is ridiculous - 97%UMS + for A* but only something like 58% for A. (As a B in this paper will still get me an A)

what did people write for the world cities essay? im not sure if i focused too much on OOT shopping centres.. what that still get marks? im panicking

Just because you found it easy doesnt mean the grade boundaries will high

There are alot of people who found it tough.... and theres alot of people who may thought it was easy and still **** it up so you cant stay grade boundaries will be high

Just because you found it easy doesnt mean the grade boundaries will high

There are alot of people who found it tough.... and theres alot of people who may thought it was easy and still **** it up so you cant stay grade boundaries will be high

Yeah tectonics structured were nice.

A few people did it from my school, they said they found it ok. Rather them than me!
Yessss, retail. I found it ok, couldn't remember many figures though.

I have PSYA4, GEO4A, BIOL5 and 2 general studies left. How about you?

It wasn't THAT easy, just relatively easy compared to past papers. I mean weather was straight forward if you'd revised anticyclones, depressions and the storm

Seems fair to me, the instructions on the front are not difficult to understand.

Edit: Why are you negging me? Sorry if you answered a wrong section.

awesome, i tried to give my opinion as much as possible because they love that :P

Exactly. The grade boundaries for this paper have always been low (average 62% for an A). The fact that OP has an offer for Geography at Oxford suggests he's a very high ability candidate and was likely to find it easy. Judging from this thread, most people found it hard!