A2 AQA Geography 3A Summer 2012

How much would you guys roughly write for each of the 7, 8, and 10 mark questions? I know it depends on handwriting size and other things.

I'd typically write about 3/4 of a page for the 7 marks, a side for the 8 and 1.5 sides for the 10.

How much do you guys write? Just a rough idea would be great, thanks.

Oh really I hate that I really don't understand the inter tropical convergence zone :/


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Anyone know a good MEDC case study for volcanoes other than Montserrat? There are just too many dates and details to remember.

Anyone know a good MEDC case study for volcanoes other than Montserrat? There are just too many dates and details to remember.

Pretty sure montserrat's an LEDC. Eyjafjallajokull is an example of an MEDC eruption, also Mt Etna.
Couldn't agree more about the dates...the more I try to learn the more painful it gets

Sorry...I meant Mt. Etna. It has erupted over 5 times and I need to learn how each eruption was managed. Its very tiring. Is Eyjafjallajokull any easier to learn?

The grade boundaries are fairly low on this exam- last year you needed 58 out of 90 for an A.

Positive: You only need around 64% for an A.

Negative: low grade boundaries indicate that this is probably a bloody hard exam.

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i need 69/120 ums for a B overall i think so how many marks is this? roughly half marks? so confused. i need to get into uniiiiiiiiiiiiii

As much as I can.

I'm an extremely fast writer though.

Started as a magnitude 9.0 Richter scale earthquake 70km off of the east coast of Japan, tsunami was a secondary hazard (much like Indonesia - same plate structure etc.)
Tsunami waves travelled up to 10km inland, submerging coastal cities such as Sendai, and a massive amount of farming land.

As the plate boundary was destructive, the land fell by around 2m which left
coastal defences inadequate (such as Sendai tsunami wall 10m high - breached as high of wave was 12.5m). This bit shows how Japan was prepared, but didn't take into account unpredictable shifts in the height of land.

Tsunami + earthquake led to approximately 18000 deaths (including those 'missing') - costliest natural disaster to date ($235 bn (2011 USD)). Also, the threat of a nucleur disaster at Fukushima let to massive social and political impacts on the surrounding areas, mass evacuation of the area meant huge implications on the population. = had an impact equivalent to 4% if Japan's GDP.


Hope this kinda helped

Oh also, Japan has an advanced warning system; a warning message was sent to the phones of residents/on tv/on google -> high level of preperadness.

right ive got to the point where ive realised i cant revise everything! so i need to revise the vital stuff
what do you think i MUST revise for in conflict, plates, world cities and weather?? some please help!