GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?

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  1. Dalek1099's Avatar
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    (Original post by sahajkaur)
    This is Geography A dude I presume everyone?
    Yeah I know but there doesn't seem to be a thread aboyt Geography B yet
    The grade boundaries should be pretty low I would imagine for Geograpghy A because they are extremely low for Geography B,on my january 2012 exam on coasts it was only 82% for full marks and the grade boundaries were higher than usual-i got fullmarks
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    (Original post by Dalek1099)
    Yeah I know but there doesn't seem to be a thread aboyt Geography B yet
    The grade boundaries should be pretty low I would imagine for Geograpghy A because they are extremely low for Geography B,on my january 2012 exam on coasts it was only 82% for full marks and the grade boundaries were higher than usual-i got fullmarks
    Last year it was 68% raw marks to get an A*, hell yeah haha
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    (Original post by RachDave)
    Im doing tourism, population change and development gap, anyone else find these quite confusing as their pretty much the same thing?!
    Same topics I don't find them very similar, what is it you find confusing in them?

    I'm quite confident for the exam. As long as you know case studies it's quite easy to ramble through the exam and still do well.

    Any one have predictions of what may come up?


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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    yh it is Geography A
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    what case studies are people doing for tourism? struggling to get my head round all of them
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    what case studies are people doing for tourism? struggling to get my head round all of them
    Kenya ,lake district, Blackpool are what I have. If you have the revision guide, learn the ones in there, they're good.


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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    thank you, but I seem to have too many. I've got Dubai, Blackpool,lake district, jamaica, Antarctica and Galapagos islands, are you meant to learn them all or just a few?
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    No, I think you should maximum learn about 4 and really know 3 case studies in details. In the exam paper, they only ask to use one case study to answer the question.
    You can look at some past practice papers on the aqa geography A website if you're not sure how the questions are phrased.
    They have case study questions and mark scheme answers !!

    Good Luck Revisin !!!
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    Anyone have a case study about sustainable development? Or any examples of international aid and how it is used so that it is sustainable?
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    (Original post by Crystallouise99)
    No, I think you should maximum learn about 4 and really know 3 case studies in details. In the exam paper, they only ask to use one case study to answer the question.
    You can look at some past practice papers on the aqa geography A website if you're not sure how the questions are phrased.
    They have case study questions and mark scheme answers !!

    Good Luck Revisin !!!
    thank you! same to you

    and in reply to the sustainable development one, i'm not sure, but have you got the cgp revision book? it's got a lot of case studies for each topic in there
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    anybody doing maths next week? have a look at this http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/show...&highlight=aqa foundation maths
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    Does the CGP revision guide help ??
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    (Original post by Crystallouise99)
    Does the CGP revision guide help ??
    Yeah it does, some of the case studies are good, but i've used most from school which are in the revision guide.
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    Ahh right thanx
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    How much detail is everyone learning for case studies?
    And I'm doing really different topics to everyone else urban environments, rural environments and globalisation
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    (Original post by Crystallouise99)
    Does the CGP revision guide help ??
    Yeah I find it really helpful, and most of our school notes were made from there so it has pretty much everything we need to know but put in a condensed way.


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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    My case studies are:

    Population:
    China 1 child
    Indonesian transmigration
    Ageing population in France and UK

    Urbanisation:
    City Challenge -Hulme
    London Congestion zone
    Park and ride york
    Glasgow
    squatter settlement - Favella bairro in Roccinha
    Sustainable- BedZed in London

    Tourism:
    UK-Blackpool
    Mass- Kenya
    Extreme- Antartics
    Ecotourism - Galapagos

    They are mostly from textbooks and various revision guides.
    I have learnt just enough facts to regurgitate an answer for an 8 mark question and I'll probably make up some generalisations
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    Re: GCSE AQA Geography Unit 2 18 June?
    (Original post by panic king)
    How much detail is everyone learning for case studies?
    And I'm doing really different topics to everyone else urban environments, rural environments and globalisation
    Do you get to choose your topics ??
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    What case studies are people learning for development gap?

    And for 6/8 mark questions, is there a more for every point made or what?


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    (Original post by tamil4)
    What case studies are people learning for development gap?

    And for 6/8 mark questions, is there a more for every point made or what?


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    The less points you give using stats will allow you to develop your ont further therefore giving you 8 marks... The most successful candidates are those who use less stats but explain them further using geographical terminology also , a perfect answer is not needed for full marks ...I'm worried too cos it's hard to know what is acceptable to write etc... Gd luck!!


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