Edexcel Geography B Unit 2 People and the Planet 18/06/12

Yeah i've got that exam

oooo i think it's gonna be half easy half hard

Do you get top down and bottom up development stuff??

I think the first part will be easy because you basically just copy the booklet, but the actual 'decision making' part at the end will be the trickiest. ( it also makes more sense to me because I live about half hour's train from the park, so I've seen a lot of the stuff going on, my teacher got us some extra info from the park when she went on a tour around it

What exam is top down and bottom up for? (I get it by the way if you want me to explain it?)

ooh thankyou, and we got our coursework grade i got 58 out of 60, and for unit 1 i got 100% , for unit 3 i got an a im not sure about the actal grade. so how much do you think i need to get to get an a* overall in geogrpahy ?

are there only 3 past papers available ?

I also managed to get 100% in Unit 1 and 100% in my coursework (Unit 4).
I believe at least 80% would be needed in both the Unit 2 and Unit 3 exams to achieve an A* overall (as an A is 80% if I'm correct). Unsure on the actual total mark needed.. can't remember the total markings for the papers!

But basically one tip that my teacher has given me is to focus on the 6 mark questions and not on the interpreting graphs / maps, as it is the 6 mark questions where students normally miss out 1 or 2 marks (I know I do!)
Hope this helps!
Dreading my Unit 2 exam tomorrow.

omg thats really goood !! im sure you will do well tomorrow, and im dreading the exam too ! and yeah ive just been looking at the 6 mark question, i like changing cities alot.
thankyou, so i need to get an a or above in this paper, i really hope i do. i guess all we can do is try our best !

Yeah, sames the resource booklet is going to help me alot!!!!! And yeah, coz i live in Hackney, i already know sooooo much that's going on right, as im guessing you do too?

The top down, bottom up stuff is for the unit 2 exam, and yeah please explain!!!!

Geo tomorrow

Yeah I live in essex! (don't judge) haha

Yeah basically top down is when important people (like politicians or big companies) make decisions for the whole country , without considering individual, smaller parts of society
and bottom up is when small groups of people do something in their own town, but don't consider the country as a whole

E.g of bottom up - the town of la peca in peru. They built a micro-hydro scheme that benefits their town (creates electricity) but it does not help any other parts of the country.

Make sense? (tell me if it doesn't) x

A good top-down approach would include a large scale scheme such as the Three Gorges Dam in China

One fact that also is apparent (quoting my teacher) is that smaller scale bottom-up schemes are usually more sustainable and beneficial to those locally, as for example, as sophiekutie has said with the Micro-Hydro projects in La Peca, the local people are trained to use it and maintain it, so it becomes self-sufficient there, but also the material and economical cost of such a project is a lot smaller, so the impacts are less!

Yeah I live in essex! (don't judge) haha

Yeah basically top down is when important people (like politicians or big companies) make decisions for the whole country , without considering individual, smaller parts of society
and bottom up is when small groups of people do something in their own town, but don't consider the country as a whole

E.g of bottom up - the town of la peca in peru. They built a micro-hydro scheme that benefits their town (creates electricity) but it does not help any other parts of the country.

Make sense? (tell me if it doesn't) x

A good top-down approach would include a large scale scheme such as the Three Gorges Dam in China

One fact that also is apparent (quoting my teacher) is that smaller scale bottom-up schemes are usually more sustainable and beneficial to those locally, as for example, as sophiekutie has said with the Micro-Hydro projects in La Peca, the local people are trained to use it and maintain it, so it becomes self-sufficient there, but also the material and economical cost of such a project is a lot smaller, so the impacts are less!

Ahahaha I love people from essex :P

Ohhhhhh, i always get mixed up with it , thanks babe!

And ahh right, im gonna go and google that xD

Yeah it really does

Would u like any help? x

Haha

Ermm are you doing topic 5? I don't really understand the case studies for it, like what I have to know and stuff

Hehe now I do sound like a dumb Essex blonde, you'd be surprised how easy it is to get the stereotype x

Yeah, Ohh okays, I'll write a list of things that i know about Topic 5 in a different Quote xD

Ahh you dont, u just sound like you need some help is all, ah are you blonde and everything??? :P x

Haha

Ermm are you doing topic 5? I don't really understand the case studies for it, like what I have to know and stuff

Hehe now I do sound like a dumb Essex blonde, you'd be surprised how easy it is to get the stereotype x

Thanks!!

I was blonde when I was little, it's a bit darker now but goes blonde-ish in the sun again
But I do have blonde highlights now because i look better with lighter hair, but didn't want to have to deal with dyeing the whole thing