GCSE OCR B Geography - KEY GEOG THEMES 12TH JUNE

Natural Hazards: tectonic and climatic hazards

Economic Development (idk about this one though)

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Can someone tel me the topics pleaseee? Like rivers&coasts and ...


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Hazards
In response to the questions here regarding the hazards option. OCR usually give you the choice between a tectonic (earthquakes & volcanoes) or a climatic (tropical storms or drought) question BUT they do reserve the right to give you either two climatic or two tectonic questions.

For this reason, I have told all my Y11 students to revise each of their hazards case studies and make sure they know they key causes, effects & responses and ways of planning and preparing for the event.

At my school the case studies look like this but will be different depending on your school.

Earthquake MEDC - Japan / LEDC - Haiti
Volcano MEDC - Etna, Italy / LEDC - Nevado del Ruiz, Mexico

Drought MEDC - Australia / LEDC Horn of Africa
Tropical Storm - MEDC Katrina, USA / LEDC - Nargis, Burma

Economic Development.
There is a lot to revise here. This section of the exam is normally split up into Part 1. Development & Aid and Part 2. Industry & Trade.

OCR generally ask you for key features & locations of either a Primary, Secondary, Tertiary or Quaternary industry BUT they could ask you specifics on any of the four so be prepared.

Rivers & Coasts
Some of you have asked if you could just revise one and not the other. Again,in previous years they have given a straightforward choice between either rivers or coasts. However, like with hazards, they say that they reserve the right to ask two rivers or two coasts questions. For that reason, my students know to revise both sections equally but that I would like them to go for the coasts section if it comes up as that is what they did their fieldwork on.

OCR B Geography requires students to know a lot about their case studies and there are ways that you can do this. When I did my GCSE's in the 90's, I could never remember dates, death & injury data, magnitudes etc etc just by reading them over and over again. I had to plaster my bedroom walls with post it notes showing key dates and other data and it did help me to remember because I had to look at the things every single day! I was also very sad and made audio recordings of myself reading case study notes and played them on my CD player as I was falling to sleep. Full on I know, but it worked pretty well in the end.

The payback is that you know that there will be nothing on Population & Settlement as it has already been tested in the SDME. In other GCSE Geography qualifications, all four units are tested in the final exam. That can be a real nightmare for some.

Again, all the stuff is on geographypods - Mr Berry's Podcasts are a great place to start and there are links to sample papers and revision notes. http://www.geographypods.com/terminal-exam-12th-june-2013.html

I am away on a school trip until Wednesday so won't be able to respond to questions here until later this week. In the meantime, good luck and work hard.

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Guys does anyone know what the grade boundaries will roughly be for these upcoming exams? I know it's going to be slightly different what with SPag. What would I roughly need in the last exam with these results:
SDME: 56
Coursework: 57
Thanks!

What was the sdme out of again?

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Taking SPaG into account I would estimate around 67/84 for an A*, dropping by about 8 for each grade.

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For this exam I am doing the following case studies:

Rivers and coasts:
River landforms- River tees
MEDC flooding and management (Boscastle)
LEDC flooding and management (Bangladesh)
Coastal landforms (Dorset coast)
coastal management (East dorset)

Natural hazards
Climatic hazard ledc (Burma)
Climatic hazard medc (hurricane katrina)
Tectonic hazard ledc (Kashmir, Pakistan)
Tectonic hazard medc (Mt St helens)

Economic Development
Aid in ledc (Eastern africa)
Ledc (primary, secondary, tertiary and Quaternary (Brazil)
Multinational company Walmart
Impact of industrialization (Pearl river delta)
Medc (secondary and Quaternary industry)

SO I am doing case studies in total but i am still not sure if these are the ones or do i need any more?

ANd if the medc industry one for economic development is for both secondary and quarternary?
I am so confuseddd.......

Note my mum works for OCR in geography Department