AQA GEOG4A A2 14th June 2013

lol i have like 6 hours to learn all of this due to exam timings

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I can see data presentation or analysis techniques coming up, so something like how could you of analysed your fieldwork in a different way or something about different types of data presentation and how you used them/why you didn't use them. The one about data presentation is harder to get full marks in if it was set as a question.

For revising just learn your skills and advantages and disadvantages. Also know key parts of your fieldwork well, you can tell when someone is making up crap

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Original post by Axion

lol i have like 6 hours to learn all of this due to exam timings

you don't have 6 hours, you have far more if you actually plan your revision properly, you should already be revising for it.

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Original post by clareramos

you don't have 6 hours, you have far more if you actually plan your revision properly, you should already be revising for it.

Thank you for that. I think I'll decide when I should be revising for it and for how long.

6 hours it is

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ElChapo

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Original post by Axion

Thank you for that. I think I'll decide when I should be revising for it and for how long.

6 hours it is

Hahaha, teachers eh? :tongue:

is this your first take of the exam?

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Original post by ElChapo

Hahaha, teachers eh? :tongue:

is this your first take of the exam?

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:P

yep first take!

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Original post by ElChapo

Hahaha, teachers eh? :tongue:

is this your first take of the exam?

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tbh though, I know my fieldwork really well so it's kinda just learning all the stats and cartographic/graphical techniques etc

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Original post by Axion

Thank you for that. I think I'll decide when I should be revising for it and for how long.

6 hours it is

You won't be able to learn all the skills well in 6 hours, unless you already know them fairly well. I saw that you learnt your fieldwork fairly well which will help. But 6 hours isn't enough for the exam, you'll still pass and could do well, but it will be harder.

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Original post by clareramos

You won't be able to learn all the skills well in 6 hours, unless you already know them fairly well. I saw that you learnt your fieldwork fairly well which will help. But 6 hours isn't enough for the exam, you'll still pass and could do well, but it will be harder.

ok, I'll let you know how I get on. My fieldwork is embedded in my knowledge, but as you say, it is the skills I don't know as well.

That said, there is a lot of bluffing that can be done for questions like advantages/disadvantages of certain cartographic techniques: visually understandable, some allows for points to be made location-specific etc.

Are you an exam marker yourself?

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Original post by Axion

ok, I'll let you know how I get on. My fieldwork is embedded in my knowledge, but as you say, it is the skills I don't know as well.

That said, there is a lot of bluffing that can be done for questions like advantages/disadvantages of certain cartographic techniques: visually understandable, some allows for points to be made location-specific etc.

Are you an exam marker yourself?

I used to be chief of unit 4A, but now work cross-exam board on fieldwork and skills and lecture in them, also still do appeals marking for unit 2 and unit 4A.

Bluffing can be done, but for cartographic it is becoming harder, as more training of teachers and examiners has taken place specifically in cartographic skills and GIS.

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Original post by clareramos

I used to be chief of unit 4A, but now work cross-exam board on fieldwork and skills and lecture in them, also still do appeals marking for unit 2 and unit 4A.

Bluffing can be done, but for cartographic it is becoming harder, as more training of teachers and examiners has taken place specifically in cartographic skills and GIS.

thank you

. I really enjoyed my fieldwork so find talking about it a piece of cake.

still need to polish off my chi squared and spearman's rank though. Difficult to find any resources that resemble the sort of questions that come up

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Original post by Axion

thank you

. I really enjoyed my fieldwork so find talking about it a piece of cake.

still need to polish off my chi squared and spearman's rank though. Difficult to find any resources that resemble the sort of questions that come up

for fieldwork if it is something that you really enjoyed doing then you'll remember so easily, and it will come across in the exam.

Best thing for those is to do past papers, or just do them in general.

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Original post by clareramos

for fieldwork if it is something that you really enjoyed doing then you'll remember so easily, and it will come across in the exam.

Best thing for those is to do past papers, or just do them in general.

Are there any Pre-2010 past 4A papers available? Or was in a new introduction?

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meerajg

Original post by ElChapo

Hey everyone!

This is for anyone taking the exam next Thursday to discuss revision techniques, predictons etc

isn't the 14th a friday?

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