AQA AS Geography 12th May and 16th May 2014

Geography's going okay for me. I took it as a 5th AS with the intention of dropping it once I'd decided between that and Further Maths, but never got to that point and so have just stuck with it. Bit pointless dropping it now, considering as we've nearly finished the course. Rivers and Coasts is fairly straightforward, Population less so. Too many case studies! I find all the Geopolitics of Energy really interesting, but I can't seem to get above 12 or 13 out of 15 when we practise the longer questions.
Is the picture above from the population topic? Looks like suburbs to me, but I'm not 100% convinced. Which optional modules are you taking?

I'm taking Rivers,Population,Coasts and Energy so the same as you and you seem to be well ahead of me because there is still a lot of energy and coasts left I am up to coastal processes and James May's energy ideas. I took that picture of a place that is in the area I live because I believe it shows something you wouldn't expect from the Burgess model flats, semi-detached houses and lots of countryside all put on top of each other it doesn't seem to fit with the model. Where I live looks a lot more like suburbs, even though it is literally two stops on the bus away and is in the same area that I live in but just going to the bus stop and looking right you can see loads of trees which mark out loads of countryside.

I don't think we're particularly ahead of you, but our teachers claim we'll be finished a week or two after half term. There's only 6 in my class, but we'd be able to go a lot quicker were it not for 1 or 2 holding us back. -_-

Seems like you've gone into a lot of detail over different populated areas. We had one lesson where we brushed over the concentric circle model etc, and that was about it! I think our teacher expects us to do a lot of extra reading outside of lessons...

My class won't be finished till at least Easter or a couple of weeks after that.I am going on my fieldtrip at Half Term in Blencathra and it will be on measuring rivers.

I am studying this and haven't seen a thread on it.Please comment below about how the course is going, where you are going on your field trip etc.I think that it seems ridiculous how some of the Unit 2 papers have Maths in and some don't because those sorts of things would severely affect your grades(for people like me easy but a lot of people find maths hard who study Geography find Maths hard).I would also like to know where the picture below is(I am confused between Inner City(flats),Suburbs(lots of semi-detached houses) and Rural-Urban Fringe(lots of green space).

Unit 2 Geog will ALWAYS have some maths, that is either standard deviation or spermans rank.


I am doing rivers, coasts, population and health. Coasts is the only one that I find difficult probably because I didn't do coasts in GCSE. Health is relatively straight forward and case studies are easy to remember.


We are going to slapton leys in devon for our field trip I hope it doesn't rain.

I went to Slapton, the weather was awful on the first day while we went on the coastal walk - absolutely freezing! It brightened up on the second day for rivers

Food's good, beds are not.

Unit 2 Geog will ALWAYS have some maths, that is either standard deviation or spermans rank.


I am doing rivers, coasts, population and health. Coasts is the only one that I find difficult probably because I didn't do coasts in GCSE. Health is relatively straight forward and case studies are easy to remember.


We are going to slapton leys in devon for our field trip I hope it doesn't rain.

Hi,

I am studying Energy, Cold environments, population and rivers.

I was just wondering what textbooks/revision guides are you guys using. Since my teacher has given me three textbooks with different amount of detail in each one and I'm not sure which one to use when I start revising.

Funnily enough The nelson thrones textbook which is 'aqa endorsed' seems to give the smallest amount of detail and my teacher has warned us that you'll just about scrape a B if you use that textbook.

The other 2 vary, with 'geography an integrated approach' by Nelson thrones (different book to above) being almost 700 pages long!! (obviously the one recommened by my teacher haha).

This is the thing I hate most about geography. You never know how much of the vast amount of content you actually have to learn!

I have looked at the AQA website and the outlined curriculum for each topic is ridiculously brief, barely 2 paragraphs if not that.

So if any one has any idea where I can find like a checklist of the content you actually need to know for each topic in reasonable detail, that'd be really helpful.

Or any other resources that are of good use?

Thanks




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Ahh I've got that book and I think that it is probably the most specific and least waffly. However I'm just a bit apprehensive of using it solely for revision as I think it is too brief. I mean 10 pages on each topic is tiny compared to the usual 30-40 in the textbook. So I don't know! Arghh