AS AQA Geography GEOG1 17th and GEOG2 20th May 2016

For question 2 of skills, how many forms of primary data do we need to know in full, Can I get away with only knowing one or two in full detail (advantages, disadvantages in order to evaluate/justify)

Am I the only one that thought Cold environments was really difficult. I do Health, population, rivers and Cold environments, and they all seemed fairly straight forward except CE.
The 15 marker in particular seemed standard at first glance but was worded very weirdly I thought... How did people answer it?

I completely agree!!!! Basically i answered the question by discussing the issues with recent developments in Antarctica such as tourism, fishing ect then i realised that you probably need to use the quote they gave so i summarised it at the end and linked the quote to how the developments are having to be more sustainable recently - no idea if that's right

Anybody got any useful resources for Unit 2?

Anyone know how I would answer "Explain how you devised your aim" for unit 2, sounds obvious but I just can't get my head around it haha

For unit 2, we won't need to know about landforms or case studies right ?

For the fieldwork i investigated how a river changes downstream - however my teacher said to focus on velocity and Bradshaw's theory....

So if the question was 'state the aim of your fieldwork enquiry how should I word my answer??

My fieldwork sounds similar to yours and this is what I wrote for a similar question (Jan 2011):

Describe the purpose of your fieldwork enquiry (5 marks)

The purpose of my fieldwork was to investigate how fluvial characteristics changed downstream at the River Tillingbourne. We chose to investigate solely how the velocity changes as distance from the source increase, and our hypothesis was “As distance from the river source increases, the velocity will also increase”. The null hypothesis was “there is no relationship between distance from the river source and velocity”.

The basis for my enquiry was the Bradshaw model. This is a conceptual diagram that suggests how fluvial characteristics vary downstream. It is made up of 8 triangles, which show whether or not the characteristic increases or decreases downstream by increasing or decreasing in width.
The 5 fluvial characteristics that INCREASE downstream are:
- Occupied channel width
- Depth
- Discharge
- Volume of load
- Velocity
The 3 fluvial characteristics that DECREASE downstream are:
- Load size
- Channel bed roughness
- Channel gradient

According to the model, the velocity of the river Tillingbourne should increase as I travel further from the source.

Thank you so much!! Also for data analysis my teacher said we can refer to Spearmans rank or a scatter graph, Spearmans rank confuses me and I don't know how to talk about it if the question was something like "Outline and justify the use of one or more techniques used to analyse your results" ??

If I were to not get the grade I was hoping for in UNIT 1 (May 2016), is it still possible to retake it again next year with the same spec? (May 2017) Even though the spec is changing for September 2016?

Yes, it is, I have spent a while looking over this following the poor performance of my maths exam yesterday. All AS and A-level legacy papers will be available for resits next year, fortunately.

Probably sounds like a silly question, but what is a legacy paper? I'm assuming they're papers they come up with from the old spec for people (possibly me) who may have to retake?

Then I would very briefly say how I did it, explaining the use of the formula, and if you can remember it maybe state your Spearman's rank value that you got when you did it?!

If I were to not get the grade I was hoping for in UNIT 1 (May 2016), is it still possible to retake it again next year with the same spec? (May 2017) Even though the spec is changing for September 2016?