AQA Geography B GGB5 Summer 09 Pre-Release Synoptic Thread

Hey
Im soo glad ive found this thread! I love the pre release material, its one of the best topics ever!! So far my teacher hs told us its fairly simple with topics TNCS, NICS, Cinflict over local resource and core periperhy issues. However, item 5 has lots of little topics such as soils and rivers so its quite a broad range really. Ive done loadsa research and love this midule now :-)

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mad-cow18

Yeh ive had a few frees today, worked through lunch etc -i got a tad excited methinks. Has your teacher said much about it?

Reply 3

LH123

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My teacher cannot pronounce properly any of the place names, its ******* hilarious. :rofl2:

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tabbycat1

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I'm so glad I've found this thread! At the moment i'm thinking it's about conflict over a resource, TNCs/NICs and core/periphery...I did NOT appreciate the soils reference at the end.

But our teacher was away yesterday so no-ones gone through it with us yet.

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*_sophs_*

One of our teachers walked into the classroom and said "it's awful! Terrible! We weren't expecting that at all! Its about mining in India. Mining! In India!" It gave us great confidence.

When the other (better) teacher gave us the booklet, it didn't seem that bad. I'm thinking conflict over the use of a resource and TNCs as well as a few other little topics.

As for proununciation, my teacher just says "I'm not even going to bother trying to say that" and moves on.

For research, I looked the company up on the internet and got some news articles from google.

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Down 'n' in

Well I got the pre release on Friday minutes before my teacher went home ill.
Then reading it reminded me of the coca cola case study in India.
I don't know what to do with Item 4 though... :/

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I this case study is much better than the one I did in January 09 (Im resiting). The Jan 09 was mainly about conflicts over resource/population/manufacturing/rivers,flooding/housing
that sort of thing.

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mad-cow18

Our teacher has told u its pretty straight forward and the questions should be pretty easy :-). This apparently happened a few years ago and he said the same but another teacher said there has to be more to it and in the exam it was straigh forward :-)

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mad-cow18

Our teacher has told u its pretty straight forward and the questions should be pretty easy :-). This apparently happened a few years ago and he said the same but another teacher said there has to be more to it and in the exam it was straigh forward :-)

Let me all give you some advice. Dont try to second-guess the questions too much. Its okay to do a few lessons around some likely decision-making questions but from my experience, if you delve into these questions a lot then you get too many preconceived ideas which stop you from being synoptic and coming into the exam with a more open mind. This is what happened to me when I did the GGB5 in jan09 and ended up getting a lame D.
So focus more on really understanding the problems and attitudes.

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Applegeek

Is it me or is this the best bit of the whole two years! We did something similar in Economics in January and it was a piece of cake for sure. I just checked the mountain out on Google Earth and it really gives you some perspective, you can see the actual development. Does anyone reckon there'll be anymore than TNCs, conflict over a resource, hydrology etc? I have actually never looked forward to an exam more :smile:

x

Reply 11

ToffeeAd09

Am I glad Ive found this, my geogrpahy teacher thinks the links with the syllabus are:
TNCs
Core/Periphary
Conflict Over Resources
Rivers
Soils
Population

If you search Vedanta Resources on google, the video on the first link is an excellent piece of media on the local tribe and Vedanta

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Right I just had a lesson of going through the booklet. Highlighting key facts and opinions. I know its early days and I said that you shouldnt try to rely on predicting questions but I think the questions will revolve around...
The attitudes of the Niyamgiri tribal people relating to Vedanta's decision on locating there.
Reasons why the place was chosen in the first place.
How could Vedanta improve its relationship with the Niyamgiri tribal people. Justify the improvements you would make.
Something to do with, improving Corissa state by Vedanata locating there OR not touching the cultural and meaningful place for the Niyamgiri people.

Reply 13

josht111

My teacher also said if they ask a question about the Vedanta's ethics, then is very important to also highlight the good work they have done. From the booklet, they create a very bad image, but going on their website shows the work they do with AIDS, environmental repair and charities.

good point!
Ohh I've not seen this video, shall check it out.

Reply 14

spudhead1991

our teacher has told us that from what he has researched, if we get asked why this has caused conflict, to talk a lot about the Indian government, because they do not know exactly what they want to do with the area what with it being a nature reserve but also declaring it a special economic zone.

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KJbean

i haven't been through the booklet yet with my teacher, as i'm the only one resitting :frown:

what topics do you all think might come up??
:smile:

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