Edexcel GCE Geography unit 4: Geographical Research

I agree, the pre-release seems like a good one, causes and impacts are the easiest areas of the sylabus. The word 'diasaster' may also prove key here, such as: 'What are the factors that lead a tectonic hazard to become a disaster, and how do these impacts vary in scale in contrasting locations?'.

However, it may not be an open-ended question, it may mention a single factor, with 'discuss' at the end to lure people into the trap of only mentioning that factor, e.g: 'Tectonic hazards are more likely to become greater scale disasters in regions of the world close to plate boundaries. Discuss.'

All speculation mind be prepared for anything in this exam!

Wow never saw this thread, I am doing Live On the Margins (Desertification)
there are really only 2 main questions that can come up:
Desertification is the most important process leading to food insecurity
- so like is desertification the most important factor ? - Or isnt it the most important factor? - OR is it only a contributing factor
and:
To combat desertification in drylands (or food insecurity in general) management strategies must be used, combating both physical and human cause
- so like should management be focused on physical or human causes, Or both


a good technique i use in the structure of my analysis is,

Yes it could true that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ( So agree with the statement)
No, It is not true that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (disagree with the statement)
however it could be argued that ( Sit on the fence)

I'm doing life on the margins too.
You really think that second question you posted could come up? I really doubt (and hope!) that they would have a question to do with management without any hint about it in the pre release don't you think?
Would be a really unfair question given what it says on the pre-release, and i think its much more likely to be around processes (including desertification) that lead to food insecurity.

I'm doing life on the margins too! I'm using 5 casestudies with the likelihood of using 4 in the exam. Although I'm slightly concerned as my teacher kept pushing us to do case studies that weren't desertification, and some that were not in drylands. I'm really rethinking this since finding this thread. What case studies are people doing? i.e. 3 drylands and 2 desertification kinda thing

I'm doing all case studies which are in dryland areas I only have one out of the four which isn't desertification

How many case studies are you all using?? I'm doing 4 in great detail for life on the margins

I'm doing life on the margins too! I'm using 5 casestudies with the likelihood of using 4 in the exam. Although I'm slightly concerned as my teacher kept pushing us to do case studies that weren't desertification, and some that were not in drylands. I'm really rethinking this since finding this thread. What case studies are people doing? i.e. 3 drylands and 2 desertification kinda thing

I'm doing all case studies which are in dryland areas I only have one out of the four which isn't desertification

Hey all, I am doing Life on the margins too, I have alot more case studies but not in as that much deatail

alot of the case studies can be things like global warming, water scarecity, biological pests, political missrule,

If you get a question saying
Desertificaiton is the largest thread to food security, discuss
- you will need both Dryland (desertification) case studies and case studies that illustrate different causes.

Oh and also make sure you have some from MEDC's and LEDC's etc to show you have a range of case studies/




and now my question!

- What diagrams, Theories and drawings can you use for this topic?

That is a really good point. Okay this exam should be fun.

But anyway, drawings in the textbook there is the diagram for desertification in the Sahel (Dunn et al btw) and it basically shows all the causes from what I can remember. Erm, tbh I don't really like doing drawings, i know they save time but I can never fit them in 'well'. But theorists really depend on case studies and the question...I mean I could list all of the ones that I know relate to mine but they may not relate to your case studies. For example, I can use the Kalahandi syndrome if I do Haiti, but it's not desertification and it may not help your case studies. I'm rambling here sorry and probably wasn't helpful.

what r some case studies for the cultural diversity question?

So far i've got mcdonaldisation, north korea and the world media.

How much revision is everyone doing for this exam?
I haven't really done that much.. i'm really focusing on my other 2 subjects which require a lot a lot of content and revision.
I have done some - so I've done a practise report and have gone over my key case studies...do you think that will be enough, as long as I do a bit more which I intend to
I reckon that the exam won't be too difficult to pass. I only need a B (i would obviously love an A) but i did quite well in my past exams AS and A2 January Module unit 3 so hopefully it won't be too difficult..