GEO4B resit June 2013

Haha that would be the best thing ever!! I shall pray with you on that one!
Lmao!! Or perhaps we have to rate or in a scale of 1-10on how realistic the email sounds cause there is no way someone would be struck by an earthquake have massive devastation and then use posh terms to describe everything, it just doesn't happen aha


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Haha! Isn't that just Geography in general? Describe what you think is right with fancy scientific words and statistics and hope for the best?

I did the Nepal paper for GEO4B and got full UMS - it is possible, you've just got to start now and put in a great deal of work!

A few tips:

Outside research is the key to a good grade. For the Nepal paper, I did stacks of extra research on demographic statistics, developmental statistics, projects other charities have done, etc etc. The pre-release is only a guide; you have to make sure you DON'T copy word for word from it. Knowing it thoroughly, understanding the main issues involved and having the ability to adapt your knowledge to the question, including your own analysis and facts in your exam essays, is the key to high marks.

You can get your own information from the sources suggested in the ZigZag booklet, Wikipedia, books, anything which is related to the topic. Make a good set of notes structured around the AIB with reference to your extra research. The ZigZag guide is useful to work through in order to bring your knowledge of the issue up to speed, but you MUST do more than just that. Having said that, there are usually questions on data presentation, stats or fieldwork, these should be easier to identify and plan for as they are usually clearly referenced in the AIB itself. I would say this paper is more about geographical understanding than revision per se - in the exam because I'd gone over everything beforehand I knew exactly where everything was in the AIB, and it made life so much easier.

Good luck

I did the Nepal paper for GEO4B and got full UMS - it is possible, you've just got to start now and put in a great deal of work!

A few tips:

Outside research is the key to a good grade. For the Nepal paper, I did stacks of extra research on demographic statistics, developmental statistics, projects other charities have done, etc etc. The pre-release is only a guide; you have to make sure you DON'T copy word for word from it. Knowing it thoroughly, understanding the main issues involved and having the ability to adapt your knowledge to the question, including your own analysis and facts in your exam essays, is the key to high marks.

You can get your own information from the sources suggested in the ZigZag booklet, Wikipedia, books, anything which is related to the topic. Make a good set of notes structured around the AIB with reference to your extra research. The ZigZag guide is useful to work through in order to bring your knowledge of the issue up to speed, but you MUST do more than just that. Having said that, there are usually questions on data presentation, stats or fieldwork, these should be easier to identify and plan for as they are usually clearly referenced in the AIB itself. I would say this paper is more about geographical understanding than revision per se - in the exam because I'd gone over everything beforehand I knew exactly where everything was in the AIB, and it made life so much easier.

Good luck

I did the Nepal paper for GEO4B and got full UMS - it is possible, you've just got to start now and put in a great deal of work!

A few tips:

Outside research is the key to a good grade. For the Nepal paper, I did stacks of extra research on demographic statistics, developmental statistics, projects other charities have done, etc etc. The pre-release is only a guide; you have to make sure you DON'T copy word for word from it. Knowing it thoroughly, understanding the main issues involved and having the ability to adapt your knowledge to the question, including your own analysis and facts in your exam essays, is the key to high marks.

You can get your own information from the sources suggested in the ZigZag booklet, Wikipedia, books, anything which is related to the topic. Make a good set of notes structured around the AIB with reference to your extra research. The ZigZag guide is useful to work through in order to bring your knowledge of the issue up to speed, but you MUST do more than just that. Having said that, there are usually questions on data presentation, stats or fieldwork, these should be easier to identify and plan for as they are usually clearly referenced in the AIB itself. I would say this paper is more about geographical understanding than revision per se - in the exam because I'd gone over everything beforehand I knew exactly where everything was in the AIB, and it made life so much easier.

Good luck

What is the zigzag booklet?


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It is just a booklet full of possible questions that may come up in the exam. Having a go at practising them really helps, especially if they do come up!

Where can I get it from? Do you have to buy it??


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I've seen them online they're like around £60 I think
If you put geo4b June 2013 into google the zigzag website is one of the first options that comes up


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Don't think ill spend £60 on it.... Lol


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Apprently in the exam, they might ask you to choose a technique for presenting or analysing data and then justify why you chose that technique?

Any ideas on how to prepare for this??


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They did that in January, you just needed to identify ways the data could be represented differently and say why you thought that but when talking to my teacher earlier this week we struggled to find something for it on this paper as the data seems to be represented in the way which is best and other methods don't seem right "/ that's all I can say sorry, hope it was at least of some use


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Cheers! My teacher today pretty much said the same thing and our class couldn't really think of a way it could be represented, saying that maybe they won't ask us these questions :P(not guarantee)


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Apprently in the exam, they might ask you to choose a technique for presenting or analysing data and then justify why you chose that technique?

Any ideas on how to prepare for this??


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the only thing I could think of was for figure P2 - rather than a table it could be presented as a histogram with dates along the x axis. Where there isnt a date, just leave a column blank

Is their a typical layout set for questions and the amount of marks their worth?

For example in the unit 3 exam, for the 25 marker sections there's always a 7 , 8 and 10 marker


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