Edexcel geog unit 2 crowded coasts and rebranding

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I wrote about hard and soft engineering for the 10 marker. Was it asking for hard and soft or was it asking for 'hold the line' / 'do nothing' / 'advance the line' etc?

Reply 101

ridwan12

Original post by Chloe.17

What did people write about for two contrasting coastal defences??

Groynes and managed retreat (I put retreat the line lool) , I didn't really compare and contrast until the end...

Reply 102

ridwan12

Original post by thelizzister

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It shouldn't matter if u didnt cross the boxes, they'l be able to figure it out

That aside what did people mention on the first 10marker to do with competition causing pressure...

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Pollution in the water from tourists and fishing

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Pollution of caravan park situated in the internationally important habitat e.g. noise, litter and light pollution which could have adverse effects on behaviours of species and cause destruction of habitat

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Destruction of sand dunes/salt marshes destroyed by human development and erosion will lead to flooding of farmland (was supposed to say how flooding will lead to farmland being unusable due to high salinity)

Not sure whether the question was effect on environment or not.....

Reply 103

ridwan12

Original post by OL350

I wrote about hard and soft engineering for the 10 marker. Was it asking for hard and soft or was it asking for 'hold the line' / 'do nothing' / 'advance the line' etc?

Aren't soft and hard management strategies not coastal defences i.e. groynes etc........

Reply 104

OrdinaryStudent

Original post by Chloe.17

Oh my gosh really??! Hopefully I'll have managed to get some marks then! I hate this exam

well in my cgp book it puts coastal realignment aka managed retreat as a soft engineering defense :smile:

Reply 105

qwerty123A

I just realised I used two hard engineering strategies for the contrasting defences question, how much do you think i will be penalised?

Reply 106

Jagray

I've already forgotten what the questions were but I think I nailed the research and fieldwork/results conclusion ones, they were great. Everything else I will be happy if I get 5/10

Let's say I got 15 and 15 that's 30 plus 5 from the four ten markers.... That's already 50 marks! And an A is 48 so even if I haven't got full marks for the 15 marker I should be okay?

I'm just clutching straws for a B really.

The one about Coastal defences I wrote about sea wall in port Dickson Malaysia and mappleton groynes then completely crossed mappleton out and wrote about a sentence on sand dunes in Kenfig after I noticed it said CONTRASTING... Horrific considering I referred to Kenfig in 2a, b and c :l I read somewhere examiners hate that or think you lack knowledge I had so may others I could have used so I don't know how that happened :frown:

Reply 107

oc7

What did you guys put for coastal pressures? I think I may have done it wrong, based my fieldwork and research around evidence for coastal erosion and development problems.

Reply 108

OL350

Original post by ridwan12

Aren't soft and hard management strategies not coastal defences i.e. groynes etc........

What do you mean?

Reply 109

OL350

Original post by ridwan12

Aren't soft and hard management strategies not coastal defences i.e. groynes etc........

I obviously talked about the different types e.g sea wall/beach re profiling etc.

Reply 110

qwerty123A

Original post by qwerty123A

I just realised I used two hard engineering strategies for the contrasting defences question, how much do you think i will be penalised?

^would the examiner allow me off like half the marks like 5/10? because my examples were hold the line and advance the line (i used 2 examples for hold the line and 1 for advance), i misinterpreted the 'contrasting' aspect. Or would I just get a complete 0/10

please someone??

Reply 111

ridwan12

Original post by OL350

I obviously talked about the different types e.g sea wall/beach re profiling etc.

Yh same but i'm worrying that my example of abbots hall farm and managed retreat won't count as a "defence"........

Reply 112

ridwan12

Original post by qwerty123A

probably be capped at level 1 (1-4 marks) or levels 2 (5-7) but you wont get zero........

Reply 113

OL350

Original post by ridwan12

probably be capped at level 1 (1-4 marks) or levels 2 (5-7) but you wont get zero........

What was the original mistake you made? You didn't talk about had/soft strategies?

Reply 114

ridwan12

Original post by OL350

What was the original mistake you made? You didn't talk about had/soft strategies?

qwerty123A- made the mistake of not using two contrasting defenses

My mistake, I think is that I used managed retreat rather than beach nourishment for example as managed retreat isn't really a "defense" but rather a strategy.

Reply 115

K3lvin

Original post by ridwan12

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Pollution in the water from tourists and fishing

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Not sure whether the question was effect on environment or not.....

Tbh i found this exam easier than all previous exams the 15 markers were just fantastic only question i really struggled on was the coastal defences as i had 1 really good developed point but the other i had to bs all the way but for the crowded coast figure response i think my answer is really good tell me if you agree

community on the coasts can expand and a community can become bigger so this will put pressure as it will require morespace and there was a tree place somewhere in the figure so you could say that it could lead to deforestation to expand i think its a quality point worth of a top mark do you agree

Exam wasnt that bad

Reply 116

K3lvin

Also i cant belive some of you lot are doing this paper being so ill prepares, half of you dont even know what he pressure are on the coast it is basically the same question on a previous past paper which was human pressures you talk about and use questionnaires photographs etc it isnt that hard

Reply 117

ridwan12

Original post by K3lvin

15 markers were open ended so I liked it. Coastal defences everybody struggled on.

Yh that works as long as you kept refering back to the environment.

Everybody hates unit 2.

Reply 118

c222

Original post by Conor3

Does anyone reckon I'll be okay if I wrote about two contrasting hard engineering strategies?

I did Mappleton's rock groynes and the positives and negatives (cost, effectiveness, long-lasting etc.) and Withernsea's recurved sea wall with the same sort of development.

Didn't the question ask to comment on the success?

Reply 119

K3lvin

Original post by c222

Didn't the question ask to comment on the success?

So many people did not read this question it said comment on the success yes SUCCESS that was the important element which many people will lose marks i would of expected gb to be high but because many people struggled and the gb are low as it already is then it will most likely go down tbh but it was by far the easiest paper there has been