The World and Cultural Diversity, Edexcel, Geography Unit 4

That question was horrible. If you look at previous steers then the exam question they're very similar but our steer and our question have no similar words... Of course geographically isolated is physical but if you hadn't prepared an example on that you'd be a little bit ****ed for it. I think I still did ok, I just feel like edexcel have really let us down with that question..

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Adamk_14

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FAILED THAT HARD.

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Original post by caileighm

That question was horrible. If you look at previous steers then the exam question they're very similar but our steer and our question have no similar words... Of course geographically isolated is physical but if you hadn't prepared an example on that you'd be a little bit ****ed for it. I think I still did ok, I just feel like edexcel have really let us down with that question..

The pre release gives you an idea about the question, I think the question was fine it wasn't going to be too obvious, it was meant to challenge you
It was answerable, I think more time is needed in the exam- another 15 minutes minimum...or why not let unit 4 be coursework?!

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mollyx

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What factors did everyone talk about??
I talked about geographical isolation obviously, globalisation and government control!

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Christyjanexx

The other guy in my class did tectonics, and he said the question was pretty similar to the pre-release 😭

I used Iceland as my main case study, but I leant more towards isolated location becoming less and less influential on lack of CD bc of globalisation etc and also about N Korea, whilst not being geographically isolated, is socially isolated due to gov. control blah blah blah

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I'm sure we all did well, but even talking to my teachers they did not expect a question like that - if you look at all the predicted questions not one was that specific.
Does everyone have any more exams?

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Original post by caileighm

I'm sure we all did well, but even talking to my teachers they did not expect a question like that - if you look at all the predicted questions not one was that specific.
Does everyone have any more exams?

'geographical isolation' is just another word for physical barriers
Its not too bad
Hopefully the exam boundaries will be low

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I talked about physical barriers e.g. Mountains and rivers
U talked about how climate change is impacting diversity levels
Finally immigration policies influencing the global flow of migrants
My conclusion was :/ literally a 3 min answer
And I should have made more reference to the question!

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Adamk_14

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Original post by M-Dog

I talked about physical barriers e.g. Mountains and rivers
U talked about how climate change is impacting diversity levels
Finally immigration policies influencing the global flow of migrants
My conclusion was :/ literally a 3 min answer
And I should have made more reference to the question!

How does that have anything to do with isolation?

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Original post by M-Dog

I talked about physical barriers e.g. Mountains and rivers
U talked about how climate change is impacting diversity levels
Finally immigration policies influencing the global flow of migrants
My conclusion was :/ literally a 3 min answer
And I should have made more reference to the question!

but it said geographical isolation... i wouldn't consider those things isolation but i could be wrong.
I spoke about Japan and Uk (contrast) being island nations but having very different levels of cultural diversity.
i mentioned North Korea being politically isolated and low CD.
and finally spoke about India's different climate zones and cultural groups to bring in a different physical example.

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Original post by caileighm

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but it said geographical isolation... i wouldn't consider those things isolation but i could be wrong.
I spoke about Japan and Uk (contrast) being island nations but having very different levels of cultural diversity.
i mentioned North Korea being politically isolated and low CD.
and finally spoke about India's different climate zones and cultural groups to bring in a different physical example.

Because it said ' to what extent is it true' so you present the argument for and against
I did a Venn diagram in my introduction presenting the factors which influence cultural diversity levels which were physical, human and both seen in climate change
My argument for was physical barriers in brazil, brief mention of Kurdistan and lack of barriers in Ukraine
Climate change: Alaska and Bedouin tribe
Immigration policy as human- uk and Japan (stated they were islands)
Did I mess up? I'm questioning now....

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Original post by M-Dog

Because it said ' to what extent is it true' so you present the argument for and against
I did a Venn diagram in my introduction presenting the factors which influence cultural diversity levels which were physical, human and both seen in climate change
My argument for was physical barriers in brazil, brief mention of Kurdistan and lack of barriers in Ukraine
Climate change: Alaska and Bedouin tribe
Immigration policy as human- uk and Japan (stated they were islands)
Did I mess up? I'm questioning now....

I think that sounds like a really solid answer now you've mentioned your case studies. don't worry at all :smile:

sounds like you definitely knew what you were talking about! The examiner will see that you know your content and understand the topic.. thats what really matters

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mollyx

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I did Iceland as for geographical isolation and as against:
Globalisation - Bhutan
Government control - North Korea

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Original post by caileighm

I think that sounds like a really solid answer now you've mentioned your case studies. don't worry at all :smile:

sounds like you definitely knew what you were talking about! The examiner will see that you know your content and understand the topic.. thats what really matters

I'm questioning now! I'm becoming crazy paranoid esp because I didn't mention the Q much in the analysis and analysis was really brief and the conclusion was basically non existent
What was your approach?

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