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AQA Geography Physical Exam 19/05/2015 -Feelings?

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this PAPER WAS AWFUL

I totally messed up on the 8 mark question about the volcanic eruption immediate and long term responses, I'm not joking. No marks for me. Unless they give me a pity mark, but otherwise nope. It wasn't even hard - I just wrote it ALL WRONG.
Goodbye my hopes and dreams. Hello Mcdonalds.

Reply 42

elle.123

I felt like this paper was harder than last years >.<

Reply 43

*SweaterWeather*

Original post by tue

That was our volcano case study :colondollar:

how did you remember how to spell that :redface:

?!?

Reply 44

tue

Original post by *SweaterWeather*

how did you remember how to spell that :redface:

?!?

Lol! We're allowed to shorten it to E-jokul.

Reply 45

threviseguy

I was convinced that eyjafjallajokull was a shield volcano, although it looked steep, it wasn't pointy at all :frown:

Is there a chance that they will still award a mark for saying it was a shield volcano on composite plate boundary on the cross section question?

Overall I think it was an easy paper, at least A LOT easier than the 2012 one

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 46

big_dreamer

It was an okayish paper I think. I didn't actually mention it was shield, I just said flat wide base, magma chamber, layers of ash and lava as I thought it was like a cross section. For that weird reservoir i think i put long, narrow , rectangular shape

Reply 47

genius00

Original post by ahmedchohan77

Yes. But on google it is described as a stratovolcano but Nyiragongo in the textbook is shown as a shield but on google it is a composite/stratovolcano so I think labelling it as a shield would be OK. I hope that it is though.

You don't need to know whether it is a composite or shield. You just need to decribe it's appearence. But did we need to draw the layers??

Reply 48

connie924875

Original post by charlotteryans

Will I get any marks if i answered EVERY question?

how did you have time for that?!?

Reply 49

B0mber19

Original post by threviseguy

I was convinced that eyjafjallajokull was a shield volcano, although it looked steep, it wasn't pointy at all :frown:

It is at a constructive plate boundary so it must be shield

Reply 50

heyheyeee

Original post by rainb0wweasley

The tectonics "Label three characteristics of Eyjafjallajokull in a cross section diagram" and we all wrote that it had large flat sides due to being a shield volcano 😰 Shame though

It is a bloody sheild volcano. Let me google it .

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

This is the case study I did and I DIDNT BLOODY KNOW THAT. I didn't think about it at the time but actually :/ I googled sheild volcano the night before and it actually looks nothing like that (cone). Oh well. 3 or 4 marks only. (I think my friends saw my case study and assumed sheild too) I'm not going to tell them now.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 51

charlotteryans

Original post by connie924875

how did you have time for that?!?

I don't know. I didn't answer every question in every section, but I did answer at least one question from each section.

Reply 52

Turtlebunny

After some research on the volcano, all my sources point toward composite. God knows what it is. Apart from that I think it was a good exam. If anything, from the figure they gave us, it would be a dome volcano. Shield would be a lot lower - shield volcanoes form low lying islands, like Hawaii.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/eyjafjallajokull-volcano-facts.html

Grade boundary predictions guys?

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 53

AfcFob

Original post by studentgooner

No Eyjaflallajokul is shield for sure...

Can't be it emitted ash a few years ago shield only give out lava

Reply 54

threviseguy

Original post by charlotteryans

I don't know. I didn't answer every question in every section, but I did answer at least one question from each section.

THE examiner will only mark the first 3 sections that you started! (for AQA that is)

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 55

heyheyeee

Original post by AfcFob

Can't be it emitted ash a few years ago shield only give out lava

Oh good point. But it's on a constructive plate boundary....

Reply 56

MeiMei15401

Original post by charlotteryans

I don't know. I didn't answer every question in every section, but I did answer at least one question from each section.

Oh my teacher's an examiner for AQA (marking the human paper this year, she said), and she said that if a candidate answers more than three sections, they have to note it down as technically you've broken the rules. They then mark every question you answered, and take the 3 best section scores.