Geography A-Level: Advice &amp; Info please

AQA: You do cwork in A2.
Yes it's hard.
It's not a matter of memorising case studies and randimly throwing them in, you have to apply the content correctly and evaluate, also stating possible solutions to issues.
Cwork generally takes a term, i.e. We'll go on the Field trip this september for a week and do the cwork up to January, so 3-5 months.
It's regarded highly be universities because it's a social science is a quite versatile.

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fn_101

yayyy do geography! I will give you a proper reply later when I'm not just about to pop out, but great to see another geographer =D

thank you

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DaneCook

It's not a matter of memorising case studies and randimly throwing them in, you have to apply the content correctly and evaluate, also stating possible solutions to issues.

so is it less about rote learning of specific facts? is the learning and revision more about general themes and the issues? (if that makes sense...)

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Terryw

Am not sure, but i don't think you need to do geog A-Level to do it at Uni.Work experience would be anything you like, could be volunterring at a local Nature reserve or helping teach primary schools geography, also depends what part of the subject you like best (e.g. if you liked population and change, a local counsil could give you work experience)

thaknk you so much for your help :smile:

very useful

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Kater Murr

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1. It's easy.

2. About 5 per module/unit (6 units per year [3 human, 3 phyiscal])

3. Coursework: Anything between about 50 - 100 hours, I suppose.

4. Fairly well, I think. Surprisingly. It's a traditional A level.

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Norfolkadam

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Don't do it. I got A* at GCSE and I went into college loving Geography. I got my AS results back yesterday with a big fat U written next to Geography. If you think there is too much to remember at GCSE your brain will explode at A Level like mine did.

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DaneCook

Norfolkadam

Don't do it. I got A* at GCSE and I went into college loving Geography. I got my AS results back yesterday with a big fat U written next to Geography. If you think there is too much to remember at GCSE your brain will explode at A Level like mine did.

I got A at GCSE, i felt it was quite easy...certainly doable.

I did get a B at AS though.

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Norfolkadam

Don't do it. I got A* at GCSE and I went into college loving Geography. I got my AS results back yesterday with a big fat U written next to Geography. If you think there is too much to remember at GCSE your brain will explode at A Level like mine did.

is there that much to know?

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Norfolkadam

Don't do it. I got A* at GCSE and I went into college loving Geography. I got my AS results back yesterday with a big fat U written next to Geography. If you think there is too much to remember at GCSE your brain will explode at A Level like mine did.

Ah I totally understand, alot of my friends got their geography results back and were pretty gutted to be getting Ds and Es when they got high grades for GCSE. I don't think people completely understand that there really is so much to learn, remember and take in, but it's also how you answer the questions aswell which some times I've found to be really hard.

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MaxTib

Mr Nonsense

is there that much to know?

No, there isn't. I found it to be the easiest of all my A-levels. It's mostly common sense!

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Mr Nonsense

is there that much to know?

There really is, geography by far has had the most to remember and learn, and then you have the skills paper which is pretty hit or miss because you have to get the exam technique spot on.

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Norfolkadam

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Mr Nonsense

is there that much to know?

There really is. I don't know how people could say "it's just common sense". What part about heave and soil creep and tectonic processes is just common sense? There is just so much to learn, so many terms and concepts and ideas. Then you've got case studies and the skills thing which is basically a Statistics GCSE.

It's really a bad subject in terms of workload.

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The case studies bring about most of the workload I've found - remembering processes, dates, impacts, conflicts, terms and definitions. But it's not just remembering, you really have to understand the work to be able to apply it to the questions they ask you - it's absolutely not common sense!

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