A-Level Geography NEA

Mine when it was finished was 22,000 words. Sounds like you're doing just right to me.

hahahaha yes omg u don't know how relieved I am. I thought I was the only one. Woah 22k words.... going to be pulling all nighter tomorrow to reach that. What did you get in the end? Please be an A*

Yes I achieved 60/60 in my NEA and an A* in the exam which I didn't take due to Covid :P

Mine when it was finished was 22,000 words. Sounds like you're doing just right to me.

22k words?? Wow. My teacher wouldn't let us write that much, she is reluctant for us to write over 4000 words which is going to be impossible fo me to stick to. What was your NEA on? Also, in the first section (area 1-introduction and preliminary research) did you analyse the reliability of sources and literature? I'm really confused about that, I'm currently trying to write it.

My introduction was about 4000 words. I don't think 4000 words is sufficient for a full A-level standard geographical inquiry, that's more what I did for GCSE coursework where your teacher tells you what to do. Seems like maybe your teacher has missed the mark a bit (?). As part of my introduction yes I explained what the literature / model I used was, how I would use it in the investigation, and then critiqued / explained some of the possible limitations or considerations about the literature I used. Make sure you're not simply explaining "positives and negatives" or "advantages and disadvantages". Contextualise the model / literature that you have used for the hypothesis of your investigation, explain how and why you chose this model and why you've selected it, the benefits / important features of this theory, and then any limitations / discontinuities between your investigation and the model. (Talk about scale, seasonality, applicability, etc).

My NEA project was investigating the relationship between stream discharge and sediment angularity / roundness along a local river where I travelled to in Somerset. I'm a first year studying geography at university now, if you have any more questions feel free to post them here or PM me if you prefer. Best wishes

hey, I have included the calculations for mean.... is that fine or should I remove that and just write the final answer for mean?

No make sure you’ve included any calculations, but if it’s long and disinteresting / irrelevant working out then you should add this as an appendix at the end of your document. But have you considered other methods of statistical tendency and dispersion such as calculating the standard deviation or a statistical test for your data (if applicable)?

My introduction was about 4000 words. I don't think 4000 words is sufficient for a full A-level standard geographical inquiry, that's more what I did for GCSE coursework where your teacher tells you what to do. Seems like maybe your teacher has missed the mark a bit (?). As part of my introduction yes I explained what the literature / model I used was, how I would use it in the investigation, and then critiqued / explained some of the possible limitations or considerations about the literature I used. Make sure you're not simply explaining "positives and negatives" or "advantages and disadvantages". Contextualise the model / literature that you have used for the hypothesis of your investigation, explain how and why you chose this model and why you've selected it, the benefits / important features of this theory, and then any limitations / discontinuities between your investigation and the model. (Talk about scale, seasonality, applicability, etc).

My NEA project was investigating the relationship between stream discharge and sediment angularity / roundness along a local river where I travelled to in Somerset. I'm a first year studying geography at university now, if you have any more questions feel free to post them here or PM me if you prefer. Best wishes

only if I was able to read that absolute Lamborghini of nea. how did you get 60/60? wait isn't it 70 marks? I do edexcel oop.

Im using 7 techniques for my nea on success of regeneration on Stratford... some which I can remember are environmental quality survey, land use, footfall count, traffic count, noise assessment and others.

any tips?

Mine when it was finished was 22,000 words. Sounds like you're doing just right to me.

Wow that’s equivalent to uni work! My teacher said to write a max of 5000 words for aqa

Hmm that still doesn't seem long enough for me.
Anyway, do you study geography at university?

Hmm that still doesn't seem long enough for me.
Anyway, do you study geography at university?

Haha nope I’m just guessing because it seems very loooooooong

Hey! Hope you don’t mind me asking, but for the data presentation+analysis section, do you have any tips on how to get it into the top band(s), my analysis is pretty basic atm but I don’t know what to do to bump it up!

I was going to do that for something else. but I don't know which technique to use it for. The techniques that im doing are:
-survey questionnaire
-traffic count
-footfall count
-land use survey
-environmental quality survey
-noise assessment levels
-field sketch/photographs
-secondary data comparison such as census data or imd

let me know which one you think standard deviation works best for