opinions on A Level geography

hi hello
so i take A Level geography for some reason and well uh i don't really like it.
geography used to be my favourite subject ever since i started school aged 4 and i really liked it at GCSE. but for reasons beyond me i just cannot stand it at A Level.
It is partly because of the infinite number of goddamn case studies i need to memorise as well as the essays i have to write. (i spent like 3 hours on my last 16 marker 😫) and also because i don't really like the topics we are studying (i cringe when i hear my teacher say place making 😭)

so i guess i'm just hoping someone here can relate to me or better, offer me some words of wisdom or encouragement. pls bcoz it is much needed!! i'm having a mental breakdown cos i want to drop geog so so much but i can't as i do FM as my 4th A Level. my grades have nothing to do with this - I'm predicted an A* and i got an A in my mock (wanna do better next time cos an A ain't good enough for my standards)

I did geog and fm at a-level too! I don't really see people that do both of them that often. I totally crammed case study info before the exams but I realised as long as you get the arguments from the case studies through, you don't need to memorise too much, just some key details like dates, stats etc. I used to write every single case study for each topic onto one side of A4 so I could look at all of them at once and compare the differences.

Although I never really lost my interest in geography after all that (it's one of the subjects in my joint degree at uni), I totally relate to the essay writing... even at uni now I can never think of enough points and explain them for an essay... I take forever to write like 500 words. Sigh. Something must have possessed me in the A-level exams to write so much for 33 markers.

out of curiosity how much did you write for the 16 markers at a level?

I would say max 2 sides of A4.

I would say max 2 sides of A4.

I know I'm a bit late to the conversation but how much marks were you rewarded for two sides of an a4. I just can't seem to write everything in two pages and when I do my marks come down.