AQA A-level Environmental Science Paper 1 (7447/1) - 20th May 2024 [Exam Chat]

I may or may not be the only person doing this rare subject but I am worried bc the markschemes can be insane

Yeah i'm doing it too and i can honestly say the markschemes are worse for this than biology

i know…. biology was supposed to my worst subject not this 😭😭 i’ve been getting As on the school exams but the papers are so unpredictable (often having things it shouldn’t) so i’m really worried

omg that’s the same for me too haha, i’m just scared about the 25 marker icl

ikk honestly we’ve never really been taught how to do the 25 marker well

luckily my teachers were fairly good with that, try talk about the issue at hand, solutions/methods to reduce the issue, then analyse the methods (advantages and disadvantages and how it reduces enviro impacts). have your teacher made any predictions for the essays?

thanks for the tips & no they haven’t made any… have yours?

yeahh mine think atmosphere might come up for it so probably global climate change but some other people have predicted biogeochem cycles or soil

yeah we predicted biogeochemical cycle and maybe atmosphere combined into one! hopefully theres not a lot on hydrosphere bc ive slacked so hard on that topic bc its not come up in some papers at all

do you think the question could be something like ‘discuss how methods of controlling the biogeochemical cycles reduce global climate change’ because that would be a dream

yeah hopefully something like that!! last years 25 marker was tricky with the properties of pollutants but i really also hope the 25 marker may be on pollution as well since there’s just so much to say about it!

I may or may not be the only person doing this rare subject but I am worried bc the markschemes can be insane

i would cry if it’s a pollution one- i havent prepared for it at all since its come up twice already aha