OCR a level geography

Does anyone have any NEA tips or ideas for structure?

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Does anyone have any NEA tips or ideas for structure?

(this was edexcel but probs similar - if not then go look at examiners reports + mark scheme + examplar answers)

i got 62/70 and split my work into 3 key questions which i investigated to help me answer my main question. this was the contents page of mine and i've annotated it for you - hope this helps:

Section 1 - Planning
1.1: Introduction 3 (introduce what your question is and what you will aim to find out)
1.2: Key questions 4 (what are your key questions and why will they help you answer the main question)
1.3: Geographical context 5 (this is the 'science' or the actual geography behind your topic - mine was the effect of breakwaters so i talked about how they dissipate wave energy and stuff like that)
1.4: Comparative context 10 (this is other places with similar geography - mine was the effect of breakwaters so for this i used case studies of other places i found online and in textbooks)
1.5: Methodology 12 (how will you do your fieldwork and make it fair/unbiased, what equipment, random sampling strategies etc)

Section 2 - Analysis
2.1: Overview of fieldwork 18 (speaks for itself)
2.2: Answering key question 1 19 (use your fieldwork results, primary and secondary data to answer this - should be around 5 full pages for each question including figures and graphs to display the data you collected - should be a mix of around 1/3 diagrams, graphs and charts and 2/3 explanations and analysis of that data)
2.3: Answering key question 2 26
2.4: Answering key question 3 32
2.5: Conclusions 40 (use the key qs to help answer and summarise the main question you put as the title)
2.6: Evaluation 44 (were the results expected or not, how valid was the fieldwork, what would you do next time, what did you maybe not take into account during fieldwork etc)
Bibliography 47 (link all your sources - do it as you go bc it'll be awful to do at the end)
Appendix 51 (include the raw fieldwork collection sheets just so the examiner can see how you've picked apart your fieldwork to analyse)