Geography (H)

willowmegs

Is anyone else dreading this? Hopefully it will be easy to bluff through. Im hoping for something on rocks, west of ire, mezzogiorno and india, and a desert climate question thingy for the biome (god i hate them!)

Wez

Yeh, wouldn't mind that kinda stuff popping up.. I'm doing Global interdependance for the option.. Hope it goes easy enough..

jimi_t

I'm starting to have Significant Relevant Nightmares

eamoss

willowmegs wrote:

Hopefully it will be easy to bluff through. Im hoping for something on rocks, west of ire, mezzogiorno and india, and a desert climate question thingy for the biome (god i hate them!)

Yeah same with myself just hope they will go easy this year cos no1 has a clue wats goin on. biomes :mad:

helles belles

im so fooked for this exam. took it up this year, didnt go to any of the classes. i still havent bought the papers for gods sake.
and its on at the worst possible time too. wedged between maths and french and bio, ewh!

casanova_kid

I'm looking forward to it.

JohnPH

jimi_t wrote:

I'm starting to have Significant Relevant Nightmares

lol:D

nedward

lol, 30 SRNs a night? The paper should be very similar to the sample paper.

michelle_ie

yeah dreading this! repeatin so its a new course....

to all those hoping ireland,mezzigiorno and india come up= they will all be there, im bettin u will be asked a contrasting region aka ireland, and then a european country then a non european country- so no all 3!

im guessin language or religion in the culture and identity one

Rob30888

michelle_ie wrote:

im guessin language or religion in the culture and identity one

Our teacher never did that with us :eek:

PrettyInPunk

yeah i am..ive been getting As in geo all year...but then i FAILED the mock..so im ****ting it

DonaldDuck

PrettyInPunk wrote:

yeah i am..ive been getting As in geo all year...but then i FAILED the mock..so im ****ting it

Im the opposite of you,I failed every geography test I've had until the mocks(I think my teacher hates me?) And then in the mocks I got 68,4 % off the genius of the class and one of 3 to pass.(My class are pretty stupid,and it was a **** paper it was nothign like the sample one,we got some crazy alternative paper)

GrumPy

I got 73% in t3h mocks

Muiriosa

heard on the radio tonight that this exam won't be too far removed from the sample paper, the likeliness is that there will be a few topics from the sample in the actual so cover it this weekend!!!

Peyton Manning

If you revise Desert Biomes, Deforestation, Globalisation and Global Interdependence for the essays, youll be covered. For the regional, you should look over Scania, East & West of Ireland, Mezzorgiorno and India. Thats what Im doing...

Funkstard

Don't depend on bullshítting either, they changed the course so you specifically wouldn't be able to do the BS thing. It's all points & concise info now, not rambling essays

I'm hoping on language/religion for culture & identity too

joema

If doing global interdependence just learn global warming and deforestation - I would be VERY surprised if one of them didnt come up

Bubba

Archimedes wrote:

If you revise Desert Biomes, Deforestation, Globalisation and Global Interdependence for the essays, youll be covered. For the regional, you should look over Scania, East & West of Ireland, Mezzorgiorno and India. Thats what Im doing...

Whats desert biomes??

Peyton Manning

Its basically how desertification occurs i.e. how deserts are formed.

cianclarke

I haven't got much time for geography at all this weekend with hons maths monday morning... Guess I'll have to try and do a bit though!

deisedolly

PrettyInPunk wrote:

yeah i am..ive been getting As in geo all year...but then i FAILED the mock..so im ****ting it

Yeah exact same thing happened me! I couldn't believe i failed it!

Please please let something on the rock cycle come up!
And religion/lanuguage as a cultural indicator for the last big essay, if that doesnt come up I'm flucked!
Have the usual studyed: BMW+SE Ireland, Mezzogiorno, India, Paris Basin, now lets just hope I can understand the bloody question, AAAHHH!

Rockerette

the whole thing with Significent Relevent Points.. anyone wanna sum it up for me in a few sentences??

i have only vague memories of hearing it explained...

Assmaster_Kronk

these biomes will be the death of me..........

GretchenWieners

i'm only doing 1 biome for geography, all i have time for, came up in my pre too. most of my year are ****ed otherwise.

eamoss

Rockerette wrote:

the whole thing with Significent Relevent Points.. anyone wanna sum it up for me in a few sentences??

i have only vague memories of hearing it explained...

Yeah me 2 cant really remember it. I must have zoned out when he started talkin and I know i wasnt the only one.

I wonder wat the class avg will be in our class

Rockerette

just to be optimistic, i'll go 41%

River Allow

I got 75% in the mocks and only got half of geoecology question done cos I ran out of time so I'd be hoping for a high B ar even dare I say it an A.

DonaldDuck

An SRP would be "Hydraulic action is a process used in creating a waterfall" 2 marks
or
"Monsoons have a major impact on Indian agriculture" 2 marks.

Every "point" you state gets you 2 marks,check the marking scheme on examinations.ie.For a 30mark question,you would need 12-15 SRPs to be safe

I too am going for a B in geography,as my teacher was retarded and useless for help with the project and I think thats ruined all hope of my A. That and I'm pathetic at the culture and identity question."Bluffing" isnt my strong point so its a weak question for me.Regional geography will hopefully be 80/80 and same with the economic elective as they would be by far my strongest sections(Not including short questions of course)

I have a major problem with time in the exam In the mocks I didn't get finished. I aim to have the short questions done in 10mintues max,to get the extra time for other questions

roberta c

i got an e in the mocks! completely screwed! but still, left an entire q cause i ran out o time... so if i sort out the timing it could be ok....

jimi_t

DonaldDuck wrote:

An SRP would be "Hydraulic action is a process used in creating a waterfall" 2 marks
or
"Monsoons have a major impact on Indian agriculture" 2 marks.

Every "point" you state gets you 2 marks,check the marking scheme on examinations.ie.For a 30mark question,you would need 12-15 SRPs to be safe

What you have to take into consideration is that out of those 30 marks about 5mks are going for overall cohesion - i.e. how well do the points sit together in paragraphs, are they linked well together (i.e. you're not just putting down bullet points instead of an "essay" )

ThrownAway

jimi_t wrote:

What you have to take into consideration is that out of those 30 marks about 5mks are going for overall cohesion - i.e. how well do the points sit together in paragraphs, are they linked well together (i.e. you're not just putting down bullet points instead of an "essay" )

That's where I'm going to lose most of my marks. I'm useless at that.

DonaldDuck

jimi_t wrote:

What you have to take into consideration is that out of those 30 marks about 5mks are going for overall cohesion - i.e. how well do the points sit together in paragraphs, are they linked well together (i.e. you're not just putting down bullet points instead of an "essay" )

Yep forgot to include that,I put 12-15 incase one of the points is dodgy,so you have extra ones.12 is the MINIMUM.If you have spare time at the end(unlikely) read over your answers and make sure you have 12 for 30mark and 8 for a 20mark

Rob30888

DonaldDuck wrote:

An SRP would be "Hydraulic action is a process used in creating a waterfall" 2 marks
or
"Monsoons have a major impact on Indian agriculture" 2 marks.

Every "point" you state gets you 2 marks,check the marking scheme on examinations.ie.For a 30mark question,you would need 12-15 SRPs to be safe

I too am going for a B in geography,as my teacher was retarded and useless for help with the project and I think thats ruined all hope of my A. That and I'm pathetic at the culture and identity question."Bluffing" isnt my strong point so its a weak question for me.Regional geography will hopefully be 80/80 and same with the economic elective as they would be by far my strongest sections(Not including short questions of course)

I have a major problem with time in the exam In the mocks I didn't get finished. I aim to have the short questions done in 10mintues max,to get the extra time for other questions

Can the SRP's really be that short? I got the sample answers off the RTE thing and the SRP's were such simple statements, but our teacher reckons they have to be completely complicated

I'm really hoping Religion or preferably Language as a cultural indicator come up...

DonaldDuck

Rob30888 wrote:

Can the SRP's really be that short? I got the sample answers off the RTE thing and the SRP's were such simple statements, but our teacher reckons they have to be completely complicated

I'm really hoping Religion or preferably Language as a cultural indicator come up...

They can be that easy,you even get marks for saying "An example of a feature is a waterfall" Then 2 marks for saying "An example of a water is xxxxx in ireland"

For the C&I question though its long answers with paragraphs and SRPs dont come into play.Check the examinations.ie website for their marknig scheme for a little more detail