Geography (higher)

Tak3n

Just finished my geography... thought it was a piece of piss!

What did everyone think?

How much were you supposed to write for the 30 mark long questions?

mang87

lmfao it was so easy

Short questions were practically:


Is this a rock.



Yes[]
No[]

Tick the correct box above.




General knowledge questions really... anyone could have got 100% in the first part.

Tak3n

i hate to think what the marking scheme will be like...

Easy Exam = Hard Marking

willowmegs

I thought the short q's were okish, the regional questions were kinda icky... YAY for rocks though! and i did the migration q in the elective. and the biome. i finished at 4! my hand is still dead! yay yay no more geog!

michelle_ie

LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ill be very very disappointed if i dont get a high B! i loved every minute of it!!!!!!
brilliant!

deisedolly

Yeah twas fairly great alright!! I'm delighted, all that worrying for nothing!

eamoss

I def got full marks in the short ans. I only wrote 1 page for the geoecology question but my points wer good tho.

Never will have to do Geography again!! Happy days

cianclarke

Geography is adorable... It thinks it's a real subject, but with this new course, and it's "write an essay about global warming" lark it's just common sense.
(No offense to anybody who fails...)

GrumPy

It was a nice paper, specially the global interdependance. BUT my mock paper was still far easier.

marking scheme is gonna be weird...

cant see how anyone wouldn't get at least 70/80 on short q's

schnupi

jesus am i the only one who thought it was hard? well not hard but harder then the mocks. alright the short questions were easy enough but wots with the human elective questions. all those questions on site and situation or some kind of bollox.. i wrote like 1 nd 1/2 pages on 30 mark questions thou i started off writing 2 pages for those questions. i didnt do a 30 mark question which will bring me down i'd say

did anybody do the volcano question with part c being two landforms of volcanic processes? is it alright if i wrote bout a volcano,i.e. mountain ,and then a volcanic island?

Rockerette

i hate geography, and for that result am reluctant to say "oh it was great!" ; thats a bit too passionate for my liking


i messed up my timing, ending up doing my short question in about 4 mins.. didnt do them at the start, which i shoulda
so i probably got a few wrong cos of not reading them properly.. but yeah, they were a bit of a joke

all teh other questions were grand, really general



if i had an extra 20 minutes or something i would written things a bit better.


but well, i got everything done, and i dont think you could possibly complain about anything on it really

PrettyInPunk

schnupi wrote:

jesus am i the only one who thought it was hard? well not hard but harder then the mocks. alright the short questions were easy enough but wots with the human elective questions. all those questions on site and situation or some kind of bollox.. i wrote like 1 nd 1/2 pages on 30 mark questions thou i started off writing 2 pages for those questions. i didnt do a 30 mark question which will bring me down i'd say

did anybody do the volcano question with part c being two landforms of volcanic processes? is it alright if i wrote bout a volcano,i.e. mountain ,and then a volcanic island?

mine went crap:(

casanova_kid

I thought it was alright, some of the language used in the questions was fairly difficult. In one of the regional, they had a question where you had to talk about one economic acrivity, but the heading was manufacturing industry. I talked about industry in india, but i wanted to write about agriculture which is an economic activity but the heading put me off.

River Allow

Can't believe what Im just after doing??? I wrote about India for the non- Irish European region in question five- the 20 marker... and the rest of it went so well and now Ive gone and ****ed it up!!

Physical was fine.. Did the one on rocks and quarrying. Regional- Well as I said I just threw 20 marks down thw swanny hole!

Elective was fine. Did the one with the GNP Graph, CAP and secondary sector industries.

Geoecology- BIOME CAME UP!! I nearly lept off my seat with joy!

Short questions- A doodle. If you'd never done Geog you'd have got them.. If only I hadn't ****ed up my regional!!

ThrownAway

Just home there.

The Regional questions were kinda hard I thought. I did the one with the culture question as part C. Made the whole thing up. I did Mezzigiorno for A and India for B. I hope that's what they were looking for.

The Physical questions were fine. I did Q2 and for part B did a Waterfall, C Colorado River Human processes. The question A for [20] marks was so easy.

The Human Elective I fuc'ked up. Had no idea what was going on but again got full marks for the A part.

The options :eek: that's all I can say. I ran out of time and only wrote a page... I'd be lucky to get 10 marks for that

Short Questions were fun all the Colooooours

I'd say I got a high D at the most and I need a C3

Rockerette

River Allow wrote:

Physical was fine.. Did the one on rocks and quarrying. Regional- Well as I said I just threw 20 marks down thw swanny hole!

aah 20 marks is only 4% overall, dont worry too muhc about it

Gazza22

Went fine! Was very happy with it...

Short Q's too easy

Physical good too, i did the one with the coastal diagram and the landform

Regional i was very happy with, i wasn't properly prepared for a european region and i managed to escape it and just do India and Dublin!

Elective, would have went perfect only for i knew i was running out of time and had to abandon part C 30 marks gone but i'll deal with it![i did the one with the graph and the MNC]

Global interdependance!! What can i say, it was a brilliant question, choice between two of desertification, global warming and deforestation.....i loved it and got 3 and a half pages done!

Shrimp

Did anyone do the geo-ecology question in the option?

I did, and I ended up writing 800 words..

Rockerette

yeah i did the one of human interference

it was almost 3 pages.. so i've no idea how many words that is


do you think 800 is too much or too little?

ThrownAway

Shrimp wrote:

Did anyone do the geo-ecology question in the option?

I did, and I ended up writing 800 words..

I did, and wrote a page. Ran out of time...

River Allow

I did the geoecology one too, ended up writing four pages for it. I know ya, Rockerette but I was seriously hoping for an A1 in my Goeg, it's like the only subject I had a chance of getting it in.. Dya think Ill get attempt marks( I wish)??!!

smemon

twas just as i predicted - easy and common sense

was harder than the mocks though for me, some nasty little questions, i actually had to ponder over which questions i would do cause in part (a)'s they were handy but some part b's and c's were dodgy so i had to find a question which i thought i could do all parts in.

i reckon i got 80% overall in geography after today, hopefully i'll get an A doubt it though, i'll get a B anyway which is grand.

geography "the most bluffable subject in the LC" i'll be delighted if i can bluff my way to an A.

Shrimp

I think 800 is enough like.. i mean the whole project that u do before the exam is only 1000, so 80 aint bad.. then again.. they can sometimes mark kinda hard when you do loads.. ah well.. I'd say I did grand.. just need the honour..

caesar

casanova_kid wrote:

I thought it was alright, some of the language used in the questions was fairly difficult. In one of the regional, they had a question where you had to talk about one economic acrivity, but the heading was manufacturing industry. I talked about industry in india, but i wanted to write about agriculture which is an economic activity but the heading put me off.

Yeah i noticed that and i thought it was odd how they didn't mention manufacturing in the question. I did it but i wanted to talk about agriculture in the south west of america specifically california and like you the heading put me off.

I thought the short q's were grand. I did the q about volcanoes and eathquakes but i didn't do the part b right. I messed up the regional. I wrote 2 pages about the CAP, so i had to rush the rest.

I thought the wording of some of the q's were odd.
I know a guy who didn't do the 80 marker.

GretchenWieners

made a balls of it for such an easy paper!
messed up the human interference part, my 2 landforms were on that bloody diagram so had 2 make stuff up bout a waterfall!!!
regional was nice got close to full marks i hope
don't know bout the map q cos correctors seem to not like me and them!! did a page, went on bout religious defensive settlements and some crap about a river blah blah blah
geoecology=went blank and forgot most of it when i got up this morning to study!!!

jimi_t

It was so funny, everyone went straight to the back and there was a big cheer when people saw the biome question. I threw down three pages on the biome and then did the short answers so with my project I was home and dry within half an hour, the rest of the exam was spent trying to get it up to a B - think I just about did it.

Anyone else quote statistics from the barcharts on the economic elective for the human elective "Discuss economic implication of EU expansion on ireland's economy/culture" ? Free marks methinks

Funkstard

My best exam so far. I didn't really study for it but I read over my wad of notes last night and this morning, and with 5 exams left to do in my secondary education, I realise now that I remember stuff without learning it off by heart.

I got my timing perfect....was finishing off my last part c just as she called time. Wrote about 3 1/2 pages for the option.....got plenty of facts down in my answers. Overall I did way better (or at least I think I did) than I thought.

Did anyone do the human elective question where you discuss 3 reasons why Killarney developed where it is? I said religious settlement, location and tourism. Had never really done anything like it so I'm not too sure how I did

GretchenWieners wrote:

made a balls of it for such an easy paper!
messed up the human interference part, my 2 landforms were on that bloody diagram so had 2 make stuff up bout a waterfall!!!
regional was nice got close to full marks i hope
don't know bout the map q cos correctors seem to not like me and them!! did a page, went on bout religious defensive settlements and some crap about a river blah blah blah
geoecology=went blank and forgot most of it when i got up this morning to study!!!

Yeh I was thinking that in the exam...bit unfair on people who had studied any of the landforms in A. But why couldn't you still discuss the formation of them? I mean, you're obviously gonna know what the feckin thing looks like at this stage

SirCretop

The exam was pretty straightforward.

The Shorts Answer Questions were a joke - so easy.

I did the Plate Tectonics Question. Had a sample answer prepared for the Earthquake Question and for C I did basalt plateau and volcanoes. Easy again.

Regional Geography was ok. Wrote about the secondary sector in India. Had it learned off so was straight forward for me.

The human elective I bluffed my way through. Just common sense really.

Did global warming and deforestation for last part and wrote 3 pages.



For all the 30 mark q's I wrote between 1 and 1 and a half pages.

smemon

Funkstard wrote:

Did anyone do the human elective question where you discuss 3 reasons why Killarney developed where it is? I said religious settlement, location and tourism.

yip i did that, said it was due to:

defensive reasons and gave refernces to castles and how it was situated behind a mountain and lake and all that craic.

flat land = how killarney itself was relatively flat and easy to build on, few contours on map.

lowest bridging point on the river = people used it to trade, meet up and it expanded from there.

tourism only comes after it has developed imo, so that's a dodgy point but i'd give you marks cause it could be argued it has old attractions and nice landscape and stuff.

unreg1987

Yep was pretty good, easier than pres.

I did the Aid global interdependence question, I figured half of Ireland would b doing global warming/desertification/deforestation.

How much did everyone write for 30 markers? I wrote about 1 page or a little less for all of them.

smemon

unreg1987 wrote:

Yep was pretty good, easier than pres.

I did the Aid global interdependence question, I figured half of Ireland would b doing global warming/desertification/deforestation.

How much did everyone write for 30 markers? I wrote about 1 page or a little less for all of them.

same, roughly a page or so.

only did 2 pages for the 80 marker quality was good though. did 13 pages in all + the booklet

eamoss

smemon wrote:

yip i did that, said it was due to:

defensive reasons and gave refernces to castles and how it was situated behind a mountain and lake and all that craic.

flat land = how killarney itself was relatively flat and easy to build on, few contours on map.

lowest bridging point on the river = people used it to trade, meet up and it expanded from there.

I used same points. Also talked about how the big house could have been a landlords house & he would look down on the town.

Rob30888

Was I the only one who the whole way through I just kept thinking "is that enough SRP's"

Also, there was a question on regional where it said "Discuss a continental/non-continental with reference to the following..." I did Dublin and was wondering if anybody can confirm if this is right as I made sure it didn't specify "non-Irish" like in the other's

Also, Q2 in the SAQ had me stumped for ages - that triangle thing was so wierd! Oh and did anyone do the question with the picture of the sea stump, etc. What was the black thing you'd to label? It didn't seem to be anything :wacko:

*Tripper*

It was easy, now i wished i studyed more!!!

Rockerette

smemon wrote:

yip i did that, said it was due to:

defensive reasons and gave refernces to castles and how it was situated behind a mountain and lake and all that craic.

flat land = how killarney itself was relatively flat and easy to build on, few contours on map.

lowest bridging point on the river = people used it to trade, meet up and it expanded from there.

tourism only comes after it has developed imo, so that's a dodgy point but i'd give you marks cause it could be argued it has old attractions and nice landscape and stuff.

i said the lake/river --> for transport, fishing, cooking etc
flat land --> easy to develop
and i was stuck for a 3rd, so i said foresty --> for hunting ( ) and fuel..



i was concious of not going too much into the historical aspect of it, in terms of Celtic/Stone Age/Plantation settlements, cos that was on a another question wasnt it?
so i stuck to more physical

and i mentioned tourism in recent years in the first and last few lines

nedward

Rob30888 wrote:

Was I the only one who the whole way through I just kept thinking "is that enough SRP's"

Also, there was a question on regional where it said "Discuss a continental/non-continental with reference to the following..." I did Dublin and was wondering if anybody can confirm if this is right as I made sure it didn't specify "non-Irish" like in the other's

Also, Q2 in the SAQ had me stumped for ages - that triangle thing was so wierd! Oh and did anyone do the question with the picture of the sea stump, etc. What was the black thing you'd to label? It didn't seem to be anything :wacko:

Oh, sub-continental is India, or SW USA, non-European! A stupid way to put it, and confusing.

Coastal photo was vague, alright. I said wave-cut platform.

Edit: I thought it said sub-continental, was it?

michelle_ie

Funkstard wrote:

Did anyone do the human elective question where you discuss 3 reasons why Killarney developed where it is? I said religious settlement, location and tourism. Had never really done anything like it so I'm not too sure how I did

Yeah i did that question! i wrote about the river for survival with water, transport and hygiene reasons, religious settlements and i bull****ted that beside the post office was like a square which could have been a market where trade and food nessessities were got!!!!!!

michelle_ie

you werent suppose to use the photo it was the ordinance survey map was it not????

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

and i was stuck for a 3rd, so i said foresty --> for hunting ( ) and fuel..

poor effort for the third, i wouldn't give you any marks as i'd think you were bluffing and were chancing your arm my points are much better, i'd think this guy knows his stuff and give him full marks.

disappointed rockerette, i'd expect better from a woman of your calibre

casanova_kid

Yeah, i was thinking it all depends on how they will mark the field study. I can't really see how they will differentiate between As and Bs and Cs in the field study,

Kwekubo

Damn! I didn't notice that 'economic activity' question had 'manufacturing industry' written above! Oh well, I answered the question pretty well, it's their own fault for not being specific enough Pleased overall though, but I need an A1 so it's a bit iffy.

What did people do for the local and global interests elective? I talked about pollution in the EU and MNCs moving countries.

Rockerette

smemon wrote:

poor effort for the third, i wouldn't give you any marks as i'd think you were bluffing and were chancing your arm my points are much better, i'd think this guy knows his stuff and give him full marks.

disappointed rockerette, i'd expect better from a woman of your calibre

i know, i was disappointed with myself and my poor bluffing skills...! usually i come up with somethign slightly more impressive. oh, i think i also mentioned the river woudl be good for washing in...

maybe my charming handwriting will seduce the examiner... :rolleyes:

Funkstard

smemon wrote:

yip i did that, said it was due to:

defensive reasons and gave refernces to castles and how it was situated behind a mountain and lake and all that craic.

flat land = how killarney itself was relatively flat and easy to build on, few contours on map.

lowest bridging point on the river = people used it to trade, meet up and it expanded from there.

tourism only comes after it has developed imo, so that's a dodgy point but i'd give you marks cause it could be argued it has old attractions and nice landscape and stuff.

Yeh I was thinking that...but it would be an incentive for development. I mentioned all the local historical areas of interest, the scenic views, hillwalking, ring of kerry route, and then gave the golf course as evidence that tourism had developed there. I dunno...it wasn't bullshítted so it shouldn't be too bad. The question wasn't 'why was it created from nothing', it was 'why did it develop', so tourism is at least somewhat relevant imo.

smemon

Rockerette wrote:

i think i also mentioned the river woudl be good for washing in...

and that's how Killarney developed that's a gud one.

Rockerette

oh i know

Funkstard

I'm definitely worried over geography now. Every single person I've talked to said they did absolutely deadly in it. How are they gonna mark it if everyone's is A standard? Anyone think they could have made the course too easy/predictable?

smemon

Funkstard wrote:

I'm definitely worried over geography now. Every single person I've talked to said they did absolutely deadly in it. How are they gonna mark it if everyone's is A standard? Anyone think they could have made the course too easy/predictable?

yes it's too easy, too predictable, too much choice. but geography is common sense anyway - it was always easy to pass.

by the letter of the law, people should be nailed in the project because theyve deliberately broken the word count and tried to get extra marks by doing so - that's an easy way to clamp down on the number of A's - a fair way too.

i'd imagine a % of marks in each questions will be going for diagrams too which many people tend to neglect.

SRP's are what most people talk about and im sure most people have implemented but overall cohesion is an area i'm sure people have also neglected - does it read well, have they state, explained related?

these are all nitty gritty things which people could be nailed for if the examiners were real *insert word here*.

River Allow

No, Smemon I disagree with you there about the diagrams thing.. Theres no way they can dock marks for not having a diagram.. Sure there's many questions on the paper that a diagram couldn't been drawn for. They are not compulsory so you can't be docked marks for not having one... My teacher has been to a load of conferences and she said only draw diagrams if asked.

Funkstard

smemon wrote:

yes it's too easy, too predictable, too much choice. but geography is common sense anyway - it was always easy to pass.

by the letter of the law, people should be nailed in the project because theyve deliberately broken the word count and tried to get extra marks by doing so - that's an easy way to clamp down on the number of A's - a fair way too.

i'd imagine a % of marks in each questions will be going for diagrams too which many people tend to neglect.

SRP's are what most people talk about and im sure most people have implemented but overall cohesion is an area i'm sure people have also neglected - does it read well, have they state, explained related?

these are all nitty gritty things which people could be nailed for if the examiners were real *insert word here*.

Nope they can't really take marks away for going over the word limit as they ended up saying "you should not go over 1000 words", not "you can not go over 1000 words". That's the rules they set out and they can't penalise us for that. You think everyone went over the word limit intentionally to cram in more information - that wasn't what happened with us. I went 70 or so words over without sticking in anything extra at all.

Secondly, I don't think diagrams/sketch maps ended up being important. There's no way in hell we could have written the answer to a 30mk question with a sketch map in 12 mins. Also, the sketch maps should be there for a reason, to further explain something. The questions didn't really allow for that. None of the questions I answered did anyway.

smemon

"your report should not exceed a total length of 1000 words"

"you should not write more than this"

introduction "maximum words 50"
planning "maximum words 100"
gathering of data "maximum words 450"
results/concl/eval "maximum words 400"

taken from the official booklet, seems pretty clear to me they don't want you going over 1000 words

added to the fact in the sample marking scheme they give marks for 'conformity of length' i don't think there is any doubt you'll be docked marks for going over.

they could actually mark you on your first 100 words, or first 450 or 400 and leave the rest - going by the rules, they could do that if they were to try and lower your grade don't blame me, they're the rules.