Geography Aftermath

Beau x1

Well...let's hope we do well today...this is a big one, for all of us.

I just want a C2+!

Edit: Just realised the pun in the thread title, Geography after math. It's a sign.

christina_x

LOL!
yep im looking for around the same grade as you!

studied all day yesterday and planned on spending the evening on math but my waster cousin asked for help in math because he hasnt been in school since like march so i, like a big ****ing idiot siad yeah, he wasted 2.5 hours of my time on one paper, and didnt even listen! just talked about bloody mtv awards

so now i am up since 5 trying to cram math and geog into my head, and am fairly certain i am going to fail
i want the Cs in (H) geog and an A1/2 in (O) Math

not going to happen.

anyways, sorry my rant is over

Good luck everybody!!

Walsh

Was really dreading this test but after my study of passed papers and my bit of cramming i definatly passed the higher level paper

Short questions were the usual Homer Simpson stuff.

I did the Sketch map, plate tectonics (waffled), and landform (cliff)(crammed to perfection) in the first section.

Regional I done the Urban Growth (Also crammed to perfection) and a map of Italy with stuff marked in, Italy is sub-continental yeah?

The economic section I drew the graph, why the industrial estate is at it's present location and didnt have a clue about the 3rd part.

Brown Earth soils FTW!!

Over all i am delighted with at least 45 points on my leaving cert.

TheManWho

Italy is socio ecomomic. India and South America are sub continental

Claypigeon

I feel I did really well - perfectly happy with my paper and more than a little pleased with my own answers to it!

I had revised overgrazing, overcropping and the other abuses of a biome/soil by humans and joy to ze world, it came up practically in 2/3 questions - 17 AND 18. Great stuff. I opted for 17 (acceleration of soil erosion) purely because I could get a lovely big heap of info out of it by shoving in SRPs about soil in general, humus, humification SRPs and definition, soil structure and other bits that I put in context for the answer as background to my entire answer

I did run out of time a bit - last 5 minutes and I had only gotten the intro to my final long question's part C done so I bullet pointed bits of what I was going to say - to be fair I was quite flakey on that part and I had chosen it as my last question since I wanted to get the A and B done since they seemed the easiest in my last 40 minutes.

Hope everyone else did well. I'm dead happy with it. Only surprise was that something on isostatic processes didn't come up but I wasn't too sure of it anyway.

As for Italy as sub contintental is Brazi/India :S Not Italy, that's European

Futurism

Ehh.. I thought Italy was a European region - not a sub-continental one?

Anyway, short questions were simple. Did the first physical question:
Part A - easy
Part B - I'm not sure.. I just wrote about boundaries basically and what happens at them?
Part C - Did a waterfall, pretty good answer. Hopefully gets me all the marks.

Other questions are all a blur now.
Drew something though. Was easy enough.
Two physical factors having an effect on agriculture.. Pretty bad answer.. Just made some stuff up..
Population Growth in a region or something. Eh I wrote a lot. Wasn't great though.

My geo-ecology answer was perfect. I'd say I'll get near enough full marks for that.

piggies

isostatic processes did come up!! q3 part B i think ha i did it!

happydayz182

Absolutely delighted with how that went was able to answer every question !! there was a part of me that wanted to the isostatic question just to show how well i knew it after already doin question 1 haha no more geography evveerr!!

Dante

Yea I thought it was a good paper....I was praying that human impact on soils came up and it did so I was well chuffed!

Only problem was I couldn't do my perfect answer on human interaction on the rock cycle in Question 1 because of that shítty part B question on sedimentary rock! I decided to do question 1 and 3 instead which wern't as good!

ThatWouldBeNice

Hmmmm, really happy with the paper itself. Ironically it was a little too kind on me and I wrote way too much for some of the questions - about 2 and a half pages for some of the 30-markers. I also forgot about the Human elective - at four o'clock I was very pleased with myself, having fifty minutes or so to do the Geoecology, only to turn the page and see I have another section to go :eek:

I half-finished the Geoecology, left out the 30-marker on the Human elective Not enough time. Dammit, it was such a good paper, too.

amacachi

Handy paper. Low B and it's 2 years since I was in school or looked at grography.

Claypigeon

DaaaaaaaaaaN wrote: »

Yea I thought it was a good paper....I was praying that human impact on soils came up and it did so I was well chuffed!

Only problem was I couldn't do my perfect answer on human interaction on the rock cycle in Question 1 because of that shítty part B question on sedimentary rock! I decided to do question 1 and 3 instead which wern't as good!

I did that question. Sedimentary rock was a breeze. Talking about how Ireland used to be covered in a tropical sea, etc, the way it was formed by sedimentary organic matter from dead animals and plants in this sea, and more recently has been exposed and malformed, changed, broken up and distributed by various processes and forms of erosion.

Mining was a ****ing dos, so glad I got that in. Woot I don't know why people went for the waterfall/sea-stack/irish landform thing

ThatWouldBeNice wrote: »

Hmmmm, really happy with the paper itself. Ironically it was a little too kind on me and I wrote way too much for some of the questions - about 2 and a half pages for some of the 30-markers. I also forgot about the Human elective - at four o'clock I was very pleased with myself, having fifty minutes or so to do the Geoecology, only to turn the page and see I have another section to go

I half-finished the Geoecology, left out the 30-marker on the Human elective Not enough time. Dammit, it was such a good paper, too.

You aren't alone there dude, I did like 2.5-3 pages for some 30 markers. Only means that we have outdone ourselves on the SRPs front and are guaranteed a high grade, fair play to us for being nerds and remembering **** (Y)

Back Prince

i taught Geography higher was well easy. Short questions were a breeze long ones were very good even the geoecology was animal and i only studied for one part of it and it came up o yea B here i come

manutd4life

i was quite happy with the paper.the short questions were alright.three of them gave me problems.

for the tectonic plates question.i didnt know what i was talking about.just waffled on about destructive and constructive plate boundaries but probebly gave wrong info anyway.

i drew a sketch map of ireland badly.i cant draw for my life

whenever i couldnt think of any more srp's i just drew a diagram hoping that i'd get marks.i did that for the tectonic plate question

Walsh

Claypigeon wrote: »

Mining was a ****ing dos, so glad I got that in. Woot I don't know why people went for the waterfall/sea-stack/irish landform thing

It was the only thing I learned, in my opinion Geography & Biology are the most boring subjects I do, so barely paid any attention in Geog, will be chuffed with a pass!!

Kiara.

I was pretty happy with the paper..

Went over a few stuff at lunch and last night and they came up

Think I may have bull**** a little too much and some of what I wrote probably never made any sense.. But overall I was happy with it

aisling.laura

regional was a bit gay, but thats my own fault for being too pre-occupied with maths to revise properly!

well glad i studied the aid debate now that deforestation etc didnt come up

overall it was a pretty nice paper, sooo glad i'm finally finished one subject forever

jd007

I thought it was a pretty good paper, thank god human effect on biomes came up!!

.DarDarBinks

Could you do a waterfall for a landform ?

Praying to jebus for a C

We love you jeeebusssss :rolleyes:

ironictoaster

I spent 20 minutes looking at the paper in shock. Every question I did there was at least one B part or C part I knew nothing about...

jkbrackens11

Was very happy. My first year doing Geogaraphy and I think I could have got a B possibly. The first section could have been netter most of the stuff I knew came up in different questions but was happy. Overall did Q 1, 6, 11 and 18 in the geoecology!

SarcasticFairy

It was grand.

Shorts were a bit odd, but I was late and a bit stressed, so that might be why...

The physical questions were a bit of a bitch. Everything I wanted was in different sections. Ended up doing the one with the sketch map and the waterfall, and bluffing my way through the B which was something to do with plate tectonics...

Regional, I did the one with Tertiary in SW USA. I actually can't remember what else was on the question, did it first... Was a rather nice one though.

Population questions, again a bit all over the place. Chose the one about Overpopulation & draw a graph. I was halfway through bluffing my way through the B bit about urban planning, when I realised, I actually knew the answer, so it won't get marks for cohesion, but it's technically right...

Geoecology went so much better than I thought it would. Had a very vague idea of impact on soils and Brown Earth Soils, and even at that for BES all I knew was the heading - some serious waffle would've gone into that. Did the one about impact on soils...Was fine.

My hand died though. Pretty sure it's dead.

TheManWho

I wasn't too sure about the human effect on biomes question. I did the rainforest and talked about deforestation, soil erosion and destruction of natural habitats

Dubs

was quite a hard paper, but ill still be disappointed if i dont get an A

human was very hard i though, a lot of what i said was just to get 15 srp's

answered q1, q4, q 12 and human impact on biome

Beau x1

Such a difficult paper, I pretty much learnt everything that didnt come up, almost finished the elective and starting the option bang laptop turns off; recovered file was really behind so I ended up with a fail. My school enclosed a letter explaining in the situation, that they called technicians and that the laptop was witnessed turning off etc. They also told the super intendent. I didn't get any extra time. What happens now? :S

mosis11

paper was very predictive as ever 3 days cramming is id say a b2 maybe

brennaldo

i felt good about my conflict essay in culture and identity

my economics geography was brilliant, which is weird coz i was neva good at it

physical (usually my strongest) was good, not great, id be happy with about 50/80 in it.

regional as always was a disaster for me, i ran out of time so i couldnt do a part C which is 30 marks gone so......


but in total i fell happy about it, hopefully about a c2 or c1 (sure i only need a c3 in it so.)

-Kenny-

AHHHH settlement patterns came up !!! DELIGHTED!!!:D:D

oh and i studied biome characteristics inside out for this exam,, and just started to study the human impact on biome at half 1 !!!! lucky of what !

Anyone up for a BIG bonfire of Regional Geog notes :D:D:D:D:D

9wetfckx43j5rg

I liked this paper overall, shorts were mad easy think i got nearly every one right.

Physical wrote loads about plate techtonics, pangea the theroeis convection currents, plate boundries convergent and divergent. should get lots of marks

Regional - did agriculture in the western region. But is climate and relief physical factors? Im not sure. For part c, population distribution i gave like three srps about paris basin.

Economic - Conalism in Brazil

Geoecology - did it slightly wrong focused on general climate and stuff instead of entirely on brown earth, added in a few paragraphs on brown earth soils

Claypigeon

mosis11 wrote: »

paper was very predictive as ever 3 days cramming is id say a b2 maybe

Spot on bro!

cloak

anybody know if global warming, deforestation en desertification fit in with the question on globaly interdependant economy, actions in one place have effects on others??????

ThatWouldBeNice

Mr.S wrote: »

The look on my face when Global Warming/Deforrestation/Desertification wasn't on the option:(

/fail.

What about Human Impact on biomes, or whatever it was? You could've fit it it.

Beau - that's horrible, hope everything works out.

Gi joe!

Overall thought it was tough, especially some bogey short qs:mad:

Elective was grand, aswell as regional, cept my brazil sketch resembled a deformed blob haha

Option-culture and identity wasn't great


That feckin physical section, formation of sedimentary rocks or whatever- reckon i'll get marks for doing limestone pavement as a formation?

Jay P

Second A of the day hopefully

I kicked ASS in the European urban region. I wrote and wrote and wrote!

And seemingly I answered the easy questions, and answered them right according to my teacher which is class. I'm tired though

blue-army

Where was global warming?!?!?!?!

Other than that....grand paper.

ThatWouldBeNice

Mr.S wrote: »

We never touched biomes or any of the other options, just the first 3 questions part. I don't even know what a Biome is :pac: our teacher just didn't look at it.

I did the NGO/Aid one though, but i'd learnt of essays for Global Warming/Deforrestation/Desertification as it had come up every year:(

That's a pity - the question was basically "How have human's altered the earth"

ThatWouldBeNice

Mr.S wrote: »

Ah well, nothing i can really do about it now :pac:!

Yeah it was a fairly open paper, I'm sure it's fine. At least you finished yours :rolleyes:

I loved the question about the development of an urban area. I just wrote everything I know about Paris

aisling.laura

cloak wrote: »

anybody know if global warming, deforestation en desertification fit in with the question on globaly interdependant economy, actions in one place have effects on others??????

i was thinking that but didn't want to risk it because i knew NGO's...
i'd say so, deforestation in the amazon has global effects so you could definitely fit that into it..
and global warming has global effects too.
once you backed everything up with examples i'd say you're ok.

Sean_Ludawg

cloak wrote: »

anybody know if global warming, deforestation en desertification fit in with the question on globaly interdependant economy, actions in one place have effects on others??????

Yep that's what I did anyway.

Zonda999

cloak wrote: »

anybody know if global warming, deforestation en desertification fit in with the question on globaly interdependant economy, actions in one place have effects on others??????

I thought it said something about a global economy, which to me sounds like they were trying to make one not do global warming and stuff

rhapsody!

It went better than I expected, I used every bit of knowledge I had to pad out things..
Did anyone do the question on why a European urban centre developed at a certain point? I did Paris and just went through the three economic activities attracting people to the region and stuff but I think I messed up.. what were we meant to do with that??? :S

Remmy

Very happy with that!!

Is anyone elses hand really sore?Mine was killing me for geoecology!!

Claypigeon

I did question 17, geo ecology about overgrazing overcropping and desertification and how it accelerates soil erosion. Of course desertification came up.

Gi joe!

rhapsody! wrote: »

It went better than I expected, I used every bit of knowledge I had to pad out things..
Did anyone do the question on why a European urban centre developed at a certain point? I did Paris and just went through the three economic activities attracting people to the region and stuff but I think I messed up.. what were we meant to do with that??? :S

as long as you kept reinforcing how paris has developed so much and all the stuff in it-tourism etc you'll be grand. thats what my teacher told me anyway

Isaac702

It was a nice paper. In each of the sections there was at least one full question that I could answer.

I messed up a bit with time management and was rushing at the end so my essay question is a bit short however all in all I think that I did ok.

Hopefully the results will reflect that in August. I'm hoping for a B3.

rhapsody!

Phew, yeah I referred to tourism and everythign basically from the three sectors, yay (: Aiming for at least a B3.. eek.

Claypigeon

Isaac702 wrote: »

It was a nice paper. In each of the sections there was at least one full question that I could answer.

I messed up a bit with time management and was rushing at the end so my essay question is a bit short however all in all I think that I did ok.

Hopefully the results will reflect that in August. I'm hoping for a B3.

rhapsody! wrote: »

Phew, yeah I referred to tourism and everythign basically from the three sectors, yay (: Aiming for at least a B3.. eek.

Don't worry about it - you'll get that. Remotely okayish project + short questions + attempts at long questions, it's inevitable that you'll get a good grade Don't stress - tis a safe bet for a nice boost come August!

cloak

cheers aisling...thats enough of a reasurance to help me take a quick nap before i hit the english key notes book.... gods gifit to us delinquents:cool:

Gavin "shels"

Bus ****!!!!!!

Global Interdependence, had banked on global warming, desertification and deforestion and low and behold they didn't come up in the option.:mad: Apart from that I thought it was ok, but seemed harder than past years. Was aiming for a B1 but well hoping for a C1 or B3 now.:(

smndly

The highest point of the map was the top left corner right??

awhir

smndly wrote: »

The highest point of the map was the top left corner right??

dont think so because there was no spot hight or a contor line that showed the height