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07-09-2010 3:06pm#1
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I did Geography last year. Like you, I'm repeating. What subjects do you already do/like? That's important! I'm taking up Agricultural Science and flicked through the book for the first time today... looks pretty good, I've been told it goes on both Biology and Geography and there's farmers in my family so it works out for me.
Geography at Leaving Cert. is very different to Junior Cert (and you certainly don't need JC level to do it!) The course is broken into a Core, Elective and Option.
Core Physical Geography, e.g. the plates, volcanoes, earthquakes (very briefly covered), mountain formation, rock types, detailed rock study (e.g. limestone, basalt) both River and Glacial Features & Processes (e.g. ox-bow lakes, glacial valleys). You'll also do sketch maps and learn map-reading skills.
Regional Geography. I find this my favourite area of the course. We study regions across the world, e.g. cultural (India/The Islamic World...language and religion basically), geomorphological (The Burren) and core/periphery economic locations and their primary,secondary and tertiary economic activities in Ireland, the EU and a sub-continental area (e.g. India, Brazil, South Western USA). If you like History, you'll love this area I'd think. It's learning off statistics basically... dunno why I love it but I do
Elective You'll do HUMAN or an ECONOMIC Elective. I did Human, it concerns itself with how cities develop.. eh, that's all I remember right now, but it does tie in nicely with some regional you already study :P The ECONOMIC I didn't do but I know it concerns itself with stuff like multinational corporations. I was told if you do Business you'll do well here.
Option There's looooads of choice here but usually the teacher decides. A common choice is Geoecology. In it you study a biome (world region with a set of climate, soils, plants and animals that interact with each other, e.g. a rainforest or desert) which involves either studying 3/4 of the characteristics (mentioned in the brackets) and the human impact on said biome and characteristics (e.g. logging in the Amazon and the effect on soil/ the animals without a home, etc.). In Geoecology you also study soils, which can be tedious but it's literally how soil is formed and a profile - pure learning off and the option is guaranteed so a nice 12.5% if you like it. The others are on skoool.ie. Global Interdependence is probably 2nd in popularity, followed by Culture and Identity. I've heard The Atmosphere/Ocean option isn't that common, but I'm only basing that on my experiences.
Skootch on over to http://www.skoool.ie/examcentre_senior.asp?id=3618 and you can browse through some topics. I love Geography and I think it'd be very easy to get a high C in at after one year if you like it (or even if you don't with regular study). If you really like it and study hard, don't see why you couldn't get a B. It's got a lot in common with Biology in that way, but it's less specific I think. You certainly can't make up statistics or that and expect to do really well but if you get the general idea of a topic and the main points you can get a few marks.
Anyways, just my two cents. I think you should pick the subject you prefer and ignore points because either way you'll need to spend a bit of time at it. But I liked Geography, put some work in and got an A1.0 -
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anyone out there who repeated and did 2 new subjectS????
I did three new subjects: Geography, Economics and Classical Studies, and had little problem completing the courses. Geography was close... :rolleyes:
Granted, I was in a grind school and the teachers were fantastic, but it's doable. Abandoning Irish was a treat - not only do you not need to study it, but it frees up part of the first section of the Leaving Certificate exams. While everyone else is doing two exam papers, you can be hitting the History books to try and get that A1.
One less oral exam isn't something to sniff at, either.0 -
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