Geography essays MEGATHREAD!!

lauzie2011

I'm really confused about this.In class we do hardly anything and my geography teacher is often missing which doesn't help either.. Anyways,i'm just wondering how much time on average should be spent on each part of the geography paper,and how much on average should be written for each essay? Sat the geography mock last week and lets just say it didn't go very well for our class Would appreciate any feedback

monkeysarecool

I only know that the 30mark questions should be written under 15mins, in class we do them in 12mins to allow for stress on the day. Theyre meant to be about a page and a half depending on your writing size, they should include 14 SRPs anyway

lauzie2011

Thanks

lauzie2011

One more thing..this might seem like a stupid question ...
For the option question i.e geoecology ,wht are they referring to when they say to deal with 3-4 topics rather than giving them a superficial treatment of the points ?

monkeysarecool

I think it means that, for example if you were writing about the desert biome you have long paragraphs on climate, soil, flora, fauna and talk about them in depth as opposed to just writing 3 non structured pages?

lauzie2011

I get it now,thanks for the help

monkeysarecool

No problem at all! Geography is one of the few subjects where I actually have a good teacher. If you have any other questions just ask

bobjimmy

What essay would i have to learn for geography in order to be covered. I do Geoecology and the human elective. Any help would be extremly useful!

David1994

I have am studying Geography at the moment and was thinking is there any way to shortcut sections and learn answers that are likely to come up? I looked through each year and there is potentially about 30 answers to be learnt

I want an A1 in june and am a very good Geography student but am getting stresses at the moment!

If anyone has some general tips that would be great

shanegorman

Yes anyone please help! Geography SRPs are just horrible! For geography you seem to have to learn soooo much to answer so little!

kilianmanning

well for geoecology we covered characteristics of soil:D I find it so easy really hope it comes up in June, was fairly ****ed when it didn't come up in the mocks.. we did deforestation also

AnnaKin

My teacher reckons that either a biome or human effects on soil are dead certs!! Personally hoping the biome pops up :rolleyes: As for Human environment, its always difficult to narrow down, I tried and failed to do that during the mocks

GaryIrv93

We didn't do the human elective, only Geoecology, which is considered easier though?

Cruel Sun

What are the main questions that I should be learning. I have the Sue Honon revision book, should I learn all them off or is there any ones which are unlikely to come up. Which ones are expected to come up.

carnibell

Learn either human interaction with rocks or with rivers. The 2 of them always come up in different questions

PictureFrame

Martin_94 wrote: »

What are the main questions that I should be learning. I have the Sue Honon revision book, should I learn all them off or is there any ones which are unlikely to come up. Which ones are expected to come up.

Physical

• Human Interaction with Rocks
• Human Interaction with Surface Processes
• Weathering ** NEVER CAME UP BEFORE
• Structures of Deformation
• Plate Tectonics
• Limestone Featues

Regional

• Culture
• Sketch Map of Ireland
• Implications of EU Expansion
• Continental Region

Incompetent

PictureFrame wrote: »

Physical

• Human Interaction with Rocks
• Human Interaction with Surface Processes
• Weathering ** NEVER CAME UP BEFORE
• Structures of Deformation
• Plate Tectonics
• Limestone Featues

Regional

• Culture
• Sketch Map of Ireland
• Implications of EU Expansion
• Continental Region

Seeing things in lists like this makes the exam seem so much easier.

Cruel Sun

Thanks for the replies,

Just wondering do we need to learn Primary. Secondary and Tertiary activities for BMW, Brazil, Paris and Mezzogiorno. Are we able to leave out one of Paris/Mezzogiorno.

Canard

Definitely cant leave any out after last year, its likely theyll ask you to contrast the two in some way.

carnibell

Do you think it's safe just to study biomes? The questions in the exam papers always have either 2 soils and 1 biome question or 1 soil and 2 biomes. Soils is boring

PictureFrame

carnibell wrote: »

Do you think it's safe just to study biomes? The questions in the exam papers always have either 2 soils and 1 biome question or 1 soil and 2 biomes. Soils is boring

I doubt it. There's going to be a few shake-ups with the Leaving this year, the SEC has been talking about it for years. And anyway 2 Biome Questions came up last year so I wouldn't be surprised for if there were no Biomes on the paper at all. Even last year with the Characteristics of Biome Question, you could only talk about 3 aspects whereas people usually prepared 4 aspect with 6 SRP'S each. Instead they had to try and squeeze an extra 2 SRP'S out of each aspect minimum to get anywhere near the full marks. Plus if they didn't get minimum 8 SRP'S per aspect and the SRP'S were really thrown together on the day, the candidates lost nearly all the OC marks!

Not trying to be pessimistic here, but i'd imagine we'll be up for a few changes from the Normal Paper layouts for every subject this year

carnibell

ahh dammit i hate soils its actually so boring

PictureFrame

It's all boring tbh! . Still, it's a handy enough A2 with a bit of work! #here's hoping!

carnibell

I like most of the course it's not the worst subject out there. Yeah I'd love an A2 in it

carnibell

yeah its hard to know what to study there's too much on the course. What electives and options are you doing?

David1994

Doing biomes and soils for option...and Human Geography for elective.
What are you doing??

carnibell

is the desert biome easier than the rainforest biome?

carnibell

geoecology and economic geography. Whats human geog like?

David1994

Its pretty handy to be honest.Migration is nearly always a guaranteed question which makes it easier.

carnibell

thats not that bad there's a good few questions in economic geog but there not hard

MarkTerence

Martin_94 wrote: »

Thanks for the replies,

Just wondering do we need to learn Primary. Secondary and Tertiary activities for BMW, Brazil, Paris and Mezzogiorno. Are we able to leave out one of Paris/Mezzogiorno.

Learn primary and secondary from Paris
then learn off about 8 or 9 srps from them in Mezzogiorno.. Its not too bad!:)

Watch pop distribution in an Irish Region and development of one tertiary activity in an irish region.. seems like one of them will appear (trend)

QueenOfLeon

Merged a few of the geography essay threads here to keep it all together!

Mysteriouschic

Last years paper was pretty hard, even some of the short questions I think it's worth learning Isostatic incase it shows up again this year.

Most of my answers for the 15rps tend to be about 2 pages or should it be less?

MarkTerence

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Last years paper was pretty hard, even some of the short questions I think it's worth learning Isostatic incase it shows up again this year.

Most of my answers for the 15rps tend to be about 2 pages or should it be less?

No thats a perfect amount!:)

Wesc.

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Last years paper was pretty hard, even some of the short questions I think it's worth learning Isostatic incase it shows up again this year.

Most of my answers for the 15rps tend to be about 2 pages or should it be less?

If you can get it done in 12mins then yes it's ok. Personally mine are a little less but on the day my writing is so messy it usually ends up 2 pages!

Mysteriouschic

Wesc. wrote: »

If you can get it done in 12mins then yes it's ok. Personally mine are a little less but on the day my writing is so messy it usually ends up 2 pages!

I've been timing myself when writing the answers. If I know it I'll be able to write it fast. I just hope it's not like last years paper, it was so hard .

Wesc.

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I've been timing myself when writing the answers. If I know it I'll be able to write it fast. I just hope it's not like last years paper, it was so hard .

Yeah I nailed my timing in the mocks. Got everything done with 40 mins spare for regional. I hadn't really studied regional so I decided to make up my answers and hey I got full marks in them.:) Timing is just so crucial in geography.

Mysteriouschic

Wesc. wrote: »

Yeah I nailed my timing in the mocks. Got everything done with 40 mins spare for regional. I hadn't really studied regional so I decided to make up my answers and hey I got full marks in them.:) Timing is just so crucial in geography.

I know so much to write. I didn't have mocks this year so I'm not sure how I'm doing. But I've done more study than last year. I might just try and test myself someday to see how much I remember.

carnibell

What do you think will come up for the economic elective if you're doing it? I hope colonisation is there somewhere

Canard

carnibell wrote: »

What do you think will come up for the economic elective if you're doing it? I hope colonisation is there somewhere

I'd study that and globalisation, EU policies and non-renewable energy (2010 was the adv's of renewables so my teacher thinks they might twist it the other way). With the kyoto protocol expiring this year hes convinced the environment will come up too haha. And MNCs of course

carnibell

i love this elective its not that hard ha ye MNCs sure thats grand

EmmaOs

Quick question - for a question on human activities with biomes, could I just use the exact same answer as for human activities with soil and say its the impact on the Sahel which is a desert biome? I have the headings overcropping, overgrazing and deforestation prepared in detail.

Cruel Sun

Wesc. wrote: »

Yeah I nailed my timing in the mocks. Got everything done with 40 mins spare for regional. I hadn't really studied regional so I decided to make up my answers and hey I got full marks in them.:) Timing is just so crucial in geography.

I had only about 20/30 minutes left for the electives and options questions. I had 80 percent before them, but it went down to 63 in the end as I answered them 2 badly. Not to bad as our teacher said we could add around 10 percent as it was marked badly. But I have to get timing right next time.

lauzie2011

Could someone put up a list of what physical and regional essays should be known for the exam ..would be greatly appreciated!

stapler10

For physical im doing
Explain how plate tectonics help us to understand the occurence of earthquakes (2006)
The formation of one rock cycle and how it can produce a distinctive landscape - sedimeantary (2008)
Human interaction with the rocy cylce - Quarrying
Human interaction with the rocy cylce - Geothermal
Landform development created by deposition - Beach
Landform development created by deposition and/or eroison - Meander
Human interaction with surface processes - HEP Ardnacrusha
Human interaction with surface processes - Mass Movement
Karst Landscape

For regional:
Primary,secondary and teritary in BMW,Paris Basin and Brazil
Culture in Belgium
Urban growth in Sub continental
EU


Ya so thats what im doing I hope it helps, does anybody reckon that is enough to cover both physical and regional, if not what other essay would I need to learn, thanks

lauzie2011

Thanks !

Canard

stapler10 wrote: »

Human interaction with the rocy cylce - Quarrying
Human interaction with the rocy cylce - Geothermal


Ya so thats what im doing I hope it helps, does anybody reckon that is enough to cover both physical and regional, if not what other essay would I need to learn, thanks

Just wondering, why're you doing two? I love geothermal, its so handy and easy to remember and it works well for explaining volcanoes too, but my teacher wants me to do quarrying and wont mark my geothermal answer

Wesc.

stapler10 wrote: »

rocy cylce - Quarrying
Human interaction with the rocy cylce - Geothermal
Landform development created by deposition - Beach
Landform development created by deposition and/or eroison - Meander
Human interaction with surface processes - HEP Ardnacrusha
Human interaction with surface processes - Mass Movement

Why on earth are you doing two of each? You won't be asked to explain 2 will you? I'm almost certain they won't ask you to explain two landforms created by deposition, two interactions with the "rocy" cycle or two interactions with surface processes. Why are doing this?

Mysteriouschic

Is anyone else learning the answers in the exam skills book?
I'm using some answers from there , sometimes I mix it and use things from the text book or I try to put it into my own words. But for the physical like plate tectonics it's so much simpler than whats in my book.
I wrote down a list of answers I need to learn earlier , it's mostly whats at the front of the exam papers.

lauzie2011

I'm learning answers from that book as well but adding in extra material from my book ..my teacher is hopeless..that book is my only hope

Canard

The book cant save me from the option section, though its saving me for everything else :')