Geography essays MEGATHREAD!!

Fergus_

Sue Honan is a lifesaver!

Should have a holiday dedicated to her.

Mysteriouschic

Could you imagine Sue Honan was an examiner and she sees loads of her answers written :P

bobjimmy

Fot the option question what would be the story say if you only discussed 2 aspects in detail. Like for the Plant and animal adaptions questions i can only split it up into 2 aspects. Would i get docked marks for a full aspect or what?

Canard

Astrozombies wrote: »

CAP has to be under specific headings WHAT? For my cap essay I just talk about what it is and what it's doing for us, the 4 schemes that have been implemented, and the CAP's impact on our economy :S and I've gotten full marks for that from my teacher, urrrgh confusing :P

No no CAP was a heading in agriculture for me Idk my teachers so weird :S He makes us do headings in everything and claims that if we dont we'll get 0 marks...its so bloody annoying because I know it isnt true but if I ever give up a question without headings, I get like 14/30 whereas my friends get 30/30 in their classes! For CAP he makes us do "Finance" and "REPS" :rolleyes:

carnibell

for the question on biomes can you discuss any biome in the world such as the tiaga or does it have to be the most known ones? My teacher didnt do any of this with us

jamiered81

In the Geoecology section would they ever specify a non-European soil so you wouldn't be able to do Brown Earth soils and have to do Latosols?

AnnaKin

jamiered81 wrote: »

In the Geoecology section would they ever specify a non-European soil so you wouldn't be able to do Brown Earth soils and have to do Latosols?

I wouldnt think so no! But I suppose its not impossible!

teacake

Can someone tell me is it hard to get a D3 in honours geo?

Canard

In short, no. The project, the shorts plus the repetition of questions make the subject really easy to do well in. :P

Wesc.

teacake wrote: »

Can someone tell me is it hard to get a D3 in honours geo?

It's hard not too :P

I mean in fairness, you should be getting most of the short answers right and your project will certainly help you. Just learn off the bare minimum from now on and you could easily pull off a C!

carnibell

it would be easy to get a D3 all you need to get is 160 marks on the whole paper so thats 32/80 for each section, and thats not counting your fieldwork

treely

Would cultural regions in SW USA be good to learn? I'm really lost on what to learn for regional and human elective

And 'the impact of EU expansion on Ireland'. Please tell me thats the economic elective?

PictureFrame

treely wrote: »

Would cultural regions in SW USA be good to learn? I'm really lost on what to learn for regional and human elective

And 'the impact of EU expansion on Ireland'. Please tell me thats the economic elective?

Definitely learn it! About the different cultural groups and where they canbe found in the region.

I'm off to do the 2007 paper to see how i'm faring. Even though I haven't studied the Regional yet i'll see how i'm getting on! Wish me luck! Might be back here in 3 hours time asking does stuff count as an SRP so watch out! I'll let you know how I get on!

Slan

treely

Have fun;)

Darren.993

Cultural groups in SW USA is quite handy. It's the exact same as one of the questions for the Culture and Identity 80 mark option that we did.

I have a funny feeling Secondary Activities in the SW USA might come up.

fizzyorange

No chance anyone here would have an essay on culture in India? I know the basic gist, dif religions and languages but I'd love to see a full sample answer on it. thanks a bunch!

deathbythelc

fizzyorange, if you gimme about an hour or so I'll type one up and PM it to you.

deathbythelc

Though I'd post it here too in case anyone can give me some improvements on it. :P

A region is an area which has certain characteristics which set it apart and make it distinctive. Culture describes how people live thier lives. I am going to discuss the region of India under the headings of religion and language. These two factors have greatly influenced the culture of India.

India has no single common language. Over 1,600 different languages are spoken there, however, the government only recognizes about 18 of these languages as official. Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India with Dravidian and English following closely. English is the language of the wealthy in India and is spoken by people in politics and business. It is only taught in select schools and colleges.

Languages identify regions and people and this can cause tension. The Indian government has difficukties communicating with all of the people in the country due the the vast amount of languages present. This can end up hindering the development of a region.

There are many religions in India but Hinduism is the most practised. Muslims, Christians and Buddhists are also present in India. The Hindu religion has a very strict caste system with 5 divisions. People born into one caste are unable to ever move upwards in the system. This is a form of apartheid- diving people according to occupation and social standing. However, in recent times, the caste system has been declining slimain most large cities and there is more upward movement between the classes.

Before 1947 Pakistan was a part of India under British rule, but after this time Pakistan was separated along religious lines. The majority of Muslims are found in Pakistan while India is Hindu dominated. Over 12 million people migrated to Pakistan when it was released from British rule.

Massive tensions still exist today between Pakistan and India. The region of Kashmir is ruled by both India (65%) and Pakistan (35%). However, Pakistan believes that it should have fill control of Kashmir as the region has an Islamic majority. This has created huge tension between the two regions with little chance of a resolution being reached.

Fergus_

I covered characteristics of Desert Biome and characteristics of Aridisols and Plant/Animal adaption to Desert Biome.

Should that be enough for the Geoecology?

deathbythelc

Fergus_ wrote: »

I covered characteristics of Desert Biome and characteristics of Aridisols and Plant/Animal adaption to Desert Biome.

Should that be enough for the Geoecology?

You might want to do Human Interaction with either Soils or a Biome? I dunno, I wouldn't feel safe with just 3.

Fergus_

deathbythelc wrote: »

You might want to do Human Interaction with either Soils or a Biome? I dunno, I wouldn't feel safe with just 3.

You're probably right, I'll see if I can do one on Soil Processes and one Human Interaction.

Those 3 topics I did overlapped a lot so it wasn't too difficult to learn.

fizzyorange

Awh deathbythelc you are a life saver!

A1 here I come eh? :P

Hayezer

deathbythelc wrote: »

Though I'd post it here too in case anyone can give me some improvements on it. :P

A region is an area which has certain characteristics which set it apart and make it distinctive. Culture describes how people live thier lives. I am going to discuss the region of India under the headings of religion and language. These two factors have greatly influenced the culture of India.

India has no single common language. Over 1,600 different languages are spoken there, however, the government only recognizes about 18 of these languages as official. Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India with Dravidian and English following closely. English is the language of the wealthy in India and is spoken by people in politics and business. It is only taught in select schools and colleges.

Languages identify regions and people and this can cause tension. The Indian government has difficukties communicating with all of the people in the country due the the vast amount of languages present. This can end up hindering the development of a region.

There are many religions in India but Hinduism is the most practised. Muslims, Christians and Buddhists are also present in India. The Hindu religion has a very strict caste system with 5 divisions. People born into one caste are unable to ever move upwards in the system. This is a form of apartheid- diving people according to occupation and social standing. However, in recent times, the caste system has been declining slimain most large cities and there is more upward movement between the classes.

Before 1947 Pakistan was a part of India under British rule, but after this time Pakistan was separated along religious lines. The majority of Muslims are found in Pakistan while India is Hindu dominated. Over 12 million people migrated to Pakistan when it was released from British rule.

Massive tensions still exist today between Pakistan and India. The region of Kashmir is ruled by both India (65%) and Pakistan (35%). However, Pakistan believes that it should have fill control of Kashmir as the region has an Islamic majority. This has created huge tension between the two regions with little chance of a resolution being reached.

Do you think something like this would be 30/30? Our teacher is expecting 2 and a half to 3 pages and is there much point in waffling, or should we pretty much just list out our points in an essay style? Time is an issue in Geography so if theres no point in waffling that could help

Fergus_

I don't think you're expected to write 2-3 pages on a 30m question?

I thought you'd have to write a page and a bit for 30m

Canard

You write 15 SRP's, thats it, no waffling, however many pages that might take you :P

Fergus_

My sample essays add up to a page or a page and 1/4.

deathbythelc

Hayezer wrote: »

Do you think something like this would be 30/30? Our teacher is expecting 2 and a half to 3 pages and is there much point in waffling, or should we pretty much just list out our points in an essay style? Time is an issue in Geography so if theres no point in waffling that could help

Apparently there's 16 SRPs in it, so hopefully. It comes to 1 and 3/4 pages... I definitely don't think you need more than two pages.

Oh and you're welcome fizzyorange!

David1994

Would you say I would be covered for the Option by studying:

• Characteristics of a soil
• Factors influencing soil characteristics
• Altering of biomes
• Influence of climate on Biome

PictureFrame

Ok.. Something's not right.. I started the 2007 Paper at 1.00pm and finished it at 3.05pm. I've 45 minutes left over- I did every section, 14 pages in all + Short questions and i've all that time left over

Gonna go correct it and see how I did!

Geo10

jamiered81 wrote: »

In the Geoecology section would they ever specify a non-European soil so you wouldn't be able to do Brown Earth soils and have to do Latosols?

Brown earth soils are also found in Eastern China, North East USA, New Zealand and Ethiopia. There is no one zonal soil type found in Europe not found anywhere else so they won't ask that

deathbythelc

PictureFrame wrote: »

Ok.. Something's not right.. I started the 2007 Paper at 1.00pm and finished it at 3.05pm. I've 45 minutes left over- I did every section, 14 pages in all + Short questions and i've all that time left over

Gonna go correct it and see how I did!

Did you do the Human Interaction with Soils question for that year? If you did did you talk about one example (eg Sahel) or did you talk about two?

PictureFrame

deathbythelc wrote: »

Did you do the Human Interaction with Soils question for that year? If you did did you talk about one example (eg Sahel) or did you talk about two?

No, I did the Plant/Animal Adaptations to Soil/Climatic Conditions!

But for Human Interaction with Soils you could talk about Overcropping in the Sahel, Overgrazing of Land in West Mayo (sheep) you could talk about Deforestation of Trees in Soya Plantations in SW America.

deathbythelc

PictureFrame wrote: »

No, I did the Plant/Animal Adaptations to Soil/Climatic Conditions!

But for Human Interaction with Soils you could talk about Overcropping in the Sahel, Overgrazing of Land in West Mayo (sheep) you could talk about Deforestation of Trees in Soya Plantations in SW America.

Ok, thanks!

Wesc.

PictureFrame wrote: »

Ok.. Something's not right.. I started the 2007 Paper at 1.00pm and finished it at 3.05pm. I've 45 minutes left over- I did every section, 14 pages in all + Short questions and i've all that time left over

Gonna go correct it and see how I did!

Don't be surprised, I don't think the timing in geography is half as bad as it's made out to be. I finished my mock with 20 minutes left.:cool:

You're definitely getting an A1 if you're that quick aswell. With that amount of time left over, you could go back over a few questions and think of a few random points to throw down that might earn you SRPs, just leave a good bit of space after each answer! I had to make my own answers for regional in the mock like haha.

deathbythelc

Wesc. wrote: »

Don't be surprised, I don't think the timing in geography is half as bad as it's made out to be. I finished my mock with 20 minutes left.:cool:

Same here, I had 25 minutes left. I got a lot of dirty looks from people furiously writing around me as I sat watching the clock out of boredom.

David1994

PictureFrame wrote: »

Ok.. Something's not right.. I started the 2007 Paper at 1.00pm and finished it at 3.05pm. I've 45 minutes left over- I did every section, 14 pages in all + Short questions and i've all that time left over

Gonna go correct it and see how I did!

How many pages were most of your 30 markers?

PictureFrame

Wesc. wrote: »

Don't be surprised, I don't think the timing in geography is half as bad as it's made out to be. I finished my mock with 20 minutes left.:cool:

You're definitely getting an A1 if you're that quick aswell. With that amount of time left over, you could go back over a few questions and think of a few random points to throw down that might earn you SRPs, just leave a good bit of space after each answer! I had to make my own answers for regional in the mock like haha.

I'm shocked! If i've that time left over in the Mock i'd definitely start adding additional SRP's and that into answers to see how I get on! I've got 80/80 in the Shorts so i'm correcting the rest now!

For that paper my timing was like:

-Option: 25 minutes
-Shorts: 10 minutes (literally)
-Part A's (Q. 2, 4, 11)- 10 minutes
-Part B's and C's (Q. 2, 4, 11)- 80 minutes (13 minutes each)

Jesus, hoping to get an A1 if I keep going at this rate! Have to learn a lot of regional though, made up my Tourism in Paris answer and bluffed factors that influence Agriculture in SW USA. But sure, we'll see how I got on i'll keep you posted! :P

Ok so far, i've

80/80 Shorts
80/80 Option essay (had 3 aspects, and 39 SRP's :P)
74/80 Physical
61/80 Regional
76/80 Human Elective

371/400= 92.75%

Ecstatic with that!! I'm pretty sure my project was full marks (got it recorrected twice) so if I got anywhere near that i'd have the A1!

PictureFrame

David1994 wrote: »

How many pages were most of your 30 markers?

Sorry, never saw this:

I'll do the full thing for you:

Option Essay- 3.5 pages (with a large diagram)

Physical Essays:

Formation of a Meander: 2 pages (with 2 diagrams)
Geothermal Energy 2 pages (with diagram)

Regional Essays:

Tourism in Paris- 1.5 pages
Agriculture SW USA- 1 page

Human Essays:

Historic Settlement: 1 page
Opportunities and Problems in Cities- 1.5 pages

And I didn't bother going back adding additional SRP's when I had 45 minutes left over.

deathbythelc

For Geoecology what diagrams should I be drawing?

PictureFrame

deathbythelc wrote: »

For Geoecology what diagrams should I be drawing?

None really. Unless you're discussing soils and need an SRP. I always draw one for Characteristics of Brown earths, I just draw a soil profile or when i'm talking about laterites in the rainforest I sometimes draw a profile to show how leaching has sent the nutrients to the b/c horizons!

David1994

PictureFrame wrote: »

Sorry, never saw this:

I'll do the full thing for you:

Option Essay- 3.5 pages (with a large diagram)

Physical Essays:

Formation of a Meander: 2 pages (with 2 diagrams)
Geothermal Energy 2 pages (with diagram)

Regional Essays:

Tourism in Paris- 1.5 pages
Agriculture SW USA- 1 page

Human Essays:

Historic Settlement: 1 page
Opportunities and Problems in Cities- 1.5 pages

And I didn't bother going back adding additional SRP's when I had 45 minutes left over.

Thanks for answering PF My answers always seem to come to nearly 1.5-2 pages but I think my writing is kinda larger than most. Fair play for getting all it done with so much time left..Despite how frantic I write in exams I am always tight for time. Have you corrected yourself yet?How did you get on?

deathbythelc

PictureFrame wrote: »

None really. Unless you're discussing soils and need an SRP. I always draw one for Characteristics of Brown earths, I just draw a soil profile or when i'm talking about laterites in the rainforest I sometimes draw a profile to show how leaching has sent the nutrients to the b/c horizons!

Oh, I see! Thanks for all your help. You're a lifesaver when it comes to Geography! :P

siobhan93

Really not good at taking evidence from the map and writing about it but i know i'll have to know this for historic/ types of settlement etc.
Anyways, i was just doing historic settlement and dont have a clue what im supposed to learn?
Ive learned the year and what type of settlers they were but how are you guys learning the 3 srps of discussion? Are you learning them off or are you just gonna make them up on the day?

treely

Is everyone just learning all of the primary, secondary and tertiary essays for each of Dublin, West, Paris, Mezzogiorno and India/USA, or are you cutting off a few? I dont know which ones to do, or whether to just learn them all. I know that contrast of Mezzogiorno and Paris may come up, but what else are 'must-knows'?

treely

siobhan93 wrote: »

Really not good at taking evidence from the map and writing about it but i know i'll have to know this for historic/ types of settlement etc.
Anyways, i was just doing historic settlement and dont have a clue what im supposed to learn?
Ive learned the year and what type of settlers they were but how are you guys learning the 3 srps of discussion? Are you learning them off or are you just gonna make them up on the day?

Bit of both. Its always the same spiel though. "It developed on lowland/high ground because...", "it developed near a river/the sea for...", etc. At least I hope thats alright!

SineadMcc

Was just wondering if anyone could help me, I'm kind of confused with Geoecology at the moment, so question is could you use the human interference/interaction with biomes essay for the human interference/interaction with soils essay does anybody know just to clarify? Or are they strictly 2 different essays ?

treely

Different essays.

Biome-acid rain and deforestation

Soils-overcropping, overgrazing and a bit of deforestation.

Well thats how it is for me anyway!

PictureFrame

David1994 wrote: »

Thanks for answering PF My answers always seem to come to nearly 1.5-2 pages but I think my writing is kinda larger than most. Fair play for getting all it done with so much time left..Despite how frantic I write in exams I am always tight for time. Have you corrected yourself yet?How did you get on?

Yeah I did, being *kinda* hard on myself with the SRP's I got 92.75% :pac:

David1994

PictureFrame wrote: »

Yeah I did, being *kinda* hard on myself with the SRP's I got 92.75% :pac:

Good job Sir :pac:

fizzyorange

I asked my friend what she has done for geography so far, her respose?

"Everything."



Oh lordie am I afraid now.