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** 2013 Geography Before/After **
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06-06-2013 4:57pm#1
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Feel so f*cked for this. So much to learn. It can easily be a good, bad or average paper depending what's on there. There's just too much essays to be learned
Hopefully the biome and short questions will be nice to bring the marks up though !
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I'd advise you all to revise glaciers, I think that got me last year in the short questions. Also, aerial photographs. Remember the difference between stalagmites and stalactites: tights go down.
And clints are the rocks, grikes are the gaps - I won't tell you how I chose to remember this piece of information :pac:, so just think G for gap.
And yeah same as PF I had to lie through the whole exam.
Thought I got a C3 but ended up with an A2, though I think it was marked extremely generously. I did the atmosphere bit and made things up. Like completely lied and still got 62/80 or something like that. It won't work for Geoecology because it's so widely done, but for regional etc you can probably make up a few statistics, road names etc if you have to.
Another thing is last year they took new questions directly from the syllabus and it was stuff a lot of people just didn't cover. One I remember was corporate strategies in an MNC, so I lied and said Dell's strategy was "saving money" (whose isn't :pac:) and then just explained their operations. Twist the question to suit yourself if you can, but within reason.
If I can get through geography without crying, so can you. :P
Oh and one last thing, if you're answering a question on landforms write EVERYTHING you can think of if you're running short on points. If it's karst, talk about carbonation in as much detail as you can. Always give name/process/example/diagram before anything else, it's 10 marks in the bag and any example counts - I did a beach and my example was the local one, even if the correcter might live miles away and not know about it. Good luck! 0 -
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The very best of luck to everyone doing geography tomorrow! I know you'll think I'm crazy but I'd love to be there again ha.
I'll never forget the Thursday night I put in last year for that exam. I did sweet damn all maths paper 1 because I was focused so much on geography. I remember finishing up at 5 in the morning and then getting up at half 7 again. It was madness but well worth it and was alot more interesting than other subjects :P
Do not worry or panic if you think you don't know your stuff too well. I was the exact same. I kept losing the plot this time last year because I couldn't rattle off fact after fact. Although there is unreal emphasis on knowing as much as possible about each topic to get the marks, do not worry. It's always the case that you know more than you think. And when you're in the exam tomorrow, it'll be fairly easy to make up a few extra points if needed. Throw down anything at all relevant to the topic at all and you're going to get marks somewhere. I remember even taking info from the short questions and putting it into a long question which resulted on me adding more common knowledge points as well. JUST HAVE YOUR HEAD SCREWED ON. Geography is a fairly easy exam as long as you do your stuff. Learn as much as possible. Don't rely on predictions completely. I knew every single topic possible for geography and I didn't even know them perfectly but I didn't need to. The ability to adapt in this exam is crazy. If you know a series of words for every essay then it's just pieces of a puzzle really. That's how I saw it and it worked brilliantly.
Write as much as possible for everything. Watch your time but you'll be able to make it up in places so make sure you get in all your points plus an extra one here and there just for good measure.
Once again do not panic if you don't know everything perfectly. If you have the gist of every topic you'll do very very well. Keep going over your stuff. It'll sink in to your subconscious mind and it'll be ready for you to use tomorrow
Ye'll all do very good. I felt just like ye last year, probably worse and I did fine. I was sh*tting it for Geography because I was relying so badly on it. I didn't sleep the night before and was in a state doing the exam. But it was bliss when I was in the centre because I knew I made an effort. As soon as I handed up my paper I knew I had my A1....and I was right.
Oh and write as damn fast as you can for Geography. My hand was in intense pain after the exam.... I had tablets ready and all after because I knew that pain was what I needed to get me the most marks possible. I've average enough writing but mine was terrible in the exam but I didn't care because the examiner will make an effort if they see your effort on the page :P
This exam is well worth staying up late for guys. It is simple points when you really bust your lungs.
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Yeah you could do that as an essay or as bullet pointsJamesunited wrote: »My regional work is basically full sentence bullet points that I've learned off ? I could do that quite easily if its the case I prefer bullet points, it means when you get 15/16 you can just move on. I'd also worry that an examiner might not see all the SRPs (e.g. if you had 2 but they were both in one sentence), but that was just because my teacher was like that haha. 0 -
Yeah you could do that as an essay or as bullet points I prefer bullet points, it means when you get 15/16 you can just move on. I'd also worry that an examiner might not see all the SRPs (e.g. if you had 2 but they were both in one sentence), but that was just because my teacher was like that haha.
I'm just worried that I'd underestimate an SRP and would end up with a lack of bullet points0 -
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Yeah that can be a problem. That's why it's best to aim for around 20 if you can. Basically, if it adds to the understanding of the question it's an SRP.Deleted User wrote: »I'm just worried that I'd underestimate an SRP and would end up with a lack of bullet points For example, a regional Q on an urban area- "The region I have studied is Dublin" - this is informative. "This is the capital of Ireland" - irrelevant to the question most of the time. Saying something like "The weather in the Mezzogiorno is very good, so X and Y crops grow there" would maybe get you marks for the crops, but something like "The temperature range of X-Y degrees gives rise to various crops, such as X, Y and Z" is much better and would probably get you 4 marks. It's hard to tell, no doubt, but imo it's no harm to lay it out in bullets either way because it looks better to me.
Oh and to the above poster - graph paper. It's annoying, but marks go for it.0 -
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Monsieur Folie wrote: »Really, graph paper for maps? Our teacher never told us that.
Will keep that in mind tomorrow.
wait no i think im thinking of something else im starting to lose my mind :P 0 -
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Hey guys this is the predictions list put up by that Eoin Jackson guy, no idea how accurate he is but it is better than nothing for some last minute cramming. Will have to zoom in a little to read it clearly, and the Human section is the sort of greyed out one.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/ed7po3r8364c6ec/~2013+Geography+%28H%29+topics.doc0 -
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I think im just gonna learn sample answers on what he predicted for human at this stage??
A lot of the human section overlap with things such as migration/overpopulation and urban development/land use models. It is kind of like the regional section in that you can come up with your own SRPs if you feel stuck. But yeah if you feel that is your weakest then learn off some samples, they are pretty limited in what they can ask so anything you look at is a relatively safe use of time. 0 -
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