JC 2013 Geography Papers - Fri. June 7th 2013 - all levels

spurious

Geography (OL and HL)
Friday June 7th 2013

All discussion and questions about Geography papers goes here, following the exam.

Please keep off-topic chat elsewhere.

Good luck all.

DublinArnie

That geography paper was too easy BEAUTIFUL! Thanks SEC !

Everything went well, I knew all the short questions (except the ones about the fold mountains, I said the Irish mountains are alpine, is that wrong?:o).

The long questions were beautiful, especially Q1 and Q5 . Really happy, I had to rush Q1 a bit so maybe that's a bit messy. I've included key terms and like a diagram for every question, so hopefully an A!

Hope everyone eles did well, or their best! Roll on maths paper one! :pac:.

juniorcert

Wow definitely think that was the easiest paper so far! Most of the short questions were grand and the long questions were lovely too, I could have answered all of them, haha pretty hopeful for an A!

TheSunderz

DublinArnie wrote: »

That geography paper was too easy BEAUTIFUL! Thanks SEC !

Everything went well, I knew all the short questions (except the ones about the fold mountains, I said the Irish mountains are apline, is that wrong?:o).

The long questions were beautiful, especially Q1 and Q5 . Really happy, I had to rush Q1 a bit so maybe that's a bit messy. I've included key terms and like a diagram for every question, so hopefully an A!

Hope everyone eles did well, or their best! Roll on maths paper one! :pac:.

Yes felt the same it was very simple eh i taught the the irish mountains werent alpine they were the other answer i think i cant remember what it was .

DublinArnie

TheSunderz wrote: »

Yes felt the same it was very simple eh i taught the the irish mountains werent alpine they were the other answer i think i cant remember what it was .

One of us is right ... i'm sure Spurious knows and I just googled it, it looks like i'm wrong . Ah well, I only lost 1 mark there haha.

ow9654

Went well, too well....
Munster mountains are armorican btw (since you asked :P)

Good luck in maths

MmmPancakes

Pretty sure I got an A. Quite easy, I wrong a page for each part of the question so, 9 in total. + an extra half a page, took me 1.5 to do the latitude, prevailing wind, and the distance from sea question.

Very simple paper! Pretty sure that I got up in the 90s

DublinArnie

ow9654 wrote: »

Went well, too well....
Munster mountains are armorican btw (sicne you asked :P)

Good luck in maths

Ah, I knew it XD. Had a gut feeling, I don't know why I didn't follow it . Good luck!

laurarxo

I don't really know what to think about it! I spent most of my time studying physical geography(Rivers, coasts, climates etc), but a lot of section 2 was urbanisation Etc, which I didn't study much! however I did manage to get through it, hoping for an A!

ow9654

The OS map, seen Enniscorthy and instantly Kelly the boy from Killane began playing in my head...
Enniscorthy's in flames and old Wexford is won, tomorrow the Barrow we cross....
Least I was nearly done by then

claryfray

Oh my god I thought I'd feel better by coming on here but I feel a lot worse.

I didn't know anything.

And I studied geography so much, like too much I thought. I left out rivers and greenhouse effect coz they came up last year so I was already screwed there, in two questions,
But like I studied soils so hard but I didn't understand the question at all

And I thought the short questions were really difficult.

I dunno if I should be embarrassed to say I am crying because I am pretty sure all got was a D and I got an A in the mocks and have studied so hard since then

I am still kinda in shock tbh

DublinArnie

claryfray wrote: »

Oh my god I thought I'd feel better by coming on here but I feel a lot worse.

I didn't know anything.

And I studied geography so much, like too much I thought. I left out rivers and greenhouse effect coz they came up last year so I was already screwed there, in two questions,
But like I studied soils so hard but I didn't understand the question at all

And I thought the short questions were really difficult.

I dunno if I should be embarrassed to say I am crying because I am pretty sure all got was a D and I got an A in the mocks and have studied so hard since then

I am still kinda in shock tbh

The greenhouse affect did shock me too, but it's common sense for me. There was a soils question? I must of left that out then. I only did Q1,Q2 and Q5 XD. Don't cry you'll learn from your mistakes not to trust patterns anymore.

claryfray

DublinArnie wrote: »

The greenhouse affect did shock me too, but it's common sense for me. There was a soils question? I must of left that out then. I only did Q1,Q2 and Q5 XD. Don't cry you'll learn from your mistakes not to trust patterns anymore.

The thing is though I can't learn EVERYTHING so in patterns that look obvious I always try and do that

I still did have quite a good knowledge of the whole course though
I guess I kinda went blank with the stress

laurarxo

what questions did everyone do? I did 1,2 and 5, it seems like a lot of people in my year did them too

DublinArnie

laurarxo wrote: »

what questions did everyone do? I did 1,2 and 5, it seems like a lot of people in my year did them too

1, 2 and 5. I had no time to re-read, that's how rushed I was XD. I wrote a lot, only had two pages of the booklet left. :pac:

claryfray

I did Q2, (I knew part A and B perfectly but wasn't sure on part C.) Q3 (left out the Bord na Móna question.. I did the soils but I didn't understand what the question was really asking..?, Part B and C was fine I think) and Q5 which I am usually ace at but I thought it was really difficult.
I had time left over and decided to do an extra question, so I did
I knew part A and C of question 4 but couldn't figure out why they were asking it part B so I didn't do it

claryfray

I am scared because everyone said they had to rush and I did an extra question and got time to read back over my answers

I am a mess right now, and I know I have to put it to the back of my mind but...my Geography teacher is going to be so disappointed in me and he's like my favourite teacher, we get on really welll, and the though of facing him is making me sick. And also I feel like such a failure myself so that sucks.

ow9654

claryfray wrote: »

I am scared because everyone said they had to rush and I did an extra question and got time to read back over my answers

I am a mess right now, and I know I have to put it to the back of my mind but...my Geography teacher is going to be so disappointed in me and he's like my favourite teacher, we get on really welll, and the though of facing him is making me sick. And also I feel like such a failure myself so that sucks.

I got 4 questions done with 40 minutes left lol
No need to be scared, people always do better than they thought they did in the JC

claryfray

ow9654 wrote: »

I got 4 questions done with 40 minutes left lol
No need to be scared, people always do better than they thought they did in the JC

Well I am hoping for a miracle

DublinArnie

claryfray wrote: »

I am scared because everyone said they had to rush and I did an extra question and got time to read back over my answers

I am a mess right now, and I know I have to put it to the back of my mind but...my Geography teacher is going to be so disappointed in me and he's like my favourite teacher, we get on really welll, and the though of facing him is making me sick. And also I feel like such a failure myself so that sucks.

Don't worry, everyone has their bad days(I get them a lot). If it makes you feel better, I think my english teacher will commit suicide if I don't get an A in English, same applies with my geography teacher. Forget about geography and worry about maths now!

spurious

claryfray wrote: »

I am scared because everyone said they had to rush and I did an extra question and got time to read back over my answers

I am a mess right now, and I know I have to put it to the back of my mind but...my Geography teacher is going to be so disappointed in me and he's like my favourite teacher, we get on really welll, and the though of facing him is making me sick. And also I feel like such a failure myself so that sucks.

Why would you be upset? You could have easily done well and still had time for your extra question. Not everyone works at the same pace.

claryfray

Thanks guys
My friend pointed out Geography is a subject where I always do better than I thought so I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed

Jijsaw

I did all the questions got about 50/60 in the short questions but didn't have time to do the sketch-map thingamabob ah well

onlinenerd

DublinArnie wrote: »

That geography paper was too easy BEAUTIFUL! Thanks SEC !

Everything went well, I knew all the short questions (except the ones about the fold mountains, I said the Irish mountains are alpine, is that wrong?:o).

The long questions were beautiful, especially Q1 and Q5 . Really happy, I had to rush Q1 a bit so maybe that's a bit messy. I've included key terms and like a diagram for every question, so hopefully an A!

Hope everyone eles did well, or their best! Roll on maths paper one! :pac:.

yup,its is amorican

DublinArnie

Jijsaw wrote: »

I did all the questions got about 50/60 in the short questions but didn't have time to do the sketch-map thingamabob ah well

Ouch, that's like 10marks or so lost out of 90 for long questions.

Jijsaw

DublinArnie wrote: »

Ouch, that's like 10marks or so lost out of 90 for long questions.

Well I did questions 1,2,3,4&5 I think I'm covered :P

onlinenerd

aaaaaaaaaaagh, i succumbed under time pressure and so left out a part of a question worth 5%. otherwise the paper should have been an A

DublinArnie

Jijsaw wrote: »

Well I did questions 1,2,3,4&5 I think I'm covered :P

You must of got bored really fast . I bet the examiner will hate you ... she/he will have alot of correcting to do XD. How many pages you fill? I had two pages left in my booklet.

Jijsaw

DublinArnie wrote: »

You must of got bored really fast . I bet the examiner will hate you ... she/he will have alot of correcting to do XD. How many pages you fill? I had two pages left in my booklet.

MWAHAHAHA Jeanie I don't know how many pages I filled but I was near the end of the booklet...I think

The Union Forever

laurarxo wrote: »

what questions did everyone do? I did 1,2 and 5, it seems like a lot of people in my year did them too

I did Q3, 4 & 5

claryfray

Hey question!
Q4B what where they even looking for o.O
I was completely confused coz we haven't covered anything like that and I don't remember seeing it in the book...
Thats the reason I didnt do Q4 and I knew urbanization really well

Lost In Confusion

i didnt bother reading the question and did ordanance survery instead of aerial and i was wondering why it was sooo hard hhahahah oh well there goes my a Again.

greenpyjamas

claryfray wrote: »

Hey question!
Q4B what where they even looking for o.O
I was completely confused coz we haven't covered anything like that and I don't remember seeing it in the book...
Thats the reason I didnt do Q4 and I knew urbanization really well

I said it had industrial, transport and tourism function lol :rolleyes:
I had a chat with my teacher afterwards, he says industry's definitely right, and it depends how I explained the other two...

CathalRyano

That was really easy I thought. Map and photo questions were the only thing that was difficult for me and I waffled a bit.

greenpyjamas

CathalRyano wrote: »

That was really easy I thought. Map and photo questions were the only thing that was difficult for me and I waffled a bit.

I never bother doing the map question, I just go ranting.

Cr4pSnip3r

Super easy geography. I'd expect a high B or a low A.

CathalRyano

greenpyjamas wrote: »

I never bother doing the map question, I just go ranting.

I do them because they come up every year but thinking about it I probably could have said more about other questions. Ah well.

And the fact that the paper was as easy as it was, makes me think that they could make the marking scheme harder.

greenpyjamas

CathalRyano wrote: »

I do them because they come up every year but thinking about it I probably could have said more about other questions. Ah well.

And the fact that the paper was as easy as it was, makes me think that they could make the marking scheme harder.

Yeah, I wrote as much as I could and gave loads of info... I thought the questions were deceivingly short and straightforward... hmm. Loved question two!

Lost In Confusion

i was kind of annoyed cause i knew question 4 but i didn't know the rhine so i had to leave it out i knew it so well i wish i did it instead of os map cause i lost 10 marks in that accidently anyways and more for waffling so like i could have just lost the 10 marks in the rhine and got full marks on the rest

sotisme

For the first short Question, what were the parts of the volcano?

For the soil question what did people write? I wrote all about leaching an hardpan and stuff but now im thinking i should just have written about the topsoil humus subsoil parent rock ect?

And for the organised migration for the ulster plantation could you have written about ireland being exploited for its agricultural produce as an effect?

Thanks!

Lost In Confusion

sotisme wrote: »

For the first short Question, what were the parts of the volcano?

For the soil question what did people write? I wrote all about leaching an hardpan and stuff but now im thinking i should just have written about the topsoil humus subsoil parent rock ect?

And for the organised migration for the ulster plantation could you have written about ireland being exploited for its agricultural produce as an effect?

Thanks!

it was the magma chamber the vent and the crater i think

Cr4pSnip3r

sotisme wrote: »

For the first short Question, what were the parts of the volcano?

For the soil question what did people write? I wrote all about leaching an hardpan and stuff but now im thinking i should just have written about the topsoil humus subsoil parent rock ect?

And for the organised migration for the ulster plantation could you have written about ireland being exploited for its agricultural produce as an effect?

Thanks!

Volcano parts were: Crater, Vent and Magma Chamber.

Jijsaw

sotisme wrote: »

For the first short Question, what were the parts of the volcano?

For the soil question what did people write? I wrote all about leaching an hardpan and stuff but now im thinking i should just have written about the topsoil humus subsoil parent rock ect?

And for the organised migration for the ulster plantation could you have written about ireland being exploited for its agricultural produce as an effect?

Thanks!

I think the volcano parts were: Vent, crater, magma chamber
Soil: I wrote about top-soil, humus, bed rock etc.
And I guess you could get away with the agricultural produce answer

Lost In Confusion

Jijsaw wrote: »

I think the volcano parts were: Vent, crater, magma chamber
Soil: I wrote about top-soil, humus, bed rock etc.
And I guess you could get away with the agricultural produce answer

thank god geography's over i did os instead of aerial cause i didnt read it :P definetly down to a b :P

sotisme

Jijsaw wrote: »

I think the volcano parts were: Vent, crater, magma chamber
Soil: I wrote about top-soil, humus, bed rock etc.
And I guess you could get away with the agricultural produce answer

Thanks!
I got the vent and crater mixed up
Oh god was there no leaching at all in the soil profile?:o
Ok good, I remembered it from economic inequalities

CathalRyano

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

Volcano parts were: Crater, Vent and Magma Chamber.

I said vent pipe for the second one, do you reckon that'd matter?

Cr4pSnip3r

CathalRyano wrote: »

I said vent pipe, do you reckon that'd matter?

No, I'd say the examiner will see Vent and Pipe and think you either, forgot to rub it out or were under stress and will give it to you anyway. It's one mark, however, so it's no biggy.

Lost In Confusion

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

No, I'd say the examiner will see Vent and Pipe and think you either, forgot to rub it out or were under stress and will give it to you anyway. It's one mark, however, so it's no biggy.

i said crate instead of crater wouldc they give the marks?

Cr4pSnip3r

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

i said crate instead of crater wouldc they give the marks?

Probably think you forgot the r, so I'd say so.

zubikhan

I am really hoping for an A
I am pretty sure I got full marks in the short questions but I did pretty bad in section B mostly because I had learned everything was tired due to lack of sleep, I did Question 1 and 3 and 5
I really hope that I get an A, but I doubt it due to my map drawn poorly and the migration part in Question 3 was answered poorly as well
But maths was a piece of cake

LawdyLad

For question 3B (i), what did people say as their answer. The question btw is "Name one example of organised migration that you have studied."