*** Leaving Cert Geography 2014 ***

randylonghorn

jazz101 wrote: »

Just realised looking through the exam papers that I forgot to do a question from those in 10-12. ****. My. Life.

Did you do one from 7-9?

Isitthough?

much did people write for the biome? I did well overall but I didnt know My biomes only read over essays night before and characteristic didn't come up so I Did humans changing the biome and talked about deforestation and cultivation in sahal desert(was that ok?) but only got like 2 and half pages. How many marks do you think id get for only 2.5 pages?

Hotale.com

randylonghorn wrote: »

Well (and I stress I'm no geographer), it's a very general question on the impact of dams on river processes, so the main part of the marks will presumably be for getting those processes right / describing them.

Obviously giving examples of where it happens would be a plus, but I doubt if the dams on the Rhine impact any differently on the river than anywhere else, unless they're a very different style of dam which isn't used elsewhere. Even if so, provided students describe the usual processes properly, they should get the bulk of the marks.

Edit: Yeah, kinda what Aaron said, though I don't know where he got the "2 marks" from.

I don't think the effects of damming vary much around the world anyway, so I'd imagine I'd get the marks for using an example to illustrate the impacts it has. Our teacher always said we could do that anyway.

I was just thinking that the people who use the Rhine wouldn't be able to say anything about damming specifically, so they'd be hard pushed to get many SRPs out of their answer.

randylonghorn

Hotale.com wrote: »

... so I'd imagine I'd get the marks for using an example to illustrate the impacts it has. Our teacher always said we could do that anyway.

Oh, being able to point to specific examples would always be a good thing, no doubt about that, and if people went on about the Rhine without having studied it specifically they might indeed have got a bit waffley and vague and not maximised their potential marks. Provided they got the actual processes right though, they should have got most of the marks available.

randylonghorn

randylonghorn wrote: »

Yeah, kinda what Aaron said, though I don't know where he got the "2 marks" from.

They usually designate 1 SRP for a named example i.e 2 marks.

Hotale.com wrote: »

I was just thinking that the people who use the Rhine wouldn't be able to say anything about damming specifically, so they'd be hard pushed to get many SRPs out of their answer.

Exactly. I don't think there are enough SRPs in 'general' damming information. Some exploration of the named example would be need to get enough SRPs in my opinion.

bb1234567

Isitthough? wrote: »

much did people write for the biome? I did well overall but I didnt know My biomes only read over essays night before and characteristic didn't come up so I Did humans changing the biome and talked about deforestation and cultivation in sahal desert(was that ok?) but only got like 2 and half pages. How many marks do you think id get for only 2.5 pages?

I only wrote 2.5 pages aswell , it was kind of educated bluff. Id say Ill get about 50/80 Im sure they dont expect too high a standard considering how long the essay is

jazz101

randylonghorn wrote: »

Did you do one from 7-9?

Yeah, I did question 7.

jazz101

jazz101 wrote: »

Yeah, I did question 7.

Then you didn't need to do one from 10-12. You only do 1 elective.

randylonghorn

jazz101 wrote: »

Yeah, I did question 7.

SECTION 2 – ELECTIVES
Questions 7 to 12
You MUST attempt ONE question from:


Patterns and Processes in Economic Activities

OR

Patterns and Processes in the Human Environment

OR!!!!

randylonghorn

randylonghorn wrote: »

OR!!!!

(Or am I missing something? )

Look at you with your sexy authoritative mod bold font

jazz101

Deleted User wrote: »

Then you didn't need to do one from 10-12. You only do 1 elective.

http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2014/LC005ALP000EV.pdf

randylonghorn wrote: »

OR!!!!

Oh my God that sigh of relief almost took my lungs with it. Thanks lads.

randylonghorn

Deleted User wrote: »

Look at you with your sexy authoritative mod bold font

Actually, I was just reproducing the way it was on the paper as closely as possible!

But always nice to know you still find me sexy, bbz!

onethreefive

Did anyone else run out of time? I completely rushed part B and C of human environment.

randylonghorn

jazz101 wrote: »

Oh my God that sigh of relief almost took my lungs with it. Thanks lads.

Lug!

I'm on the Cap Morgans, Aaron will probably have a pint.

Isitthough?

bb1234567 wrote: »

I only wrote 2.5 pages aswell , it was kind of educated bluff. Id say Ill get about 50/80 Im sure they dont expect too high a standard considering how long the essay is

Hopefully My was just educated guess too xD Suppose even if I did know It id only have time for another page anyways..

bb1234567

In the mocks i accidentally Did a question from both the 1st and 2nd elective but didnt run out of time and came out with a C1 I dont know how I managed that but I barely even finished in time today just doing one elective today :pac:

RAnderson1995

My year is going ballistic saying it was so hard and they could barely answer any questions!
I honestly thought it was grand, the short questions were a bit tricky but other than that!
I did;
The first physical question about igneous rocks and river processes
Q5 in the regional
Q9 in the Human Elective and
Geoecology - biome question about human activities .. it was worded terribly but i wrote a very decent 3 1/2 page answer and had 10 minutes left at the end to read over everything!

forevergold22

Does anyone know how much marks would be lost of you wrote a page and a half about the formation of levees and waterfalls but drew no diagrams?

Vito Corleone

Guys, I did my LC last year. Got my only A1 in Geography. This is my post from this time last year.

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Did anyone else think the short questions were difficult? One of the questions with 4 pictures? I couldn't make them out at all.

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Very disappointed with how I performed. Would be lucky to get a B, and I was aiming for an A.

So, if you under preformed, move on. I got on a lot better than I thought. They usually mark easy, because it's answered poorly.

Isitthough?

forevergold22 wrote: »

Does anyone know how much marks would be lost of you wrote a page and a half about the formation of levees and waterfalls but drew no diagrams?

I didn't think diagrams were necessary they just count as a srp so if you have 15 srps your grand

forevergold22

Isitthough? wrote: »

I didn't think diagrams were necessary they just count as a srp so if you have 15 srps your grand

Really even though it said "with the aid of a labelled diagram"? happy out now so!

forevergold22

forevergold22 wrote: »

Really even though it said "with the aid of a labelled diagram"? happy out now so!

2-4 max!

FHB

forevergold22 wrote: »

Really even though it said "with the aid of a labelled diagram"? happy out now so!

It didn't say that though. No diagrams necessary.

bb1234567

forevergold22 wrote: »

Does anyone know how much marks would be lost of you wrote a page and a half about the formation of levees and waterfalls but drew no diagrams?

You dont need diagrams unless stated

forevergold22

FHB wrote: »

It didn't say that though. No diagrams necessary.

Ok thank you

Rainydays212

hey guys,
I did my geoecology question on the human activities affecting biomes, and discussed acid rain and deforestation, in total around 5 pages. Was this ok? Thank you

Isitthough?

Rainydays212 wrote: »

hey guys,
I did my geoecology question on the human activities affecting biomes, and discussed acid rain and deforestation, in total around 5 pages. Was this ok? Thank you

Acid rain? How did you link that with human?

RAnderson1995

Rainydays212 wrote: »

hey guys,
I did my geoecology question on the human activities affecting biomes, and discussed acid rain and deforestation, in total around 5 pages. Was this ok? Thank you

did you link acid rain to humans? it was human activity and acid rain may be caused by humans but it's not a human activity!
Deforestation however is grand!

Rainydays212

Isitthough? wrote: »

Acid rain? How did you link that with human?

Industrial activity by humans causes acid rain , burning of fossil fuels etc...:/

scareyc

Rainydays212 wrote: »

Industrial activity by humans causes acid rain , burning of fossil fuels etc...:/

I did that, made sure I kept repeating that the acid rain was caused by industrial activity and therefore human activity

Rainydays212

scareyc wrote: »

I did that, made sure I kept repeating that the acid rain was caused by industrial activity and therefore human activity

yeah I learnt my essay from the book that has all the sample answers, it was '' human influence on biomes'' I think we are safe

11Charlie11

Did you have to refer to more than one biome?

scareyc

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Did you have to refer to more than one biome?

I didn't but most of my year did, I hope you could do both the question was phrased weird..

pa95

For the biome question, my headings were 1: how natives have been altered
2: how soils have been altered
3: how climate has been altered
4: how flora/ fauna has been altered
I linked human activities into each heading, but everyone else I've talked to seemed to have the actual activities as the headings...I suppose it's ambiguous enough, but also I only spoke about 1 biome. The geog teachers in my school were saying that it was so general, so I should be ok...any thoughts on this?

RAnderson1995

pa95 wrote: »

For the biome question, my headings were 1: how natives have been altered
2: how soils have been altered
3: how climate has been altered
4: how flora/ fauna has been altered
I linked human activities into each heading, but everyone else I've talked to seemed to have the actual activities as the headings...I suppose it's ambiguous enough, but also I only spoke about 1 biome. The geog teachers in my school were saying that it was so general, so I should be ok...any thoughts on this?

That's like exactly what i did, some of my headings were more human based but i talked about the same stuff and i only talked about one Biome also!

RAnderson1995

pa95 wrote: »

For the biome question, my headings were 1: how natives have been altered
2: how soils have been altered
3: how climate has been altered
4: how flora/ fauna has been altered
I linked human activities into each heading, but everyone else I've talked to seemed to have the actual activities as the headings...I suppose it's ambiguous enough, but also I only spoke about 1 biome. The geog teachers in my school were saying that it was so general, so I should be ok...any thoughts on this?

That's like exactly what i did, some of my headings were more human based but i talked about the same stuff and i only talked about one Biome also!

Johnjoeboy

I choose ranching/agriculture,logging of trees,expoloiting minerals and HEP

Johnjoeboy

forevergold22 wrote: »

Does anyone know how much marks would be lost of you wrote a page and a half about the formation of levees and waterfalls but drew no diagrams?

You only lose 4 marks. That's the maximum

Johnjoeboy

Did any do question on the MNCs and the impact of EU policy in irish economy?

geneskinner

did anyone do the human activity on a biome question on the sahel? if so what headings did you use

Isitthough?

pa95 wrote: »

For the biome question, my headings were 1: how natives have been altered
2: how soils have been altered
3: how climate has been altered
4: how flora/ fauna has been altered
I linked human activities into each heading, but everyone else I've talked to seemed to have the actual activities as the headings...I suppose it's ambiguous enough, but also I only spoke about 1 biome. The geog teachers in my school were saying that it was so general, so I should be ok...any thoughts on this?

wait wait we have to put headings in it? really? I didnt see that in any of the samples...Omg my geog teacher..such a..:eek: Much marks i lose for no headings?

jazz101

I did the "impact of EU enlargement" question in almost entirely economic terms. That's alright isn't it?

123corby

geneskinner wrote: »

did anyone do the human activity on a biome question on the sahel? if so what headings did you use

overgrazing, over cropping and deforestation!

bb1234567

You dont lose marks for not drawing diagrams unless they say 'with aid of a diagram' right..?

jazz101

Right. You maybe missed out on a handy few SRPs for drawing a couple of easy diagrams, but you will not be docked marks.

Isitthough?

123corby wrote: »

overgrazing, over cropping and deforestation!

what did you use for overgrazing? I was going to do Conemara but I didnt think it was a Biome right?

Alannahokl

geneskinner wrote: »

did anyone do the human activity on a biome question on the sahel? if so what headings did you use

I did the Sahel too but I'm panicking! Are u definitely able to use the Sahel on a biome cos when I went bak to my notes the Sahel was an example of people n soils?:( help!

Kyro

Alannahokl wrote: »

I did the Sahel too but I'm panicking! Are u definitely able to use the Sahel on a biome cos when I went bak to my notes the Sahel was an example of people n soils?:( help!

Yes. I did the Sahel and did overgrazing, deforestation, and over-cultivation.

I actually thought my answer was great - I was delighted with it. Crammed it at 7AM before the exam

123corby

Isitthough? wrote: »

what did you use for overgrazing? I was going to do Conemara but I didnt think it was a Biome right?

I used the hot desert biome in the sahel for all the 3 headings. Well I never heard Connemara being mentioned before as a biome haha! did ye not study a biome in class?

Alannahokl

Kyro wrote: »

Yes. I did the Sahel and did overgrazing, deforestation, and over-cultivation.

I actually thought my answer was great - I was delighted with it. Crammed it at 7AM before the exam

Great because everyone did the Mojave desert as a biome n I was the only one who did the Sahel! So glad it's right thank god:O ya i did the same but i didnt mention much animals tho:/