Geography- how was it for you?

EdgarAllenPoo

I know exams are not supposed to be interesting but I have to say geography was the most boring exam I think I've ever done and that includes maths, I couldn't wait to get out.

Not too bad a paper, I don't think they went easy on us but it could have been harder, I answered on refugees, tourism and location of industry. I don't think I got an A or even a B to be honest but I didn't fail either.

Fortinbras'

Excellent paper, wrote 6 extra pages!, sore hand!
what was the deal with the part b on glaciation?

Flamingfud

It was ok. I need clarification on one thing though....

Question 2, (B)- Seas

Part (ii)- The word coastline actually meant 'coastline', right? as in the land adjacent the sea. It didn't mean 'sea'.... I have a friend who did fishing as his answer for that part, and I'll be pissed if it was the right answer...I thought about doing it for maybe two minutes, before deciding against it, and struggling through the MUCH harder effects of groynes and the balance that needs to be kept.

Anyone know?

Binomate

It was a beautifull exam! Lovely question on history of transport, settlement and historic settlement in the map section. Coasts came up! Fieldwork was marks in the bag and Italy and NORWAY came up! Brilliant. I'm happy. Although I did fairly bad in the regional section I still managed to waffle for about 4 or 5 pages for Italy into regions. I didn't have time for the coastal case study and besides that the case study I did was an english one. I'm thrilled.

sarahg_angel69

fantabulistic paper!!!! over the moon!!! there was a unison "yeeeooooo" wen spain and italy came up!!!! got a B i'd say!! wrote 28 bloody pages!!!

Fortinbras'

sarahg_angel69 wrote:

fantabulistic paper!!!! over the moon!!! there was a unison "yeeeooooo" wen spain and italy came up!!!! got a B i'd say!! wrote 28 bloody pages!!!

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For the question b on glaciation I wrote about the excess water causing levees and ox-vow lakes, will i get anything for that?

for the map i talked about

neolithic people
celtic people
and christian people is that ok

for the part c i talked about linear, nucleated and dispersed?

did i **** thos up or are they right and for the first map q do you just talk about the canal,rail and roads?

Binomate

I only managed 20.

Cina

Everything came up that should have, no complaints from me at all, i wrote 21 pages, i'd say B1/B2

vote4pedro

Very good paper, easy for anyone who had done the work and prepared the questions. Very happy.

chillywilly

vote4pedro wrote:

Very good paper, easy for anyone who had done the work and prepared the questions. Very happy.

i only got to do 3 Qs

but i think i did well in them so im happy

gaagirl

it was a nice paper but i thought the q about the development of transport in mullingar (os) was relying on our own initiative more than the map! u needed to know about history of canals and the way roads have developed in more detail than other years. delighted with spain though!!! and for the sea q i didnt do fishing i went on about groynes, gabions, rock armour etc!

rasher_b2

It was an ok paper. Italy into regions came up so I was happy. I think it was an easier paper than the mock so hopefully i got a good mark in it.

Creamy Goodness

with the glaciation question were they looking for three features overall?

it was worded very awarkwardly.

Finch*

i finished the booklet, but was ****ting myself as i was doing my fieldwork cuz i had a brief look at the regional questions and i didnt see Norway for some reason, and that was all i had studied!! thank fully i noticed it after i had done my field work, phew!

rose**

was prett happy. coastline? feck i wrote about the sea. answered spain wish france had come up. no but it was grand every1 was pretty happy in my place :rolleyes:

randomfella

**** i knew i shoud have gone on about that in part b!!! i mentioned sellafield (pollution) vs. recreation. I should have realised this instead of going off on a tangent. where is the conflict though? Poorly worded part b. i well know how to answer a b on coastal management if this was the case.

overall everything i predicted was on it, only complaint was 3 regions or more, but that was my fault.

B1 like i got in the mocks..

What did u say for the evolution of transport?
i did river, canal, rail and road.

History
Stone age, bronze age, celts age, Castle age, Christian age. and gave examples of each.

Settlement - linear and clustered. this one seemed to easy to be true.

I spent too much time on the stupid field trip question, and didn't get any other questions finished. I'm smart.

Fortinbras'

Fortinbras' wrote:

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For the question b on glaciation I wrote about the excess water causing levees and ox-vow lakes, will i get anything for that?

for the map i talked about

neolithic people
celtic people
and christian people is that ok

for the part c i talked about linear, nucleated and dispersed?

did i **** thos up or are they right and for the first map q do you just talk about the canal,rail and roads?

Is that anyway right?

andrew163

The paper was quite nice. Good change after that abomination of a maths exam earlier :rolleyes:

I didn't get it finished >.<.... Got as far as halfway through the second region of Italy, then the time ran out.... Could've been alot worse. Think I got about 60% to 75%.

17 A4 pages of writing in 3 hours 50 minutes is not a fun idea, kiddies....my hand...

gaagirl

randomfella wrote:

What did u say for the evolution of transport?
i did river, canal, rail and road.

History
Stone age, bronze age, celts age, Castle age, Christian age. and gave examples of each.

Settlement - linear and clustered. this one seemed to easy to be true.

i did pretty much the same but i put canal and river as one point
did prechristian, early christian and norman
same for the settlement!
i hate os work, u just go round in circles nd its always impossible to answer what theyve asked!

the smiley one

Flamingfud wrote:

It was ok. I need clarification on one thing though....

Question 2, (B)- Seas

Part (ii)- The word coastline actually meant 'coastline', right? as in the land adjacent the sea. It didn't mean 'sea'.... I have a friend who did fishing as his answer for that part, and I'll be pissed if it was the right answer...I thought about doing it for maybe two minutes, before deciding against it, and struggling through the MUCH harder effects of groynes and the balance that needs to be kept.

Anyone know?

i don't think they are going to mark the whole thing wrong based on one word either way....I'd say both would be accepted....well I would accept that if I was a marker!

Was ok.....hard to know really....got everything finished, just about and studied the stuff that came up...timing was a bit sh*te overall but anyway...

Bright Smile

tbh im dead upset- id studied everythin, italy med,norway, france,glaciation, sea and rivers, fieldwork and mapwork.....and then i had a fe(king BRAIN FREEZE on italy after spending 3 hours on it yesterday....nothing too great,didnt get onto the alps at all and left out the ten marker tail at the end of the fieldwork.
I worked damn hard for the exam (as many others did) and just couldnt get it down on paper....

segadreamcast

Bright Smile wrote:

tbh im dead upset- id studied everythin, italy med,norway, france,glaciation, sea and rivers, fieldwork and mapwork.....and then i had a fe(king BRAIN FREEZE on italy after spending 3 hours on it yesterday....nothing too great,didnt get onto the alps at all and left out the ten marker tail at the end of the fieldwork.
I worked damn hard for the exam (as many others did) and just couldnt get it down on paper....

Know the feeling so badly, I started freezing at glaciation (ho...) and by Italy I was struggling to recall anything. I have litreally been studying both topics since October - I was going absolutely crazy over it in the exam hall.

70% at best to be honest - and that should've been an A1 based on what came up, it was a light enough paper. F&"K IT ANYWAY.

Africa

People how do you write so frieking much? And why? I did i say about 13 pages (notsure), but its still good! Like i did the Sea, perfect in 4 pages as in yes flawless!, Field work of 3 pages, again flawless and perfect, Spain in just over 2.5 pages which was pretty damn good if i do say so myself and then did the map work, about 3 pages which was a decent answer! Will be dissapointed if i dont get an A!

captain_frances

Field work, in the bag baby,
Coastlines, not too shabby (not flawless though)
OS question.. what a fab question.
Regions? Yeah, if I had gotten around to it, it would have been okay. Time management...is an issue.
But still. I don't think I failed.

love_the_chocol

okay well that paper was such a relief, PHEW!!!!
I gota my B in that no probs, i hope!!! The coast part b and fieldwork last question threw me a bit cause of wording but overall good. Can anyone tell me is this right??
division of spain
meseta, galicia, med coastlands
under 3 heading
-relief and drainage, climate, agriculture
????????

vote4pedro

gaagirl wrote:

it was a nice paper but i thought the q about the development of transport in mullingar (os) was relying on our own initiative more than the map! u needed to know about history of canals and the way roads have developed in more detail than other years.

Not really. All you had to do was describe canals on the map, say this transport used less when railways were invented, describe the rail system and then say it has now evolved that road transport is the main type, then describe roads on the map.

randombassist

Wow that was such a long paper... 28 pages later and my hand literally feels like it's going to fall off. Won't be able to play bass for a week! The questions were brilliant for me all the same. Norway and Coasts, there must be someone up there looking after me after all :P

segadreamcast

Africa wrote:

People how do you write so frieking much? And why? I did i say about 13 pages (notsure), but its still good! Like i did the Sea, perfect in 4 pages as in yes flawless!, Field work of 3 pages, again flawless and perfect, Spain in just over 2.5 pages which was pretty damn good if i do say so myself and then did the map work, about 3 pages which was a decent answer! Will be dissapointed if i dont get an A!

Unless your writing is absolutely miniscule - that isn't enough mate, sorry to burst your bubble... it might be perfect - but so is the statement: "The sea is wet" - yet it isn't elaborate enough to get an A, you know?

Hope you do get an A though makes my 29 pages look all the better.

Cravez

The Paper had everything i studied for so im happy , the O.S map question was very reasonable and was no problem. Coasts was no problem, field work i may have not made sense in places as your writing 90 mph. Region: i hoped for Italy and it came up so happy with that too.

Over all the paper was very student friendly, there wasnt one question if you studied during your course you wouldn't answer. Came out of the exam though with the "Writing finger" you know that little bump you develop on the side of your middle finger, but this was like a crater in my finger

captain_frances

Is anyone elses hand killing them from all of this intensive writing? 19 pages my friends, and a blistering thumb. I'm telling ya, I'm really not looking forward to History's five essays. *insert swear word here*

Creamy Goodness

NoelRock wrote:

Unless your writing is absolutely miniscule - that isn't enough mate, sorry to burst your bubble... it might be perfect - but so is the statement: "The sea is wet" - yet it isn't elaborate enough to get an A, you know?

Hope you do get an A though makes my 29 pages look all the better.

29 pages holy crap, i was about 3 pages off from finishing a booklet, was pretty happy with that.

can anyone tell me about the glaciation question could you use 3 features of erosion and depostion or just 3 from either or.

lillywhite

for the second part of glaciation i did dalmatian coast and rias for the increased volume of water. is that completely wrong i can't bear to open my book and check! im so glad that geography and maths 2 are over! 4 down 3 to go!!

randomfella

i forgot marram grass and sand dunes on the spit, apart from that i had the sea locked down. well apart from B - depends.

I did 5 pages on regional.
Couldn't physically write more in 50mins, bit unfair. I could have easily wrote another half an hours' worth
4 pages on Map
3 photo
4 physical

Shinny-dee

captain_frances wrote:

Is anyone elses hand killing them from all of this intensive writing? 19 pages my friends, and a blistering thumb. I'm telling ya, I'm really not looking forward to History's five essays. *insert swear word here*

yup me too my hands still killin me frm irish never mind today!will die before i finish history paper without a doubt!!

grand paper of course i only studied france cos i lost spain n italy notes so had t make up spain in about ten mins!!oh well roll on wednesday!

um lillywhite i did eskers,outwash plains, boulder clay/till, erratics n even whacked d burren in there thats wat most people in my skool did too.

baby*cham*bell

NoelRock wrote:

Unless your writing is absolutely miniscule - that isn't enough mate, sorry to burst your bubble... it might be perfect - but so is the statement: "The sea is wet" - yet it isn't elaborate enough to get an A, you know?

Hope you do get an A though makes my 29 pages look all the better.

i did 16, and i'm confident of at least a b1!!!! my fieldwork is 4.5 (perfect) italy 3.5 (also perfect cos i got 94/100 in the mocks) os and photograph were pretty good!!!
they just want the details,not the waffely ****e!!

the smiley one

just out of curiousity how many pages are in the booklet thing....I did that +5.......someone cut off my arm!!!!!

Africa

Hm.....i dont even see what there is to write so much on each aspect of them! I mean sum it up and its grand! I summed up with great language and detail and used thediagrams too! Suprising that so many were done, but i have proved in the past that it is quality not quantity! Got A in mocks have been straight A student forever in the subject so will be sickened if i dont get it!

Oh and about 15 words a line, my english was like 25 words a line with the stress affecting my writing!!!

Flamingfud

Ahh ****e. I had a headfeck on that question one. Couldn't remember clustered......had linear, and the one about settlements not existing on higher ground. Even though there was no high ground. 15 marks away!

Part from that, can't think of anything I got wrong. B1 in the bag, A2 if I'm lucky

Sully

Got all of it done. Didnt do Italy, so attempted the Toursim question - class it was.

I had major time problems. For one the photohraph question, i did a really quick sketch map, then just wrote parts 2 and 3 in point form, in the last minute.

**** you, Time. **** you.

willire

ok not sure if im the only one (and the only class) in the country that did the map question b4!!! it was a mock we had in our school in 2003 i think! dont think the question was the exact same but the transport and historical settlement was def on it! im did bout 18 pages on it! dont see how people can do more than 24 unless you skip pages and have diagrams that take up a page!! is maramm grass essential for sand spit????????????

Lynibeth

The paper was good but I probably still failed LOL. Ah no I don't know how I did. finished the answer book... meh lol

Fortinbras'

For the question b on glaciation I wrote about the excess water causing levees and ox-vow lakes, will i get anything for that?

for the map i talked about

neolithic people
celtic people
and christian people is that ok

for the part c i talked about linear, nucleated and dispersed?

did i **** those up or are they right and for the first map q do you just talk about the canal,rail and roads?
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max_power

29 pages? in 3 hours 20 mins? that means 29 pages in 200 mins..thats like a page every 7 mins constantly? your freaks if your tellin the truth, or else you have massive writing and did your exam in crayons...you can easilly get an a1 with 15-18 pages, doesnt matter how much ****e you write, quanlity not quantity as they say

Africa

Lol expressing my thoughts exactly there mate...

|Maestro|

Id i mess up geofraphy yestersay?


for the section b on glaciers I talked about the extra water causing flooding and then fully explained levees and ox bow lakes


For the map i think i messed it all up
for part a. i wrote abot the rail,road and canal just?


for the history of settlement i did neolithic,celtic and christian and got the dates for the christian ttally wrong,
i also said that barrows are asssociated with the Neolithic, is that right?

and for the part c i discussed the settlement of dispersed,linear and nucleated???????????

randomfella

willire wrote:

ok not sure if im the only one (and the only class) in the country that did the map question b4!!! it was a mock we had in our school in 2003 i think! dont think the question was the exact same but the transport and historical settlement was def on it! im did bout 18 pages on it! dont see how people can do more than 24 unless you skip pages and have diagrams that take up a page!! is maramm grass essential for sand spit????????????

I hope not. I gave the spit a good solid page going into detail on wave refraction-why the spit is curved.I also went on about sand bar, lagoon and tombolo to stretch my answer out. If u search coasts u will see what i wrote. i hope this makes up for it. And my diagrams were perfect. Did 3 for cliff and just 2 for the others

TheDoc

I thought it was an easy paper. I had put me effort into rivers, which was shock horro but did Glaciation fine.

Did my ordinace survey to great and my aerial photograph.

Our teacher was a dope and gave us the worst field study ever, unable to use it, we never went on study instead he just wrote one out which was pathetic.

I did the tourism question which is probably the easiest question on the paper it was perfect, since i didnt bother really learning a country.

Aerial Photo
OS map
Glaciation
Tourism

Wrote roughly 20+ pages but wont guess a mark cause you build yourself up to be knocked down cause you can never guess and your a dope if you think oyu can. I am quietly confident though.

phantom_lord

i did 36pages, and 4pages of graphs for the fieldwork, and even then i think i might just have scaped an a1. I scared the **** out of the guy beside me who had only half filled his booklet when i was asking for more paper... If France and rivers had come up i would have done better, the map question was pretty good. The part bfor glaciation was not what i was expecting at all. It got pretty annoying when i couldn't remember stuff on italy but all of France was in my head. I'm glad my hand never hurts after writing..

A booklet is 28pages right?

randomfella

how much did u write per section?