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Geography Higher level (how did ya get on)

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  • #32
    Lorthas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Lorthas


    loobylou wrote: »
    Hi guys,
    I'm the parent of JC'er, love maps etc., I cannot relate the aerial photo to anything on the OS map. Been reading maps for years and studied this one for last 30-40 mins, still can't match them up. Anyone here want to help me out with perhaps a grid ref. for the church in the centre of the aerial photo.
    Hope it' s not Alzheimers for me!!

    Yeah, I couldn't match them up either, but there wasn't a question that to related to that, luckily


  • #33
    IRISHSPORTSGUY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,276 ✭✭✭IRISHSPORTSGUY


    hardcorev1bes wrote: »
    the short questions were soo easy, i did Q1,2,4 on the long questions ..and i was looking over the paper there and noticed i forgot part D of 4 ..havent a clue how that happened!

    Same here - my priority mission was to avoid the maps at all costs.


  • #34
    loobylou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭loobylou


    Managed to match them up with the aid of google earth, would suggest it being almost impossible in an exam situation. My hat off to anyone that did so!!


  • #35
    Reckle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Reckle


    i put down landslide aswell! i put down silage,calves and manure


  • #36
    IRISHSPORTSGUY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,276 ✭✭✭IRISHSPORTSGUY


    Reckle wrote: »
    i put down landslide aswell! i put down silage,calves and manure

    I bloody hope it was a landslide!

    That's a lot of marks lost for me otherwise. :(


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  • #37
    leakd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭leakd


    loobylou wrote: »
    Hi guys,
    I'm the parent of JC'er, love maps etc., I cannot relate the aerial photo to anything on the OS map. Been reading maps for years and studied this one for last 30-40 mins, still can't match them up. Anyone here want to help me out with perhaps a grid ref. for the church in the centre of the aerial photo.
    Hope it' s not Alzheimers for me!!

    The photo was not pointing to the north, so you had to turn the map around a bit that they're pointing the same way. The river on the photo is the Corrib, and the church is just to the left of that. It actually isn't a church on the map, but a cathedral, so the sign is a bit different. We weren't allowed to take the maps with us though and I can't find it on the internet, so I can't give you a grid ref...


  • #38
    RMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »
    I bloody hope it was a landslide!

    That's a lot of marks lost for me otherwise. :(

    ye it was a landslide, don't know whether though it was at a stormy sea or relaxed lake. only 3 marks though anyways.


  • #39
    tracker-man
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    IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »
    Same here - my priority mission was to avoid the maps at all costs.

    Seriously?? Maps is a Definite question to come up every year.

    I thought the geography paper was simple enough, nothing difficult in it at all really! :)


  • #40
    Calorimeterman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Calorimeterman


    I thought it wuz easy enough like and might just keep it on bcos of its points gunna have to do some serious thinking aswell though cos i want to do LCVP aswell like :S]

    Also i think it was a stormy sea :P


  • #41
    tracker-man
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    Calorimeterman wrote: »
    I thought it wuz easy enough like and might just keep it on bcos of its points gunna have to do some serious thinking aswell though cos i want to do LCVP aswell like :S]

    Also i think it was a stormy sea :P

    Stormy sea ;)

    I'd think hard about LC geography, so many people think its an "easy subject for points", probably because of the way the JC Geo is setup but its a big step up and marks aren't as easily got as one might think! I know a number of people who have come out of their Leaving cert. geography exam fully confident they had secured an 'A' but turned out a 'C'.
    Talk to a teacher before choosing it over something else anyways :)


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  • #42
    Cow Moolester
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    Geography paper was easy!

    Hope the examiner pointed out the mistake to everyone in the settlement question on the SQ paper :)

    I did Q2,3 and 4 A, B, C.

    They were all easy enough. there were like 2 things I'm unsure about.
    In the SQ for farm inputs etc.

    I said Silage, Animal Manure and calves. Wasn't sure about that.

    And for the demographic transition chart
    I had Stage 1 for death rates
    Stage 5 for total population increase
    Stage 2 for natural decrease


  • #43
    oisin238
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭oisin238


    i did in section b q 2 4 a b c d (did d aswell cus i wasnt sure about how well i answered c) and 5 the map was so easy and ya she did point out the mistake.


  • #44
    tracker-man
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    oisin238 wrote: »
    ya she did point out the mistake.

    Did the mistake actually make a difference in answering the question though? I hope not cause if it did then I did something wrong! :D


  • #45
    echter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭echter


    I drank two mugs of coffee before the exam and i was buzzing! It was a such a mistake because in most of the long questions my points were there but my sentence structure was awful, i coudn't think straight. My hands were shaking so my sketch map was really wonky as well and usually they're top notch.

    Some of my friends did all the long questions, i had no time but i suppose i did all the short questions.


  • #46
    oisin238
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭oisin238


    tracker-man wrote: »
    Did the mistake actually make a difference in answering the question though? I hope not cause if it did then I did something wrong! :D


    i Didnt think it made a difference lol


  • #47
    ayumi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ayumi


    think about the incoming exams not the ones that passed


  • #48
    tracker-man
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    ayumi wrote: »
    think about the incoming exams not the ones that passed

    True. I better get off this then and do some study!

    Posted via Mobile Device


  • #49
    ayumi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭ayumi


    me too,but I dont know how to study for cspe


  • #50
    RMD
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    Cow Moolester wrote: »

    And for the demographic transition chart
    I had Stage 1 for death rates
    Stage 5 for total population increase
    Stage 2 for natural decrease

    I didn't do that question but I remember the 5 stages.

    Stage 1 = Highest death rates
    Stage 2 = Death rates go down a lot, birth rate stay the same, population boom occurs
    stage 3 = Death rates goes down a slight bit more, birth rate goes down significantly, population increases but not as much as stage 2
    Stage 4 = Birth rate and death rates are the same, population very slightly increases
    Stage 5 = Natural decrease occurs, birth rate goes lower again and death rate slightly rises as there is more elderly than new borns. A natural decrease in population occurs.


  • #51
    lolipops
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    it was easy except my class never learned how to draw an aerial photograph only the OS maps so i kind freaked out about that, i did it out of pure stupidity not realising i could of picked a different question.
    i went for question 2 and 3 from the second part too, anyone else do those?
    i got an A in the mocks but i think i got a C in this so im pretty dissapointed..


    and did anyone understand that diagram in the folder asking if it was soil creep or a land slide?.. i picked land slide but by john joe what the hell was that supposed to be? it looked like a normal piece of land first then it looked like there was a chunk out of the bottom gone and in the last box there was a rectangle stuck onto the front of it???..


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  • #52
    eVeNtInE
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  • #53
    tracker-man
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    lol! I thought it was clear enough! It showed the cut through section of the side of a hill. It then showed the under cutting where there was erosion due to road building or whatever and so the land above that had no support and fell, thus the landslide!


  • #54
    eVeNtInE
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