** Geography 2012- Before/After

AnnaKin · 08-06-2012 06:16PM

Ah they sent that correction out in case students got confused or couldnt tell that it was a ringfort...(which imo was preeetttttty damn impossible, unless you've never looked at a map in your life i'm pretty sure people could manage to identify that it was a ringfort but sure :rolleyes:

BridgetRB · 08-06-2012 06:17PM

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

For question 12c) for the changing land use? what did you have to talk about?

I'm not sure if I messed up or managed to think of something.

Hey I wasn't sure what to write either, I talked about having parks and green areas, schools, industry, how urban sprawl has changed the land use I dunno can't really remember now, wrote 2 a4s hoping some of what I was writing was worth a few srps:rolleyes:! ha

frantic190 · 08-06-2012 06:18PM

irishdub14 wrote: »

Is SW USA a sub-continental region? Because I used it as one for a sketch map....

Yep!

biohaiid · 08-06-2012 06:18PM

I said SW USA was continental not sub-continental. Crap. Did I just lose 30 marks!?

frantic190 · 08-06-2012 06:20PM

biohaiid wrote: »

I said SW USA was continental not sub-continental. Crap. Did I just lose 30 marks!?

Tbh, it seems to be all the same. I would imagine you are still correct.

CiaranK · 08-06-2012 06:21PM

biohaiid wrote: »

I said SW USA was continental not sub-continental. Crap. Did I just lose 30 marks!?

Probably just the SRP where you said it was continental, They will know what you meant though. It's not like you said Paris was Continental or whatever. You'll be grand

biohaiid · 08-06-2012 06:21PM

frantic190 wrote: »

Tbh, it seems to be all the same. I would imagine you are still correct.

I hope so ..

annettesayz · 08-06-2012 06:22PM

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

For question 12c) for the changing land use? what did you have to talk about?

I'm not sure if I messed up or managed to think of something.

I wrote about the Dublin Docklands for that one...

TMCGY · 08-06-2012 06:27PM

annettesayz wrote: »

I wrote about the Dublin Docklands for that one...

I wrote about the CBD and transition zone...

biohaiid · 08-06-2012 06:28PM

CiaranK wrote: »

Probably just the SRP where you said it was continental, They will know what you meant though. It's not like you said Paris was Continental or whatever. You'll be grand

If it's a fussy examiner though ..

So mad at myself, I meant to go back and change it and I completely forgot. ):

AnnaKin · 08-06-2012 06:31PM

PictureFrame wrote: »

EXACTLY how I feel. It's so discouraging putting so much work into something and get dealt a paper like that.

I'm sorry but Q.10 on the Human Elective asked about the effect of technology on population? That's fúcking ridiculous. I've NEVER seen that anywhere like..

Please tell me that was q11?? I did 10 and mine had nothing to do with that

ConTheCat · 08-06-2012 06:31PM

Predicted the 80 mark question correctly, so happy! Some questions were a bit messed up and we hadn't others covered

Geographyhater · 08-06-2012 06:31PM

i wrote about the high chapparal biome in california and talked about deforestation, cattle grazing and permanent settling for the question 18 geoecology essay and i think i did it wrong cause it said biomes

FunnyUserName · 08-06-2012 06:33PM

Darren.993 wrote: »

Honestly I feel exactly the same. Everyone keeps telling me to forget about it but I can't. I keep thinking back wishing I had picked different questions and just thinking about how badly I screwed up one of my best subjects.

Hopefully we'll be over it by tommorrow, because this feeling is horrible.

Reassuring to know I'm not the only person wallowing in self-pity!

WestIRL · 08-06-2012 06:33PM

HELP PLEASEEEEEE!!!

Lovely physical. Nice biome. Nice Economic.

But one thing I'm worried about is the B part of Regional I answered.
"Discuss how landscape has shaped distinct regions." Or something along those lines.

I talked about how soils and relief have influenced the economic prosperity of regions such as Mezzo, GDA and comparing the good with the bad and how that determines how well off a region is... Should I have talked about Karst, I would have loved to but I didn't think it would come up under regional.

Not that big of a deal, my other questions were good. Just does anyone think that was an OK way to answer that question?

barryprp · 08-06-2012 06:38PM

overall pretty fair paper..i thought questions were a lot more specific than previous years do..the obvious one being in physical (feature of deposition rather than any irish landform of your choice) in one of the regional questions too, cant remember which one it was but discuss one tertiary activity in an irish region usually its just discuss tertiary activities..confident of a b3....not sure if it will be any higher than that...doubtful!

CiaranK · 08-06-2012 06:38PM

Geographyhater wrote: »

i wrote about the high chapparal biome in california and talked about deforestation, cattle grazing and permanent settling for the question 18 geoecology essay and i think i did it wrong cause it said biomes

I'm the very same. Hope it's alright though because I mentioned different deserts within the North American Desert biome.

Mysteriouschic · 08-06-2012 06:40PM

BridgetRB wrote: »

Hey I wasn't sure what to write either, I talked about having parks and green areas, schools, industry, how urban sprawl has changed the land use I dunno can't really remember now, wrote 2 a4s hoping some of what I was writing was worth a few srps:rolleyes:! ha

annettesayz wrote: »

I wrote about the Dublin Docklands for that one...

TMCGY wrote: »

I wrote about the CBD and transition zone...

I did the docklands as well I only got a paragraph and went blank. Then I started talking about roads and the bus corridors and traffic congestion :S.
I started to wonder if I was doing it right or wrong as I though docklands were urban renewal.
I didn't know if they meant one of the land use models

.

The questions were really confusing I stuck to the questions where you had to look at the graphs .

annettesayz · 08-06-2012 06:41PM

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I did the docklands as well I only got a paragraph and went blank. Then I started talking about roads and the bus corridors and traffic congestion :S.
I started to wonder if I was doing it right or wrong as I though docklands were urban renewal.
I didn't know if they meant one of the land use models .

The questions were really confusing I stuck to the questions where you had to look at the graphs .

Yeah it is urban renewal, but I have a note in my book that says 'land use that changes over time' so I assume its fine..?
I got so confused aswell, tough paper.

Aidenryan · 08-06-2012 06:42PM

That paper was a ****ing JOKE...they have to mark it easy,even the short questions were hard!!!!!!!!!!

Geographyhater · 08-06-2012 06:43PM

CiaranK wrote: »

I'm the very same. Hope it's alright though because I mentioned different deserts within the North American Desert biome.

i need reassurance lol!!

TMCGY · 08-06-2012 06:48PM

For the human elective i think it was Q12 you had to draw a graph.. is it a bar graph or line graph you draw?!

Geo10 · 08-06-2012 06:50PM

TMCGY wrote: »

I wrote about the CBD and transition zone...

Same! Hope we're right!!!

For anyone who did Q12 for part B- I left this till last and was really panicing for time by this stage so I just stuck down sone bullet points on why the town developed there e.g. Bridging point, river, transport system... Literally just writing down phrases like that... then wrote 2 sentences on the crannog in lake and 1 sentence on an upland area. My answer was structured poorly and I don't even know if I answered the question cos I literally had like 6 minutes to do it!
Was what I wrote relevant cos I'd really be hoping for at least half marks in that Q but I don't know if I completely missed the point??? I saw someone say they wrote about rural settlements (clustered, linear, dispersed...)

:eek:

HELP PLEASE???

e1994 · 08-06-2012 06:50PM

Made an absolute balls of it

A1 in mocks and down to about a B3 if I'm lucky

and did anyone else not read the question properly and do a waterfall instead of a process of deposition??? so annoyed with myself!!!!!!

pio94 · 08-06-2012 06:51PM

TMCGY wrote: »

For the human elective i think it was Q12 you had to draw a graph.. is it a bar graph or line graph you draw?!

i drew 3 seperate bar charts for each country......probably completley wrong

HowAreWe · 08-06-2012 06:51PM

e1994 wrote: »

Made an absolute balls of it A1 in mocks and down to about a B3 if I'm lucky
and did anyone else not read the question properly and do a waterfall instead of a process of deposition??? so annoyed with myself!!!!!!

at least you didnt leave out a whole part (c)....

Canard · 08-06-2012 06:51PM

WORST EXAM IVE EVER DONE IN MY LIFE.

Shorts were a joke. Physical too but thankfully Q2 was on my mock, the exact one almost! Regional was ridiculous. Does anyone know if the burren was okay for a physically defined region!?

Economic was okay...but I had to ruin 9C with bullet points.

Atmosphere-ocean pattern was broken, so I couldnt write anything - the questions were ****ing ridiculous. Never seen them in my life and I'll be lucky to get ****ing 20/80.

Grainne0c · 08-06-2012 06:51PM

WestIRL wrote: »

HELP PLEASEEEEEE!!!

Lovely physical. Nice biome. Nice Economic.

But one thing I'm worried about is the B part of Regional I answered.
"Discuss how landscape has shaped distinct regions." Or something along those lines.

I talked about how soils and relief have influenced the economic prosperity of regions such as Mezzo, GDA and comparing the good with the bad and how that determines how well off a region is... Should I have talked about Karst, I would have loved to but I didn't think it would come up under regional.

Not that big of a deal, my other questions were good. Just does anyone think that was an OK way to answer that question?

i had it in the sue honan book so i just did it as the burren and put a bit about the giants causeway, leinster batholith aswell?

i duno thats what i thought we were supposed to do :L

pio94 · 08-06-2012 06:53PM

I saw someone say they wrote about rural settlements (clustered, linear, dispersed...)

:eek:

HELP PLEASE???[/QUOTE]

t i wrote about clustered and all that.....

Epsi · 08-06-2012 06:53PM

Didn't mind the paper too much. The short questions were grand , did Question 3 from core , Question 6 from regional , Question 7 from electives and Biome (question 18) from Geoecology. I found the core questions to be a bit tricky. Skipped part c) on Q3 to focus a little more on my biome essay. I'd rather of had a biome question on adaptations by flora and fauna.

** Geography 2012- Before/After

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