Geography

Exam specification

 https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography

Exams

Paper 1 – Physical Geography (1 hour and 30 minutes)

(Challenge of Natural Hazards, UK Physical Landscapes (coasts and rivers), The Living World (tropical rainforests and cold environments)

Paper 2 – Human Geography (1 hour and 30 minutes)

(Urban Issues and Challenges, Changing Economic World, Resource Management (Energy))

Paper 3 – Geographical Applications (1 hour and 30 minutes)

(Issue Evaluation (released 12 weeks before the exam) and Fieldwork (Unseen fieldwork and Seen fieldwork (Stratford and Walton-on-the-Naze))

Skills

AQA GCSE (9-1) Geography Workbook

Revision websites / app

PiXL Geography App – content revision quizzes

Useful Revision materials

GCSE BBC Bitesize: GCSE Geography - AQA - BBC Bitesize 

Internet Geography: AQA GCSE Geography - Internet Geography 

Cool Geography: Welcome to Coolgeography.co.uk 

Seneca: Geography: AQA GCSE (senecalearning.com) 

Documentaries

• David Attenborough documentaries

• Andrew Marr’s Megacities

• Unreported World (whole series of global issues that go un-reported)

• Dispatches (current affairs series)

Revision tips for Geography

• Extend your general knowledge of places and current affairs by watching the news and being aware of events such as world hazards, conflicts and migration of people.

• View a variety of different types of maps, graphs and images to familiarise yourself with how to analyse these and assess them as a geographer.

• Know your case studies

• Be able to evaluate (both sides of the argument) to get the top marks in your 9 mark questions.

Know the structures of your exam questions

• 1 mark question- a point

• 2 mark question- point and explain

• 4 mark question- point, explain, point, explain

• 6 mark questions- point, evidence, explain, point, evidence, explain

• 9 mark question- point, evidence, explain, link, point, evidence, explain, link and conclusion