1. Get organised.  Make sure you have all of your exercise books, your revision guide, exam specifications, past papers and any other revision materials you have been given.  Make sure you know which topics come up in which paper.  For a summary of the three exam papers click here.  

2. Little and often.  Make yourself a revision timetable.  Look at what you have to cover and divide up the time you have available.  Break topics up into smaller chunks - the exam specifications can help you do this.  

3. Active revision.  Once you know what you are revising, do something active.  Create revision flash cards (see information below) or a mind map.  It is very difficult to retain lots on information by simply reading or watching something.

4. Address gaps in knowledge.  If you are stuck on a particular topic or case study, then spend time improving your understanding.  Use the Geography revision channel links below (Links: UNIT 1,  UNIT 2), which take you through each topic in detail.  Use your revision guide or Seneca.  Speak to your teacher. 

5. Test yourself.  Give yourself a basic mind map of a topic  with just a few headings.  See what you can remember, then check your notes and see what you need to add.  Can you get a friend or family member to test you?  

6. Know your case studies.  Make sure that you can remember at least 3 place names, facts or statistics about each case study.  To achieve Level 3 answers you need to include place specific details. 

7. Past Papers.  All of the Geography past papers are available on this website, along with their mark schemes (Click here).  Revise a topic, and then attempt a few exam questions.  Use the mark scheme to check and improve your answers.  Do you know how to access the top marks? Are there gaps in your knowledge?  Your Geography teacher will also expect you to hand in some exam answers to them - they will give you some feedback within a few days. 

We recommend that you have a GCSE Geography revision guide to help you with the course.  They are available to buy through MCAS at a reduced rate.  Let your Geography teacher know when you have ordered one.   Please speak to you teacher if you have any concerns about purchasing one. 

If you are given revision guides by siblings/friends, first check that they are for the correct GCSE Specification - they need to be Geography OCR B. 

This new revision guide (Amazon link here) has recently become available.  It is very detailed and includes lots of useful practice questions and retrieval tasks.  However, it is more expensive and we don't currently stock it in school.  If you think you would use it then we would also recommend this. 

As part of your GCSE course you must undertake fieldwork on two occasions in two contrasting locations. 

Your fieldwork knowledge and skills are assessed in the Unit 1 and Unit 2 papers.  There will be a 15 mark question on each of these papers.  Fieldwork accounts for 18% of your total GCSE Geography mark. 

To find out what and how to prepare for these questions please see the 'Fieldwork' page on this website. 

Everything you need to know can be found on the website.  Click here.