how to prepare for gcse geography
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The Basics
• 3 exam papers
• Physical (35%)
• Human (35%)
• Geographical Applications: Skills and Fieldwork (30%)
• Multiple choice, short answer, extended prose
Assessment Objectives• AO1: Demonstrate knowledge of locations, places, processes,
environments and different scales (15%).
• AO2: Demonstrate geographical understanding of: concepts and how they are used in relation to places, environments and processes; the interrelationships between places, environments and processes (25%).
• AO3: Apply knowledge and understanding to interpret, analyse and evaluate geographical information and issues to make judgements (35%, including 10% applied to fieldwork context(s))
• AO4: Select, adapt and use a variety of skills and techniques to investigate questions and issues and communicate findings (25%, including 5% used to respond to fieldwork data and context(s)).
Geographical skills
Geographical skills appear across all 3 papers. These are low tariff questions but they add up! Students need to be confident with them but also be able to do them quickly. A full checklist and support booklet will be printed and with all your children soon!
Paper 3: Geographical Applications
• Section A – questions based on a pre-release resource
• Section B - Fieldwork
Fieldwork Enquiries
Enquiry 1 - How does the River Wye change from source to confluence?
Enquiry 2 - How has the regeneration of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park impacted the surrounding areas?
Fieldwork titles
must be known
What questions could be asked?
• Planning the enquiry - including a risk assessment
• Methodology - what methods were, sampling techniques and why they were chosen
• Results• Data presentation/statistical analysis• Data analysis• Conclusions• Evaluating your enquiry
Paper 3: The Issue Evaluation
• Pre-release - 6 page resource booklet - 19th March 2020
• Can be on any geographical issue anywhere in the world!
• Each student will be given a full copy of the pre-release just before/after Easter
• Prior to exam 2 weeks of class time devoted to preparing for this section of paper 3:– Skills – Interpretation of resources– Preparing for the decision making question
Revision Tools• Class work
• Google Classroom: case study sheets, glossary of key terms per topic, complete topic checklist, command words, unit summary videos practice questions and mark schemes and Revision PPTs
• Paper 1 & Paper 2 exam question booklets
• Paper 3 skills booklet - coming soon
All students now have access to Kerboodle Geography resources:● Skills pod videos and worksheets● Glossaries for each unit● Tests for each unit● Exam question support and structure● Full access to the AQA 9 - 1 digital
textbook● Logins - same as Science/languages
● All students have a log-in and a specific Geography classroom
● Follows AQA spec● Teacher sets assignments to
complete● Students can also work through each
unit to help revise every section in paper 1 & 2
Revision Tools
• Textbooks: Hodder, Oxford
• Revision Guides: CGP, Collins, My Revision Notes, BBC Bitesize
Wednesday lunchtime
Thursday after school
1 hour revision on topic
beforehand
Saturday sessions before
each paper
VISUAL LEARNERS
• Rewrite your notes as mind-maps/diagrams
• Use colour to highlight important things
• Draw diagrams and sketches to help you remember points.
• Turn case studies into images
• Use acroynyms
AUDITORY LEARNERS
• ACT it out!• Sing it/Rap it• Tell a friend• Just a minute – talk for a minute on a topic• Create a podcast• Film yourself using the flip cams, create your own
revision news bite• Listen to songs about the topic• Watch a video about the topic – see bbc learning
broadband clips• Create a quiz to test your friends on a topic
Mnemonics
• Encoding information in a memorable phrase
• Using vivid, positive, humorous phrases
Lithosohere Asthenosphere Mantle Crust
Late Again Miss Cried
READING WRITING
• Copy out your notes.
• Summarise your case studies into 5 bullet points
• Summarise them into 5 words
• Read your notes silently
• Rewrite the key points using different words.
• Write down key points from memory
• Create your own key words list
• Write an acrostic poem
Cue cards
• Cards with key word or question on one side and answer/ definition/ formula/ short list on reverse
Flow diagrams
• Use colour
• Encourages you to summarise notes to put in diagram ideal for case studies e.g. the construction of the Three Gorges Dam
Sound recordings
• Use revision notes or booklets to make recording
• Listen whilst travelling
• Make mindmaps/ diagrams while listening
Or
• Read revision notes out loud
KINAESTHETIC LEARNERS
• ACT out a case study
• Revise while you do kung-fu moves or other physical activity
• Create actions for different processes
• Mentally review what you’ve been revising while you’re swimming or jogging.
• Create actions for your revision – use your fingers for numbers
Journey technique
• Use an established journey
• Associate landmarks on the journey with the items to remember
• E.g. journey to school
• Could be useful for remember items in an order e.g. Demographic Transition Model (5 stages)