Quiz each other using the cards in front of you.

Create 3 piles of cards:

- Answered easily
- Answered but not 100%
- Couldn’t answer
Name:

Geography Revision

PAPER 2 – TOPIC 6
EXAM PRACTICE
 Remember…
You must decode the question (work out what they are asking you)
B – Box the command word – so you know what they are asking you to
do, don’t explain if they only ask you to describe
U – Underline the key geography – so you know what they want the
answer to be about
G – glance at:
• How many marks the question is worth – (4 mark explain = 2 ‘so
what’s)
• Back at the question – does what you’ve written answer it
• Your answer – does it make sense?

There are clues – if you know how to spot them

Paper 2 has resources for 8 mark questions and for the short questions – You
must use them to gain marks. If in doubt, describe them – it will get you
something (but not as much as if you do what the question tells you to do!)
In Paper 2, there are two compulsory sections, (The UK’s Physical Landscape & The
UK’s Human Landscape) each worth 27 marks followed by a third section comprising
two ‘mirror image’ fieldwork sub- sections worth 18 marks each with students
selecting either coastal or river (Q9) fieldwork topics in one section and either
urban (Q10) or rural fieldwork in the other.
There are a further two 8-mark fieldwork questions in Section C that also use one
of two command words – ‘Assess’ or ‘Evaluate’. One of these essay questions will
be about on unseen fieldwork data based on the same environment they’ve
studied.

These questions require students to extract information from the resource or

resources (AO4) and the application of their knowledge and understanding to
interpret the information in the resource or resources (AO3).

The other 8-mark fieldwork question will be assessing their own fieldwork
asking them to recall the skills and techniques they used in their own (familiar)
fieldwork findings (AO4) and deconstructing that information to provide
judgements (AO3).
Sections C1 and C2 on Paper 2 assess both the student’s own experience (familiar
context) and their ability to engage with a fieldwork scenario provided in the
exam (unfamiliar context).

This unfamiliar context will however reflect the focus of data collection methods
prescribed in the specification and thus is familiar in the type of content
involved.
Each year, students will answer one set of short answer questions in each context,
and one extended writing question in each context.

Short questions (10 Extended question (8

Section
marks marks)
C1 Q8 Coasts or Q9
Unfamiliar Familiar
rivers
C2 Q10Urban or Q11
Familiar Unfamiliar
Rural
OR
C1 Q8 Coasts or Q9
Familiar Unfamiliar
rivers
C2 Q10 Urban or
Unfamiliar Familiar
Q11Rural
In the examination in any given year, students will be assessed on at least two of
the six enquiry stages below, across both their investigations:
Make sure you write about RIVERS
in the RIVERS section: Question 9

You MUST cross the box to show which questions you answered as the papers
are scanned
 BUG the text with the
resources too! As they’re
clues!

Don’t forget to
read the titles
of the
columns,
they’re clues
too!
 (i) Suggest a suitable enquiry question that the
students could have investigated. (2)

(ii) Suggest two factors which should have been

considered when choosing the fieldwork locations.
(4)

(iii) Describe the results of the students’

fieldwork shown on Figure 9. (4)

Short questions (10 marks): multiple- choice, short open, open and calculation questions
(iii) Describe the results of the students’ fieldwork shown on Figure 9. (4)

This a full and

comprehensive
answer. The candidate
tries to contrast the
gradients on the
different rock types
which was, after all,
the purpose of the
fieldwork.
4 marks

Only 1 mark. Why?

(b) You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating how and why drainage basin
characteristics influence flood risk for people and property.

Name your river environment fieldwork location:

Assess the role of secondary data sources in your investigation. (8)

 Secondary data What else?

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 Key Tips
7 Marks - A range of sources needed to
strengthen A04
- You can bring in Primary if you
think it was more important!
- IMPORTANCE needs
consideration.
 Key Tips
8 Marks - A range of sources needed to
strengthen A04
- PEEL (links weaker in this)
 Go straight to Q10 (urban)
following Q9 (rivers)

Remember to MUST cross the box

Short questions (10 Extended question (8

Section
marks marks)
C1 Q8 Coasts or Q9
Unfamiliar Familiar
rivers
C2 Q10Urban or Q11
Familiar Unfamiliar
Rural
OR
C1 Q8 Coasts or Q9
Familiar Unfamiliar
rivers
C2 Q10 Urban or
Unfamiliar Familiar
Q11Rural

If rivers followed the format unfamiliar then familiar then urban will be the opposite
10 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating environmental quality in an urban
area.
Name your urban area:

(a) Explain one reason why you chose that urban area. (2)

(b) Using an annotated sketch map, explain how you chose your sites or location for data
collection. (4)

The examiner must see elements that locate the map – road names, title with the
name OR you will not get marks, even if what you have written underneath is
excellent.

Your map must have the features of a map: key, scale (not to scale), north arrow.

Annotations are not labels and they must address the question.

If you are asked to present your data – draw a graph (or map) which has the correct
features: title (A graph to show…) labels, increments
10 You have carried out your own fieldwork investigating environmental quality in an urban
area.
Name your urban area:

(a) Explain one reason why you chose that urban area. (2)
(b) Using an annotated sketch map, explain how you chose your sites or location
for data collection. (4)
4 marks

Why?
 Explain why the conclusions that you reached might be unreliable. (4)

Remember: we do not have to submit your fieldwork and the examiner will not spend time trawling the
internet to check what you say is correct. This is your opinion but it must be believable in the context of the
fieldwork that they know you carried out in accordance to exam board requirements
The students concluded that the social, economic and environmental conditions in the urban
area had improved since 2014.
Assess the evidence for this conclusion. (8) BUG the text with the
resources too! They have
told you this information
for a reason

If time allows – annotate the resource

you have been given

Assess - Use evidence to determine the relative significance of something. Give consideration to all factors
and identify which are the most important. Make a judgement.
Assess the evidence for this conclusion.

Evidence is correct Evidence could be

incorrect

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1 mark.
 4 Marks
Key Tips
- A03 & A04 equally important
- A03 – pupils who categorised into social, economic
and environmental got A03 marks
- Don’t be intimidated by unfamiliar sources of data
- Look at the context (weaknesses in the data not just
the data)
- Conclusions are vital