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York GA 6 th Form Conference. AQA Geography Unit GEO4B Planning and sitting the examination. Preparing with the AIB. When you first receive the Booklet you need to read it carefully to get to know the layout. What is/are the main issues that are being covered by the AIB?.
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York GA 6th Form Conference AQA Geography Unit GEO4B Planning and sitting the examination
Preparing with the AIB • When you first receive the Booklet you need to read it carefully to get to know the layout. • What is/are the main issues that are being covered by the AIB?
Preparing with the AIB • Are there any words or phrases in the AIB that you are not absolutely clear about? • If there are, find out what they mean. • Consider working with the teacher and the class to produce a glossary.
Preparing with the AIB • How does the material in the AIB relate to your work in geog over the two years of the A Level course (and your GCSE course)? • Which concepts or key ideas from the course might you be able to bring into your answers? • Which case studies might reasonably be compared with the case study in the booklet?
Preparing with the AIB • Are there any references to further research? • If you are directed to websites make sure that you go to them and use them thoroughly. • If you are directed to a possible fieldwork topic you need to think about it clearly....but you are not expected to go out and do it.
Preparing with the AIB • You may do further research as you think fit. • Keep this in proportion. Do not overdo and detract from the rest of your work.
Preparing with the AIB • Probably the most important research you can do is to look at any optional topics that seem linked to the AIB but which you have not studied in your course. • But only look at the relevant parts of those options, not the whole chapter.
Preparing with the AIB • There will be data in the AIB. Use these. • Try mapping data, using different techniques, where relevant. • Try some statistics techniques, or graphing data, when relevant. • Have a class discussion about the best techniques that you have tried.
Preparing with the AIB • If there is a map in the AIB you must.... • ....look carefully at the scale and be aware of distances • ....be aware of differences within the study area • ....think about human/physical inter-relationships
Preparing with the AIB • When you go into the exam you must know the layout of the AIB so well that you do not have to waste any time searching the booklet to find information that you need.
Performing well in the exam • Plan your time properly. • The exam is 90 minutes long. • There are 60 marks available. • So allow 1.5 minutes / mark. • Keep checking. Do not fall behind schedule.
Performing well in the exam • The paper is planned as a single exercise so.... • ....it is usually best to work through from the first question to the last. • Early questions are often fairly straight forward and deal with getting to know the data. • Later questions may build on the work done in those early questions.
Performing well in the exam • Obviously you must do what the question asks you to do.... • ....but I am always surprised by how many people don’t do that. • Identify the ‘command words’ and ‘key words’ before you start to answer. • As you write the longer answers keep checking back to the question so that you avoid ‘drift’.
Performing well in the exam • If you are asked to do something with data do not ‘datawaffle’! Instead try to.... • ....look for trends and patterns. • ....do some manipulation (work out total change, compare percentages, etc.) • ....compare things at different times and places.
Performing well in the exam • Excellent way to move up through the levels include.... • ....considering issues on a short and long term basis; • ....considering issues at different scales; • ....considering issues from different points of view.
Performing well in the exam • Those of you desperately hoping to scrape an E grade will not do it by copying great chunks of AIB. • Quoting from the AIB is fine, but never more than a phrase or two from one place. • Better to combine quotes from different parts of the booklet.... • ....and to add your own knowledge and ideas.
Performing well in the exam • You will not get an A or A* grade by simply being careful. • Try to show your ‘flair’. • Link your answers to the ‘big ideas’ of geography. • Be synoptic and link ideas from different parts of the subjects.
Good luck..... • .....but have you ever noticed, “the harder you work the luckier you seem to get”?
Q1 • Using your own research, and Figure 2, explain why Poole BC suggests the need for regeneration. (8 marks)
Q2 • “Is the new bridge really needed?” • How would you collect primary fieldwork data to see if a new bridge would reduce traffic congestion? • (10 marks)
Q3 • Compare the possible effects of the bridge on SOAs 014 and 001. • Or • To what extent will divisions in wealth in Poole be exacerbated by the new bridge? Describe patterns.
Q4 Suggest, with reasons, what conflicts might occur between environmental and economic groups over the development of the bridge. (15 marks)
Q5 To what extent do you agree that the Twin Sails Bridge will help Poole to develop sustainably. (15 marks)
Q Middle • To what extent does the phys env around Poole Harbour hinder the area’s development? • To what extent does the conservation area prevent the devleopment of poole?
