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Did you do the exam today? (Edexcel, specification B)

If so, how did you find it?

What questions did you choose from each section?

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Some of the A level Geography Videos are up there with the funniest things I've seen.

Captain Farquharson talking about his social intercourse, Chinese women telling us of their group coming with their fellow comrades. It's all there...

gamesfreak wrote:
> If you did a case study on China and its population issues, you,ll use
> that a lot at A level.
>
> Most case studies from GCSE are recycled for A level

Not doing it for A-Level. I've been put off by the last 2 years, it's a very very boring subject interspersed with slightly less boring sections. It's easy but that can't compensate fully for the brainmelting which results in me sitting and staring off ito the distance with dribble dripping down my chin, caring less and less every passing second about the reasons for decline in the inner cities of MEDC's.

If you did a case study on China and its population issues, you,ll use that a lot at A level.

Most case studies from GCSE are recycled for A level

5:46 am, 7.2 on the Richter scale, lasted 20 seconds, 5500 dead, 250000 homeless, firestorms, port destroyed, 1km of Hashin Highway collapse... etc.

The whole of the Kobe case study is going to be ingrained in my memory for the rest of my life...

Did a bit o' AS Geoggers the other day.

But that's irrelevant.

Ah, oh well, nevermind. :)

Ah you must of done a different paper to us.

Ours was about Weather and Climate, Population change and an open ended question on Global issues.

Yep, did it today. I actually thought it went OK, to be honest.

I did:

Section A

1) Hazards

The first question was a bit sucky (you had to use a table and see how responsible humans are for the cause + effects of hazards), but I managed to get a few case studies in there (Kobe being the main one).

Then I chose:

ii) Why do the hazard management schemes in place relate to the economic devlopment of a country (or however it was worded).

I loved this question, it was basically my coursework all over again. :) I used the Philippines, America and Japan as case studies. Mmm.

Then I chose:

Section B

7) Leisure and Tourism

Compulsory question was... interesting, but I managed to use Mozambique as a basis for comparison and thought it was OK.

Followed with:

ii) How sustainable is tourism?

Aaaaaaah, my sort of question. :) I used the Mediterranean and the Galapagos islands, and I had revised intensively for this sort of question, and as such was very very happy. :)

So yes, I thought it went OK. I just hope I answered in the correct way, sometimes you have to spend a while deciphering what the hell they actually want.

Yourself?

Did you do the exam today? (Edexcel, specification B)

If so, how did you find it?

What questions did you choose from each section?

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