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Geography!!! How did it go?!
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Well the paper is here if you want to have a check to see if you did everything: http://examinations.ie/archive/exampapers/2011/LC005ALP000EV.pdf
I'm sure you did fine though. I finished ahead of time in English and everybody else was writing frantically until the end, even though I wrote more than them. So yeah, you probably just write faster than you think!
Cheers, didn't think they'd have those posted so fast. If nothing else I'm happy to not have to go through the painstaking process of downloading multiple exam papers from that wretched site! Tempted to see if the marking schemes are up... nah, I don't want to know.
I did all 4 questions and the shorts, and I was fairly happy with all my answers.... Since I had so much time left over I went back and started throwing down SRPs from other questions that were in any way relevant in the hopes of squeezing out an extra mark or two. I guess I'll see how it really went in a August
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I remember a mistake I made now!
Writing about quarrying, I mentioned two processes but forgot the name of the third one, so I left a space blank so I could remember it. I knew it had something do do with feathers (Plug and feather) so if I didn't remember, I was going to write "feathering"
But at the end of the exam, I forgot to write in feathering.
So my essay says "The three processes by which rock is quarried are channeling (big blank space) and explosives.
Channeling is (blah)
(big blank space) is (blah)
Explosive is (blah)
Might lose an SRP or two
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I remember a mistake I made now!
Writing about quarrying, I mentioned two processes but forgot the name of the third one, so I left a space blank so I could remember it. I knew it had something do do with feathers (Plug and feather) so if I didn't remember, I was going to write "feathering"
But at the end of the exam, I forgot to write in feathering.
So my essay says "The three processes by which rock is quarried are channeling (big blank space) and explosives.
Channeling is (blah)
(big blank space) is (blah)
Explosive is (blah)
Might lose an SRP or two
i left 2 spaces in my english
and still can't remember the words i wanted to write :L it could be ok if it was some hard word ,but it was something as simple as word reflection ara ,the most important thing is to relate your answer to the q:D 0 -
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Sorry for bothering you but,
isn't overcropping etc a process of soil erosion ? I'm still confused.
How many marks could I lose for this? i said that they soil has now become infertile etc ..... help
I gave solutions and everything on how it could be solved. Did I make a complete balls of it? Sorry fro the language...
Anyone else do this ?
I talked about Relief, Climate and Organisms.
It was a weirdly phrased question so it's tough to call. 0 -
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Awh, seriously?!
Damn! I had a waterfall prepared but didn't think it was on the map so I did the Volcano question.
Grrrr!
SAME, i'm kinda gutted to be honest!
Dont think my Volcano question is that good...
This was supposed to be my "A" subject, but now probably a B
SO SICKENED I DIDNT SEE THAT GODDAMN WATERFALL0 -
As a Geography teacher of near 20 years experience I thought it was a nasty little paper. A lot of ill phrased questions which, based on reading this thread, threw a lot of people off. To almost completely ignore Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries in Europe and Continental/Sub Continental regions was criminal although you could have included one or more in the question on urban development.
Very hard to get 15 SRP's on the postive effects of volcanoes without plenty of examples. Question on the impact of rural to urban migration in a developing city was also very limiting.
Having said that if they find that people are writing the same thing over and over they will adjust the marking scheme. There's still be the same amount of A's, B's and C's but this year will be more of a lottery than usual 0 -
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As a Geography teacher of near 20 years experience I thought it was a nasty little paper. A lot of ill phrased questions which, based on reading this thread, threw a lot of people off. To almost completely ignore Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries in Europe and Continental/Sub Continental regions was criminal although you could have included one or more in the question on urban development.
Very hard to get 15 SRP's on the postive effects of volcanoes without plenty of examples. Question on the impact of rural to urban migration in a developing city was also very limiting.
Having said that if they find that people are writing the same thing over and over they will adjust the marking scheme. There's still be the same amount of A's, B's and C's but this year will be more of a lottery than usual
I think it was one of the hardest Geography papers released by the SEC. Specifically in the short questions. Although it was not impossible.
As an experienced Geography Student the only question that diverted my interest was the question on the positive impact of volcanoes. At the top of my head I could only think of fertile soils that are present around the slopes of the Appenine Mountains in the Messogiorno. Geo-thermal energy for the production of heat. Volcanic geysers for lagoons in Iceland. Or maybe the boost in tourism from famous volcanic regions such as the canary's and California (Mt St Helens).
I could answer all of the other questions including all 3 of the Option's Geo-ecology section that I answered on Human alteration of the Mediterranean Biome in Italy and California.
I carried my exam by word processor and e-mailed when I got home it to my teacher for correction. He said it was unlikely I would achieve under an A2. I know I have secured full marks in my field study on Erosional and transportational Processes in a Fluvial Environment as I completed over four drafts of it before sending in my official one.
So after after 2500 hours of class and study from 4th-6th year including the hundreds of early classes of vital learning of Geography in the JC. I'm glad I got out of what I put into my favorite subject. If I have to repeat next year I can even look forward to an easier paper.0 -
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I actually was very happy overall. For regional I learn off SRP's for each reason not essays.
For physical i have essays, and waterfall/quarrying were two of my top 3 favourite, but at the same time I had rejuvenation(isostacy) covered and was actually going to answer on that just to show off :P
Human I also had a few prepared, overpopulation being one; settlement/development of settlement always comes up too.. however I think I dodged a bullet because with the other 2 questions there was at least one 30marker in both that I wouldn't have been able to answer properly, just ramble on for a few SRPs :P
Regional, the way I had learned stuff I was quite happy, but again was quite lucky as one or two questions I hadn't touch off - Eu expansion, and culture being the other, I think? Not too sure tbh
Biomes - learned off characteristics and human interaction, didn't like the phrasing of HI so I just went with the straightforward characteristics, so was grand.
Most of my answers are 2-2.5 pages long, around 4 or so for biomes I think.
I gotta say I'll be annoyed if I don't do well!
Having said that I usually get every short question right, but I never even heard of two of the terms in the first question, and the weather one was challenging as well!
I also blanked at the renewable energy sources - ended up saying nucleur instead of solar :L think they might allow it??
Overall, getting up at 4 in the morning paid off! 0 -
For the human interaction with the rock cycle I completely disregarded the "Economic" side of thing...
Though my essay DID include how plug and feather leads to slabs of rock for flooring, and how explosive methods lead to gravel for cement and basalt chips for roads.
I also named three Irish quarrying companies. Sound like it was on the right track?
I kind of bluffed isostasy too. I had about 3/5 of a page on three landforms, raised beach, fjord and knickpoints. Usually I do two features but I didn't have enough on two.
Plus I could draw three diagrams! Maybe I'll rake in SRP's that way
I also arsed around the urban growth/development question. Used the Randstad, and mentioned the greenhart, the decline in the center, tourism, and something else....
It was all a bit flimsy, hopefully I answered it right.0 -
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r0cks0l1dd wrote: »I was just wondering if there was a misprint on the Geography HL Paper. Not a huge one but on Q5 A one of the parts was something like 'Name two Irish fishing port'
Yup I noticed that straight away too :rolleyes:
Didn't have a clue I said "Donegal Bay" and "Clew Bay"
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LittleMissLost wrote: »Yup I noticed that straight away too :rolleyes:
Didn't have a clue I said "Donegal Bay" and "Clew Bay"
Is that right?
I didn't really have a clue either. I wrote Killybegs and Cork. I think Killybegs is right but I have no idea why I said Cork.
I actually left the Regional question until last because I wanted tot do a good Geoecology question and Regional is my worst section so maybe it was because of pressure to get it done. But the question itself was good enough. For Concept of a Core Region you could basically just describe the types of regions and give examples lol.
My human wasn't that brilliant either. The graph you had to draw was wierd because they gave you two set of percentages for 2 different years so I just added them up. Overpopulation was ok but why Dingle was set up there, I could only get one reason because recreational didn't count.
The short Qs were a bit weird but Ok. I was happy about the biome question as the one of them that came up, I knew best.
Still, it's a fair bit away until August...0 -
r0cks0l1dd wrote: »I didn't really have a clue either. I wrote Killybegs and Cork. I think Killybegs is right but I have no idea why I said Cork.
I actually left the Regional question until last because I wanted tot do a good Geoecology question and Regional is my worst section so maybe it was because of pressure to get it done. But the question itself was good enough. For Concept of a Core Region you could basically just describe the types of regions and give examples lol.
My human wasn't that brilliant either. The graph you had to draw was wierd because they gave you two set of percentages for 2 different years so I just added them up. Overpopulation was ok but why Dingle was set up there, I could only get one reason because recreational didn't count.
The short Qs were a bit weird but Ok. I was happy about the biome question as the one of them that came up, I knew best.
Still, it's a fair bit away until August...
Yeah i know! :O
What was the answer to this question?
Name two problems faced by countries where the proportion of people aged 65 years and over is increasing.
I could only think that the government has to pay out pensions etc.. 0 -
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