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Geography!!! How did it go?!
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LittleMissLost wrote: »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..
I think I may have forgotten to answer that 0 -
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I said it causes lack of innovation in all economic sectors. Not sure if it's good enough.LittleMissLost wrote: »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..
Well... you're not alone.r0cks0l1dd wrote: »
I wrote the type of plate boundary by accident.0 -
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ChristinaIndigo wrote: »Loved the paper.. just eh... didn't get to start ANY of the human question, or the last part of regional. Decided to do the biome first and then got caught for time... Completely lost my timing. What I did, I did well, but, sadly I missed out on a lot. Shouldn't have happened...
Same here... I left 2 Part C questions completely blank as I had absolutely no time for them, had to leave a Question B halfway, just to get 5 minutes to write a paragraph on the Soil question. In other words, 2 30 mark questions down the drain and 1 80 mark question
and stupid old me, went and did 1 question of EACH in Section 2, where you chose either from Q 7 - 9 to 10 - 12. So overall, I actually left 3 part C's blank, but didnt count 1 of them because I wasn't supposed to be doing that question in the first place!!!
I'm so upset it's not even funny never cried over an exam, especially not in public. The questions that I missed out were so simple too.. the soil question would have done my grade wonders, as it was the one I learned off completely. The only thing I didnt know was 1 part C, but i'm pretty good when it comes to 'common knowledge' so I think I would have crapped off a few marks there.
Btw, for the benefits of volcanoes... I never studied that, but common sense told me to talk about tourism, economy, and soils. I brought in loads of examples too for tourism. Talked about the Mt Venus (forgot how to spell it) and how it's a major tourist attraction. Then I talked about volcanic landforms that develop through volcanic action - example was the Burren. And then talked about 'indirect' natural landforms that are also developed. And here, I mentioned Iceland, and the hot water springs (altho I blanked out and called it rivers/baths). All of this was related to tourism alone. For fertility of the soils I talked about alluvium etc. As for economy, I mentioned how the fertile soils had an impact on agriculture and therefore the economy, and obviously mentioned tourism. I also talked about how the Gov took advantage of the Iceland hot water springs by building hotels and making them 'private' places (as in, you need to pay to get in), and how the cost is adequate for people of lower incomes.
If anyone studied that question before, can you tell me if i'm completely wrong, or if my points were on the right track?
Overall, Geography was gonna be the subject where I would have gotten a B at... now idk if I passed or not thanks to my stupidity and the lack of time.0 -
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'
No I don't think that was a misprint.
I said Gallway and Dingle. Just took a guess at it.0 -
conormccarthy92 wrote: »yep . beach is a feature of deposition . i dont have the map infront of me but as long as theres an example of a beach on it , thats an acceptable feature
Sweet, thank you! Starting to feel slightly better about how I may have done now
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PurpleVintage wrote: »
Btw, for the benefits of volcanoes... I never studied that, but common sense told me to talk about tourism, economy, and soils. I brought in loads of examples too for tourism. Talked about the Mt Venus (forgot how to spell it) and how it's a major tourist attraction. Then I talked about volcanic landforms that develop through volcanic action - example was the Burren. And then talked about 'indirect' natural landforms that are also developed. And here, I mentioned Iceland, and the hot water springs (altho I blanked out and called it rivers/baths). All of this was related to tourism alone. For fertility of the soils I talked about alluvium etc. As for economy, I mentioned how the fertile soils had an impact on agriculture and therefore the economy, and obviously mentioned tourism. I also talked about how the Gov took advantage of the Iceland hot water springs by building hotels and making them 'private' places (as in, you need to pay to get in), and how the cost is adequate for people of lower incomes.
If anyone studied that question before, can you tell me if i'm completely wrong, or if my points were on the right track?
It's the Giants Causeway that's a volcanic landform, not the Burren I think what you said about soils and springs and stuff is okay though.. And tourism too... Otherwise, I'm not sure about that Q either!
Hard luck about missing so much of it! I'm sure you did fine though...
Oh and it's Mt. Vesuvius 0 -
Geography was horrific for me. Completely caught off-guard by the questions that came up which I had prepared as half-questions. Had prepared impact of EU expansion on economy and culture, but had to add 5 or so SRPs to the economy part on the day, disaster. Likewise for the causes of Overpopulation, had prepared a cause and an effect, had to improvise something about slum settlements in India.
Got an A1 in the mocks, was hoping for an A1 on Friday. I'd say I got a B1 at most. Gutted. 0 -
Geography was horrific for me. Completely caught off-guard by the questions that came up which I had prepared as half-questions. Had prepared impact of EU expansion on economy and culture, but had to add 5 or so SRPs to the economy part on the day, disaster. Likewise for the causes of Overpopulation, had prepared a cause and an effect, had to improvise something about slum settlements in India.
Got an A1 in the mocks, was hoping for an A1 on Friday. I'd say I got a B1 at most. Gutted.
Ugh, just typing that all out and putting it into words has made me really upset. How many marks am I going to lose? Half for each of the 30mark questions? 0 -
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It could be something like this:LittleMissLost wrote: »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..
1. Increased Healthcare costs means there is more money required for Government Expenditure = More tax for Economically Active People
2. The Dependency ratio would rise, meaning there would be less tax payers (Can be known as carrying capacity either i think).
3. Fall in Demand for goods, or a change in Demand for certain goods!
Something along those lines!0 -
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The question is a bit ambiguous. I'd say they will accept both. I put down constructive plate boundary too. The question was "Name the plate boundary at X". It is a constructive plate boundary and the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Both answers are correct.
Awh SH1TE!!!!!!!! I KNEW that but just after remembering I wrote "conservative" instead of "constructife" what a to0l :rolleyes: 0 -
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PurpleVintage wrote: »Btw, for the benefits of volcanoes... I never studied that, but common sense told me to talk about tourism, economy, and soils. I brought in loads of examples too for tourism. Talked about the Mt Venus (forgot how to spell it) and how it's a major tourist attraction. Then I talked about volcanic landforms that develop through volcanic action - example was the Burren. And then talked about 'indirect' natural landforms that are also developed. And here, I mentioned Iceland, and the hot water springs (altho I blanked out and called it rivers/baths). All of this was related to tourism alone. For fertility of the soils I talked about alluvium etc. As for economy, I mentioned how the fertile soils had an impact on agriculture and therefore the economy, and obviously mentioned tourism. I also talked about how the Gov took advantage of the Iceland hot water springs by building hotels and making them 'private' places (as in, you need to pay to get in), and how the cost is adequate for people of lower incomes.
If anyone studied that question before, can you tell me if i'm completely wrong, or if my points were on the right track?
This isn't wrong, it was common sense. I studied it beforehand but the book really didn't give that much so I only concentrated on two points - tourism (put economy and volcanic landforms in this) and geothermal energy in Iceland.
I also talked about Mt Vesuvius! Said that people visited for the historical aspect and that it contributed to the tourist industry and then brought in some touristy figures in hopes they'd give me marks. :P Probably not though. Wrote about Iceland and people going there for the hot springs (which I called "natural saunas" before I remembered what they were!) and geysers and stuff.
Then geothermal energy I just said how it was good for the environment and economy and then explained how it worked and drew a diagram!
So what you did was right. 0 -
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This isn't wrong, it was common sense. I studied it beforehand but the book really didn't give that much so I only concentrated on two points - tourism (put economy and volcanic landforms in this) and geothermal energy in Iceland.
I also talked about Mt Vesuvius! Said that people visited for the historical aspect and that it contributed to the tourist industry and then brought in some touristy figures in hopes they'd give me marks. :P Probably not though. Wrote about Iceland and people going there for the hot springs (which I called "natural saunas" before I remembered what they were!) and geysers and stuff.
Then geothermal energy I just said how it was good for the environment and economy and then explained how it worked and drew a diagram!
So what you did was right.
That's quite a reassurance, guess I didnt do too bad after all. Thank you very much.
Kinda seems you were well prepared for that question, with the figures and stuff! I'm pretty sure they'd give you marks for them, since it sounds better if you're able to give actual numbers instead of just saying 'thousands'!
Geothermal energy... certainly did not write about that, nor would it have even crossed my mind! My common sense is quite limited to easy stuff
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ah well, whatever marks I get on that question are good 
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