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** 2013 Geography Before/After **
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06-06-2013 5:57pm#1
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I'd advise you all to revise glaciers, I think that got me last year in the short questions. Also, aerial photographs. Remember the difference between stalagmites and stalactites: tights go down.
And clints are the rocks, grikes are the gaps - I won't tell you how I chose to remember this piece of information :pac:, so just think G for gap.
And yeah same as PF I had to lie through the whole exam.
Thought I got a C3 but ended up with an A2, though I think it was marked extremely generously. I did the atmosphere bit and made things up. Like completely lied and still got 62/80 or something like that. It won't work for Geoecology because it's so widely done, but for regional etc you can probably make up a few statistics, road names etc if you have to.
Another thing is last year they took new questions directly from the syllabus and it was stuff a lot of people just didn't cover.
One I remember was corporate strategies in an MNC, so I lied and said Dell's strategy was "saving money" (whose isn't :pac:) and then just explained their operations. Twist the question to suit yourself if you can, but within reason.
If I can get through geography without crying, so can you. :P
Oh and one last thing, if you're answering a question on landforms write EVERYTHING you can think of if you're running short on points. If it's karst, talk about carbonation in as much detail as you can. Always give name/process/example/diagram before anything else, it's 10 marks in the bag and any example counts - I did a beach and my example was the local one, even if the correcter might live miles away and not know about it. Good luck!
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The very best of luck to everyone doing geography tomorrow! I know you'll think I'm crazy but I'd love to be there again ha.
I'll never forget the Thursday night I put in last year for that exam. I did sweet damn all maths paper 1 because I was focused so much on geography. I remember finishing up at 5 in the morning and then getting up at half 7 again. It was madness but well worth it and was alot more interesting than other subjects :P
Do not worry or panic if you think you don't know your stuff too well. I was the exact same. I kept losing the plot this time last year because I couldn't rattle off fact after fact. Although there is unreal emphasis on knowing as much as possible about each topic to get the marks, do not worry. It's always the case that you know more than you think. And when you're in the exam tomorrow, it'll be fairly easy to make up a few extra points if needed. Throw down anything at all relevant to the topic at all and you're going to get marks somewhere. I remember even taking info from the short questions and putting it into a long question which resulted on me adding more common knowledge points as well. JUST HAVE YOUR HEAD SCREWED ON. Geography is a fairly easy exam as long as you do your stuff. Learn as much as possible. Don't rely on predictions completely. I knew every single topic possible for geography and I didn't even know them perfectly but I didn't need to. The ability to adapt in this exam is crazy. If you know a series of words for every essay then it's just pieces of a puzzle really. That's how I saw it and it worked brilliantly.
Write as much as possible for everything. Watch your time but you'll be able to make it up in places so make sure you get in all your points plus an extra one here and there just for good measure.
Once again do not panic if you don't know everything perfectly. If you have the gist of every topic you'll do very very well. Keep going over your stuff. It'll sink in to your subconscious mind and it'll be ready for you to use tomorrow
Ye'll all do very good. I felt just like ye last year, probably worse and I did fine. I was sh*tting it for Geography because I was relying so badly on it. I didn't sleep the night before and was in a state doing the exam. But it was bliss when I was in the centre because I knew I made an effort. As soon as I handed up my paper I knew I had my A1....and I was right.
Oh and write as damn fast as you can for Geography. My hand was in intense pain after the exam.... I had tablets ready and all after because I knew that pain was what I needed to get me the most marks possible. I've average enough writing but mine was terrible in the exam but I didn't care because the examiner will make an effort if they see your effort on the page :P
This exam is well worth staying up late for guys. It is simple points when you really bust your lungs.
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