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Repeating the Leaving cert with Geography

  • 06-09-2014 5:32pm
    #1
    hooked96
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭


    Well lads, i'm repeating my Leaving Cert and have decided to take up Geography this year and have a few questions, any help would be much appreciated

    How many topics do i need to study between now and June?
    How long will the fieldwork take to complete?
    Are all topics the same length or similar?

    Anyone have any advice for me?
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  • #2
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    I took Geography up in a year for a repeat and got an A1. Everyone said it was impossible to do well in it, in a year. But I enjoyed it as it was something new and a change from my subjects from the previous year. I brought the book that contained all the essays and learnt everyone that was necessary. I didnt skip any or tried to guess. I learnt them all perfectly. I only learnt info from the textbook that was enough to cover the short questions. As geography is all about SRPs and not about an essay. An answer is x amount of SRPs, not half a page.


  • #3
    hooked96
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭hooked96


    Thanks hfallada :) Well im more confident now that I know it can be done! How did you find the fieldwork project? Did it take you till the deadline to complete?


  • #4
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    hooked96 wrote: »
    Thanks hfallada :) Well im more confident now that I know it can be done! How did you find the fieldwork project? Did it take you till the deadline to complete?

    You need a teacher to sign off on it. Most people get 80%, as its used as a way to bring up the grades of the subject. But when I viewed my script, my written exam was near perfect. I think I got like 92%, but my project was like 60%.Which was horrific, as I couldnt see where I lost marks and it was badly corrected. The corrector randomly ticked it and didnt look for SRPs. But I got an A1 on appeal.


    The field is easy and most teachers tell the students the body of what to write and draw. I finished mine on the deadline, as we wrote it up on the day before the deadline


  • #5
    DublinArnie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,823 ✭✭✭DublinArnie


    hfallada wrote: »
    I took Geography up in a year for a repeat and got an A1. Everyone said it was impossible to do well in it, in a year. But I enjoyed it as it was something new and a change from my subjects from the previous year. I brought the book that contained all the essays and learnt everyone that was necessary. I didnt skip any or tried to guess. I learnt them all perfectly. I only learnt info from the textbook that was enough to cover the short questions. As geography is all about SRPs and not about an essay. An answer is x amount of SRPs, not half a page.

    Could you explain the perfect 'SRP'? Fact + explanation = marks?


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