Geography

doctor evil

Is this the final year for the current geography syllabus? and if so what changes are likely to be made.

Creamy Goodness

the new course has started to be taught in 5th year i think,

the reason i say this is the 5th year geography books mistakely got on the 6th year list and we all bought them. the teacher bought them off us to sell to the 5th years, i think i remember him saying that the books covered the new course

lestats_bride

I know theres lots of projects!

doctor evil

So is the course going to be the same length or possibly shorter?(please)
The projects are they going to be like the fieldstudies?. might be repeating next year so I want to know whats happenning to geography

Creamy Goodness

i think you submit your projects before you sit your exam.

Dinner

Yeah Projects go in before the exam. The course has changed and its now each question is more linked in with one another. e.g. The is no map reading question anymore instead when you are doing something else such as glacial movement they would ask you to give the co ordinates to to a Dolmen.

I'm not sure but I think it may have gotten a bit easier. There are short questions in the exam, which, correct me if I'm wrong but there arent any in the current syllabus.

doctor evil

No short questions in the soon to be expired sylabus.

Do you have to learn the projects off, would you be asked questions on them. What aspects do the prijects cover?. Thanks!

Scraggs

for revised geog syllabus see
http://www.examinations.ie/
i know theres a whole section about it coz i was readin it a while ago

hope this helps!!!

Funkstard

I'm studying the new syllabus. It's better because they're going to ask more generalised questions now (ie. describe a feature of erosion instead of describe a waterfall or something). We're doing a field study on rivers or something which goes in before the exam.

Either way, it's still points in the bag since it's all memorising and churning it out on the day

I'm always too late to benefit from positive changes.

Funkstard

We got the first of the new Maths course too, since there was no past papers to go on it was the exact same as the example paper. 'Twas brilliant