Geography- how was it for you?

Creamy Goodness

NoelRock wrote:

Unless your writing is absolutely miniscule - that isn't enough mate, sorry to burst your bubble... it might be perfect - but so is the statement: "The sea is wet" - yet it isn't elaborate enough to get an A, you know?

Hope you do get an A though makes my 29 pages look all the better.

29 pages holy crap, i was about 3 pages off from finishing a booklet, was pretty happy with that.

can anyone tell me about the glaciation question could you use 3 features of erosion and depostion or just 3 from either or.

lillywhite

for the second part of glaciation i did dalmatian coast and rias for the increased volume of water. is that completely wrong i can't bear to open my book and check! im so glad that geography and maths 2 are over! 4 down 3 to go!!

randomfella

i forgot marram grass and sand dunes on the spit, apart from that i had the sea locked down. well apart from B - depends.

I did 5 pages on regional.
Couldn't physically write more in 50mins, bit unfair. I could have easily wrote another half an hours' worth
4 pages on Map
3 photo
4 physical

Shinny-dee

captain_frances wrote:

Is anyone elses hand killing them from all of this intensive writing? 19 pages my friends, and a blistering thumb. I'm telling ya, I'm really not looking forward to History's five essays. *insert swear word here*

yup me too my hands still killin me frm irish never mind today!will die before i finish history paper without a doubt!!

grand paper of course i only studied france cos i lost spain n italy notes so had t make up spain in about ten mins!!oh well roll on wednesday!

um lillywhite i did eskers,outwash plains, boulder clay/till, erratics n even whacked d burren in there thats wat most people in my skool did too.

baby*cham*bell

NoelRock wrote:

Unless your writing is absolutely miniscule - that isn't enough mate, sorry to burst your bubble... it might be perfect - but so is the statement: "The sea is wet" - yet it isn't elaborate enough to get an A, you know?

Hope you do get an A though makes my 29 pages look all the better.

i did 16, and i'm confident of at least a b1!!!! my fieldwork is 4.5 (perfect) italy 3.5 (also perfect cos i got 94/100 in the mocks) os and photograph were pretty good!!!
they just want the details,not the waffely ****e!!

the smiley one

just out of curiousity how many pages are in the booklet thing....I did that +5.......someone cut off my arm!!!!!

Africa

Hm.....i dont even see what there is to write so much on each aspect of them! I mean sum it up and its grand! I summed up with great language and detail and used thediagrams too! Suprising that so many were done, but i have proved in the past that it is quality not quantity! Got A in mocks have been straight A student forever in the subject so will be sickened if i dont get it!

Oh and about 15 words a line, my english was like 25 words a line with the stress affecting my writing!!!

Flamingfud

Ahh ****e. I had a headfeck on that question one. Couldn't remember clustered......had linear, and the one about settlements not existing on higher ground. Even though there was no high ground. 15 marks away!

Part from that, can't think of anything I got wrong. B1 in the bag, A2 if I'm lucky

Sully

Got all of it done. Didnt do Italy, so attempted the Toursim question - class it was.

I had major time problems. For one the photohraph question, i did a really quick sketch map, then just wrote parts 2 and 3 in point form, in the last minute.

**** you, Time. **** you.

willire

ok not sure if im the only one (and the only class) in the country that did the map question b4!!! it was a mock we had in our school in 2003 i think! dont think the question was the exact same but the transport and historical settlement was def on it! im did bout 18 pages on it! dont see how people can do more than 24 unless you skip pages and have diagrams that take up a page!! is maramm grass essential for sand spit????????????

Lynibeth

The paper was good but I probably still failed LOL. Ah no I don't know how I did. finished the answer book... meh lol

Fortinbras'

For the question b on glaciation I wrote about the excess water causing levees and ox-vow lakes, will i get anything for that?

for the map i talked about

neolithic people
celtic people
and christian people is that ok

for the part c i talked about linear, nucleated and dispersed?

did i **** those up or are they right and for the first map q do you just talk about the canal,rail and roads?
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max_power

29 pages? in 3 hours 20 mins? that means 29 pages in 200 mins..thats like a page every 7 mins constantly? your freaks if your tellin the truth, or else you have massive writing and did your exam in crayons...you can easilly get an a1 with 15-18 pages, doesnt matter how much ****e you write, quanlity not quantity as they say

Africa

Lol expressing my thoughts exactly there mate...

|Maestro|

Id i mess up geofraphy yestersay?


for the section b on glaciers I talked about the extra water causing flooding and then fully explained levees and ox bow lakes


For the map i think i messed it all up
for part a. i wrote abot the rail,road and canal just?


for the history of settlement i did neolithic,celtic and christian and got the dates for the christian ttally wrong,
i also said that barrows are asssociated with the Neolithic, is that right?

and for the part c i discussed the settlement of dispersed,linear and nucleated???????????

randomfella

willire wrote:

ok not sure if im the only one (and the only class) in the country that did the map question b4!!! it was a mock we had in our school in 2003 i think! dont think the question was the exact same but the transport and historical settlement was def on it! im did bout 18 pages on it! dont see how people can do more than 24 unless you skip pages and have diagrams that take up a page!! is maramm grass essential for sand spit????????????

I hope not. I gave the spit a good solid page going into detail on wave refraction-why the spit is curved.I also went on about sand bar, lagoon and tombolo to stretch my answer out. If u search coasts u will see what i wrote. i hope this makes up for it. And my diagrams were perfect. Did 3 for cliff and just 2 for the others

TheDoc

I thought it was an easy paper. I had put me effort into rivers, which was shock horro but did Glaciation fine.

Did my ordinace survey to great and my aerial photograph.

Our teacher was a dope and gave us the worst field study ever, unable to use it, we never went on study instead he just wrote one out which was pathetic.

I did the tourism question which is probably the easiest question on the paper it was perfect, since i didnt bother really learning a country.

Aerial Photo
OS map
Glaciation
Tourism

Wrote roughly 20+ pages but wont guess a mark cause you build yourself up to be knocked down cause you can never guess and your a dope if you think oyu can. I am quietly confident though.

phantom_lord

i did 36pages, and 4pages of graphs for the fieldwork, and even then i think i might just have scaped an a1. I scared the **** out of the guy beside me who had only half filled his booklet when i was asking for more paper... If France and rivers had come up i would have done better, the map question was pretty good. The part bfor glaciation was not what i was expecting at all. It got pretty annoying when i couldn't remember stuff on italy but all of France was in my head. I'm glad my hand never hurts after writing..

A booklet is 28pages right?

randomfella

how much did u write per section?

newgrange

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote:

Our teacher was a dope and gave us the worst field study ever, unable to use it, we never went on study instead he just wrote one out which was pathetic.

That really is pathetic.
What a disgrace of a teacher. The whole point of field study work is that it is practical and experiential learning in the field.
I hope despite him you do well.

phantom_lord

randomfella wrote:

how much did u write per section?

i don't know...

It was a booklet and two of the four page booklets. One of them was for just the map, so that's 4... ice was 6 and 2 diagrams. I guess italy must have been 10 or something. Fieldwork would be about the same. Hmm assuming the booklet is 28, there's still 4 more pages in there.

Sully

newgrange wrote:

That really is pathetic.
What a disgrace of a teacher. The whole point of field study work is that it is practical and experiential learning in the field.
I hope despite him you do well.

It is? I got one of my teacher that he has been giving out for years - he just made some slight changes to it.. never actually carried out the excerise on the field..

randomfella

thats truly incredible. Its such an advantage that u have over majority of people. I couldn't physically write more than 5 in 50 mins. I prob could have wrote another half hour A grade material on Italy. Them 5 pages were pure knowledge flowing out of my head that i knew BY HEART so it wasn't as if i stopped to think.

So much easier if i could type i could prob double that speed.

phantom_lord

randomfella wrote:

thats truly incredible.

Not really, most people who are good at geo did that in my school. One guy did 40 pages.

phantom_lord

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote:

Our teacher was a dope and gave us the worst field study ever, unable to use it, we never went on study instead he just wrote one out which was pathetic.

That's stupid, once you do it you can write off memory, you don't have to learn it.

randomfella

phantom_lord wrote:

Not really, most people who are good at geo did that in my school. One guy did 40 pages.

i just told u i can't PHYSICALLY write anymore than a page per 10 minutes. I got a B1 in the mocks so i'm good at geography just not at writing fast. Yea there might be the odd person who does that but most can't!

phantom_lord

randomfella wrote:

i just told u i can't PHYSICALLY write anymore than a page per 10 minutes. I got a B1 in the mocks so i'm good at geography just not at writing fast. Yea there might be the odd person who does that but most can't!

I wasn't saying you weren't good at geo...just that mine wasn't exceptional. For every guy over 30pgs there wastwo who didn't make twenty.

Po-2

Cant complain easy paper if you learned which i didnt so i was mad at myself for not makin an effort. the canal wasn't that easy to find. i went blank for Q1 with the patterens stupid or what

phantom_lord

Po-2 wrote:

the canal wasn't that easy to find.

The canal went all the way around the town...and across the map...