Geography LC HL

Repli

Geography was easy enough this year.. glaciation came up on question 2 (as expected) and Italy on it's own in question 5! what more could you ask for!
The map question looked difficult at first glance but on closer inspection of the map it became easier..
The photgraph question was also simple except for the question on traffic flow part (ii)
all in all it was an easy enough paper

Lenny

The traffic flow part came up in the ordinary level too, I thought that was a poorly constucted question, All Is aid was that the town was too compact together and there was no traffic lights.. hehe

Repli

I wrote about the fact that the harbour was more developed than the roads, so all available resources went into developing the port facilities.. also the lack of national primary/secondary roads which could have been used to expand the port's use..

rachel

the only thing that could have made my predictions for the paper any worse would have been if the field study hadn't come up and they just can't do that so they probably tried and failed.

Where were you France and coasts?

Luckily though I could answer Q4a from business & a vague knowledge of core and periphery regions and I combined what I saw on a Blue Peter which had a special on acid rain and the greenhouse effect awhile ago and what I did for my junior cert so I could answer that physical question

embraer170

Where was Norway?
Switzerland?
Sweden?
France?
Coasts?
Rivers?

It was like they contacted my teacher, asked him what we did and then decided to put the exact opposite on the paper.

Ah well, c'est la vie! (French tomorow )

Dermo

I can't believe my luck,
in English I rest all my hopes on Shakespeare
and now an easy plate tectonics question and Italy into regions for the full 100 marks

cournioni

LOL... on question 5 I totally forgot the regions of Spain and Italy. I could only think of the Meseta and The Mediterranian Coastline for Spain and Alpine region, North Italian plain and the Mezzagiorno for Italy. I thought of the Plain of Lumbardy in the exam room but I didn't know if it was in Italy or Belgium!! In the end I done the hardest one on Question 5 which was the Core and Periphery! Hopefully I haven't got an Eastern European person correcting 5 (ii)! I think I would have offended em if they ever read it!

cournioni

Oh yeah, by the way... anyone know what the bloody tracing paper was for? Or am I the only one that got it in the whole country? As far as I know your not allowed to trace in Geography...

Mills

As geography exams go it wasn't bad, I did the mapwork, Glaciation, Dividing Italy into regions, and the fieldwork. I wrote a good 3 and a half pages for italy and fieldwork, not sure how good it was though, started to rush in the glaciation a bit and had to keep it short, 2 and a half pages including diagrams, and then I made a bit of a balls of the mapwork :-/, A and B were hard I thought, but I wrote a good half page of **** and filled it with grid references for each of the parts, time was running out because I left mapwork till last.

It's hard to know how well you did in geography, but I couldn't have asked for more from the paper, I learned France and Italy, Italy came up, I learned Glaciation, the sea and rivers, glaciation came up, and I learned only fieldwork out of that section .

I'd have preferred France in the dividing a country into regions, and something about drainage on mapwork but you can't have everything .

damnyanks

I couldnt believe my luck. I didnt do the study for geography I had planned cause of family stuff etc. but volcanoes came up which I was happy with and even better Italy came up which I was reading up on just before the exam

Repli

Mills,
I know what you're talking about you're not given nearly enough time to answer all 4. It took me an hour to do question 1, and by the time I got to question 5 it was 4.20pm ! I had to rush the regional question and I probably didn't answer it aswell as I could have given more time.

castie

ahahha what luck i was worried about time but the map queation and the photo question were simple to me as kinsale is not very far from wheer i live and i knew eevything on the map and photo and i made sure not to bring in outside information but it really helped me time wise as i knew exactly waht i was looking for and where to find it

Dermo

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Oh yeah, by the way... anyone know what the bloody tracing paper was for? Or am I the only one that got it in the whole country? As far as I know your not allowed to trace in Geography...

I didn't see any tracing paper around our exam hall, you must just be a *special* case

cournioni

Originally posted by Dermo
I didn't see any tracing paper around our exam hall, you must just be a *special* case

Hmmm... seems so. I asked the supervisor and she hadn't got a clue either. All of the people in the room I was in had the paper and I dunno if any of them used it.

Repli

Hmm same happened to us.. our supervisor said to us "there's tracing paper here if anyone needs it" we were just like wtf?

castie

ffs i was never told bollox to that