GCSE Geography Revision
There are a whole pile of revision resources here - downloads, questions, tips and hints. Use them for Geography AQA C revision.
Please don't bother looking at SAM Learning for Geography. It's not very good and will only end up confusing you because there's so much more stuff on it than you need. Trust me on this.
The Exams
You'll have two geography exams:
Paper One - Wednesday June 4th (morning). This is the Decision Making Exercise, which will be about Tourism in UK National Parks this year.
You'll want to look at the Paper 1 page to find out how to prepare for this exam. There are some very specific things you can do for this.
Paper Two - Thursday June 12th (afternoon). This is the case study paper. There will be three questions on the paper:
- Question 1 - 30 marks on the first 4 units (Population and Cities)
- Question 2 - 20 marks (that's less) on the middle 4 units (Tectonics, Water/Food supply, and Floods/Storms) - but not on the Paper 1 content (Tourism). So no tourism questions on this, OK?
- Question 3 - 30 marks on the final 4 units (Development, Resources, Environmental Issues and LEDC Tourism.
I'd expect that Question 2 will focus on Tectonics, Water/Food Supply and Floods/Storms becasue the Tourism element will be dealt with on Paper 1.
The Syllabus
The Syllabus you are revising for is the AQA Geography Full Course Syllabus C. If you've brought a general revision book it might be important that you know this - don't revise stuff you don't need to know!
You can look at a copy of the syllabus itself at the AQA website
(it's not all that interesting...).
Past Papers:
There are partial past papers on the AQA website. These may well be worth a look - although not all the resources are included in the files there.
You can also get short course partial past papers on the AQA website. These are the half course GCSE exam papers. Often many of the questions are similar, but they do sometimes put in some slightly different questions so they may be worth a look. Just remember that the structure of your exams is the same as the full course papers!
Resources
There are resources on a number of pages here which should, I hope, be useful when you're revising. You'll find questions, skills guides and advice on paper 1. There are a set of Google Earth Placemark files as well which should give you a slightly different way to revise.
You can also find me in school to get lots of paper based resources.
A Revision Book?
If you'd like to buy a revision book for the AQA C syllabus I'd suggest "Revise for Geography GCSE: AQA Specification C" by David Payne. It's published by Heinemann. The ISBN is 978-0435099954. It's a good book, although not colourful or full of "fun" stuff. It's just, in my opinion, full of stuff you want to read, written by someone I trust. I don't do adverts, but this is good.
You can "buy" one from Mr Higginson if you want - he'll charge you £5 but you'll get £3 back if you bring it back in good condition. Can't get a better deal than that...