as-geography

[buoyant compass]

i want to ask what are the case studies for rocks and weathering

[cosmic karma]

https://kisialevelgeography.wordpress.com/as-rocks-weathering/

there's a section that talks about limestone

idk anything else

[royal beacon]

What about case studies for hydrology

[cosmic karma]

i only know the ones in the book

[void mantle]

holy shiii

paper 13 was so bad

[ocean notch]

Paper 12 wasn't so bad

[royal beacon]

How was paper 12 guys

Who did question 4 in that

[royal beacon]

Can you guys tell me how your paper went today😭

[cosmic karma]

i didnt enjoy paper 12

i wanted to do question 5 but i didnt like the 8 mark question

i did q6 instead

[lost helm]

<@&597283564295290880> could u say that a country experiencing an ageing population will increase death rates?

[buoyant compass]

Yes @lost helm

Overtime the death rates would drastically increase

I have checked marked schemes for this and it is a mark +1

[lost helm]

@buoyant compass can u get four marks for explaining it tho

It was one of my points for an 8 marker about death rates in the exam

[buoyant compass]

Yes you can explain the reasoning behind it to get more marks

[quick river]

what is relief

what is triangulation stations

[deft citrus]

Assess the extent to which floods are caused by human activity.

any ideas

<@&597283564295290880>

[quick river]

what u explained

ohh

its a question

Human actions that can exacerbate flood risk (changing land use the river catchment, .A combination of economic and population growth during the 20th century has caused many erosion; river embankments: designed to protect from floods of a given magnitude.

@deft citrus

[royal beacon]

How come there aren’t any A2 geography notes

[quaint musk]

@royal beacon we don't have a contributor for it at the moment, would you like to contribute?

[gilded vessel]

Does anyone have the geography octnov 2020 papers ??

[cloud adder]

what exam board

<@&597283564295290880> how do i answer this question:

[tiny sierra]

Hey guys does anyone know where this question is from?

[hexed trellis]

"Do some research and explain why some countries are LICs, some are MICs and some are HICs and explain the cause of these differences briefly." literally dont know what the fuck that means like how much research? what differences? am i just dense wut

[shadow moth]

not a geo helper (and sorry if this is late)
but maybe define what the optimum population is (also what it does)
link it to some food shortage case studies as well

provide counter arguments as well for that
such as the optimistic food law theory of boserup

[shadow moth]

if you're looking for caie go to gceguide or papacambridge :)

[shadow moth]

maybe use case studies that you've learnt about for LICS,MICS and HICS (or look at countries that are HICs, LICs and MICs)?
talk about the birth rate, death rate, fertility and also for differences (these are a few pointers that you might need to add more detail to, i'm not sure if they are too right)

• LICs/MICs have poorer healthcare in comparison to the HICS (this could be due to the fact they don't have enough wealth to fund for it, this means they also can't find medicine for preventable diseases like cholera, which could also be linked to their high death rates as well)

• LICs have a fluctuating death rate (due to war or conflict) whereas HICs have a more stable death rate

• MICs/HICs have lower birth rates that LICs-this is because they are more used to have smaller families, contraception is more available and also women are more educated (because they are more educated, they are able to plan out their future, are more aware of family planning schemes and are more aware of contraception methods)

• (carrying on from education) they are more aware of childhood diseases and how to prevent them as well

there are alot more points you could make other than these but i hope this gives you a good starting point :)

[river dock]

znask set "Geography Helper"

[tired niche]

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Set <@&597283564295290880> as the help role here!

Sep 14, 2021, 5:35 PM

[hexed trellis]

hi idk if this is the right place to ask this, im actually doing evm but there isnt a channel for that lol, whatre the challenges posed by a youthful population? i cant find much info in my textbook or online anywhere

[verbal copper]

@hexed trellis hope this helps!

[novel blade]

There's an AS EVM tb..?

[verbal copper]

anyone writing geo tomz?

[shadow moth]

pretty late reply but i did write that :)

[verbal copper]

how did it go and what variation did u write?

[shadow moth]

hydrology question was pretty weird tbh

8 marker was kind of confusing

not sure if i did the “delta shape” question right as well

did w21/13

[verbal copper]

oh i did 12 the hydrology question we got for the 15 mark was a pretty weird too i wasnt expecting them to ask a question on drainage basins

i mean i studied it a bit but not in depth enough to have enough info for a 15 mark

but ye the paper was pretty weird fosho hope paper 2 can get my marks right

[shadow moth]

honestly hoping the same as well

[shadow moth]

what was your question

[verbal copper]

dont remember exactly but it was something like "climate is the greatest factor in affecting stores flows and inputs in a drainage basin. To what extent do u agree

something like that i dont remember exactly doe

[shadow moth]

that’s pretty weird tbh

[verbal copper]

How is privatised healthcare and education a solution to a youthful population?

Could someone explain plz🙏

[shadow moth]

privatised healthcare helps with increasing more access to medicines that help with preventing common childhood diseases such as measles
the decrease in dr of children (or imr)

also eventually leads to less children being needed to be born for labour (in lics children are typically needed to help w/ agriculture and as a result of high dr rates people often give birth to children as a form of insurance especially for people who are aging-when they get older they also need children to look after them)

education allows for people to be more aware of these childhood diseases and the medicines (or remedies) needed to prevent them and people also are more educated on family planning and contraceptive methods as well

also education can also be linked to societal values-people (especially women) are more likely to focus on their education or careers instead of raising a family and giving birth to large families
as a result, raising children can also be seen as an economic burden (and time consuming burden) as well especially for women who have to spend time outside work also having to care for children as well

also as a result of education people become more aware of the consequences of large families and children are also seen as an economic burden (children cost a lot of money to be raised etc)

[shadow moth]

this is all i can think of for now but i’ll add more reasons later if i remember any

[verbal copper]

Thank you so much! makes a lot more sense now for sure

[shadow moth]

np glad to help :))

[verbal copper]

Also when ur studying for geo, do u memorise 1 case study or do u have a general understanding of a bunch of different case studies so u can adapt in the exam?

[shadow moth]

number of case studies

some questions require one case study (eg: questions on antinatal/pronatal, one time they asked a question on one cs of migration->character flow pattern as one q, push and pull as another q, and impacts as the large 15 mk)
but the majority of questions i've seen so far usually require a number of different case studies

sometimes (if you plan to go for migration) they'll ask for a specific factor (eg: age/distance) as a constraint/push/pull factor and how much to an extent you agree for it
you can probably use international and rural-urban cs to talk about your points

also you definitely need multiple cs if they're talking about dtm

or anything about changes in pop structure etc

[verbal copper]

yea cuz i was probably gonna do population so ill look at different case studies for LIC MIC and HIC for sure

I was looking at knowing a case study for anti natalist as well as a pro natalist CS too

but now that u mentioned the DTM if a question on that were to come on DTM for loads of marks it could be rough for me for sure

[shadow moth]

have you looked at 2021 papers yet

for m/j

[verbal copper]

cuz my teacher didnt rlly teach us how to properly integrate a case study into our answers so i have to look at old candidate responses to learn lol

[shadow moth]

ohhh makes sense

[shadow moth]

because i'm pretty sure they already tested criticisms of dtm

so you don't need to worry about that section

for the 15 marker

[verbal copper]

yea i have looked at them but not in too much detail but i saw one on the dependancy ratio which was something different from what i've seen

but surely they wont ask a question on that in the nov paper if it was already asked in the m/j paper

[shadow moth]

yea but odds are is that it might come up as an 8 marker

hopefully not but you never know

[verbal copper]

yea true say... ill go over it tonight for sure jus so im not completely lost if it comes in the paper

gotta do relatively good in this paper to make up for paper 1 because paper 1 was pretty tricky

but grading thresholds for geo haven't been too harsh as of the past 3 years so hopefully it comes in handy lol

[shadow moth]

hoping the same as well

[shadow moth]

yup

[shadow moth]

actually just looked at that paper
i assumed that the dependency ratio thing was a 15 marker and thought it would come up as an 8 marker
probably won't come up as an 8 marker i think but might be snuck into a 15 marker ig??

[verbal copper]

yea im watching videos on it as we speak haha

knowing cambridge they might jus throw it in knowing that we wont b expecting it

[verbal copper]

but yea it was jus an 8 marker but to answer the question would b a lil tricky cuz the answers that the mark scheme r providing r a bit different to how i was thinking

not much but still

so i jus wanna have a general idea of what to expect if the question were to come tho

[shadow moth]

especially bc paper 1 was trippy haha

[shadow moth]

yea i'll probably do a plan on that question or smth later

just so i can get an idea as well

[verbal copper]

yea man cambridge have been moving pretty fcking weirdly lately wit the papers theyve made... especially wit math paper 1 smh

[shadow moth]

oh no that was even worse

or still the same amt of worse as p1 geo

even y13s in my school retaking AS said it was hard :')

[verbal copper]

thats how u kno it was bad haha

but luckily for us it seems like the paper was difficult universally lol

counting on those grade thresholds to come in clutch fr fr cuz math was rlly tricky for me

on past papers i was getting like 45+ points but in the actual exam id be lucky if i scraped a 30/75 lowkey haha

[shadow moth]

honestly same

no clue why that one felt harder but it still frustrates me

[verbal copper]

yea man i left the paper feeling like all my hard work was a waste of time

worst feeling

[shadow moth]

yea ikr

[shadow moth]

yup they better scale everyone well lmao

[verbal copper]

was lowkey relieved when the smart ppl in my grade lowkey felt the same abt the exam too

bruh and in geo only me and this other dude take it haha we're only 2 ppl in the class smh

[shadow moth]

same situation but except with me in chem class lmfao
there’s only one other person who takes geo with me in that one

[shadow moth]

yea it was even worse for some accelerated y11s

apparently one of them broke down after the exam

[verbal copper]

damnn😭 nah but i understand bruh that paper 1 was proper difficult bruh... the questions that were on our oct/nov paper werent on any other paper so it was completely different to the questions they generally ask on past papers

[shadow moth]

yea and we only have 2020 papers to practice off (also m/j/2021 which was easier lmao)

[verbal copper]

ye exactly cambridge did us dirty fr fr lol

[shadow moth]

@verbal copper how did you find paper 2 today? :)

[verbal copper]

Wait have u written already?😳

I write in 3 hours and 30 min but how did it go for u?

[verbal copper]

How long ago did u write? Cuz I’m doing the 22 variation of the paper

[shadow moth]

i finished 2 hours ago

started 1:34pm and ended 3:04pm (my time)

[verbal copper]

How did it go for u how was the last question?

[verbal copper]

Did u get the dependancy ratio?

[shadow moth]

last question was on anti natal policy and natural increase

same question (i’m pretty sure) as w20/23

only 4c is identical

[verbal copper]

no way thats such a good question

[shadow moth]

ikr i was so happy when i got it

wait what about you

what did you get

[verbal copper]

that means im not getting it tho smh

nah i write in 3 hours

its 6 in the morning right now

[shadow moth]

ohhh haha

[verbal copper]

but i write at around 9:30

[shadow moth]

dependency ratio is likely to not be tested for you guys

since it was tested at may/june series

[verbal copper]

hopefully bruh i dont think i have the facilities to answer that

[shadow moth]

update me when you’re done then

[shadow moth]

yeah same tbh

but i really hope you guys get an easy question bc it seems like p1 was hard

[verbal copper]

ye for sure

yea same man praying fr

needa do relatively well on this paper fr

bruh so u guys got anti natal that means we cant get that right

[shadow moth]

well sometimes what they do is repeat questions or give questions in the same topic
or you might get one on the other remaining topics

don’t bet on the repeating question scenario tho

bc it’s a very slim chance lol

[verbal copper]

yea exactly

[shadow moth]

you already know the other ones that might be tested right

[verbal copper]

yea relatively i think

like the to what extent type of questions

[shadow moth]

i meant topics that might come up for pop

this year

[verbal copper]

nah i dont tbh but im relatively comfortable with all topics i think lol

[shadow moth]

ok that’s good

gl for you in 3 hrs then :))

[verbal copper]

ppreciate it! ill tell u how it goes

wait tho

whats an unlikely question they could ask for the 15 mark

cuz the majority i saw were to what extent questions

but nah it should be alright

[shadow moth]

idk if there's any unlikely questions i can think of

i mean it's too late for me to say anything bc by the time you see this ping you'll probably be done lol

[verbal copper]

nah ye jus finished writing

got a question along the lines of "managing underpopulation is easier than managing overpopulation" to what extent do u agree

so i jus talked about the anti natal china policy and the difficulties wit managing that

also talked about swedens pro natal

think it went alright

time pressure was a bit mad tho i cant lie

struggled a bit too wit what to write exactly ngl

[shadow moth]

ohhh that one seems pretty decent as well
pretty sure that might be a repeat past paper question as well but idk

[shadow moth]

yeah same here
felt like i could have written more tbh

[steady flume]

how was geography y'all? those who wrote oct/nov?

[novel blade]

Hi! MJ22 IG student here, wanted to ask how Geography is at AS and A Level!

How do you find the subject? What's the jump from IG to AL Geo like?

[shadow moth]

me :)) did w13
physical was a mess but human was better

[shadow moth]

IG to AS for me is kind of a big jump

it’s more essay based than IG geo

also a bit more material to know than AS

the questions can be a bit weird at times and they’re usually “to an extent” questions where you’ll have to argue about different topics based off different case studies

the change in format (or in the content especially with the 15 markers) might come as a bit of a shock as first but once you do a bit of practice doing essay plans and essays you’ll get a hang of it :))

[novel blade]

Thank you!

[novel blade]

Do case studies feature very prominently in the qps?

[shadow moth]

well they kind of do

let me show you a practice question

in this one for example, you'd be expected to use an example (eg: green revolution) and discuss it for the 8 marker

for the 15 marker you'd have to talk about several different case studies (or examples) of different countries

to talk about it

one for the argument the question asks for: "increasing wealth puts excess pressure"
another to counteract it (you could use the green revolution again?? maybe)

or you could just use one example and discuss it as an argument

probably didn't word it well enough but hopefully you get an idea??

in others you'd have to use multiple case studies to back up your arguments (for example, discussing overpopulation, underpopulation, dtm stages etc)

you should definitely try to use as much examples as possible for 15 markers (in both papers) because that will probably help a lot with your answer

also another thing that i forgot to add, definitely take a look at exemplar responses from earlier years to get an idea of how to write a response

bc the mark schemes for those questions can be really brief and weird to look at

they only provide a bunch of points they want you to address or would expect people to address

[novel blade]

Thank you for all these details! I'm sorry I didn't respond earlier; I didn't see these messages 😅

I guess I'm sort of wondering how much of a bother it'd be to learn all these case studies

I don't like them very much at IGCSE, even, so to know that they're pretty central to answers at A Level is 🥴, if expected

Do you think independently studying the subject is realistic? My school technically offers the subject, but I had a chat with my Geography teacher and she told me that she's never actually had an A Level Geography class because not enough people opt for it 💀

and also that the school doesn't have much in the way of resources either

[novel blade]

Does this mean I'd have to mostly rely on textbooks/other sources for exam preparation? For IGCSE Geography I use mark schemes quite generously to learn content so

[novel blade]

Don't worry, I did understand! So a balanced essay response with support from multiple case studies on either side and I'm guessing a final evaluative conclusion as well?

[shadow moth]

yea

i'm thinking of putting in some mindmaps that i used in here so look out for them

[novel blade]

that would be really nice :D thank you haha

[shadow moth]

won't include all topics but i'll try get as much as i can

bc ik how much of a pain AS is

also let me dm a revision guide and textbook to you

not here bc of pirating lol

@novel blade
includes some atmosphere and weather (will upload more later)

[shadow moth]

sorry late reply but it is realistic i think??
but it'll definitely be a bit of a struggle to learn on your own
it helps to have a teacher (like yours) to guide you
even if you decide to learn it on your own, maybe ask her if she's willing to do a bit of tutoring (you can refer to it like that if you want) bc AS can be hard to learn on your own

[shadow moth]

ohhhhh that makes sense

[shadow moth]

yes probably
but for some you can get away with one like the antinatal policies

might send some essay plans for some topic to you later as well

in this channel maybe??

@novel blade most atmosphere and weather questions (with essay plans)
didn't include all bc some of them aren't that detailed

[quaint musk]

Would you be interested in putting these up as model answers on ZNotes?

[shadow moth]

yea sure why not :)

also could you pin these mindmaps??

i really hope these can help others here bc there are so few resources for geography

[shadow moth]

https://kisialevelgeography.wordpress.com

[shadow moth]

also this site

[quaint musk]

You can put the mindmaps up on the website on the resource bank too!

[shadow moth]

ok :))

[novel blade]

Hmm, okay, I see
That makes sense
So if I choose to continue w/ it I'll probably have no choice but to find some form of external support

[novel blade]

Thank you!! These are really detailed

[shadow moth]

would recommend you to do that

[shadow moth]

np :))

[cyan kraken]

Hey, does anyone have the course book in pdf?

[cyan kraken]

Greetings @everyone ^^Hope yall are doing fine. Does anyone have A2 notes on Tropical environments or climate? If so could you kindly send them to me

[shy ibex]

hey

does anyone know where i can find geo ial edexcel papers?

[full hatch]

igexams probably has, or physics and maths tutor

Does anyone know where i can find the answers for the collins cambridge as level geography book?

[cyan kraken]

Help needed <@&597283564295290880>

[unique elbow]

manifesting all geog students ,paper on the 6th any predictions/tips

[willow nest]

isnt it the 5th?

[final radish]

Yeah lol

[unique elbow]

Oh my bad was a typo wish it was on 6th an extra day to cram something

[shy ibex]

hey guys can anyone help me with how i should structure my 20 markers for paper 1 (edexcel ial)

im kind of struggling and i need some indication or example of a structer to follow

[willow nest]

exam tomorrow

y'all ready?

[lyric saddle]

how did everyone find the first paper?

[frigid plume]

rivers essay was nasty but overall okay

[unique elbow]

it was the only topic i prepared on too why did it have to be so twisted

[frigid plume]

everyone was in the same boat i think so don't worry too much

if only i had mass movement case studies 😩

[pastel palm]

Good luck guys 💛

[hybrid gust]

Wasn't too bad

[marble summit]

Both papers were good