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Exam Board: AQA
This course consists of three externally examined papers:
Component 1: Living with the physical environment (35% of the qualification)
Content overview:
Component 2: Challenges in the human environment (35% of the qualification)
Content overview:
Content overview:
The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to build on their Key Stage 3 knowledge and skills to:
Assessment: 100% examination
Exam Board: AQA
Level: 3
Qualification - at a glance.
This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams and submit all their non-exam assessment at the end of the course. This qualification enables students to explore the world, its issues and their place in it. The specification explores current issues of local, national and global importance in contexts specific to different parts of the world. A-level introduces new content and approaches to geographical processes, systems, place, scale and space.
Physical geography:
Human geography:
The course consists of two externally examined papers and an internally marked Fieldwork investigation.
Term 1 - Geographical skills
Term 2 - Exploring the UK
Term 3 - Weather
Term 4 - China
Term 5 - Ecosystems
Term 6 - Ecosystems / Crime
Term 1 - Development - Rich world, poor world
Term 2 - Hazards
Term 3 - The USA
Term 4 - Globalisation
Term 5 - Africa - a continent of contrasts
Term 6 - Zombie Apocalypse/Geographical Skills
Term 1 -Megacities / Tectonic Hazards
Term 2 -Weather Hazards
Term 3 -Cliamte Change
Term 4 -River Landscapes
Term 5 -Resource Management
Term 6 -Food Management
Term 1-The development gap
Term 2 -Nigeria; a newly emerging economy
Term 3 -UK landscapes and coasts
Term 4 -Weather Hazards
Term 5 -Climate Change
Term 6 -The urban world / The changing UK economy
Term 1 -Hot Deserts / Field experience 2
Term 2 -Urban Change in the UK / Urban sustainability
Term 3 -River Landscapes
Term 4 -River Landscapes
Term 5 -Preparation for geographical skills / revision
Term 6 -Revision and exam focus
Pearsons - (relevant for GCSE and A level courses)
AQA - Relevant for GCSE and Year 12 A-Level
CGP GCSE AQA Geography (for the grade 9-1 course)
Revise AQA GCSE (9-1) Geography revision guide and workbook (Pearson)
My revision notes: AQA AS/A level Geography (Hodder Education)
New A-level Geography: AQA year 1 and 2 complete revision and practice (CGP)