KS4

There are three exam papers at GCSE:

1.       Living with the Physical Environment (1.5 hours) – 35%.

2.       The World Around Us (1.5 hours) – 35%

3.       Geographical Skills (1.5 hours) – 30% (based on two field trips and a pre-release booklet available from the March before the exam)

Exam Board: AQA

Exam board specification weblink: http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/gcse/geography-8035

Year 9/10 Topics

  1. The Living World
  2. Urban issues and challenges
  3. Physical landscapes in the UK – Coasts and Glaciers
  4. The changing economic world

Year 11 Topics

  1. Natural hazards
  2. Resource management – food
  3. Fieldwork
  4. DME preparation

Revision Guides for the new GCSE – all pdf. Written by the department for the students.

For a skills work booklet click here (general skills required for the GCSE, which can be examined across all three papers).

Living with the Physical Environment topics (Physical paper)

  • Living World click here
  • Physical Landscapes in the UK click here
  • Natural Hazards click here

The World Around Us topics (Human paper)

  • Urban issues and Challenges click here
  • Challenge of Resource Management click here
  • The Changing Economic World click here (too large for the website – paper copies provided to students)

Geography Paper 3

2019 Exam materials – we will produce a work booklet to allow you to familiarise yourselves with the pre-release booklet (not released until March)

We will produce a ‘mock’ paper in the style of the sample paper that AQA produced when the specification was released. This will appear here soon.

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