Reaching for a 9 in GCSE AQA Geography
Support students’ progress towards the coveted grade 9 with this student-friendly and exam focused guide!
Each chapter contains:
- Knowledge Checklist: students are motivated to assess understanding and record progress
- Spice Up Your Notes: additional case studies and further research tasks inspire further thinking
- Bunkers and Blunders: supportive notes cover trickier aspects to rectify common errors and areas of weakness
- Let’s Give it a Go: scaffolded questions and model answers build confidence and demonstrate best practice across a range of exam question types
- 2016 specification requirements
- AQA's sample assessment materials and past papers
- Examiners’ report findings
- Now for the Serious Bit: exam-style questions with student-friendly mark schemes put skills into practice and encourage self-assessment
- Crossing the Bridge: self-challenge tasks support transition to A Level
Plus!
- Exam advice covers exam structure, command words, how to tackle long-answer questions and effective revision strategies
- All answers provided for teacher, self- and peer assessment
A close focus on exam success demonstrates the best ways to achieve top marks!
Paper 1: 12 chapters split by spec topic:
- Natural Hazards
- Tectonic Hazards
- Weather Hazards
- Climate Change
- Ecosystems
- Tropical Rainforests
- Hot Deserts
- Cold Environments
- UK Physical Landscapes
- UK Coastal Landscapes
- UK River Landscapes
- UK Glacial Landscapes
Paper 2: 12 chapters split by spec topic:
- Global Patterns of Urbanisation
- Four Cities in the Emerging World
- Four Cities in the UK
- Sustainable Urban Living
- Inequality and the Development Gap
- Reducing the Development Gap
- Four Newly Emerging Countries
- Economic Futures in the UK
- Resource Management
- Food
- Water
- Energy
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What do teachers say about this resource? (12368)
This was a very fun, engaging and thoughtful resource that is sure to capture the interest of a high achieving geography student. I really liked the ‘Lets give it a go ‘ letter codes for the different types of activity. This is a great idea and think the students will like this as there are a large variety of them to keep the tasks interesting. It does not waste time going over the basic information and focusses only on enhancing and extending their knowledge. It is very useful to include the command words and the marks they are worth as even the highest achieving student forgets or is not aware of this and is a good additional feature for them to be aware of. all units of work in paper 1 are included and are in the correct order.
A really good resource to stretch the more able. The students have the chance to review their prior learning and assess areas that they will need to develop. The blunder section is crucial to address misconceptions and potential pitfalls. The section developing skills for A level is an essential useful component of this resource. The resource includes case study information, low and high tariff questions. Answers at the end can allow students to check their own answers. The resource meets the requirements of the Physical Paper 1 of the GCSE specification. Section A, B and C are all covered in this resource. There is also the use of resources to develop graphical and statistical skills.