Eduqas A-Level Geography
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100 topics
Course topics100 topics
- Responses to tectonic hazards
- Tectonic Hazards (compulsory)
- Impacts and management of climatic hazards
- Suites of landforms within glacial landscapes
- Biodiversity under threat
- Economic Growth and Challenge: India or China (optional)
- Temporal variations in river discharge
- Urban management and the challenges of continuity and change
- Human factors affecting risk and vulnerability
- Energy Challenges and Dilemmas (optional)
- Causes, consequences, and management of rural-urban migration in developing countries
- Catchment hydrology – the drainage basin as a system
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Assessment and exam guidance
What Gets Top Grades
Knowledge & Understanding
Demonstrates comprehensive and accurate knowledge
- Uses correct subject-specific terminology
- Shows detailed understanding of concepts
- Makes accurate connections between topics
- Demonstrates depth beyond surface-level knowledge
Application
Applies knowledge effectively to new contexts
- Selects relevant knowledge for the question
- Adapts understanding to unfamiliar scenarios
- Uses examples appropriately
- Shows awareness of context
Analysis & Evaluation
Develops sophisticated analytical arguments
- Constructs logical chains of reasoning
- Considers multiple perspectives
- Weighs evidence to reach justified conclusions
- Acknowledges limitations and nuances
Key Command Words
Give a single fact or term
Name, select, or recognise
Set out main features briefly
Give an account of what something is like or what happens
Give reasons with developed cause→effect chains
State similarities AND differences (both required)
Examine in detail showing cause→effect→consequence chains
Weigh up BOTH sides, reach JUSTIFIED conclusion
Make judgments about importance with justification
Show formula→substitution→calculation→answer with units
Tips and common mistakes
Common Exam Mistakes
Pitfalls to avoid in your exams
- •Confusing primary and secondary hazards.
- •Failing to link tectonic processes to specific plate boundary types.
- •Generalizing impacts without considering contrasting contexts.
- •Neglecting the role of human factors in turning a hazard into a disaster.
- •Confusing direct and indirect threats to biodiversity
- •Failing to link threats to specific scales (local to global)
- •Generalizing threats without referencing the specific ecosystems at risk (rainforests, coral reefs, wetlands)
- •Lack of precision in defining biodiversity
Top Examiner Tips
Expert advice for exam success
- •Ensure you can distinguish between modifying the event, vulnerability, and loss.
- •Use the hazard management cycle as a framework for structuring responses.
- •Be prepared to apply these concepts to contrasting contexts as required by the specification.
- •Use specific examples in contrasting contexts to demonstrate varied risk and impacts.
- •Ensure understanding of the hazard management cycle (short-term and long-term responses).
- •Apply specialised concepts like inequality, resilience, and risk to evaluate responses.
- •Be prepared to discuss the Mercalli, Richter, and Volcanic Explosivity Index scales.
- •Ensure you can distinguish between direct and indirect human actions affecting biodiversity
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