Once again it’s been a slow week. My college has been on study leave from Monday to Thursday thus I’ve only had one lesson and that lesson was spent going through the mock exam we did. What I learnt from the mock is thatalways apply the basic geographical skills you’ve learnt doing other exams, case studies, tests etc. This will get you through an exam, it’s then just small bits of added knowledge which you need to be able to apply about the specific topic e.g. the exam which is coming up is on Belfast.
The basic exam layout is always the same, a mixture of shorter and longer answer questions. To get the best results you can you need to make sure that you leave enough time for the longer answer questions, these are the questions where the most marks can be made. When you’re answering the questions make sure that you understand the key word, what the question is actually asking you. There’s no point describing a graph if the question says explain. There’s also no point in writing a page for only a 5 marker. Each question is worth a certain amount of time, divide the number of minutes by the number of marks to get the number of marks per minute (roughly). The up-coming exam on Belfast is worth 1 mark every 1 and a half minutes. If you remember basic geographical exam skills and make sure you answer the question correctly then there’s no reason why everyone can’t get a good grade.
After all this is the skills paper.
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