Oxford University Press
AQA A Level Geography Exam Practice and Skills
Tim Bayliss, Bob Digby
AQA A Level Geography Exam Practice and Skills
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AQA A Level Geography Exam Practice covers the skills and techniques required to be successful in the new rigorous A Level AQA Geography specification, plus key geographical skills practice - written specially to target the demands of answering synoptic exam questions. Accessible, clear and thorough, this exam practice book engages all your students. Clearly-written using Oxford's popular On Your Marks approach, it focuses on planning, writing, and marking answers supported with sample answers at a range of levels, with marked and annotated versions pointing out good practice and useful tips. Motivating skills practice - based on the AQA sample assessment materials - reinforces this rigorous approach. In addition, guided answers and mark schemes will be provided online.

Language
English
ISBN
9780198432616
Contents
Exam Practice
1 Introduction
1.1 Preparing for success
1.2 The exams – topics and question types
1.3 Know your command words
1.4 Handy hints for exams
1.5 Understanding assessment objectives
1.6 Managing the 9-mark questions
1.7 Managing the 20-mark questions
2 On your marks
2.1 Dealing with 6-mark questions in the exam
2.2 6-mark questions using ‘Analyse’
2.3 6-mark questions using ‘Assess’
2.4 9-mark questions on Hazards
2.5 9-mark questions on Ecosystems under stress
2.6 9-mark questions on Contemporary urban environments
2.7 9-mark questions on Population and the environment
2.8 9-mark questions on Resource security
2.9 20-mark questions on the Carbon cycle
2.10 20-mark questions on Hot desert systems and landscapes
2.11 20-mark questions on Coastal systems and landscapes
2.12 20-mark questions on Glacial systems and landscapes
2.13 20-mark questions on Global systems and global governance
2.14 20-mark questions on Changing places
Geographical skills
Introduction
Exam Practice Geographical skills
3 Cartographic Skills
3.1 Choropleth maps, dot maps and proportional circles
3.2 Isolines on maps and diagrams
3.3 Flow, desire and trip lines
3.4 Ordnance Survey maps
4 Graphical skills
4.1 Sketching, labelling and annotation
4.2 Graphs
4.3 Scattergraphs
4.4 Triangular graphs
4.5 Radial charts
4.6 Additional higher order graphical skills
5 Statistical skills
5.1 Measures of central tendency
5.2 Variance and standard deviation
5.3 The Spearman rank correlation coefficient test
5.4 The Chi-squared test
Ordnance Survey map symbols
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