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DON’T PANIC! Beginning GCSE Geography revision DON’T PANIC!

Usain Bolt, aka ‘Lightning Bolt’ is the reigning World and Olympic champion in the 100m, 200m and the 4 x 100 m relay. At the

2009 World Championships he further lowered his own 100 m and 200 m world records to 9.58 s and 19.19 s respectively. This

made him the first man to hold both the 100 and 200 m world and Olympic titles at the same time.

From a very young age he showed potential as a great runner and by the age of 12 he had broken all of his school records for

running 100 metres.

Jessica Ennis-Hill was one of the many stars of the last two Olympics, winning gold in the heptathlon (2012) and

silver (2016). Many other British Olympians could have been mentioned here.

Ellen MacArthur is a famous solo long-distance yachtswoman. In 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation

of the globe completing this mammoth challenge in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds.

In 2006 David Walliams swam the English Channel for Sport Relief. He covered the 22 miles in 10 hours and 34 minutes.

He prepared for nine months and raised over £1000 000. In 2011 year he swam a 140 mile route along the River Thames

in eight days! He is known for being an actor, comedian and writer, not a long-distance swimmer.

All of these people achieved amazing things! What these four people have in common is that they

spent months and years preparing for the events they were taking part in. You should view your

examinations in the same way; you can’t expect to achieve if you do not adequately prepare in good

time.

You have this one opportunity to shine and show the examiner that you really know your stuff.

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Year 11 revision calendar 2020

Whether you’re an athlete or a student facing forthcoming examinations, you need to prepare for your challenge. Students often find

it difficult to begin revision, this calendar should hopefully help you plan out your revision and get into regular routines. You need to

ensure that you adequately cover all of the topics covered on all of the papers, so plan them out and then try stick to that plan.

This calendar is only an example, suggesting that you do a little each night, Monday to Friday. The times are only a suggestion too –

indicating that you increase the actual time you spend revising and so gradually slip into the habit of revising and find it easier to do so.

Give yourself incentives. For example, if you stick to an entire weeks’ worth of planned revision, treat yourself at the weekend (ask

politely for a bit of extra pocket money for the cinema as you deserve it!). Do give some additional focus to the case studies and named

examples covered – these questions are often worth more marks.

In the summer of Year 11

You will have three exam papers – Monday 18th May (am) Paper 1 Physical (Hazards, Living world, U.K. physical landscapes) 1.5 hours

Wednesday 3rd June (am) Paper 2 Human (Urban, Changing economic world. resources) 1.5 hours

Thursday 11th June (am) Paper 3 Geographical applications 1 hour 15 minutes

All three papers will come with an insert which will potentially contain various maps, a key, other source information (graphs, tables,

photographs etc. should be contained within the examination paper itself).

Do read the instructions on these exam papers carefully. Only answer the questions on the topics you have been taught. For example,

on Paper 1, when you come to the final topic (U.K. physical landscapes) you answer the question on coasts and rivers but ignore the final

question on glaciation.

Put the time and effort in now while you still have plenty of time. Cover everything adequately and you should be able to walk into the exams more

confident, less stressed with the full knowledge that the examiners can’t throw a question at you that you won’t have revised and prepared for.

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Revision calendar 2020

Coasts – Physical topic, paper 1, section C, question 3, total 15 marks. Date Monday 13th Jan Tuesday 14th Jan Wednesday 15th Jan Thursday 16th Jan Friday 17th Jan

2nd week back

Try 10 mins. each night

Physical landscapes in the UK.

Do you know the location of the major mountain ranges and lowland areas in the UK?

Get a blank UK map, use an atlas and mark them

on.

Physical landscapes in the UK.

Do you know the location of the major river systems UK? Get a blank UK map, use an atlas and mark them

on.

Physical landscapes in the UK: Coasts

What shapes the coast? - Waves -What forms waves? - What are the differences between constructive and destructive waves? Draw a number of labelled

diagrams.

What shapes the coast?

Weathering processes - What are the different types of weathering, how is it different to erosion?

Make notes, watch a clip

from ‘Time for Geography’ website


Mass movement - What causes cliffs to collapse, are there different types of mass movement? Repeat until you remember them.

Make notes, get someone to

test you.

Date Monday 20th Jan Tuesday 21st Jan Wednesday 22nd Jan Thursday 23rd Jan Friday 24th Jan



Erosion, transportation and deposition

- What do these key terms mean? Are there different types? Read through your notes,

try a past question.

Coastal landforms

Erosional landforms – bays, headlands, cliffs, wave-cut platforms, caves, arches, stacks. Give examples for each. Re-read your class notes. Draw annotated diagrams

to both describe and explain these.

Coastal landforms

Depositional landforms –beaches, sand dunes, spits and bars.

Draw annotated diagrams to

both describe and explain these. Could you name any

examples?

Managing the coast

Hard and soft engineering. What are the differences between these? Give a few examples.

Remember the fieldtrip? Look at the table you

completed in class, get someone to test you.

Example of management

Holderness Coastline

What is managed retreat? Why was this scheme used? What were the effects and conflicts? Make additional notes, find a

clip about this scheme on YouTube.

Spoil yourself at the weekend

– one topic complete.

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Changing economic world – Human topic, paper 2, section B, question 2. 36 marks Date Monday 27th Jan Tuesday 28th Jan Wednesday 29th Jan Thursday 30th Jan Friday 31st Jan


Measuring development

What do we mean by standard of living and quality of life? How can we measure economic development?

List the different measures of development – how do they show if a

country is a H.I.C. or L.I.C?

The DTM

What does the demographic transition model show you? Where would a L.I.C., N.E.E., H.I.C. be placed on it?

Re-read through your notes, make a labelled

sketch of the DTM as well as population pyramids.

Uneven development

What is it? Why does it exist? What are the consequences? For example, migration.

How about using Seneca? Try a section then test

yourself.

Reducing the development gap

What are the various ways the gap between rich and poor countries can be reduced? Look back over the carousel activity you completed on this. Try to find and complete a

past G.C.S.E. question. Set yourself a specific time

limit.

Example of how the growth in tourism has helped to reduce

the development gap. Named example: Tunisia

Re-read through your notes, how about attempting the past

question you completed on this again?

Get someone to test you on all

of the key terms covered so far.

Date Monday 3rd Feb Tuesday 4th Feb Wednesday 5th March Thursday 6th Feb Friday 7th Feb


Case study: Nigeria

Where is Nigeria? Why is it an important country? How has the employment structure changed as the country has developed? Revisit the initial part of

your booklet. Make additional revision notes.

Case study: Nigeria

TNC’s – what are they, how have they helped the country to develop? What advantages & disadvantages have they brought? Can you complete a little further research about

Shell and Unilever?

Case study: Nigeria

What have been the environmental impacts of development on the environment? How have things improved for people as the country has developed? Revisit your booklet, make

a number of spider diagrams.

Change in the UK economy

How has the U.K.’s economy changed? Why has this happened? Ensure that you are familiar

with the key terms, e.g. deindustrialisation,

globalisation, tertiary etc.

Moving towards a post-industrial economy in the

U.K.

What has happened as we have moved away from manufacturing? What are business and science parks? Examples?

Review this work and get someone to test you.

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Changing economic world – Human topic, paper 2, section B, question 2. 36 marks Date Monday 10th Feb Tuesday 11th Feb Wednesday 12th Feb Thursday 13th Feb Friday 14th Feb


Example of how modern industry can be more

environmentally sustainable.

What have been the negative impacts on the environment? How is J.C.B. an example of an industry being more environmentally sustainable?

Revisit this part of your booklet, make your own notes about J.C.B., and

complete some additional research.

Industrial development in rural areas

How has changes in the economy affected rural areas? What were the two areas you looked at?

Create a table for the two areas, economic, social & environmental - make– a note of one change for each of the two places

you studied.

Improvements in transport

What new developments in road, rail, ports, and air travel have occurred? How have these helped the economy?

Look at the table you completed for this from the

information cards, make another copy of it, try to shorten the information down into single bullet

points.

The North / South divide

The U.K.’s place in the wider world

What is this? Why does it exist? What can be done to reduce regional differences? What’s the U.K.’s role in the Commonwealth, the E.U.? Test yourself, jot down what

you remember initially. Review this work and ‘fill in

the gaps’.

Time to review

Take some time to review all of the work you have covered so far (including Coasts).

Create a quick revision quiz, include answers, get someone

to test you in a weeks’ time. Don’t forget to send that card

to someone special.

Date Monday 17th Feb Tuesday 18th Feb Wednesday 19th Feb Thursday 20th Feb Friday 21st Feb

Half term

Skills – O.S. map skills

Ensure that you know the basic, eight points of a compass, are familiar with symbols and can do 4 & 6 figure grid references.

Visit the O.S. map zone website.

Skills – O.S. map skills

Ensure that can measure distances. Do you understand how height is shown on O.S. maps?

Visit the O.S. map zone website.

Skills – numeracy

Make sure that you know how to calculate the mean, mode and median. Can you calculate range? Interquartile range?

Look back through your books and find examples of

questions.

Skills – graphs

Could you complete a scatter graph? Complete a pie chart? Line graph? Meet up with a friend in the class and test each other.

Skills – photographs

Could you identify physical / human features from a photograph? How about using a photograph and map together?

Practice some GCSE

questions. Try to work at a minute a mark.

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Hazards – Physical topic, paper 1, section A, question 1, total 33 marks. Date Monday 24th Feb Tuesday 25th Feb Wednesday 26th Feb Thursday 27th Feb Friday 28th Feb


Natural hazards

What are they? How can they be classified? What increases the risk from them?

Revisit your notes and

look at the Time for Geography website.

Plate boundaries

What are the different types of plate margins? What hazards occur at each? Where are they found?

Draw a series of annotated diagrams. After a set time, write

them out from memory.

Natural hazards

What are they? How can they be classified? What increases the risk from them?

Revisit your notes and look at the Time for Geography

website.

Named example: Italy 2016 (wealthier region)

What happened? What were the primary / secondary effects? What were the immediate & long-term responses?

Make another copy of the case study table you completed in class.

Named example: Haiti 2010 (poorer region)

What happened? What were the primary / secondary effects? What were the immediate & long-term responses? Make another copy of the case study table you completed in

class. Make a note of the differences between the two examples of

earthquakes.

Date Monday 2nd March Tuesday 3rd March Wednesday 4th March Thursday 5th Mach Friday 6th March


Managing tectonic hazards

Why do people live in these dangerous areas? What are the different ways the risks from volcanic and earthquake hazards can be reduced?

Draw a series of annotated spider

diagrams. Add pictures to aid your memory.

Global atmospheric circulation

What is this? Why do temperatures decrease towards the poles? What’s the Hadley Cell? What’s the tricellular model?

Revisit your notes, complete some further

research. Find a YouTube clip about

these.

Tropical storms

What are they? Where do they occur? How do they form? What hazards to they pose? How might climate change might affect the distribution, frequency and intensity of tropical storms? Use BBC Bitesize / Time for

Geography.

Named example: Typhoon Haiyan

What ere the primary and secondary effects of this tropical storm. What were the immediate and long-term responses? How can monitoring, prediction, protection and planning can reduce the effects of tropical storms?

Make another copy of the case study table you completed in class.

Extreme weather events in the UK

What is extreme weather? What types affect the U.K.? A named example of a recent extreme weather event – Boscastle flood - Social, economic and environmental impacts. How can we reduce the effects? Make another copy of the case

study table.

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Hazards – Physical topic, paper 1, section A, question 1, total 33 marks. Urban – Human topic, paper 2, Section A, question 1, total 33 marks. Date Monday 9th March Tuesday 10th March Wednesday 11th March Thursday 12th March Friday 13th March


Climate change

Evidence of climate change. What are the natural & human causes of climate change? What are the effects on people and the environment? How can we reduce the effects of climate change? Do not confuse this with

the hole in the ozone layer! Visit a revision

website.

Patterns or urban change

What is urbanisation? What causes it? Why are rates different between L.I.C’s, N.E.E.’s and H.I.C.’s? What are megacities?

Create a revision quiz

Have you had someone test you on the coasts

revision quiz yet?

Case study: Rio

Where is Rio, why is it regarded as an important city? What opportunities does Rio offer its residents compared to other parts of Brazil (access to education, health etc.)

Revisit this part of the topic in your booklet and make

brief revision notes.

Case study: Rio

What challenges doe some of Rio’s residents face? What are the issues in the favelas? What has been done to improve life in the poorest parts of the city? What was the named project we covered?

Make brief notes and try a

past GCSE question.

UK population and distribution of cities

What is the population distribution like in the U.K.? Why’s it like this? Where are the major cities?

Make a brief copy of a choropleth map and annotate

it.

Date Monday 16th March Tuesday 17th March Wednesday 18th March Thursday 19th March Friday 20th March


Case study: London

Where is London, why is it regarded as an important city? How has migration changed the character of the city?

Revisit this part of the

topic in your booklet and make brief notes.

Case study: London

How has Shoreditch changed? What opportunities does this area offer people? Has everyone benefitted from the changes? Find a 6 / 9 mark question on this and try to answer it again. Aim to produce

a level 3 answer.

Case study: London

How have employment patterns changed? What new transport developments have taken place in the city?

Find a YouTube clip about Crossrail. Complete a little

extra research.

Case study: London

Does London have a lot of green spaces? What are the benefits of these? What inequalities exist across London – Newham v’s Kensington. Use BBC Bitesize / Seneca.

GCSE Pre-release for

Paper 3 today.

Case study: London

Why does London have a housing crisis? What are the issues around developing brown and greenfield sites?

Make sure you are familiar with all of the key words

covered so far on the urban topic.

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Urban – Human topic, paper 2, Section A, question 1, total 33 marks. Rivers – Physical topic, paper 1, section C, question 4, total 15 marks. Date Monday 23rd March Tuesday 24th March Wednesday 25th March Thursday 26th March Friday 27th March


Case study: London

A named example of a regeneration project – 2012 Olympic site. Why did this area need regenerating? What exactly was done to improve this area? Make a page of notes on

this named example.

Case study: London

What issues does London face with waste and pollution? How does it deal with these issues?

Revisit this part of your booklet, condense the

content down into a number of bullet points.

Sustainable urban living

What are the features of sustainable urban living? How does the Bedzed development address issues of water and energy conservation, recycling, green spaces, reducing traffic congestion? Look back at the tables you completed on this. Watch a

clip on YouTube.

Rivers

How does the long and cross profile of rivers change? What are the various processes of erosion, transportation and deposition which occur in rivers?

Make notes, write out the processes (same as at the

coast) until you don’t confuse them.

River landforms

How do processes of fluvial erosion form interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges? How does erosion & deposition form meanders & ox bow lakes? Make notes on each landform

– draw a sequence of annotated diagrams to show

how they form.

Date Monday 30th March Tuesday 31st March Wednesday 1st April Thursday 2nd April Friday 3rd April


River landforms

How do processes of deposition form levees, flood plains and estuaries? The River Tees – what features of erosion and deposition did we look at here?

Make notes on each landform – draw a

sequence of annotated diagrams to show how

they form.

Flooding

What factors influence flood risk? Geology, rainfall, relief, land use. How can discharge and precipitation be shown on hydrographs? How can these show if a river is a high flood risk? Revisit your notes, try an

online test about this.

Flooding

What hard & soft engineering strategies are used to reduce the risk of flooding? Costs? Benefits? An example (Boscastle) of a flood management strategy, what was involved, why it was needed as well as the issues involved (E.E.S.)

Try a past question and play a prank on someone.

Review time

Spend some time this evening going over the two human topics you have covered so far.

Read through any revision notes, write

them out again – repetition aids memory.

Review time

Spend some time this evening going over the

three physical topics you have covered so far. Read through any revision notes,

write them out again – repetition aids memory. Repetition aids memory, Repetition aids memory, Repetition aids memory. Repetition aids memory.

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Living world – Physical topic, paper 1, section B, question 2, total 25 marks. Resources – Human topic, paper 2, section C, question 3, total 11 marks. Date Monday 6th April Tuesday 7th April Wednesday 8th April Thursday 9th April Friday 10th April

Easter

Living world

What is an ecosystem? What are food chains and food webs? What are biomes?

Ensure that you are familiar with the

numerous key terms and their meanings. What are

the overlaps with what you have studied in

science?

Ecosystems – scale and interactions

What small scale ecosystem did you study? What happens when one part of an ecosystem changes? How can the balance be restored?

Could you sketch out a map of the world’s

biomes? Take time out to treat yourself tonight.

Ecosystems – rainforests

How and why are rainforests structured? What’s the nutrient cycle? Why is so important (and fragile) here? How have flora & fauna adapted to this hot, humid environment?

Draw an annotated diagrams.

Eat an Easter egg.

Deforestation - rainforests

What are the causes of deforestation? What are the impacts (environmental & economic)? How have rates of deforestation changed? Amazon case study

Revisit this work in your books, draw a table of

causes and impacts, and highlight the environmental

& economic impacts in different colours.

Sustainability

What are the value of rainforests? How can they be managed sustainably? Can you give examples of conservation? Sustainable logging? Ecotourism?

Go over the work you have covered this week, make

additional notes about the value and sustainable

management of rainforests.

Date Monday 13th April Tuesday 14th April Wednesday 15th April Thursday 16th April Friday 17th April

Easter

Cold deserts

Where do you find cold deserts? What’s the climate like and why? How are plants and animals adapted to living in these harsh environments?

Review any key terms

and try a past question.

Cold case study

What are the opportunities and challenges of living and working in deserts? Case study – the Svalbard

Revisit this case study. Make extra notes and try a 9 mark question from a

past paper.

Review

Take time now to review all of the physical topics:

Hazards

Living world

Coasts

Rivers

You should now have covered everything and be more than ready for Paper

1!

Resources

What are resources? Why are food, water and energy so important? What inequalities exist around the world? Who uses more / less of these resources? Use Seneca / BBC Bitesize.

Resources in the U.K.

Food, water and energy use in the U.K. What is the use of these resources? How are the use and demand of these changing?

Revisit your class notes and

make some additional revision notes.

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Resources – Human topic, paper 2, section C, question 3, total 11 marks. Energy – Human topic, paper 2, section C, question 6, total 14 marks Date Monday 20th April Tuesday 21st April Wednesday 22nd April Thursday 23rd April Friday 24th April


Resources – global demand for food

Where are the areas of surplus? Deficit? Why is demand rising? What factors affect food supply? What are the issues of food insecurity? What strategies can be used to increase food security? How can it be sustainable?

Review your notes then

get someone to test you.

Named examples INDUS Basin

Increasing food supply: an example of a large scale agricultural development to show how it has both advantages and disadvantages. An example of a local scheme in an LIC or NEE to increase sustainable supplies of food.

Condense these

examples down into a series of bullet points.

Food

Why is global demand rising? Where are the areas of surplus and deficit? What are the reasons behind this? What are the impacts of food insecurity?

Look at the spec as to what you need to cover. Turn the

content into a number of spider diagrams.

Energy: increasing supply

What strategies can be used to increase food supply? What are renewable sources of energy? How can these be used to meet increased demand? How can we, as individuals, impact food consumption

Try a past GCSE question.

Almost there.

Named examples MAKUENI, KENYA

Examples of sustainable food supply. How can food supply be sustainable?

Condense these examples down into a series of bullet

points.

Date Monday 27th April Tuesday 28th April Wednesday 29th April Thursday 30th April Friday 1st May


Geographical applications

Study your pre-release booklet again. Can you have a second go at the practice questions you completed in class for Figure 1?






Practice some section B questions – graphs, data tables, map work. Remember you will have been e-mailed a sample paper (13/12/19).


Familiarize yourself with the human and physical fieldwork you completed. Have another go at the practice questions you were given.

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Date Monday 4th May Tuesday 5th May Wednesday 6th May Thursday 7th May Friday 8th May


Revisit coasts

Ensure you know the details of the named

examples.

Revisit C.E.W.


examples / case studies.

Revisit hazards



Revisit urban



Revisit rivers



Date Monday 11th May Tuesday 12th May Wednesday 13th May Thursday 14th May Friday 15th `May


Revisit living world



Revisit resources



Revisit food



Revisit the P3 booklet

Revisit fieldwork completed

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Monday 18th May (am) Paper 1 Physical (Hazards, Living world, U.K. physical landscapes) 1.5 hours

Wednesday 3rd June (am) Paper 2 Human (Urban, Changing economic world. resources) 1.5 hours

Thursday 11th June (am) Paper 3 Geographical applications 1 hour 15 minutes

Top tips . . . hints . . . and some sensible advice:

Do start early so that you can cover everything thoroughly. Make sure your class notes are up-to-date and in order.

Ensure you know which topics are on which exam. Make revision notes (one of the best ways of helping to commit things to your

long-term memory). Revisit these, repetition aids memory. Go over something enough times and it will stick in your memory.

Try to get into regular routines, i.e. have the same ‘time-slot’ each evening in which to work.

Get someone else to quiz you periodically. Alternatively, try to teach / explain someone else. Don’t work for more than an hour at

a time without a short break. Don’t work late at night. If you’re tired you won’t take information in as easily.

Make sure that you have everything you need around you before you sit down to begin working.

Try to avoid distractions, a little music is fine. Certain types of classical music can actually help you concentrate!

Do make use of the resources available to you, particularly the lessons & resources on Connect. Seneca, G.C.S.E. pod.

Use practice GCSE questions as part of your revision, look at the hints given on the model answers.

Go through each case study and named example thoroughly; make sure you know the specific details of each. Remember that in the

final exam, you will have to answer questions which require extended writing (use the ‘so what’ technique).

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Use the case study booklet you have been provided with.

In the actual exam.

Remember there will be several topics – on each paper you only answer FOUR questions on each paper – the physical topics of

hazards, living world, coasts and rivers and human topics of urban, C.E.W., resources and energy Ignore the others, perhaps put

a line through them at the very beginning of the examination.

Try to divide your time equally. Try to work at a rate of a minute a mark.

Underline the command word in each question. Make sure you follow and focus on it.

Remember, if you are asked to ‘use your own knowledge’ then this means you should be including detail from a case study.

Use key terms in your answers.

When attempting a question requiring 6 – 9 marks, try to picture the mark scheme in your mind. What will the examiner be

expecting? Level 1 – basic, Level 2 – clear, Level 3 – detailed.

If you label anything, make sure the arrows touch! Refer to any figures (photos, maps etc.) directly in your answer.

When you finish a particular question, count up the total marks to make sure that you haven’t missed any part out.

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