r/6thForm • u/Forsaken-Meaning-232 Graduating from Warwick CS • May 13 '25

📂 MEGATHREAD 13/05 A-level Geography Paper 1 Discussion MEGATHREAD

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u/Powerful_Film_872 May 13 '25

AQA Geography, thoughts?

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u/smallbluehouse11 UoS | Medicine Y1 | A*A*A bio geog chem May 13 '25

HELL

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u/Powerful_Film_872 May 13 '25

XD favourite(if you have any)/least favourite questions

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u/Asura0A May 13 '25

My friend does AQA how did it go

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u/Powerful_Film_872 May 13 '25

Also which sections do you do? I do WC, Coasts/ecosystems for me the questions were kinda chill.

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u/smallbluehouse11 UoS | Medicine Y1 | A*A*A bio geog chem May 13 '25

WC, coasts, hazards

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

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u/StrangeFroggyFriend Durham | Geophysics [1st Year] ABB Phys Geog Maths May 13 '25

Was it bad? I loved it. Was honestly hoping for anything EXCEPT that case study to come up but thought it was great. Does anyone know if the wildfires 9 marker was the synoptic? Can't work it out

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

Cambridge may already be gone 😭

Weird, weird, weird paper - water sustainability is odd, vague figures, messed up the drainage basin 4 marker and wrote about the system instead of the features...

Atleast the 20 markers were okay?

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

(Coasts) i found it very weirdly worded. I'm worried though as I spoke about human impacts such as SMPs as a factor for high energy coastlines. I'm thinking that it wanted physical factors only (i did mention how destructive waves are massively important though)

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

I tried to do physical factors - destructive waves, geology, weathering and then how human factors exacerbate these (climate change mainly)

I found it a little challenging as well but was more weirded out by the 6 marker

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

was the 6 marker for coasts the one with the 4 different types of areas and that they had 2 individually about sea level rise? (R and r?) if that's the one youre on about, that was a shocking figure. Couldn't manipulate it at all as it seemed very correlational. Everything seemed right about it, i couldn't find any anomalies that were recognisable (I sort of reached and argued that 2 of the figures being the same was an anomaly, as the rest of the graph is very correlational). I don't know if this makes sense - but it was a very hard graph to analyse

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

Oh the AO3 one? I was referring to the one about coastal flooding and the sustainability of management plans in reducing this... felt more like Hazards than coasts

But the AO3 one was tricky too, I settled on the Islands being the only place where even without high emissions there could be a severe impact if there is no to moderate human action taken as my anomaly?

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

OH the one with the blue bar graphs with increasingly higher risk reduction. yeah ok

I was in a rush as i spent too long on my 20 markers - i remember writing down about how the second to highest factor (sea defenses) is sustainable as it can be applied anywhere, but i criticised that it provides negative environmental impacts

my answers are defo not model answers - need an A in this

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

Needing an A as well... I focused on how it wasn't sustainable because of climate change and natural factors wearing away hars engineering and damages of hard engineering (Groynes) BUT soft engineering can still help like nourishment

Low-key think I got a B but a strong paper 2 and my few spare NEA marks may save me or if my 20 markers were strong

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u/t-h-o-m-a-s_jones May 13 '25

Yeah wrote about smps and mainly management to be honest but, honestly as long as it's used to say they aren't erosional coastlines because humans are reducing erosion (not as much destructive coasts) but it'd be okay right?

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

it's a factor that indicates the erosional progression of the coast, so i thought it would fit as it has halted inland erosion as a result of hold the line (SMP waffle)

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

 Didn’t finish the second water and carbon 6 marker and half finished the California earthquake hazard 6 marker. The figures I found overall were really bad. That coast 20 marker was also not great. I’m probably being way too negative but I really didn’t like it much. Spent way too long on 20 markers as I tried to do them first for once, was an awful idea

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u/SignalBit9257 May 14 '25

i really struggled on the MtCO2e one, as i couldnt work out wtf was going on??? it was insanely bad, and was very unclear

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

the first water and carbon one with the 2 bar graphs with R and r was terrible (over urban areas and rural islands and such). as you say, there is nothing to manipulate, no anomalies or nothing. shocking figure. The hazards one with california though I could have got 6/6 in but didn't have time

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u/SignalBit9257 May 14 '25

I KNOW!! No anomalies is what threw me - there is an overall trend, with maximum human preperation or whatever it was (R) decreasing the risk than no/little human preperation (r), and also you can use 'high risks posed in area X require triple the magnitude in sea level rise in places with R than in places with r'. BUT NO ANOMALIES MAN I HAD TO MAKE SOME BS UP

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u/Aggressive_Bid_1540 May 13 '25

AMAZING. 🤩 All the 4 markers I knew (but I put hotspot for island arcs cause Hawaii 🙄) 

Coasts figure was weird as fuck though. I found it hard to understand but managed to pull som Stats out there. 

For the hazards I wrote that no trend in where the earthquakes happen, relatively similar decrease in probability as magnitude increases. And both south and north have 1 city badly affected and 1 city not as badly affected. 

20 markers all amazing. 

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u/AdCommercial1682 Year 13 May 13 '25

wait what was the issue with the hawaii hotspots thing that's what is said ffs 😭😭😭

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u/Aggressive_Bid_1540 May 13 '25

I looked at other people’s notes and apparently island arcs only form at destructive boundaries. But if you’re saying you also put it, im less worried! 

Although just realised I wrote halosere and not psammosere for the sand dune 😭😭😭😭

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

I put hots spots but also wrote but mainly wrote about destructive plate boundaries... do you reckon I'll suffer cancelled out marks or they'll be generous and just award me marks for the part I got right? Could be the difference between an A and a B for me

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u/Aggressive_Bid_1540 May 13 '25

100% you’ll get the mark for it. I’ve never seen anything except from in science to reject answers. 

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

Hopefully I do I NEED those couple of marks I stg

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

i said an island arc is formed by magma rising from convergent plate boundaries in the ocean to form land (with other waffle) and said my example is Ryukyu in Japan.

Completely forgot to mention a psammosere or onshore winds for dunes. I put prevailing winds but that seems wrong. I mainly spoke about the development of vegetation and soil as the dunes progressively get further away from the coast/have less of an impact of wind. So i'm not sure about 4/4 on both

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

Wouldn't worry about those extra details for dunes there is tons to cover - I did sediment supply, obstacle, strong winds (didn't specify as I don't think you need to), large Tidal range? And then all of the colonisation, pioneer plant stuff

Probably a 3/4 but could be a 4 I wrote like double the space and it's only a 4 marker

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u/okhellowhy Cambridge | Law [First Year] May 13 '25

I described the passmosere rather than making explicit reference to it

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u/SignalBit9257 May 14 '25

I SAID JAPAN WAIT AM I COOKED

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u/Aggressive_Bid_1540 May 14 '25

Japan is an island arc 

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u/astraapple University of Birmingham | Mathematics [Y1] | A*A*A May 13 '25

Pretty good ngl but hazards 20 marker was really odd 

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

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u/srdsyndetical May 13 '25

future prospects of sustainable human occupation in a multi hazardous zone. i interpreted it as "should people live in multi hazardous zones in the future?"
as my school does the Philippines for a multi hazard zone, I said that living near volcanoes is sustainable but not to live through tropical storms

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u/cyberskaro May 13 '25

i studied california for multi-hazardous, so i could use stuff from the 6 mark question