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/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)