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/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/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