Geography

La geografía explica el pasado, ilumina el presente y nos prepara para el futuro. ¿Qué podría ser más importante que eso?” – Michael Ignatieff

Subject information

ENTRY DETAILS

Exam board: IAL Edexcel

Specification: A-Level YGE01

HOW I WILL BE ASSESSED?

Examination: The course is examined in January and June of both Year 12 and Year 13

COURSE DETAILS

ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW, DURATION AND WEIGHTING

Paper 1 –  Written examination 1 hour and 45 minutes (30% of qualification – 90 marks)

Paper 2 – Written examination 1 hour and 30 minutes (20% of qualification – 60 marks)

Paper 3 – Written examination 2 hours (30% of qualification – 90 marks) 

Paper 4 – Written examination 1 hour and 30 minutes (20% of qualification – 60 marks)

Exam Papers% of IALAssessment overview

Paper 1 –
Global Challenges
(Jan Y12)

30

Section A: Data response and short-answer questions. 

Section B: Choice of longer/guided essay questions, on either Topic 1: World at Risk or Topic 2: Going Global.

Paper 2 –
Geographical
Investigations
(June Y12)

20

Section A: Data response and short-answer questions on Topics 1 and 2: Crowded Coasts and Urban Problems, Planning and Regeneration. 

Section B: Compulsory short-answer questions on research and fieldwork investigation. 

Section C: Choice of one fieldwork question, on either Topic 1: Crowded Coasts or Topic 2: Urban Problems, Planning and Regeneration.

Paper 3 – Contested Planet
(June Y13)

30

Section A: Longer/guided essay questions and a synoptic question. 

Section B: Choice of one data response/essay question from two topics (B1 or B2). Section C: Choice of one data response/essay question from two topics (C1 or C2).

Section C: Choice of one data response/essay question from two topics (C1 or C2).

Paper 4 –
Researching
Geography
(Jan Y13)

20

Students will be given a list of questions based on the four options. Students will select and answer one question that relates to the option they have studied.

WIDER READING

  • World News 
  • National Geographic Magazine – National Geographic Society 
  • Geofiles 
  • Marshall T, 2016, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics, Elliot & Thompson Ltd (ISBN 978-1783962433) 
  • Rosling H, 2018, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Sceptre (ISBN 978-1473637467) 
  • Dorling D, 2013, Population 10 Billion, Constable (ISBN 978-1780334912) 
  • Muir-Wood R, 2016, The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters, One World Publications (ISBN 978-1786070050) 
  • Morton O, 2016, The Planet Remade, Granta (ISBN 978-1783780983)