Geography

Exam board and specification

AQA GCSE Geography 9-1 – Specification 8035

Scheme of assessment

Paper	Duration	Marks available	Weighting
Paper 1 - Living with the physical environment.	90 minutes	88	35%
Paper 2 – Challenges in the human environment.	90 minutes	88	35%
Paper 3 – Geographical Applications.	90 minutes	76	30%

Lesson time and grouping

Students are taught five lessons of geography per fortnight. They are not set and are taught in mixed ability sets.

Homework

Homework is set once a week, lasting between 45mins– 1 hour. Homework is predominantly retrieval practice and revision of previous topics.

Assessment during the course

Students will sit formal geography exams in the school exam fortnights for Year 10 (March/April) and Year 11 (December). In addition to day-to-day diagnostic formative assessments, students will have shorter summative assessments every two terms.

Useful curriculum links / revision guides

Exam Board Information AQA 8035

BBC Bitesize KS4 Geography

Internet Geography - Online revision resources/quizzes

Additional information (e.g. trips)

Y10 – Physical fieldwork – Compulsory trip to Swanage in June

Y10 – Optional weekend residential to the Dorset Coast in June

Y11 – Human fieldwork – Compulsory trip to Gloucester Docks in September

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Year 10	Paper 1 – Natural Hazards and Tectonic Hazards	Paper 1 – Weather Hazards and Climate Change	Paper 1 - Coasts	Paper 1 - Rivers	Paper 2 – Resource Management	Paper 3 – Introduction to fieldwork enquiry
Year 11	Paper 2 – Urban Challenges	Paper 2 – Urban Challenges	Paper 2 – The changing economic world	Paper 2 – The changing economic world	Revision programme.