GCSE

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GCSE Geography
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AQAs aims and principles

• Delivering relevant and interesting Geography
• Building on the strengths of the leading
  specification
• Updating popular and familiar topics
• Offering a contemporary and modern approach
• Providing inspiring and motivating content
• Encouraging concern for the environment
• Promoting sustainability and citizenship
• Preparing for further/higher study and workplace
• Enabling individual research and investigative
  work
• Using modern information technologies including
  GIS
• Ensuring flexibility to centres through
  modularity
• Giving a choice of Controlled Assessment
  structures
• Making the short course completely co-teachable

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Specification A at a glance
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Subject content

• Unit 1 Physical Geography
• Section A
• The Restless Earth
• Rocks, Resources and Scenery
• Challenge of Weather and Climate
• Living World
• Section B
• Water on the Land
• Ice on the Land
• The Coastal Zone
• Candidates answer three questions, one from
• Section A and one from Section B plus free
• choice of one other.

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Subject content

• Unit 2 Human Geography
• Section A
• Population Change
• Changing Urban Environments
• Changing Rural Environments
• Section B
• The Development Gap
• Globalisation
• Tourism
• Candidates answer three questions, one from
• Section A and one from Section B plus free
• choice of one other.

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Controlled Assessment

• Unit 3 Fieldwork Investigation and Report
• June availability starting from June 2010
• Marked out of 60
• Word guidance 2000
• 6 hour write-up under direct supervision
• Centres will select one task from eleven options
  provided by AQA 2 years prior to submission.
  Based upon topics from Units 1 and 2.

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Dedicated textbook and online resources from
Nelson Thornes
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Specification A short course

• June availability starting from June 2010
• Physical and Human Geography
• Section A
• The Restless Earth
• Water on the Land
• The Coastal Zone
• Section B
• Tourism
• Changing Urban Environments
• Changing Rural Environments
• One hour examination Candidates answer two
  questions, one from
• Section A and one from Section B (50)
• Controlled Assessment Fieldwork Investigation
  and Report (50)

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Specification B at a glance
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Subject content

• Unit 1 Managing Places in the 21st Century
• External Examination
• January and June availability starting from
  January 2010
• Summary of content
• Section A The Coastal Environment
• Section B The Urban Environment
• One hour examination
• Answer either Section A or Section B

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Subject content

• Unit 2 The Hostile World
• External Examination
• January and June availability starting from June
  2010
• Summary of content
• Section A Living with Natural Hazards
• Section B The Challenge of Extreme Environments
• One hour examination
• Answer either Section A or Section B

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Subject content

• Unit 3 Investigating the Shrinking World
• External examination
• June availability starting from 2010
• Summary of content
• Section A Investigating the Globalisation of
  Industry
• Section B Investigating Global Tourism
• One hour examination
• Answer either Section A or Section B

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Controlled Assessment

• Unit 4 Controlled Assessment
• June availability starting from June 2010
• Task One Local investigation including Fieldwork
  (15)
• Marked out of 36
• Word guidance 1200
• 4 hour write-up under direct supervision
• Task Two Geographical Issue Investigation (10)
• Marked out of 24
• Word guidance 800
• 2 hour write-up under direct supervision

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Task One Local Investigation including Fieldwork
Centres will select one task from a choice of
four provided by AQA 2 years prior to
submission. Tasks based upon themes from the
specification Coastal Environment Urban
Environment Globalisation of Industry Globalisatio
n of Tourism

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Task Two Geographical Issue Investigation

• Centres will select a Geographical Issue
  Investigation
• from a choice of two provided by AQA 2 years
  prior to
• submission
• Energy in the 21st century
• Energy use and development, resources and
  environmental impacts, future energy demands and
  energy efficiency.
• Water a precious resource
• Distribution of water supplies, adaptation of
  water cycle for human activity, impact of poor
  water supply, water security.

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Dedicated textbook and online resources from
Nelson Thornes
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Specification B short course
Unit 1 Managing Places in the 21st Century
January and June availability starting
from January 2010 Section A Coastal
Environment Section B Urban Environment One
hour examination Answer either Section A or
Section B (50) Controlled assessment Local
Investigation including Fieldwork (30) and
Geographical Issue Investigation (20)

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Support for these specifications

• To receive specification updates and free online
  support register at www.aga.org
• Free of charge preparing to teach support
  meetings in Spring and Summer 2009
• Direct access to adviser network
• Resource banks of materials to support the
  specification

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