Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2016 15:56:28 GMT
Both HL and OL students have a very straightforward Geography paper layout. There are two sections in your exam:
Section A - which consists of 20 short questions from all of the Geography course
Section B - which consists of 5 long questions from all of the Geography course also
You MUST answer all 20 short questions in section A. Many of the short questions are correcting statements, tick the boxes etc so are very straightforward to answer. The short questions are all worth 60 marks which comes to 40% of your whole mark and this shows how important the short questions are. However, they are easy to get marks on, so no doubt that you would do well in this section as nearly all students do.
You MUST answer 3 of the 5 long questions. However, if you have time to do another one on the day of your exam, there'd be no harm in doing so because the examiner would mark you on your best 3. With the exception of Q3, there are three parts to each long question named A, B and C. Q3 consists of four parts, 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D but you answer three of the parts if you choose to do this question. Q3 is normally a mix with each part of the question being very different from each other. For example, 3A could be about Urbanisation whilst 3B could be about Climate and so on. Each long question you answer is worth 30 marks and the long questions are worth 90 marks overall which comes to 60% of your whole mark and this shows how important the long questions are. If you do not do well in this section to say the least, it is very likely that you will not do well in Geography.
If the question is worth 5 marks, two sentences would be enough. However, you should have over a paragraph or even a page long - really depending on your writing for a 10 mark question.
Section A - which consists of 20 short questions from all of the Geography course
Section B - which consists of 5 long questions from all of the Geography course also
You MUST answer all 20 short questions in section A. Many of the short questions are correcting statements, tick the boxes etc so are very straightforward to answer. The short questions are all worth 60 marks which comes to 40% of your whole mark and this shows how important the short questions are. However, they are easy to get marks on, so no doubt that you would do well in this section as nearly all students do.
You MUST answer 3 of the 5 long questions. However, if you have time to do another one on the day of your exam, there'd be no harm in doing so because the examiner would mark you on your best 3. With the exception of Q3, there are three parts to each long question named A, B and C. Q3 consists of four parts, 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D but you answer three of the parts if you choose to do this question. Q3 is normally a mix with each part of the question being very different from each other. For example, 3A could be about Urbanisation whilst 3B could be about Climate and so on. Each long question you answer is worth 30 marks and the long questions are worth 90 marks overall which comes to 60% of your whole mark and this shows how important the long questions are. If you do not do well in this section to say the least, it is very likely that you will not do well in Geography.
If the question is worth 5 marks, two sentences would be enough. However, you should have over a paragraph or even a page long - really depending on your writing for a 10 mark question.