A-level Geography₇₀₃₇

What's assessed

Section A: Water and carbon cycles

Section B: either Hot desert systems and landscapes or Coastal systems and landscapes or Glacial systems and landscapes

Section C: either Hazards or Ecosystems under stress

How it's assessed

• Written exam: 2 hours 30 minutes
• 120 marks
• 40% of A-level

Questions

• Section A: answer all questions (36 marks)
• Section B: answer either question 2 or question 3 or question 4 (36 marks)
• Section C: answer either question 5 or question 6 (48 marks)
• Question types: short answer, levels of response and extended prose

What's assessed

Section A: Global systems and global governance

Section B: Changing places

Section C: either Contemporary urban environments or Population and the environment or Resource security

How it's assessed

• Written exam: 2 hours 30 minutes
• 120 marks
• 40% of A-level

Questions

• Section A: answer all questions (36 marks)
• Section B: answer all questions (36 marks)
• Section C: answer either question 3 or question 4 or question 5 (48 marks)
• Question types: short answer, levels of response, extended prose

What's assessed

Students complete an individual investigation which must include data collected in the field. The individual investigation must be based on a question or issue defined and developed by the student relating to any part of the specification content.

How it's assessed

• 3,000–4,000 words

• 60 marks
• 20% of A-level
• marked by teachers
• moderated by AQA