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18 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 24 quick multi-choice questions — every question on the site for this standard, grouped by the 6 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one — that comparison is where the marks come from. Every block links back to the notes that teach it.
State the aim of your geographic research and explain why it is a valid geographic research question.
Explain in detail why the design of your research allows the aim to be answered, and what its design already rules out.
Fully explain, showing insight, why the aim you choose largely determines the grade you can reach in this standard.
Describe the plan for your research, including your sites, your methods and your sampling.
Explain in detail why you chose your sampling design, and what a different design would have produced instead.
Fully explain, showing insight, the relationship between a research plan and the trustworthiness of the findings it produces.
Describe the methods you used to collect and record your data, and how you combined them.
Explain in detail why you chose the particular combination of methods you used, and what each one contributed that the others could not.
Fully explain, showing insight, what makes field data trustworthy, using your own collection as the evidence.
Describe how you presented your data, and show that your presentation includes spatial, statistical and visual data.
Explain in detail why you chose the particular form of presentation for each of your key figures.
Fully explain, showing insight, why the standard requires spatial, statistical and visual data together rather than any one of them done well.
Explain your main findings, using evidence from your data and a geographic concept.
Explain in detail how your findings relate to one another, using specific evidence and geographic concepts.
Fully explain, showing insight, what separates explaining findings from reporting them.
Write a conclusion that relates to your aim, and evaluate your research process.
Evaluate your research in detail, explaining how specific strengths and weaknesses of the process affect the validity of your findings.
Fully explain, showing insight, how your research process could be improved, and what each improvement would let you claim that you currently cannot.