How to do proportional pie charts - watch this carefully if you are doing Saltburn and Yarm or Keswick!

25% please

Your coursework is worth 25% of your final Geography mark. The importance of this cannot be overstated. I did a few calculations, and this means that if the coursework is 25%...

Coasts, Rivers and Plate Tectonics are each worth less than 10% each

Settlement, Managing Tourism and Resources, Industry and Map skills are each worth around 10% each.

You do around 20 hours on each of the topics on Industry, settlement, etc (classwork and homework)

So translated, full marks on your coursework are the equivalent to two and a half topics on Paper 2...this would equate to around 50 hours of work.

This seems a lot of time, but you have several hours in class and overall it is certainly worth it. Today's Paper 2 exam sprung up a few surprises and some of the questions were genuinely difficult. Thankfully, most of our students have gone into this exam safe in the knowledge that they have a healthy coursework percentage already.

Some food for thought!