Eduqas GCSE Geography B
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Lessons and practice for this course
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- Rivers and flooding
- Coasts and coastal change
- Urban growth and change
- Weather hazards
- Climate change
- Ecosystems
- Development and inequality
- Water resources
- Geographical enquiry
- River landforms
- Coastal landforms
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Official specification and assessment requirements
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Annual fieldwork methodologies and conceptual frameworks must be checked against current board notices.
2027 assessment route
| Component | Duration | Marks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Investigating geographical issues | 105 minutes | 100 | 40% |
| Problem solving geography | 90 minutes | 76 | 30% |
| Applied fieldwork enquiry | 90 minutes | 76 | 30% |
Assessment objectives
- AO1: Location and process knowledge (15%)
- AO2: Geographical understanding (25%)
- AO3: Application, analysis and judgement (35%)
- AO4: Geographical and fieldwork skills (25%)
Topic coverage by component
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Investigating geographical issues
- Changing places and changing economies: Urban transport and access, Measuring development — partial
- Changing environments: Coastal processes and management, Drainage basins as systems, Hazard, exposure and vulnerability, Adaptation to changing conditions — partial
- Ecosystem function and threats: Ecosystem interdependence — partial
- Hot semi-arid grasslands and desertification: no dedicated concept lesson yet
- Water resource management: Water security and competing uses — partial
Four and six figure grid references · Map scale and distance · Bearings · Contours and relief · Gradient · Climate graphs · Population pyramids · Scatter plots · Choropleth maps · Percentage change · Mean, median and range · Source evaluation
Problem solving geography
Draws on all three themes; there is no pre-release resource booklet.
- Unseen resources and decision making: Matching evidence to a claim — partial
Four and six figure grid references · Map scale and distance · Bearings · Contours and relief · Gradient · Climate graphs · Population pyramids · Scatter plots · Choropleth maps · Percentage change · Mean, median and range · Source evaluation
Applied fieldwork enquiry
- Methodology, conceptual framework and wider UK enquiry: Sampling and representativeness, Matching evidence to a claim — partial
Four and six figure grid references · Map scale and distance · Bearings · Contours and relief · Gradient · Climate graphs · Population pyramids · Scatter plots · Choropleth maps · Percentage change · Mean, median and range · Source evaluation
Fieldwork and independent assessment
Fieldwork must take place on at least two occasions in contrasting environments, with both physical and human geography addressed.
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The board specifies a methodology and conceptual framework for each examination cycle. Check the official cycle-specific notice; this adapter does not guess the 2027 selections.
Case and example requirement slots
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- HIC global city: Urbanisation; Processes; Management
- NIC or LIC global city: Urbanisation; Processes; Management
- Managed UK leisure location: Rural change; Management
- Long-lasting high-pressure weather outside the UK: Weather causes; Impacts; Responses
- Intense low-pressure weather outside the UK: Weather causes; Impacts; Responses
- Small-scale UK ecosystem: Processes; Interactions
- Water management in one country: Development context; Management; Impacts
- International transboundary water management: Cross-border relationships; Management; Impacts
Marks include spelling, punctuation and grammar: 96+4, 72+4 and 72+4.
All themes are compulsory. Hot semi-arid grassland plus another biome is required; a hot desert lesson does not cover grassland or desertification.
Both detailed weather studies must be outside the UK. Global-city conditions differ from a generic major-city case.
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Mapped content areas
- Changing places
- Changing environments
- Environmental challenges
- Problem solving
- Applied fieldwork
Check your taught examples
- A country’s developmentUse the required national scale and income/development context.; Explain economic change, international connections and uneven social outcomes.; A city intervention alone cannot fulfil a national case.
- Urban growth and changeIdentify the city and its national context.; Connect opportunities and challenges to growth and migration.; A transport project covers only part of a whole-city case.
- A UK cityIdentify the city and its regional connections.; Explain social, economic and environmental change.; Add your taught evidence beyond the intervention shown here.
- Tropical rainforest use and managementIdentify the rainforest and country or region.; Explain causes, consequences and management of forest change.; An Indonesian Borneo example is not automatically a Malaysian case.
- A tectonic hazard eventName and date the event.; Separate the tectonic process from exposure and vulnerability.; Use contrasting examples where your specification requires them.
- A tropical stormName and date the storm.; Explain hazards, impacts and responses.; Identify whether a number is an estimate, observation or forecast.
- Coastal managementIdentify the defended or realigned coastal stretch.; Explain how the intervention changes risk and sediment or habitats.; Evaluate consequences for different people and timescales.
- River flooding and managementSeparate the catchment, affected settlement and intervention.; Explain rainfall, flows, exposure and response.; Assess residual risk and avoid promising complete protection.
- Water supply and securityDefine the supply area and period.; Connect physical availability, demand and infrastructure.; Evaluate financial, energy, ecological and distributional effects.
- Energy supply and transitionsDistinguish capacity from generation.; Identify the technology, location and time period.; Assess reliability, access and environmental consequences.
- An ecosystem and its managementIdentify the ecosystem’s scale and processes.; Explain interactions and human pressures.; Do not attribute every change to a single cause.