OCR 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
- Tectonic hazards
- Weather hazards
- Climate change
- Ecosystems
- Tropical rainforests
- Cold environments
- Development and inequality
- Food security
- Energy resources
- Geographical enquiry
- River landforms
- Coastal landforms
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Official specification and assessment requirements
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Keep 2026 and 2027 content profiles separate. Changes first taught in September 2025 are first assessed in 2027.
Paper 1 and Paper 2 are ninety minutes from 2026. Revised mathematical marking allows a correct answer full credit without working.
2027 assessment route
| Component | Duration | Marks | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our natural world | 90 minutes | 70 | 35% |
| People and society | 90 minutes | 70 | 35% |
| Geographical exploration | 90 minutes | 60 | 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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Our natural world
- Global hazards: Hazard, exposure and vulnerability, Plate motion and tectonic hazards — partial
- Changing climate: Adaptation to changing conditions — partial
- Distinctive landscapes: Drainage basins as systems, Coastal processes and management — partial
- Sustaining ecosystems: Ecosystem interdependence, Forest conversion and distant demand — 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
People and society
- Urban futures: Urban transport and access — partial
- Dynamic development: Measuring development — partial
- UK in the 21st century: Urban transport and access, Power, energy and reliable supply — partial
- Resource reliance: food security: no dedicated concept lesson yet
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
Geographical exploration
- Synoptic exploration and decision making: Matching evidence to a claim, Sampling and representativeness — 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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Case and example requirement slots
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- Flash flood or tropical storm: Specific causes; Consequences; Responses; Must pair with heat wave or drought; One UK and one non-UK event across the pair
- Heat wave or drought: Specific causes; Consequences; Responses; Must pair with flash flood or tropical storm; One UK and one non-UK event across the pair
- Hazardous tectonic event: Specific causes; Consequences; Responses
- UK coastal landscape: Processes; Landforms; Human activity
- UK river basin: Processes; Landforms; Human activity
- Local or regional sustainable rainforest management: Location; Management; Effects
- Small-scale polar management: Arctic or Antarctic setting; Sustainability
- Global-scale polar management: Arctic or Antarctic setting; Sustainability
- Advanced-country city: Growth; Challenges; Sustainability
- LIDC or EDC city: Growth; Challenges; Sustainability
- One LIDC: Development change; Trade; Investment; Aid; Development strategies
- UK place with population and ethnic diversity change since 2001: Population structure; Ethnic diversity; Change since 2001
- UK economic hub: Changes; Regional significance; National significance
- Food security in one country: Local attempt; Past national attempt; Present national attempt
Content is the course first assessed in summer 2027. The 90-minute exams were introduced for the 2026 series; these are separate changes.
Both rivers and coasts are compulsory. Weather cases must span the wet/dry categories AND UK/non-UK locations.
The national development study must be an LIDC. The food country needs local, past national and present national attempts; a single terracing project does not fill it.
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Mapped content areas
- Our natural world
- People and society
- Geographical exploration
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.