How's my revision going?
Use the following booklet to work your way through each topic. Make sure you choose the topics you have studied.
Mind maps to help you with revision |
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Flashcards
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Revision Powerpoints
NATIONAL 5 REVISION BOOKLET:
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Useful Revision Links
Scalloway Website - Revision note sections for each topic area, also has matching exercises to check your knowledge and understanding of the unit. Instant feedback!
BBC Bitesize Standard Grade Geography - Revision note sections for each topic area with easy to understand diagrams. Like the Scalloway site the BBC also has sections where you can check your understanding - for some areas there are even videos!
Geography High - A 'virtual' school where Geography is the only subject on the curriculum! Has some great notes on each topic area for you to read up on all the topics. Standard Grade materials can be found under 'Third Year Pupils' and 'Fourth Year Pupils'.
All Saints Secondary School - A school in Glasgow which has produced a page with short video clips to help with revision for each topic area.
S-Cool - the revision website - GCSE based website, however, it covers much of the Standard Grade course, with good notes, videos and animations.
BBC Bitesize Standard Grade Geography - Revision note sections for each topic area with easy to understand diagrams. Like the Scalloway site the BBC also has sections where you can check your understanding - for some areas there are even videos!
Geography High - A 'virtual' school where Geography is the only subject on the curriculum! Has some great notes on each topic area for you to read up on all the topics. Standard Grade materials can be found under 'Third Year Pupils' and 'Fourth Year Pupils'.
All Saints Secondary School - A school in Glasgow which has produced a page with short video clips to help with revision for each topic area.
S-Cool - the revision website - GCSE based website, however, it covers much of the Standard Grade course, with good notes, videos and animations.
Useful Revision Textbooks
BBC Standard Grade Bitesize Revision: Geography -
Ideal for those sitting Foundation and General exams. With short revision notes for each topic area and exam question sections - showing you how to get as many marks as possible.
How to Pass: Standard Grade Geography
- More suited to those sitting General and Credit exams. This has more detailed revision notes and worked exam questions - showing both good and poor answers to exam style questions.
BrightRED Results: Standard Grade Geography-
Short revision notes but mainly based around worked past paper exam questions, detailing how to get the maximum number of marks for a question.
Past Papers
Past Papers are a really good way to
revise. You will have seen the style of these questions when we have used these in class, in homework exercises or end of unit assessments. It is very important
that you are familiar with the layout and style of questions used in the exam.
Links are available below for Past Papers - we advise you borrow the maps from the Geography department as you cannot download these!
Please follow this link to the SQA website and 2007-2011 Standard Grade Geography exam papers.
Advice for your revision
We do not all learn in the same way and there are many ways to revise. Some people use lists, others use pictures and diagrams. The best way is to use a
range of learning styles. Case studies need learning but map skills can't be learned: they need practice.
To revise work effectively, you need to know about your exam...
Geography exams frequently have a mixture of short and extended answers that will test your knowledge & understanding and enquiry skills.
Once you know what topics to cover, you have to work out the best way to learn them...
Don't just read your notes or copy them out. Set yourself questions and retest yourself on those questions to ensure you still know the answers.
Try to do something active with the material, for example...
revise. You will have seen the style of these questions when we have used these in class, in homework exercises or end of unit assessments. It is very important
that you are familiar with the layout and style of questions used in the exam.
Links are available below for Past Papers - we advise you borrow the maps from the Geography department as you cannot download these!
Please follow this link to the SQA website and 2007-2011 Standard Grade Geography exam papers.
Advice for your revision
We do not all learn in the same way and there are many ways to revise. Some people use lists, others use pictures and diagrams. The best way is to use a
range of learning styles. Case studies need learning but map skills can't be learned: they need practice.
To revise work effectively, you need to know about your exam...
Geography exams frequently have a mixture of short and extended answers that will test your knowledge & understanding and enquiry skills.
Once you know what topics to cover, you have to work out the best way to learn them...
Don't just read your notes or copy them out. Set yourself questions and retest yourself on those questions to ensure you still know the answers.
Try to do something active with the material, for example...
- Draw mind maps with bullet points. Highlight the most important ones using colours.
- Draw charts and tables to organize key ideas about the processes, causes and effects, problems and benefits that you need to learn.
- Draw time lines and living graphs that help you understand processes that cause change.
- Prepare small cards that summarise the key points you need to learn, especially case studies.
- Use colours to classify items, eg causes/effects, long/short term effects, effects on natural environment/people, etc
- Ask your teacher for past papers and test yourself. Look at as many past papers as possible. Look at the type of questions that are asked in terms of
content and style. Sometimes it is useful to practise writing out the answers in test conditions. (copied from Bucksburn High School website)