Geography GCE A/AS

News Update

September 2010 Teachers' bulletin added 25 8 2010

• G3 Section B 2011 – Some suggested titles based on the Jan and June 2011 topic areas (added 18 05 2010)

• New resource for G3 Section A (added 18 05 2010)

Emerging Superpowers: India and China-Gill Miller and Sue Warn

ISBN 978-1-84377-253-8 

More examples of G3A questions 5, 7 and 9 are here (added 07 05 2010) 

Publishing update as of 10 5 2010. The first two Student Unit Guides for G2 and G3 have now been published by Philip Allan.

 G2 ISBN 978-1-441-1084-5 G3 ISBN 978-1-1083-8. Orders from  here

Examples of well answered Jan papers G1-G4 are here (added 15 04 2010)

March 2010 Teachers' Bulletin (added 22 03 2010) 

G4 June 2010 Resource with information about the use of websites here. (added 10 03 2010) 

The January exam papers are now available on the WJEC secure website.

GCE Command Words (added 11 01 2010)

G3 Section B Research Topic Areas for January and June 2011 (added 27 11 09)

December 2009 Teachers' Bulletin (added 1 12 09)

Part 1 of the Teachers' Guide

Part 2 of the Teachers' Guide and further guidance for G3B is now available.

For those who were unable to attend INSET in October 2009, a copy of the CD Rom is available on request.

2009 was the last year for the Advanced Extension Award. The examination has now been withdrawn because of the introduction of the A* award from 2010. A CD Rom of the past AEA papers containing excellent resources for the new A level, including climate change and globalisation, is available on request from Steve James steve.james@wjec.co.uk

Resources

Resources are available here. For those who were unable to attend INSET in October 2009, a copy of the CD Rom is available on request from steve.james@wjec.co.uk

• G1 Investigating Tectonic Change (added 19 01 2010)
• AS Q3 Study Guide-Nicky King 
• Enquiry Approach (amended 16 11 09)

Useful websites

Some useful networking sites mentioned at INSET that may be of help to teachers are:

Key Stage 5 wiki for the WJEC A level
http://wjecalevel.pbwiki.com/

Geographical Association
http://geographical.ning.com/

The A Level Geography magazine is published online by the Canolfan Adnoddau Addysg at the following website
http://www.caa-aber.org.uk/adnoddauwe.php

A wide range of resources are also available free of charge via NGfL-Cymru. Past papers and marking schemes for the new specification are available free of charge to teaching staff on our Secure Website. Further resources are available through our online Shop.

Uniform Marks (UMS)

Information on how raw marks are converted to uniform marks may be found in the following document -Uniform Marks.

For further information, contact:

Geography Subject Officer - Raye Scott
Tel: 029 2026 5158
Email: raye.scott@wjec.co.uk

Geography Subject Support Officer - Steve James
Tel: 029 2026 5029
Email: steve.james@wjec.co.uk