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A Level geography

Your top Geography revision tips!

May 7, 2019May 8, 2019Oxford Geography Team

Exams are just around the corner, and your students are probably hard at work revising. We asked you to send us some of your top revision tips earlier this year – we loved them so much that we thought they’d be useful to share so that you can pass on to your students. Here are […]

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“Evaluation, isn’t that just adding a conclusion?”

February 22, 2018February 22, 2018Oxford Geography Team

As we enter the final stages of covering the A Level Geography content, I seem to be giving the same feedback to our cohort with each completed essay they hand in. Thus, some creativity in approach is required and I’ve started to experiment with different methods of structuring and scaffolding A Level essay writing. In […]

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Does a Crunchie have interlocking igneous crystals? Geology through chocolate at A Level

February 6, 2017February 1, 2017Oxford Geography Team 1 Comment
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As we started the second term of the academic year, my focus with the A Level geographers turned to the Coasts topic of the new Edexcel A Level specification. As any teachers of the new specifications will know, both the amount of content and the rigour has hugely increased – creating new challenges of how […]

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