Course Title: Advanced GCE in Geography
Exam Board: AQA
Subject-specific Entry Criteria: Grade 7 in GCSE Geography

Course Overview

Physical Geography

  • Water and carbon cycles
  • Coastal or Glacial systems and landscapes
  • Hazards

Human Geography

  • Global systems and global governance
  • Changing places
  • Population and the environment

Geographical Fieldwork Investigation

  • 3,000 – 4,000-word investigation on a topic of choice linked to the course

Physical Geography

  • 120 marks (40% of total A Level)
  • 2 hours 30 minutes written paper

Human geography

  • 120 marks (40% of total A Level)
  • 2 hours 30 minutes written paper

Geographical fieldwork investigation

  • 60 marks (20% of total A Level)
  • 3,000 – 4,000 words

All Russell Group universities offer a pure Geography degree or one combined with other subjects. Minimum entry grades are AAB, but other universities may differ.

Possible careers linked to having a Geography degree include:

Town planner, cartographer, GIS specialist, climatologist, hydrologist, meteorologist, sustainability planner, surveyor, teacher, marketing and many more.

You will:

  • have a genuine interest in all aspects of geography-related issues
  • be willing to read around the subject through a variety of sources
  • keep up to date with current affairs
  • be resilient and resourceful
  • have good thinking skills and mathematical understanding.